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I'm beginning to worry that the Republicans might be behind this smear-job on Kerry. So does a reader: "Well, this may be it. As a life-long Republican, I have defended my party and its leaders through thick and thin over the years, but I don't know if I can do it any longer. I voted for Reagan in 1984 (my first Presidential election), despite my misgivings about the rising influence of the Religious Right and my displeasure at the ludicrous budget deficits, because of his moral clarity on the issue of Communism. I voted for Bush Sr. in '88 and...

X-Men and X-Men II producer David Hayter has bought film rights to David Brock's Blinded by the Right.MM

<p>Were they protesting the war against Iraq outside Lounge 201 on Tuesday night?</p> <p>Hardly.</p> <p>It was the "Freepers" again — members of the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com — protesting what Raoul Deming of Takoma Park called a meeting of "unapologetic leftovers of the Clinton administration."</p>

Controversial author David Brock suffered a breakdown last summer and was committed to the psychiatric ward of Sibley Hospital in Northwest Washington, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. The breakdown came just months before Brock finalized production of his bestselling book BLINDED BY THE RIGHT -- a book that has been widely challenged on points of accuracy! "He had delusions, he thought people were trying to kill him," reveals a source who befriended Brock last July at the hospital. Brock told fellow patients that he did not feel safe -- even inside of the hospital's secure medical setting! "He spent time...

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When incurable liberals like Todd Gitlin and Eric Alterman begin using the name Whittaker Chambers as a term of approbation, we are entitled to say that there has been what the Germans call a Tendenzwende, or shift in the zeitgeist. The odd thing is that they have both chosen to compare Chambers's Witness, a serious and dramatic memoir by any standards, to a flimsy and self-worshiping book titled Blinded by the Right, by David Brock. Meyer Schapiro, one of the moral heroes of the democratic left, once said that Whittaker Chambers was incapable of telling a lie. That might well...

Blinded By The Right The Conscious of a Supposed Ex-Conservative By Raymond Green (www.supportnospin.com, The Republic, and editorial contributor to www.michnews.com) Recently, I made yet another attempt to open my mind to more liberal views. People often accuse those with "right of center" beliefs to be narrow-minded; therefore I research various points of view before forming my opinion. This attempt, though, would be fairly different. While shopping at the local bookstore, I spotted and purchased a copy of David Brock's "Blinded By The Right". The book caught my attention primarily because of the "The Conscious of an Ex-Conservative" sub-title on...

Did NBC "Blacklist" David Brock? Yes, I know Brock appeared on the "Today" show but according to Brock's definition that means he was "blacklisted" by NBC because he didn't appear on Primetime. Even though Brock was thoroughly interviewed by FOX News by David Asman, according to Brock's absurd definition he was "blacklisted" by FOX News. Well, if that counts as being "blacklisted" wouldn't the same definition apply to the other networks as well? Was Brock also "blacklisted" by ABC and CBS as well because of not appearing on their networks in primetime?

One thing lost in the shuffle over the controversy about David Brock's dissembling on CNN's Crossfire when he made it appear that he had never appeared on FOX (by tossing in the "Primetime" qualifier in such a low key manner that even the CNN transcriber of this show didn't hear it) even though he had (with David Asman), was his claim of being "blacklisted" by FOX because he had never received an invitation by them (although he must have received an invititation to be interviewed by Asman). But even allowing Brock his "Primetime" Clintonian qualifier, that means that according to...

<p>CARVILLE: Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. It's said the pen is the mightier than the sword. Then our next guest wields a mighty deadly weapon. Through is writings, he introduced us to Paula Jones and took on Anita Hill. Now he says he was blinded by the right.</p>

David Brock is a LOUSY FRIGGIN' LIAR! Sorry for the near-expletive but I couldn't help myself. Just a few minutes ago I heard Brock on CNN's Crossfire deny that he had ever been interviewed about his book Blinded by the Right on the FOX News Channel. When I heard his lying denial I almost pulled an Elvis on my TV set. Why? Because a month ago I posted an article about Brock's appearance on the FNC right here on the FR. If you want to see that article, check it out HERE. Hopefully I can get a transcript of tonight's...

<p>The wing conspirators are at it again, but this time it's the left demonizing the right.</p> <p>Representatives on the left have said that the right's ``hatred'' of former President Clinton is a function of ``Freudian projection.'' That is, those who hate Clinton really hate themselves.</p>

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Enemy of the Week It's Good Friday so let's dispense with the small talk. ...And the winner is Paul Krugman. He turned himself in early this morning with a New York Times column that cleared the air for good as to who is and who isn't for David Brock. Against: all those whom Krugman loathes. For: all those like Krugman who loathe everyone to the right of Sidney Blumenthal, George McGovern, and the fellow one of our heroes liked to refer to as Nikolai Lenin."An appallingly well-financed hard-right is still in the business of smearing anyone who disagrees with its...

WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) -- No one is exactly sure when political arguments first moved beyond policy into the realm of the intensely personal. Most observers point to the fight over Judge Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court as the turning point. The Senate, it should be remembered, rejected Bork after a pitched and heated battle in which his opinions were distorted, his character was attacked and his qualifications were ignored. Other who have written on the subject call the Bork nomination the point at which the implicit concerns that exist over every Supreme Court nominee became explicit --...

Comic Book for Liberals In political movements, there is nothing quite as disturbing as a turncoat. I’ve always been registered as a Republican, and I suppose because of my law enforcement background, I found myself in agreement with the conservative “wing” of the GOP. Over time, this subset of the Republican Party has been labeled the Right-Wing. Hillary went so far as to call us the “Vast Right Wing,” and claimed we had a conspiracy. For a short time, one of the “members” of the so-called Vast Right Wing Conspiracy was believed to be David Brock. His participation in the...

NBC’s slogan for the Today show is "what a difference Today makes." FNC on Monday illustrated how for the cable network it’s "what a difference the network makes." Conservative-basher David Brock, author of Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, was interviewed early Monday afternoon on the Fox News Channel by Fox News Live anchor David Asman. But it was quite a different experience for Brock than the adoring treatment he received last week on NBC’s Today from Matt Lauer and on CNN from Aaron Brown.     Asman actually challenged Brock’s broad accusations and took on some of the...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Having covered the Bill Clinton presidency, I was fascinated to see the remarkable conversion of David Brock. As many of you probably will recall, Brock was the author of the original "Troopergate" article in the American Spectator in 1993. That was Bill Clinton's first year in the White House. The article caused a huge uproar -- alleging that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, routinely used his state troopers to solicit women. In that article, there was a reference to a "Paula." That, of course, turned out to be Paula Jones -- and the beginning of the eventual impeachment process against the president began. She accused Clinton of sexually harassing her in a Little Rock hotel room. He denied it.</p>

A VIEW FROM HERE by deb weiss every tuesday The Great Square Dance March 12, 2002 quot;Send for the Fool-Killer,quot; goes the grand old saying, quot;the fools aren't all dead yet.quot; This phrase drifted unbidden into my thoughts the other day, as I waded through Hendrik Hertzberg's intense, choleric, weirdly schizoid New Yorker tribute to David Brock, whose Bad Boy snipings at, among others, Ms. Anita Hill and Mr. Bill Clinton, once made him a darling of the right. EMAIL: DEB WEISS Now, of course, in what I call the Great Square Dance of American Politics, everyone has swung their...