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:"The Assault On Reason" is an assault on President George W. Bush -- 308 pages of professorially rendered, liberal red meat . . . [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596 ]

:"The Assault On Reason" is an assault on President George W. Bush -- 308 pages of professorially rendered, liberal red meat . . . [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596 ]

The book starts with a complaint about a lack of public debate leading up to the Iraq War.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1622015,00.html</ref>

In the book, Al Gore discusses how he thinks that the American democracy has been undermined by the current administration's intrusions of power. While claiming that the book is not political, Gore attacks the current President and his administration relentlessly.

Gore also makes one very good point, which will be appreciated by conservatives who distrust the media elite:

Some have criticized Al Gore's hypocrisy. Id est, in the book Al Gore denounces the media saying that they put little difference, if any difference at all, between news and celebrity, yet he is an ex Vice President of the United States and an Academy Award winner.

:Television not only creates a dynamic that runs contrary to [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s desire for a "well-informed citizenry" but puts viewers in a "quasi-hypnotic state" that "partially immobilizes" them and allows unreasoned communicators to sell false bills of goods.

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