Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe | 
| Author: Arianna Huffington
Publisher: Knopf
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ISBN: 0307269663
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With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country.
Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by a radical element—the “lunatic fringe” of the Right that has taken over the Republican Party. Despite holding views at odds with the majority of Americans, these zealots have given us an endless war in Iraq, a sputtering economy, a health care system on life support, a war on science and reason, and an immoral embrace of torture.
But they haven’t done it on their own: they have been enabled by a compliant media that act as if there is no such thing as truth and are more interested in cozying up to those in power than in holding them accountable, and by feckless Democrats who have allowed themselves to be intimidated into backing down again and again.
Both a withering indictment and a hopeful call to arms, Right Is Wrong is an explosive, boldly incisive work that will help set the national agenda.
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 The "Right" is wrong as can be! May 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Incredible, honest, and thought provoking book... even my staunch, conservative father found this one worth the read. How far into recession does the country need to sink before the "right" realizes they are as wrong as can be?
 A famous literary critic once said: May 15, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
"This is not a book to be tossed aside lighty. I should be thrown aside with great force."
The best introduction to leftism in America today May 10, 2008
9 out of 43 found this review helpful
"He who does not believe in God will believe in anything," said G.K. Chesterton.
Although skinning bigger fish like the Federal Reserve, CFR, and George Soros would perhaps be a more profitable enterprise, I have been told that this woman is quite popular on the Internet and hosts a much-visited website that also provides commentary. Having first read "Right Is Wrong," however, I decided that North Korea or slave labor in Communist China appears preferable than an American bastion of such political ignorance. Like Al Gore before her, Arianna Huffington does not merely believe that her political opponents, who are apparently all those to the right of Chairman Mao, are a mistaken group that simply possesses a wrong theoretical model for governance. No, they are IRRATIONAL. They are CRAZY, PSYCHOTIC, and DEMENTED. They might as well all be locked into Arkham Asylum to roll around forever in mud with the rabid dogs that ooze white goo from their fangs. She is not unlike her political Messiah Barack Obama, telling his rich pals in San Francisco that the middle class clings to guns and religion solely because of strenuous economic times, as if they were in need of mental therapy.
Her topic on health care is naive and unlearned. Presidential candidate Ron Paul eviscerates the argument for universal health care. How? Take a good, hard look at a VA hospital. There is your 'universal health care': an appalling disgrace and budgetary quagmire. This is how our government treats its valorous heroes, and you somehow believe you will be treated better? Dream on. While Arianna carps on and on about how the Constitution is being shredded, she apparently has never glanced at the dang thing. There is NO authority under Article II of the U.S. Constitution that gives the Congress the right simply to set up any program that will buy votes. Forcing any American to pay for someone else's health care is just another form of indentured servitude. Then again, if the apathetic and unlearned American voter continues to vote for collectivists, then we deserve collectively whatever comes our way.
I would not pillage everything Huffington vomits. Her chapters on the Iraq War and torture are not wrong and certainly contain elements of truth. She recognizes how the "War on Terror" infringes on the Bill of Rights and threatens our civil liberties to such an extent that martial law is a mere 'red button' away. I express hope that the time will come when Americans of all stripes take action against those who are violating our freedoms and crushing the rights our Founders provided to us after giving their blood.
There is no shortage of bashing of those who promote the Intelligent Design movement in Arianna's manifesto. Unlike Americans who believe in a designer or the triune God, Arianna believes that DNA, which in a single strand contains more information than 33 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, can write itself. You know, just like factories that build themselves, computer programs that write themselves, and bridges that design themselves. I encourage those to check our Ben Stein's documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" to see for yourself how ID scientists are being blacklisted and shunned from universities for their simple view of following the evidence to where it leads.
I give praise to God that I did not buy this book with my hard-earned money, which will be much better spent on gas or food. Unlike Arianna, I live paycheck to paycheck and do not have the luxury of living in a fancy house, owning two Priuses, and spewing vomit out of a popular blog. Arianna can receive big checks and hang out of the Establishment Elite at wonderful dinners and seminars in Washington D.C. with her millionaire husband as she worships the State as her god for such lowly peasants like me. As for this bitter, typical white person, I would rather go to church and provide the hard-earned tax dollars that keep this State running.
