tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post1485508678245809918..comments2023-05-05T06:38:34.592-04:00Comments on IMHO: On Biographies...Niceguy Eddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03896896323840121445noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post-54408640846525441332010-05-26T11:10:38.888-04:002010-05-26T11:10:38.888-04:00To continue...
"But to go SO FAR to spin so ...To continue...<br /><br />"But to go SO FAR to spin so much blatant controversy in their favor and just outright disappear so many distortions and falsehood on their behalf... That goes beyond a Biography. That's just propaganda."<br /><br />It's pretty much standard operating procedure in the conservative book world. Being a conservative author is the easiest thing in the world, today. The right has turned publishing into a well-oiled profit machine.<br /><br />Most of the prominent righties are entirely incapable of writing a book, and, in fact, don't even try, assigning the task to ghost-writers. Appropriate, because most people who read them couldn't read a real book, either. The vacuous monologues ground out by the ghost-writers, carefully shorn of any potentially thought-provoking passages and of words of more than two or three syllables, are the best they can manage. Just about all the conservatives have to do to have a "beststeller" is publish something with words on an appropriate number of pages. The hundreds of conservative outlets that riddle the nation like a cancer then swing into action, doing enormous mass purchases of the book, which are then either resold at a greatly reduced rate or given away in exchange for donations to the org that purchased them. Instant "bestseller," one that no one reads.<br /><br />Limbaugh is a lie-machine. That isn't a <i>part</i> of what he is; that's <i>all</i> he is. Take away that, and he's nobody from nowhere, of whom no one would have ever heard. Limbaugh is a lie-machine in the service of certain interests. Chafet isn't just spinning and smoothing over controversies; he is, in fact, entirely missing the most fundamental element, the beating heart, the core of his chosen subject. Books like his do have a reason for existing, but that reason extends no further than a quick buck.classicliberal2http://lefthooktheblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post-3485904082509935352010-05-26T01:48:07.707-04:002010-05-26T01:48:07.707-04:00Back in the 1990s, I actually wrote a book about L...Back in the 1990s, I actually wrote a book about Limbaugh myself. It wasn't a biography; it was a critical deconstruction. A massive project, it began when Limbaugh was first rising to national prominence and continued to some point in the mid-'90s. Unfortunately, it was never finished; even more unfortunately, it was then mostly lost. I still have bits and pieces of it, mostly rough drafts of chapters and portions of chapters. Not long ago, I pulled out some of it, dusted it off, and posted it at my archive site:<br />http://claslib2.tripod.com/lh/rushclass.html<br />And<br />http://claslib2.tripod.com/lh/rushanalyst.html<br /><br />Limbaugh has gotten MUCH worse in the intervening years.classicliberal2https://www.blogger.com/profile/17960371221876522276noreply@blogger.com