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

FORT PIERCE, FL : DO YOU FEEL THE TACTICS OF THE 90'S HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THIS ATMOSPHERE OF NON DISSENT ON THE WAR. WHERE PEOPLE WHO ARE PARTRIOTIC MUTE THEIR DOUBTS FOR FEAR OF BEING ATTACKED BY THE MEDIA>

David Brock: Yes, I think so. You can see what happened to Tom Daschle when he broached legitimate questions about the administration's strategy. The Republicans ran ads comparing him to Saddam Hussein - a dirty trick right out of Newt Gingrich's playbook.

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Hartford CT : What specific connection did Ted Olson have to Scaife and to the Arkansas Project?

David Brock: There was a meeting at Ted Olson's law office in late 1993 to discuss the Arkansas project just as it was getting off the ground. Later, Olson attended various dinner meetings at which Arkansas Project matters were discussed. Then Olson played a very key role in trying to cover up the Arkansas Project by firing Spectator publisher Ron Burr when Burr called for a fraud audit of the Arkansas Project.

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Hot Springs, AR : 1. Is Brock now actually claiming that there was NEVER ANY corruption with the use of state troopers and other officials in the Arkansas state government ??

David Brock: The troopers were not credible sources - therefore it's difficult to know what the truth was. Unbeknownst to me, the troopers were paid to talk to me by one of Newt Gingrich's money men. Later, when they were placed under oath in the Paula Jones sexual harrassment case, two of the troopers took back everything they told me.

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Salt Lake City, Utah : How did your disaffection with the conservative right come about? Did you have a conservative home life growing up? How do you feel now about such issues as homosexuality, abortion, and women's rights?

David Brock: Yes, I was brought up in a conservative home. My father was a Pat Buchanan-type Republican. I broke with the right in three stages. The first was realizing that I was a fraud. The second was looking hard at the character of those around me. And the third stage was rejecting the ideological fanaticism that was driving it all.

I always was a social liberal, but I subordinated those views to get ahead in the conservative movement.

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Bay City, MI : Hi David, I just wanted to say thanks for coming clean. It took Lee Atwater to be lying on his death bed before he finally came clean about all the cruel slander and such that he had heaped on the American public in order to further his and his parties cause. My question is, what happened to gentlemen's rules? Also, how is it that Newt Gingerich is able to stir the pot the way he did about President Clinton and his sexual escapades and yet he is embroiled in his own promiscuous affair, and he just flat out walks away from it all. Thanks again

David Brock: Soon after Gingrich became speaker, I was privy to talk in his inner circle that Gingrich was vulnerable on his own personal life. So when Gingrich was leading the impeachment drive, it almost seemed an act of self-destruction. Unfortunately, it wasn't until he left office that the press reported what everybody knew to be true about him - that he was having an affair with a congressional aide during the entire time he was screaming about Monica.

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St. Louis, MO : A question from one who refers to himself as left-of-center, not liberal: So you're saying you were a former conservative and, if I have this right, you admit lying in previous publications to suit the right wing cause. What makes you think that simply because you've burned your bridges to the right that we have any use for you? In essence, you lied on the record. Anything you have to say from here on out will be tainted by that valid accusation. One thing we left-of-centers learned from the 2000 election is that you have to take-no-prisoners if you're playing to win. You're a horse with a lame leg. Counterpoint?

David Brock: I understand that what I'm saying now inevitably raises credibility questions, but I think that what I'm doing is more honorable than concealing my past, sweeping it under the rug and moving on. This is a voluntary act on my part, and I think if you read the book you'll be able to see that it is a credible account, just as other reviewers have concluded.

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Wahington, DC : In the confirmatin hearings this past year for South Carolina District Court Judge Terry Wooten you alleged he improperly reviewed FBI files to dig up dirt on a woman accusing Clarence Thomas of harassment during his confirmation hearings. After FBI interviews, it was shown that you had lied about these allegations and Judge Wooten was confirmed. Why should anyone trust you now when it has been proven conclusively that you will lie in order to get in the headlines?

David Brock: The FBI investigation of Judge Wooten was inconclusive. My allegations were not disproven. It was a matter of Wooten's word against mine, so the FBI couldn't resolve it. I made these allegations about Wooten 8 months ago publically. I have all the details in this book, and I have yet to hear from him or anyone representing him disputing the account.

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BOCA RATON, FL : WHAT YOU DID HAS CAUSED THE CLINTON'S SECOND TERM IN OFFICE VERY WEAK WITH NO SIGINIFICANT PIECE OF LEGISLATION PASSED, HUNDREDS OF FBI AGENTS WORKING FOR A SEX CASE IN WHICH THE AGENTS COULD HAVE BEEN WORKING ON SOME SERIOUS MATTERS, LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE "TERRORISM." SO, HOW DO YOU FEEL THAT YOUR BOGUS, AND SELFISH ARTICLES CONTRIBUTED TO THE ABOVE?

David Brock: I think in the wake of September 11 the entire smear campaign against the Clintons, including my own role in it, looks that much worse. Republicans bear some culpability in all of this for their obsessive focus on scandal in the '90s, rather than important issues facing the country.

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