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 enlarge | Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $26.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  196 reviews
Sales Rank: 144
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.973
ASIN: B001AZRJI0
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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 Savvy Political Assessor December 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a controversial book but one that should be read by every American. Dick Morris is one of the most perceptive political writers around and his book nails certain abuses in the political realm that we should know about. Whether you like him or not, his intelligent assessment is worth reading.
 Good, but parts are over the top. December 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dick Morris is one of a kind and I enjoyed this book. I don't doubt what he says about the left wing/PC agenda, but parts of it are so over the top even for me.
In particular, when detailing the corrosive effect of liberal influences on the American culture, Dick mentioned movies made which he categorized as pandering smoking to kids. Since the flicks showed people smoking and (so he says) the flick was geared towards kids, they therefore promote smoking to children. Problem is, his list of films includes PG-13 and even R rated movies.
By no stretch of the imagination should an R rated movie be seen as meant for children. For example, he lists "Walk The Line" as one of the movies of 2005 which shows people smoking and as such is pandering smoking to kids. "Walk The Line" is a movie about the true life of country legend Johnny Cash. Since much of the storyline was set in the 1960s, a time where many people smoked (egad, even indoors!), it of course shows people smoking (duh). How else should the story of real people living their lives as they really did - as smokers - be told? How do we tell a war story without soldiers smoking? Or a cops and robbers flick without scenes of drug use? And as with all R-rated films, children were not the intended audience.
Though I'm with him on the overall premise of the book, Dick went further than he really had to here. There is so much evidence of the left wing influence and its corrosive effect on American culture that stretches of credibility like his movie hit-list are completely unnecessary. Other than that, good book and a worthwhile read from a unique conservative commentator.
Fleeced by Dick Morris December 21, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Our freedom's and rights are slowing vanishing.
Even if you think you know everything there is to know about politics, government and this past election, you still need to buy this book. You will find much information, web links, emails and addresses to your politicans and express your views. This is one book that will stay in my possession for a good long time.
 Very informative and interesting. December 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found this book to be very well written and documented and extremely informative. At the same time it is scary knowing what actually takes place in government. I recommend this to anyone willing to know the truth and desiring to do something to correct the problems.
 A Sad and Bitter Commentary by the Dethroned December 18, 2008
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
What upsets Dick Morris is not that we are now being scammed -- it's that the American public has voted to put an end to the rampant fleecing that has taken place for the last 8 years. He's upset that crying wolf about terrorist threats is no longer working to keep the radical right in power.
Let us not forget that John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied the Arizona senator's staff on behalf of the republic of Georgia while he was working for the campaign. Randy Scheunemann, founder of Orion Strategies, represented the governments of Macedonia, Georgia and Taiwan. So where was the righteous indignation from Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, and the rest of the radical right? If you listened carefully, you could hear the chirping of crickets -- and that's about all.
Mr. Morris, we know what to do about it -- and that's what upsets you. We know that the way we restore America is to stop viewing the Constitution as some kind of annoyance to be worked around through executive orders, technicalities, and secrecy. We know that turning Iraq into a recruiting station for radical Islamic terrorist groups isn't making us safer. We know that we cannot continue the reckless deregulation that has brought our banking and auto industries to the verge of collapse -- only to be bailed out with taxpayer dollars. We know that we cannot keep stealing from future generations by racking up a national debt that they can never hope to pay off. We know that we can't keep average Americans in good paying jobs when CEOs with seven figure salaries are shipping U.S. jobs overseas, leaving us with a country full of underpaid Walmart greeters and McDonalds fry cooks.
It's amazing that the party in charge during the worst terrorist attack on U.S soil, the ones who ignored an intelligence briefing entitled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the U.S.", has the gall to bill themselves as experts on defending us against terrorists. It's astounding that they consider themselves the experts on the economy after doubling our national debt in the last 8 years. The same party that brought us Mark Foley (who sent sexually suggestive, creepy messages to teenaged boys), Larry Craig (who attempted to solicit gay sex from an undercover police officer in a rest room), and Bob Allen (Florida House of Representatives, Florida Chairman of John McCain's Presidential Campaign, who offered an undercover cop $20 to allow Allen to blow him in a men's room in a public park), is still telling us that they should be the arbiters of morality and that gay marriage will tear this country apart (but, apparently, gay oral sex with anonymous partners is just their idea of the American way).
The American public has wised up, seen through your lies, and has put your kind out of office. Now go sit in your corner (or closet as the case may be) and keep quiet while the adults clean up the mess you made.
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