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David Brock made his name (and big money) by trashing Anita Hill as "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." But it was Brock's reporting that was nutty and slutty, he confesses in the riveting memoir Blinded by the Right. He absolves Hill; claims he helped Clarence Thomas threaten another witness into backing down; portrays a ghastly right-wing Clinton-bashing conspiracy of hypocrites, zillionaires, and maniacs; and accuses himself of being "a witting cog in the Republican sleaze machine." Now Brock is sliming his former fellows--everyone from the lawyer who argued the Bush v. Gore case to gonzo pundits Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham ("the only person I knew who didn't appear to own a book or regularly read a newspaper") to Matt Drudge and Tom Wolfe. Brock excoriates the gay hypocrites of the right wing, including himself, and tells how he cleverly spun his own outing. (He calls himself "the only openly gay conservative in the country," evidently forgetting about the far more open and famous Andrew Sullivan.)
If Brock says he was a liar for much of his life, how do we know he's not lying now? Blinded by the Right is less addicted to anonymous and third-hand sources than the madcap character assassinations that made him famous, and it is infinitely more plausible. But that doesn't make it necessarily true. (Anita Hill's lawyer has acidly observed that Brock confessed his Hill-related lies after seven years, when the statute of limitations prevents suing for slander.) Dumped by the right after he wrote a non-hatchet-job book on Hillary Clinton, Brock profits by running to the arms of the center and left. But that doesn't make this book untrue. All I can tell you is you'll have to read it and decide for yourself. And I'll bet you'll admit this mea-culpa memoir has the revolting, irresistible fascination of a bad car wreck. --Tim Appelo
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In a powerful and deeply personal memoir in the tradition of Arthur Koestler’s
The God That Failed, David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it.
David Brock pilloried Anita Hill in a bestseller. His reporting in The American Spectator as part of the infamous “Arkansas Project” triggered the course of events that led to the historic impeachment trial of President Clinton. Brock was at the center of the right-wing dirty tricks operation of the Gingrich era–and a true believer–until he could no longer deny that the political force he was advancing was built on little more than lies, hate, and hypocrisy.
In
Blinded By the Right, Brock, who came out of the closet at the height of his conservative renown, tells his riveting story from the beginning, giving us the first insider’s view of what Hillary Rodham Clinton called “the vast right-wing conspiracy.” Whether dealing with the right-wing press, the richly endowed think tanks, Republican political operatives, or the Paula Jones case, Brock names names from Clarence Thomas on down, uncovers hidden links, and demonstrates how the Republican Right’s zeal for power created the poisonous political climate that culminated in George W. Bush’s election.
Now in paperback and with a new afterword by the author,
Blinded By the Right is a classic political memoir of our times.
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A jaw-dropper and a must read for the 2008 elections.......2007-04-02
There isn't much I can say about this book that hasn't already been said in other favorable reviews here. All I'll add is that even if you allow for the zeal of Brock's re-converson to liberal prinicples and some bitterness towards his former conservative and neocon mentors and paymasters, there is much in this book that rings frighteningly true. Most fascinating is Brock's inside look at the anti-Clinton smear machine of which he was part - and which, no doubt, is warming up for 2008. Arm yourself with knowledge that you'll need if Hillary runs for President. Read this book.
pseudo-conservatives.......2006-09-30
In his 1950 study of the authoritarian personality, Theodor Adorno constructed a political-psychological profile of people he called "pseudo-conservatives." These were people who called themselves conservatives but in truth adhered to political agendas that betrayed the ideals of individual freedom and free markets. Pseudo-conservatives were motivated by hate, fear, and power, not the desire to conserve or guarantee liberty. A few years later, the eminent historian Richard Hofstadter appropriated Adorno's term in describing what he called "the paranoid style in American politics." In Adorno and Hofstadter's day, this paranoid style of pseudo-conservativism was still in its embryonic state, personified by the rantings of Joseph McCarthy but still far from being the game plan for the Republican Party as a whole. David Brock's Blinded by the Right chronicles how this movement slithered its way into power long before anyone had heard of Karl Rove, whose name isn't even listed in the index.
Blinded by the Right amazingly combines the political history of a loathsome political movement with the personal story of a sympathetic individual who found himself at the center of that movement. Always an idealist among opportunists, Brock's entrée to conservatism was admirable enough, as he was a former Kennedy liberal who was turned off by Berkeley protest-ologists who simply shouted down their adversaries, thus betraying the cause of free speech that had galvanized the campus in the glory years of the 1960s. But those ideals quickly dissolved into an us-versus-them battle which was motivated by a hatred for liberal enemies more than anything else. Ironically, Brock and his colleagues had much more in common with late 60s revolutionaries like the Weathermen, with their constantly escalating rhetoric of destroying the establishment, and Stalinists in the Communist Party, who enforced the party line by threatening dissenters with the charge that they were helping "the other team."
