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Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment Of President Barack Obama (2010)

by David Limbaugh(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1596986247 (ISBN13: 9781596986244)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Regnery Publishing

review 1: I've recently come to the conclusion that Liberals and Conservatives simply live in completely different realities. It's not just a matter of perspective, where we disagree on our different interpretations of reality. No, we have come to the point where we can no longer even agree on what is happening before our very eyes.Limbaugh's book here is a case in point. Of course, I can't be surprised. He's Rush's brother, after all, and has a certain jock to be riding. So, I wasn't exactly expecting reasoned discourse here.Basically, Limbaugh launches the book with the premise that Obama is a sociopathic, narcissistic, racist, anti-Semite, Stalinist, wannabe dictator who's out to destroy this country. Then he goes from there.Then Rush, Jr., takes us on a magic carpet ride of innu... moreendo, half-explained "facts" (the half that is only favorable to his argument), and a whole bunch of shit I've never even heard of and I'm doubting if they ever happened. Of course, it is heavily footnoted from such fellow traveler sources as Fox News, the Heritage Foundation, and the Washington Times in an ever-swirling echo chamber of Conservative conspiracy theory delusion.One great example is how Limbaugh repeatedly claims that Obama "claims" to have stepped into office in the middle of a financial collapse, two open-ended wars, and ballooning deficits. Limbaugh implies that none of this actually happened, that Obama is simply making it all up so that he can destroy this country and the world. He implies it as though none of us are old enough or smart enough to remember what happened less than three years ago.But these assumptions seemed to have taken hold with Limbaugh's audience. After all, he's not the only one making these claims that can only be backed up in the Conservative media. They are ALL saying stuff like that. They're saying it so much and so often, they must be making people believe, people who hate Obama so much that they've decided to bend their own conceptions of reality, to warp the truth into whatever's convenient to their beliefs, and say whatever is necessary to make sure the self-delusion sticks.It is all utterly amazing and just way too depressing that pundits like Limbaugh exist parading themselves as journalist who feel absolutely no responsibility to the Truth. And to realize that fools like this one has millions of followers in America makes me wanna move to France, or something.
review 2: To me, the book was an election year political TV commercial gone bad. Like the election year commercials (from either side of the political spectrum), facts tend to be cherry-picked and quotes are often taken out of context to support the perspective of the candidate. Political commercials of either political party during election time wear me out, and they often run for only 30 seconds. So a book length version of more of the same was more than I bargained for and left me unsatisfied with this book. I found it more politicized and one-sided than I hoped for. Even George Bush, in his book "Decision Points", admitted to some mistakes and policies which didn't work, leaving some things unsettled for his successor. But there's little if any of these allowances for the current administration in this book. I also found it interesting how many of the health care ideas in this book, used to show how Obama is leading the nation to destruction, come right out the coprorate talking points generated by the Health Insurance industry, as discussed in Wendell Potter's book "Deadly Spin". In that book, Potter, a former Insurance PR head in the health insurance industry, prepared press releases and fact sheets which he now acknowleges as being developed solely to protect corporate profits - not to protect health and welfare of the American public. Those press releases became the facts which the public was hearing over the past several years, and the facts used in books like this to show anti-American leanings of Obama. However, if you're a fan of Limbaugh (Rush or David), you've probably heard these ideas before and should find the arguments soothing and quite convincing, and will likely love the book. less

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