The Obama Hate Machine

By Bill Press

The Obama Hate Machine - Bill Press
  • Release Date: 2012-01-31
  • Genre: Political Science
Score: 4
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From 44 Ratings

Description

In Toxic Talk, Bill Press exposed the ways in which the extreme right-wing media has done an end run around the American voting populace by exerting a disproportionate control over open political debate. In The Obama Hate Machine, Press returns to show how the Right has taken rhetoric to slanderous new levels in attacking the nation's forty-fourth president.

But presidents have always been attacked like this, right? Wrong. As the author shows, while presidents and presidential candidates routinely have been subject to personal attacks, the outright disdain Obama's extremist opponents have for the facts has inspired an insidious brand of character assassination unique in contemporary politics.

Obama was born in Kenya . . . Obama sympathizes with Muslim terrorists . . . Obama is a communist who wants to institute death panels and touch off class warfare…The extent to which these unfounded assertions have taken hold in the American mindset shows just how ruthless, destructive, and all-powerful the right-wing machine—hijacked by extremists in the media and fueled by corporate coffers—has become. The author reveals how corporate interests such as the infamous Koch Brothers continue to steer political coverage away from fact-based dialogue into the realm of hysteria. Bill Press also observes this phenomenon is not limited to the airwaves and provides an "I Hate Obama Book Club" list, calling out the scores of anti-Obama tomes—and even some from the Left—that have helped drag politics even deeper into the mud.

In his characteristic on-the-mark arguments sure to appeal to anyone on the Left or in the Center, Press shows how the peculiar nature of Obama-hating subverts issue-driven debate and threatens not only the outcome of the 2012 election but the future of the American democratic system.

Reviews

  • America Needs to Read this Book

    5
    By Stagfan
    Whether or not you agree with Barak Obama's policies, America needs to read this book to understand the toxic environment that has invaded U.S. Politics. From the day the President was elected, select members of Congress and segments of the media had one agenda, make him fail. Even it it is not in the Country's best interest. Pathetic. The book clearly states how the media, unrestricted PACS supported by anonymous wealthy individuals has hijacked our political system. A must read before November 2012 no matter what you political leaning.
  • Brilliant!

    5
    By nnoel
    Mr. Press supplies the evidence for what so many Obama supporters, like myself, have known all along. The bigoted right wing are willing to sacrifice the needs of the American people to further their warped mission of ensuring that President Obama is a one term president. It is sad, pathetic and will certainly backfire. Thank you, Bill Press for helping to expose the real agenda of the right wing.
  • Huh?

    3
    By DemoRepublic
    Obviously never paid attention to the Left during the Bush years. Didn't really like Bush 43, but he was dragged just as badly. The media on both sides has only been following the example set by politicians themselves.