Gene Lyons

Apolitical all my life, the current US election has me riveted by its amazing nastiness. The public ignorance of their own political system and how it works and is being used is astounding. This book showed even more how dirty US politics has been for a long time. Everyone has an ax to grind. Women wanting money and fame. Men wanting money and revenge. Political rivals hiring spies to dig up dirt and taking a molehill and with twists and embellishments and paid liars turning it into a mountain. Then it takes more investigation and public money to dig through the lies to find the nugget of truth that turns out to be meaningless. People lying under oath and getting away with it unless you are the target of the lies and you lie to protect yourself or your family...you end up the loser. The journalists on radio, television, news magazines, and trash tabloids all printing lies all over the country for ratings. Media corporations making profits out of destroying their own country's image. Huge amounts of tax payer money used to investigate the life of a politician, looking for anything that would pull him down, not for truth but for political gain of one party over another. All this with absolutely no regard for the constitution or for the democracy of the country. All this with absolutely no regard for the honor of the office of the Presidency. Misinformation is still being spread because the truth is lodged in piles of documents never seen by the public and unread by journalists who should be mining them for truth. The lies printed, and since disproved legally, are what is remembered and constantly reiterated. It is nauseating reading no matter what side of the political fence you are standing on...if you have any interest at all in honest government. I read all of Linda Tripp's machinations and illegal taping and lies in this book and looked her up on the internet to find out what ever happened to her, only to read a new interview in January of 2016 filled with more vituperative lies about Clinton. New scurrilous information mixed in with repetition of old lies that have been exposed a long time ago. The media has given this woman, already proved to be a liar and tainted, a voice to add her muck to an already mucky campaign. This book ends with the Lewinsky scandal and here so many years later she is embellishing her story and given a platform to do it. How can it not be suspicious and manipulative? Soul destroying information on how our trusted public officials are corrupted.… (plus d'informations)