A couple of years or so ago, I read Al Franken’s Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them which took aim at the conservative right wing broadcast media. In many respects this is just too easy to do, but then they stay on the air, and millions of Americans listen and watch them.
This time around, he takes George Bush as his subject. He goes through the reasons why Bush won the 2004 – fear mainly. He gets into Bush’s ill-fated and ill-conceived attempt to take Social Security private. And then gets into the administration’s dreadful handling of Iraq – before, during and “after” (although that might still be during).
Although he begins this book acknowledging that the conservative right are soft targets and he won’t lay into them time. But sometimes it’s too easy not, and he still fires his guns in their direction.
The book’s accompanied by plenty of notes and sources towards the back, which I always think is essential in this kind of a work.
All in all, well worth reading, even if none of it is all that surprising.