Big Lies : The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth

by Joe Conason; Revised and Updated

• ISBN13: 9780312315610
• ISBN10: 0312315619
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-06-15
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

InBig Lies, Joe Conason rips through the ten most damaging lies perpetrated by the right wing propaganda machine. This scathing, fact-filled analysis debunks it all: - The myth that Republicans are fiscal geniuses and champions of free enterprise. - The right's self-proclaimed monopoly on "family values." - The conservative smearing of liberals as unpatriotic and anti-American. - And of course, the "compassionate conservatism" of George W. Bush. (It depends on the meaning of "compassionate.") Big Liesconfronts right-wing slander and bias with a long-awaited, badly-needed counterpunch to the deceptions that have plagued American politics for a generation.

Author Biography

Joe Conason is the national correspondent for the New York Observer and writes a daily online journal for Salon. With Gene Lyons, he is the best-selling author of The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton. His writing and reporting have appeared in many publications, including Harpers, The Guardian, The Nation, and The New Republic. He also appears frequently as a commentator on television and radio.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Limousine Liberals and Corporate-Jet Conservatives	p. 13
Peroxide Paradox: The Blonde Misleading the Blind	p. 29
Male Cheerleaders and Chicken Hawks	p. 52
Deja Voodoo, All Over Again	p. 74
Why Dick Armey Joined the ACLU	p. 89
Private Lives and Public Lies	p. 109
Tokens of Their Esteem	p. 128
Crony Capitalism, Infectious Greed, and the Way the World Really Works	p. 146
Faith, Charity, and the Mayberry Machiavellis	p. 171
"Dead or Alive"--Or Maybe Just Forgotten	p. 190
Notes	p. 213
Acknowledgments	p. 233
Index	p. 235
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