Smear Tactics: The Liberals' Never-Ending Campaign of Bad Faith and Dirty Tricks

By Brad Miner

Book Overview

In this spirited survey of liberal lies and dirty tricks, Brad Miner, one of America's leading conservative insiders, offers a look at the American liberal tradition of slander, insult, and character assassination throughout history. Smear Tactics mines both today's papers and the classic campaigns of history for tales of liberal deception and manipulation. Tracing smears from the early days of our nation right through the run-up to the 2008 elections, Miner highlights the Left's most atrocious campaigns against: Soldiers: The media's attacks on our troops, from Vietnam to Iraq The Faithful: The Left's campaign to vilify Christians in American life Entrepreneurs: Is the American Dream dead? The Left says yes, and Girl Scout cookies, Wal-Mart, and Legos have all played a part. President Bush: He caused global warming and Hurricane Katrina? Smears against the man the Left loves to hate. As Brad Miner shows, American politics has never been a sport for gentlemen--but recent campaigns have proven dirtier than ever, full of negative ads, rumormongering, and worse. With the coming election a wide-open race, full of polarizing candidates of all stripes, the mud is about to start flying across the American landscape, and in Smear Tactics Brad Miner returns the fire--with a vengeance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061140147
• ISBN13: 9780061140143
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Compelling

A series of quick takes on excesses of political enthusiasm--Left and conservative. (Miner writes that there is no true Right in America.) A lively read. Great blurbs from Bill Bennett, David Frum, and Richard Brookhiser.