Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risks of the New Con

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		Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risks of the New Con
		Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risks of the New Con

基本信息·出版社：St. Martin's Press
·页码：304 页
·出版日期：2006年10月
·ISBN：031236153X
·International Standard Book Number：031236153X
·条形码：9780312361532
·EAN：9780312361532
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介 Ann Coulter. Laura Ingraham. Nancy Grace. Bill O'Reilly. Sean Hannity. Pat Robertson.Their faces and voices are ubiquitous: the shrill shrieks and strident bellowings that drown out all debate and set every listener on edge, using God’s and Jesus’s names to justify oppression and ignorance, and spread falsehoods as if they were facts. They occupy the bully pulpit of the new American hate culture: the television and radio programs watched and heard by millions of people that shape the opinions and set the agendas of churches, school boards, political action groups, and ultimately those we have elected to represent all of us.
Gerry Spence takes dead aim at the media demagogues who wield their power with such virulent effect. Using the full force of his own rhetorical skill—developed through decades as a legendary defense attorney—Spence exposes the people behind the words, and carves their arguments with the rough edge of his tongue. Anyone who has had it up to here will cheer to see these bullies met and conquered on their own turf.
作者简介 GERRY SPENCE, writer and attorney, lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He is the author of numerous books including How to Argue and Win Every Time, 0.J. the Last Word, The Making of a Country Lawyer, From Freedom to Slavery, A Boy's Own Summer, and Win Your Case.
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*Starred Review* Despite its inflammatory title, this book offers a thoughtful exploration of the vitriol of conservative commentators in the media and their effect on the broader society. Spence, an attorney who has represented Karen Silkwood and Randy Weaver of Ruby Ridge fame, lambastes Nancy Grace, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and other conservative commentators. While they attack liberals and others with whom they disagree, they don't dare attack their corporate sponsors, who commit all manner of misdeeds. Spence cites troubling parallels between the propaganda of Fascist Mussolini and Nazi Hitler and what he calls "corporacy," the growing corporate ownership and control of the media and American thought and discourse. Spence also attacks "thingism," the unbridled lust for products that enslaves Americans with debt, tying them to unfulfilling jobs, stoking constant fear and anger that are fed by the conservative commentators. Hate sells, Spence laments, in this stinging rebuke of the hypocrisy of commentators who cash in on the frustrations of average Americans without regard for the longer term consequences. Spence's passion should appeal to a broad range of readers concerned about the current political environment. Vanessa Bush
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文摘 Chapter One 
Hate Sells
 
Meet Its Prime-time Peddler, Nancy Grace
 
I can see them now—endless waves of humanoids, one might suppose from another planet; an angry mob stretching from coast to coast; millions of staring, hating voyeurs melded to their screens, watching some bloodthirsty blonde eviscerate whoever has been tabbed as the day’s victim. In times past, say, in Rome at the Colosseum, the crowd was enthralled by blood and gore and human entrails torn from the prey of starved beasts. The lionesses then were as vicious as the ripping blondes on our television screens.
 
Today’s worldwide Colosseum is called television. No metaphor is ever perfect, but the similarities are startling; and but for the damage these women wreak on human dignity and truth, perhaps vaguely amusing. CNN, on the cliff’s edge of bankruptcy, needed a lioness. Their ratings were headed over the cliff. Then they found Nancy Grace and released her into the arena. Some say she saved the network.
 
As you remember, the issue in the Michael Jackson case was simple: Did the state prove its case against Jackson as a child molester beyond a reasonable doubt? This is still America. Her ladyship, Ms. Grace, found Michael Jackson guilty from the first day. Maybe he was. Maybe not. But there was no doubt in her mind, although she was never in the courtroom. She didn’t observe the witnesses, didn’t see their faces, hear their voices, watch the lawyers, or listen to the judge, as did the jury. She sat in her studio a couple of thousand miles away, and before the case took its first judicial breath she found Michael Jackson guilty. Presumably beyond a reasonable doubt. The presumption of innocence, a sacred American right—what has happened to it?
 
After the verdict, the jury foreman, Mr. Rodriguez, foolishly agreed to jump into the arena with the lioness. The poor man,
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