Blinded by the Right is an essential chronicle of a political movement and a historical era, but somehow it is even more than that. Its personal narrative of a young person's rise to power and fame, followed by descent into disillusionment and depression, is gripping enough for Hollywood. Brock came out as a homosexual while he was in college but then shoved himself back into the closet as he ascended to celebrity status on the Right, whose agenda became increasingly homophobic after the collapse of communism left them without the enemy they had depended on for so long. Brock now sees his willingness to parrot right-wing ideology as part of his attempt to fit in with the movement when he secretly knew didn't, and he sees the vitriol that he spewed in his writing as a subconscious expression of his own self-hatred. In fact, Brock offers many penetrating insights into the psychology of his right-wing former colleagues, and for the most part they appear to be a miserable bunch prone to textbook cases of projection.
Brock's break from the right corresponded with his personal move toward self-acceptance. It is heroic act of liberation that sometimes made me want to stand up and cheer for him, but it was clearly a journey full of pain. His liberation proceeds in stages, with Brock initially portraying himself as a victim, and then only later coming to grips with his own complicity and eagerness to serve the movement. Changed but not bitter, Brock comes out the other side as a very wise man who can see clearly now only because he is able to accept himself, his past, and his imperfections. I hope we'll see more books like this in the future coming from the current throng of right-wingers, but I'm not holding my breath, because this required a ton of courage and compassion, and that's precisely what this movement lacks most.
Interesting mea culpa.......2006-08-03
After hearing about this book a great deal from many people, I finally had to give it a read. What I got was a mostly well written account about how Brock gave the neo-con movement exactly what they wanted in terms of what can only be called propaganda. Brock does a good job in exposing the oft-ridiculed "vast right-wing conspiracy".
But it makes a boring read at times, what with long lists of people and publications. And it seems just a bit self-serving at times, like he is trying to say, "Oh, how bad I was to do all this, but I was very good at it." And, after all, he does say exactly what I, as a liberal person, want to hear about those on the right who keep insisting that people who believe like me are traitors.
I respect Mr. Brocks conversion to the left, and I like his work with mediamatters.org, but I am not sure I plan to read any more of his books.
There is a constitutional right to hate.......2006-07-27
This book is a terrible exposure of the powers behind the (extreme) right in the US, of their methods, of their foot-folk and their `morals'.
The powers are the fundamentalist Christian Right, extreme wealthy families and corporate interest. Those powers are firmly anchored in the Republican Party.
Their means are disgusting smear campaigns, vulgar attacks on political opponents, totally biased reporting, in one word `whournalism'.
Their working method are `see what you are supposed to see', `turn a blind eye to facts that do not suit your political aims' and `paper over monstrous moral wrongs in the service of the perceived morality of your cause'.
Their foot-folk are members of think-tanks, media men, investigators, journalists, intelligence personnel. The author considered himself as a right-wing hit-man, profiting hugely from his totally biased or completely fabricated scribbles.
This book unveils the raw selfishness, the protection of sinister (Bertrand Russell) interests (`cutting taxes to defund the left') and the blatant hypocrisy and hidden opportunism of many of the members of these groups (`a decadent and hypocritical conservative elite, leading public and private lives that bore little resemblance to each other').
This book exposes relentlessly huge monuments of vulgarity and ghastly political horror stories.
It gives a terrible picture of extremely powerful political groups within the US society.
Not for the faint-hearted.
REDEMPTION FOR CRIMES AGAINST THE TRUTH?.......2006-07-16
David Brock's memoir, Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, made the New York Times Best Seller list, landing the author on Good Morning America and other prime time television shows. In sixteen chapters with names like "Leninists of the Right," "A Counter-Intelligentsia," and "Strange Lie," the 378-page mea culpa names many familiar right-wing names, enumerating the wicked behavior of Brock's erstwhile politically "conservative" accomplices. His public soul searching caused me to free associate Brock's with a similar fascinating memoir published in Poland by Otto von Hoess in 1947. von Hoess similarly asked his readers for understanding and sought redemption for his wrongdoing -- after the fact. Because of its striking similarity, I'll later get back to the nearly 60 year old mea culpa.
