Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth

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245 pp. "In Big Lies, Joe Conason rips through the ten most damaging lies perpetrated by the right wing propaganda machine. This scathing, fact-filled analysis debunks it all: The myth that Republicans are fiscal geniuses and champions of free enterprise. The right's self-proclaimed monopoly on 'family values.' The conservative smearing of liberals as unpatriotic and anti-American. And of course, the 'compassionate conservatism' of George W. Bush. (It depends on the meaning of 'compassionate.') Big Lies confronts right-wing slander and bias with a long-awaited, badly-needed counterpunch to the deceptions that have plagued American politics for a generation." Show more