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If Only This Were the News
Don't you hate it when facts get in the way of perfectly good rhetoric? I'm sure that the Bush Administration does, and I'm sure that Molly doesn't if her book is any indication. What Ivins does in this book is completely dismantle the rhetoric upon which the entire Bush Presidency has been built by stating fact after fact after fact. This is the sort of journalism you can't get from the newspaper anymore because there is "no market for it." It is the sort of thing you can only get from books (which for some reason there IS a market for, maybe liberals read while conservatives watch the O'Reilly Factor, I don't know). If you read one book before the election in 2004 this should be the one. No intellectually honest person could vote for Bush after reading this book. This is beyond the usual rhetoric, conservative or liberal. It isn't an attack on Bush's person but a revelation of Bush's policies and how they are ruining the lives of hardworking Americans.
October 2003 · Books