Always entertaining when on Hannity & Colmes, Morris candidly and expertly delineates, and subsequently roasts, the obstructionists, crooks, and traitors in politics, media, and business in Off With Their Heads. Morris astutely points out the unconscionable media bias of The Old Gray Lady in its liberally-weighted push polling, editorial, and front page articles. As Morris says, "All the news that fits, they print."
Morris spares no one from his wrath: including the Hollywood apologists, France("from great to ingrate"), Clinton, and many more. Having met Morris at a book signing for this book, I am pleased to note he is as personable in person as he is on TV. Off With Their Heads is well worth the effort to read for any true political enthusiast.
Although he begins with an attack against the left-wing bias so prevalent in our media, Morris does not stop there. He takes on all manner of sacred cows, and his chapter on the Hollywood liberals transformed by the media into America's newest set of intellectuals is worth the price of admission alone, especially as concerns Streisand and Sarandon. His take, on the disingenuousness of France during the Iraq war, is also hilarious, and dead on target.
What also makes Morris so special from the rest is his strong reliance on facts over opinions and feelings and his refusal to play the game of demonization. Clinton may have been dead wrong in his views and actions on foreign terrorism, but he was not a traitor. The only real venom I saw from Morris was toward France, and there I couldn't disagree with him, especially with their tasteless and racist treatment of Serena Williams at the recent French Open still reverberating in my mind.
Morris does run out of steam at the end when he begins taking on a slew of offenders (elected officials misusing tobacco settlement monies, the tobacco industry itself, and that all-round target, Congress itself), but, still, he does so with a deftness and panache that is simply not found in the other books on the subjects. Funny, informative and on-target.
This guy was a Clinton zealot, then a GOP neocon darling. Give me a break. He's in it for the media attention and money. He has no values. Morris has not mentioned his own brush with sexual scandals with whores, himself being investigated for kickbacks and fraud, not to mention someone who called Bush senior a criminal. He's and idiot and you are too if you pay for this crap.
He said he never heard Powell's plagiarizing a school kids paper for his speech at the UN. This is hard to believe! And this came after he praised and praised Powell against actor Michael Sheen. When this fact was again pointed at him, he changed the subject! Can someone who is serious, write about Powell, make him an idol, but be ignorant about his UN speech, and how the world made fun of us because of his amateur attempt to sell WMD policy on Iraq by plagiarizing a school kids paper? Well, this book is written by someone who has not paid attention to his subject matter.
The book reflects Dick's ignorance, mediocrity, poor, one sided and cheap nationalistic propaganda. There are intelligent nationalists. Unfortunately Dick is not one of them. There are genuinely patriotic people. Dick is not one of them.
If he wants to make a case for the issues he claims to defend, he has to do a lot of homework, read and learn a lot, get schooling. And occasionally read the daily newspapers. Even if it means reading the other side, so that he can make an argument against them.
Attacking Hollywood or France does not cut it as real criticism, which Dick cannot do, due to his lack of political knowledge. He should start by not lying publicly about factual events where governments (England) have accepted and apologized while Dick claims he has no knowledge of the event! If he REALLY wants to do the right thing, first he should do a little homework... THEN write a book. This way he has a chance of persuading other people. But he should respect others' intelligence before stepping up to the soapbox.
Dick wants to blame 9/11 and all evil on Hollywood, liberals and people he does not like. Never a mention that Bush's papa was on Bin Laden family's payroll, but he attacks Barbara Streisand for terrorism!
Cheap, unintelligent nationalism. Forget the paper, it is not worth the ink spent on printing. If you want honest patriotism, or real criticism of the liberals you can find a lot of serious books where you may pick up some information, analysis and food for thought. Dick is cashing in on 9/11. Don't waste your time or money.
If you are open minded and looking for those books begging for its pages to be turned...unlike this claptrap, look no further. I just read a copy of Edgar Fouche's 'Alien Rapture,' which also blew me away. Fouche was a Top Secret Black Program 'insider', whose credibility has been verified over and over. I also really liked Dan Brown's 'Angels and Demons.' Want to be shocked, check out Dr. Paul Hill's 'Unconventional Flying Objects' which NASA tried to ban.