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Rating:  - A blistering denunciation of malfeasance
You have to hand it to Dick Morris. He's his own man - a veritable self-styled mercenary in American politics. Morris has singularly carved an unforgettable niche in the American political landscape with his uncommon wit and candor coupled with his undeniable political accumen and penchant for winning. Always entertaining when on Hannity & Colmes, Morris candidly and expertly delineates, and subsequently roasts, the obstructionists, crooks, and traitors in politics, media, and business in Off With Their Heads. Morris astutely points out the unconscionable media bias of The Old Gray Lady in its liberally-weighted push polling, editorial, and front page articles. As Morris says, "All the news that fits, they print." Morris spares no one from his wrath: including the Hollywood apologists, France("from great to ingrate"), Clinton, and many more. Having met Morris at a book signing for this book, I am pleased to note he is as personable in person as he is on TV. Off With Their Heads is well worth the effort to read for any true political enthusiast.
Rating: - Rare insider insight
Unlike Hillary, who sees the Clinton years through rose-colored glasses thick as midnight, Morris's hindsight is a stark and clear. As a pollster himself, he debunks the way supposedly objective media giants bend the numbers to get the results they want. After reading this book, you'll understand why the New York Times was literally in-credible long before Jayson Blair. You see how entire strings of polls were weighted in favor of the liberal agenda plus being weighted against the Republican administration. The Times taught Blair how to write fiction, for Pete's sake. Morris stumbled his way out of the Clinton administration, falling on his face, getting up, and re-earning his reputation as an astute political observer. If you think this book is merely another conservative tirade in the vein of Ann Coulter, forget it. This guy shoots straight. And when the smoke clears, you're going to be skeptic about anything you hear on the network news and the NYT. This book is a grad course in how to read between the lines in the press to get at the truth. Off with their heads, Morris. Off with their heads. Now. When are you going to write the book that debunks Hillary?
Rating: - Vital Reading
Dick Morris drops the kid gloves and comes out swinging in this one, taking on everyone who he feels has let the country down and/or set a poor example in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The first chapters hit the hardest and get this book off to a whale of a start, as Morris goes right after the New York Times and ridicules the legendary publication for its weighted polling and agenda-driven reporting--this chapter is especially interesting in light of the recent Jayson Blair scandal, which came to light after the book was written and just before release.The next target is President Clinton, and while Morris, who worked in the Clinton White House for two years, greatly admires Clinton's domestic accomplishments, he takes the former Commander in Chief to task for putting his place in history ahead of standing up to a clearly growing terrorism problem. Whatever you think of Bill Clinton, this is one take--from a former Clinton aide--you probably haven't heard yet. And it isn't pretty. The mainstream media is hammered for their continual doom and gloom approach and over-reliance on equally negative retired military "experts" in the studio, and it's disheartening to be reminded of what lengths--like the New York Times--the mainstream media went to in order to ensure that the war effort would backfire. In that vein, Morris savages the Hollywood anti-war crowd, singling out the most egregious and ridiculous comments which were made to push the same agenda. Finally Morris takes France to task and underscores how much of an appeaser they've been to Hussein for the past two decades, and how their utter refusal to come to our side as we prepared for war was simply staggering after everything our country has done for them. The final four chapters, representing Part Two, aren't quite as compelling. But Morris makes solid points and will open a lot of eyes as he describes the gerrymandering which has all but guaranteed that members of the House of Representatives will be in their slots for years. He paints a terribly disheartening picture of how some congressmen actually put legislation in place which keeps investors from being able to sue companies which defraud their investors, making a strong case that many in Washington on both sides of the political aisle are to blame for the lack of investor confidence in today's economy. Finally, Morris, who lost his mother to lung cancer, describes the efforts of people like Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore and others who launched the huge lawsuit against the tobacco industry and paved the way for hundreds of thousands of dollars in research and awareness to curb teen smoking--and he spotlights the governors and others who've chosen to spend that money on things other than anti-smoking in order to balance bloated budgets. The final chapter is devoted to the plight of the elderly and neglected in our nursing homes, and it's an equally ugly picture. This book will make you mad, and it will make you sad. But they are stories which need to be told, and Dick Morris writes, as always, with a high degree of intelligence and an especially enlightened perspective. Very timely, and highly recommended. I almost never give politically-based books five stars, but this one is very close.
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