Yet another loud-mouthed, ignorant fanatic. May 10, 2008
10 out of 33 found this review helpful
Some books you need to read through thrice, learn a new language, study a two new scientific disciplines, and then sit and think for ten years, before you know whether the author is a genius, or full of beans. Others you can pick off the shelf and tell in a ten minute skim.
This book appears to belong to the latter category.
I opened to the section on "Global Warming." Within a single paragraph, I learned that (1) Glaciers in Alaska are melting within a single decade; (2) Native animals are dying off en masse; and (3) Native villages are disappearing, all due to Global Warming.
As it happens, I grew up partly in Southeast Alaska. Two years ago I returned to the town I lived in, and visited a famous glacier less than two miles from our home. In 30 years, the glacier had retreated a quarter of a mile; about 1/40th of its total length. The previous century, it had retreated two more miles or so; so apparently its retreat has actually slowed down a bit. Of the 30-odd glaciers in that Ice Field (the Juneau Ice Field), all but two were retreating; but no serious glaciers seem to have simply disappeared the last three decades, let alone one. Maybe Huffington is talking about some glacier in the Brooks Range; but it sounds like the sort of vague, blanket propaganda you get from someone who doesn't have the faintest clue of what she's talking about.
The implication that native animals are dying off en masse reinforces that impression. Bears seem to have taken over the town I lived in; we saw more in a few days (in two recent visits) than I did in years while living there, sometimes. Wolves, cariboo, deer, dall sheep, mountain goats -- Alaska is not suffering from a wild animal shortage. But of course her comment was so indefinite and vague, that it could mean anything -- again, she sounds like some hysterical woman talking on a subject she's totally clueless about. Perhaps she meant polar bears, which were no doubt happy to see the Arctic Ocean freeze pretty solidly this winter; the seals and belugas may have been ambivalent.
As for Native villages disappearing because of Global Warming, I'd like to know exactly how that's supposed to be happening. The last two years, Southeast Alaska has had unusually COLD winters. And I think that's been true of Fairbanks and Anchorage, too. But even if the temperature in some Central Alaskan burgh did skyrocket from an average 30 below zero in January, to say 25 below, exactly why that would wipe out whole villages, it is hard to say, and details are not provided. Lots of Alaskan natives survive here in Seattle, without visibly overheating.
The truth is, "native" villages have been under stress for a long time, now -- from globalization, not global warming. Even Dr. Johnson seemed to notice a precursor of this phenomena during his jaunt through Scotland with James Boswell. Today, villages across East Asia are full of old people, as youths go to the cities to work. The same thing has been happening among native tribes of North America for a long time.
Leafing through the rest of the book, it appears to be much the same. This woman hates a bunch of people, and stacks a bunch of cards to make them sound vile, stupid, evil, and a threat to the planet. Might as well be Ann Coulter, except she's a tad less witty. Could be a female Michael Savage. One rude, ill-informed ranter is as good (or bad) as another. If that's the sort of thing you enjoy, bon appetite -- I think I'll look for a book written by someone who actually knows something.
author, The Truth Behind the New Atheism: Responding to the Emerging Challenges to God and Christianity
Converts make the best arguments May 8, 2008
31 out of 34 found this review helpful
It's hard to imagine that just a few short years ago Arianna Huffington was on the "other side" of the political spectrum but her conversion has been welcome and her new book, "Right Is Wrong", is terrific. Like a fifteen-round prizefight without the one-minute intervals inbetween, Huffington relentlessly sheds light on the "right" with alacrity and acuity. From George Bush on down, we are reminded that this administration has been the worst... from the Middle East to the economy, health care and social issues.
The central thrust of "Right Is Wrong" is necessarily the war in Iraq. Citing many other prominent exposes about the war, Huffington goes after the major players...Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & co., and explains why this massive failure occured and continues. It's vintage Huffington...focused and persuasive. Yet, she also provides some great humor, and her descriptions of Tim Russert and Bob Woodward are more than worth it.
Huffington finishes her book with a warning about John McCain and the consequences we would face if he were elected. It's Bush's third term, she says, and after almost eight years of "W", the country is ready for a new direction. I highly recommend "Right Is Wrong"... it's a solid, in-depth look at the past few years in Washington. One can only wonder what other things lurk in this administration...things we won't know until January, 2009, after they're out of power. I'm sure Arianna Huffington will be there with a sequel!
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