"David Brock - Blinded By The Right" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brock David)

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Noblesville, Indiana : Mr. Brock, I would like to preface my question with a comment. Thank you for having the moral fortitude to tell the truth. My queston? How does it feel to be attacked by people in the right wing?

David Brock: Oddly enough, by enlarge the right wing has not yet attacked this book. Perhaps they've already attacked me in every way they can in the last few years. They all know that this book is true, but I'm not sure why that would stop them from denying it anyway. The attacks when they come won't bother me, because I have to consider the source.

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New Rochelle NY : Did the gang of Scaife know you were gay and did it affect the way you were around them? I am concerned that you needed to hide your true self in front of people as mean as Ann Coulter.

David Brock: I came out of the closet in the middle of my Spectator tenure, so obviously at some point Scaife did know, but the conservatives didn't care about that so long as I was politically useful. For years I did hide my true self from my friends. When I came out, Coulter handed me a stack of anti-gay "conversion literature".

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Midland, MI : Why do you think the Washington Post chose a writer from the Conservative American Spectator, which you criticize in your book, to review your book?

David Brock: I'm not sure that they knew of his background with the American Spectator, which is clearly a conflict of interest. I think they chose a gay conservative to give them cover for a hatchet job review. Unfortunately for them, the hatchet job was bumbled.

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spartanburg sc : Would you say that there was an attempt to overthrow the government of U.S? Using lawyers and drumed up scandals, instead of a gun.

David Brock: Yes. In the book, I describe a dinner meeting that I attended in the fall of 1997 of 30 or so conservative movement leaders who were plotting to drum up political support to impeach Bill Clinton. This was 5 months before anyone had heard the name Monica Lewinsky. The talk at the dinner was that the constitutional threshhold of evidence for impeachment didn't matter; it was only a matter of "political will" of the right.

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Norton, Vermont : Why are you trying to destroy Republicans?

David Brock: I'm not trying to destroy Republicans. I think many Republicans and even consevative readers in the country ought to know the truth about the hypocritical conservative elite that leads them in Washington.

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Arlington, VA : Why are women like Ingraham and Coulter so anti-feminist when they have reeped many benefits of the feminist movement?

David Brock: Having known both Ann and Laura well, I have to say that I do not think their anti-feminism is much more than a lucrative marketing device. It's a way to be different, to stand out from other writers and commentators without doing any work.

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Lansing, MI : Many liberals feel that the mainstream media has been leaning to the right. The Washington Post and NYT was so cirtical of President Clinton and has not been of Bush. Is there a conservative conspiracy within the mainstream press? Or are they merely bending over backward trying to appear balanced in response to the right-wing's "liberal bias" criticism?

David Brock: Yes, I think the mainstream press is at times intimidated by the very vocal right wing critics. The New York Times and especially the Washington Post seem to have a vested interest in a negative charicature of the Clintons, and therefore they seem unwilling to acknowledge the extent of the conspiracy against the Clintons. For example, the Post did not report on the Arkansas Project, which I detail in my book, until after Clinton was impeached.

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Sunderland : Mr. Brock, will the paperback edition of "Blinded" have an index? And if there are no plans, I hope you will consider it.

David Brock: We will consider it.

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