In Blinded by the Right, Brock traces his trajectory from boyhood through a high school youth working for liberal Democrats into the inner sanctum of the most rabid right-wingers of the Republican jihad. He self psychoanalyzes his brief love fest with Kennedy liberals by juxtaposing this with his disapproving and conservative Catholic father and moderate yet secretive mother. His family's big secret is that Brock and his younger sister Regina (who the author loves very much) had been adopted. This secret, plus several others, haunts Brock through adulthood. His other secret which is much more inconvenient to hide from the world is that ever since he was eleven years old, Brock knew that he was a homosexual.
Brock's homosexuality was no problem in college because he attended the University of California at Berkeley where in the 1970s being gay was no big deal. But it was in Berkeley that Brock metamorphosed from a diehard liberal Democrat into an extreme right wing Republican. While Brock was writing for the Berkeley student newspaper, the then new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Jeanne Kirkpatrick had been scheduled to speak. But rowdy anti-Kirkpatrick students kept disrupting her speech and hounded the speaker off the podium (finally, by splashing it and the speaker with fake blood).
Struck by the hypocrisy of liberal Free-Speech-movement promoters denying a platform to a conservative speaker who they didn't like, Brock was prompted to write a scathing denunciation in the student newspaper of the students' hostile intervention. Student backlash for Brock's piece was prompt and violent. He enjoyed the fracas and decided to join the ranks of right-wing writers, repelled by what he had perceived as the phoniness of "politically correct liberalism." Notwithstanding his evolving closet homosexuality, Brock was drawn to the seemingly straightforward simplicity and clearly articulated positions of the political conservatives.
Brock traces the ascendancy of his investigative "journalistic' career through writing for the Rev. Sun Moon-owned Washington Times. While ascending through his writings for the ultra right-wing American Spectator, Brock broke bread with ideologically hardened, prominent right-wing luminaries such as Marvin Liebman, Terry Dolan, Paul Weyrich, Bill Kristol, Grover Norquist, and even gay basher David Horowitz. Because the religious right-wingers condemned all gays, Brock's shadowy lifestyle was a constant source of anxiety for fear of his discovery.
Brock really struck gold at the Spectator right after the now, ultra right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had gone through a very difficult confirmation hearing because of Anita Hill's accusations of sexual harassment. It was Brock's assignment to write a believable smear book about Anita Hill so that Thomas could appear to have been a victim of a liberal conspiracy. Brock wrote the best selling The Real Anita Hill, which demolished Hill's testimony, credibility, and character. Later, and now in Blinded by the Right, Brock freely admitted making it all up and then neatly packaging this smear literature in an investigative journalistic package.
A similar attack on president Bill Clinton based on rumors and made-up stories of his Arkansas sex scandals started the ball rolling towards the president's eventual impeachment hearings. But at each turn of Brock's right-wing literary fusillades he got deeper into the inner sanctums of radical conservative, rich and powerful movers and shakers. But Brock's Clinton sex scandal writings are what would finally do Brock in.
Clearly, Brock didn't have a sudden epiphany of the harm his writings had done to America or that he had been serving wicked people who call themselves conservatives. Rather on page 180, Brock tells us that the Washington Post's media critic Howard Kurtz phoned him to ask about his sexuality. Presumably, a writer exposing the president's sexual waywardness can similarly be scrutinized. That petty much did it. The rest of this story is about most conservatives, especially the religious right-wingers, turning on Brock after his public outing. That's when he decided to "come clean" and admit that his written trail of smears against Anita Hill and the Clintons were lies.
When a writer like Brock loses his right-wing career, what's left for him to do?: What's left to do -- that can still earn good money -- is writing a best selling revelatory memoir, a mea culpa that names names. But what kind of harm had Brock done to America? His lies had influenced what happened in the Thomas-Hill debate and undermined a constitutional process His lies helped to stage the political assassination of a sitting American president and further divide an already badly divided and, thereby, weakened United States. His lies were extremely useful to the misanthropic ultra conservative crowd that would love to preside -- and are beginning to succeed at it with George W. Bush -- over a tyranny of the Right. After admitting all of this lying, Brock wishes us to believe that Blinded by the Right is the truth. So then concerning Brock's implicit appeal for our understanding and seeking redemption for his wrongdoing, I return to Otto von Hoess.
In 1947, von Hoess penned his bizarrely fascinating memoir "Commandant of Auschwitz" in which he freely acknowledges being responsible for the murder of two and one half million Jews. His memoir is an account of his ascension in the Nazi party first as a competent prison warden for ordinary criminals in Germany to his final post a commandant of Auschwitz. He explains how his background and historical events propelled him into that position. von Hoess pleads with the reader to understand that he is no monster but just an ordinary man placed in extraordinary circumstances.
