Posted on 07/12/2006 10:42:36 AM PDT by new yorker 77
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In his seventh book, Dean, the former Nixon legal counsel whom the FBI has called the "master manipulator" of the Watergate coverup, weighs in with a rebuke to Christian fundamentalists and other right-wing hard-liners. A self-described Goldwater conservative (indeed, Goldwater had planned to collaborate on this book before his death), he rails against the influence of social conservatives and neoconservatives within his party. Suffused with bitterness stemming from the controversies in which he has been embroiled, Dean's book paints a thin social science veneer over a litany of mostly ad hominem complaints. Purporting to show that social conservatives and neoconservatives are, on the whole, demonstrably authoritarian, bigoted, irrational and amoral, Conservatives Without Conscience offers helpful hints such as "Conservatives without conscience do not have horns and tails," and evinces a telling fascination with politicians' shady book deals. Though there is clearly much to condemn in the policies and tactics Dean deplores, assailing everyone from French political theorist Joseph de Maistre to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to the chairman of Yale University's conservative association as "Double High" social- dominance-oriented authoritarians undermines his journalistic credibility. Dean's lurid accusations may be entertaining, but they add little to the reasoned debate that Washington so sorely lacks today. (July 11)
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Need an even bigger laugh?
Olbermann Plugs 'Conservatives Without Conscience' Attack on 'Authoritarian' Republicans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663644/posts
FYI
Conscience??? John Dean is a rabid weasel who is not fit to tie the shoes of those nefarious conservatives pictured on the cover of his book. This is obviously one book that I know in advance cannot be worth reading.
You should have seen Keith and Dean; they had their heads close together, acting like they had found The Holy Grail.
Just imagine a FIFTY YEAR OLD STUDY that proves conservatives are mental cases that NOBODY HAS HEARD ABOUT.
I believe him, don't you?
Here's the video, courtesy of Mo1:
Sycophantic Keith Paints Republicans As Hateful In John Dean Interview (VIDEO)
http://www.exposetheleft.com/2006/07/11/olbermann-dean/
CABLE NEWS RACE
MON., JULY 10, 2006
VIEWERS
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,264,000
FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1,801,000
CNN LARRY KING 1,382,000
FNC GRETA 1,340,000
FNC SHEP SMITH 1,252,000
FNC HUME 1,197,000
CNN COOPER 1,132,000
CNN DOBBS 823,000
CNN PAULA ZAHN 679,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 360,000
CNNHN GRACE 354,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 349,000
You notice he didn't have the balls to put Bush's picture up there.
If Conservatives are amoral, WHAT DOES THAT MAKE DEMS?
I dont recognize a couple of those guys. Is one of them Abrahamoff? Is he a conservative??
Goldwater had planned to collaborate on this book before he died. Godlwater has been dead more than 8 years! How the h-ll long did it take Dean to write it??
Dean's "15 minutes" were up about 32 years ago I guess. I saw his book on the bargain shelf at Borders this past weekend. Or maybe it was his previous book, _Worse than Watergate._ That had a real impact too, I guess. LOL.
Right-to-left I don't recognize Numbers 1 and 3. And what the heck is Pat Robertson doing there at all?
Maybe they threw Robertson in to frighten readers into thinking those evil evangelicals control Bush and the GOP. What a laugh.
That's astounding. O'Reilly is drawing 6 1/2 times more viewers than Olbermann.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
John Dean? John Dean?? I've heard that name somewhere, but it was a long time ago. Didn't he make a few movies in the 50's and get killed in a car wreck?
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
Dean has always been a zombie. He married a zombie and now he writes like a zombie.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
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