Now clearly, Brock and von Hoess had committed very different kinds of crimes. The Nazi was hanged for crimes against humanity in Poland, right after completing his, indeed, fascinating self-searching memoir in 1947. After getting outed for being gay, Brock lost all of his right wing connections and then tried to atone for his crimes against journalism by setting the various records straight. But since both von Hoess and Brock had their revelations and admitted their guilt after having been exposed, are they entitled to our understanding and have they earned redemption for their wrongdoing?
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Two "insiders" from the religious right explore why the Moral Majority has failed to accomplish its goals despite two decades of aggressive political maneuvering. Although the authors reveal secrets and lies, such as the fact that most of the Moral Majority's so-called "state chapters" are "little more than a separate telephone line in a pastor's office," this is not a tawdry kiss and tell book. In fact, Dobson and Thomas strongly support most of the Christian values behind the organization's political machinery. But they have come to believe that politics is too corrupt and distorted an arena for Christians to use to enact social change.
Ed Dobson, who helped draft the Moral Majority platform and served as personal assistant to Jerry Falwell, offers a particularly compelling chapter in which he compares the U.S. to Northern Ireland, where Dobson grew up as a Protestant. "We have politicized the gospel with our agendas," he writes. "To be part of the Christian right is to be part of the Republican party. For some, this means to be a real Christian, you must be a Republican. That is heresy and is only a short distance from the extremism of my Irish counterparts."
Ultimately, devout Christians and the people they are trying to influence are the most hurt by the corruption of church through politics, according to coauthor Cal Thomas, a former spokesperson for the Moral Majority. For example, by making the Pro-Life movement a political issue, he claims the Christian right has lost sight of more supportive antiabortion tactics, such as focusing on offering homes and finding jobs for destitute single mothers. Ultimately, the duo calls for a change in strategy--hoping to create followers of the Christian agenda through positive example, consistent living, and devout faith rather than brute political force. --Gail Hudson
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Thi account from two insiders explains how and why the religious right failed to transform America.
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Do As We Say - Not As We Did.......2006-12-26
Two men involved in the Moral Majority - columnist Cal Thomas and pastor Ed Dobson (no relation to James Dobson of "Focus on the Family") - tell their story of what its like to have it all in your hands when Ronald Reagan wins - and 12 years later to realize your efforts were wasted pursuing mammon.
Before going further, I want to tell the reader that I am a conservative Christian evangelical who holds to the basic tenets of Reformed theology (for the most part and with a few exceptions). I am pro-life, opposed to gay marriage, and would meet most of the other stereotypes people have of the 'religious right.' It is because of those stereotypes that never have I blocked access to an abortion clinic, never have I once harmed a gay person (or any other person for that matter), and never once have I taken to the television to denounce 'liberals.'
It seems that this is what Cal and Ed are saying - we have become so preoccupied with the GOP that we are forgetting about GOD. I am pained by caricatures of my beliefs in journalistic print and commentary; but can I say that those doing so do not have a point - even if that point is not a very uplifting one?
"Blinded By Right" is an insider's journey from believing salvation can be imposed on the culture to the realization that we are not called to COMMANDEER culture, we are called to INFLUENCE culture toward an eternal relationship with the Eternal One. Thomas acknowledges some not so Christian tactics while Dobson points out that the Republican Party not only does not have a monopoly on the Christian worldview - many in that same party seek to undercut it at every turn. Can any Christian tell me what the difference is between an unbelieving Democrat and an unbelieving Republican? The religious right seems to thinks there is one - though as this book makes clear, that is simply not the case.
What should Christians do? Vote. Be persuasive in the local community. In fact, I think its even good to have Christian leaders - but I'm also deeply concerned that people are so inclined to mistake their own ambitions for godly ones that they not only rock the boat, they often miss it.
The book also takes on the controversial new 'heads' of the religious right, namely, Pat Robertson and James Dobson. I will confess that I used to like Dr. Dobson. His absolutist 'do it my way and now' worldview works in God's kingdom; it will never work in the world, and Dobson is foolish to engage in such. Here is a man who wanted people to vote for Howard Phillips (and thus against Bob Dole) in 1996 because Dole was not staunchly pro-life. Excuse me? So Dobson takes votes - even assuming Dole has a shot - from Dole and ensures the re-election of pro-choice Clinton. Am I missing something here? If Dobson's purpose is to save unborn children, it seems to me he bit off his nose to spite his face.
The highlight of the book, however, was the interviews in the back with figures as diverse as Norman Lear, Jesse Jackson, George McGovern, Pat Robertson and others from all ends of the political spectrum. In those interviews, at least, all sides opted to allow for religious pluralism up to and including Christianity. Ultimately, though, Christians have an agenda that will never be satisfied on this earth.
Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson's book is not without controversy. I was first introduced to it by a pro-life leader in my church class. They disagreed with what seemed to be the disarming of the right. But what is the solution? The Republicans had the White House for TWELEVE years with pro-life Presidents. As Thomas astutely notes, it took Bill Clinton less than 48 hours as President to UNDO the entire accomplishments of twelve years of pro-life activism - he removed the 'gag rule' from family planning clinics that prohibited the mention of abortion.
Twelve years of power and it takes the replacement less than two days to undo it? It sounds to me like Thomas and Dobson have learned their lessons and earned their wings.
Read the book. Critique it. Enjoy it. Debate it. In short, get it.
A masterpiece of Christian rationality and moderation.......2006-11-12
In Blinded by Might, authors Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson--both of whom worked in Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority organization in the eighties--argue very convincingly that organized Christian political action, with the goal of electing godly politicians and getting Christian or Christian-friendly legislation passed, didn't work very well and was doomed to failure. They believe Christians need to concentrate more on living godly lives themselves and giving good witness. If you believed the now-defunct Moral Majority and its also-defunct successor, the Christian Coalition, must have been great things, please read this book. Really, read it anyway. Cal Thomas is my favorite conservative, because he is calm, rational and polite; and if Ed Dobson pastored a church in my area, I'd want to attend.
Moderation.......2006-08-01
Ed Dobson and Cal Thomas hit the nail on the head with this discussion of the intertwining of faith and political activism. The authors provide documentation for their thesis that Christians must remember that their purpose in the world is to make disciples.
However, they also discuss the importance of having people of faith involved in the political process itself. I've read some reviews that suggest otherwise, but the authors do not state or suggest that Christians should not get involved. They remind believers that their primary purpose is not to try to effect the kingdom of God by political maneuvering.
Nothing in this book should be taken to mean that Christians should not be involved in politics. Rather, Christians should realize that while their faith should be an integral part of their lives (including their politics), until Christ's return, the political system will not be what it should be.
Every Born-Again Christian should read this book!!!.......2005-04-29
Although this book was written in late 1990's, it is very relevant today in the current debates over Gay Marriage, internet pornography, and other social issues. Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson openly say how 20 plus years of political activism by Moral Majority, The Christian Coalition, and other groups have not changed the moral climate of America. In fact, it is still going downward. They also point out that many Christian homes are plaqued with adultery, dovorce, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse and other ills that plaque non-Christian homes. Anyone who reads this book will clearly see that efforts to ban Gay marriage will be met with defeat on the Federal level just like efforts to ban abortion and legalize school prayer. The authors also show how the Christian Right's virtual marriage to the Republican party has hurt the image of its movement and the Republican Party.
The authors advocate a return to the things that made Christianity grow in previous generations. These are Preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, doing missionary and charitable work, and living a Christian lifestyle before the world. This may not be easy for many Evangelical Christians to accept. However, in view the failures of the Religious right and the continual downward spiral of morality with a born-again President in the White House(George W. Bush), it gives some ideas to think and reflect on.
Excellent Book On The Role of Christianity In Politics.......2005-02-21
Some Christians believe their call is to save culture through politics. Political columnist Cal Thomas and Pastor Ed Dobson, both of which were on the Moral Majority staff, show the shortcomings of that view.
Most books that are written by colaboration seem like it is just one person speaking, with the reader unsure who is writing. This book is a nice break from that. Each chapter shows who the author of that chapter is, so you know who is writing.
This book has gotten negative reviews from Dr. James Dobson (no relation to Ed) among others. That is because they hold to a philosphy contrary to Thomas and Ed Dobson.
The best part of this book is a collection of ten interviews Cal Thomas has with various people. These include former Senator George McGovern, then Senator John Ashcroft, Senator Rick Santorum (the first I heard of him), Norman Lear, Rev. Jerry Fallwell, and Pat Robertson. (Only one person who Cal wanted to interview turned him down, and that was the afore mentioned Dr. James Dobson.) Thomas does an excellent job of letting each present their point of view.
Anybody who thinks politics is the best way to achieve a political agenda needs to read this book with an open mind.
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Fascinating to read about my great grandfather!!.......2005-04-29
I was fascinated to see some of the parallels between the life of Frederico Jose Maria Ronstadt (my great grandfather) and my own life. Not many people are able to get such a tremendous insight into the lives of their great grandfather and my great great grandfather! The narrative is tremendously warm and vivid -- showing a very interesting story of a borderman. Trully a mind blowing experience for me! Thank you Edward F. Ronstadt for contributing this treasure to the Ronstadt family.
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