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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JE48XHKG64 Video of Al Gore blasting George H. W. Bush for ignoring Iraq's ties to terrorism] | *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JE48XHKG64 Video of Al Gore blasting George H. W. Bush for ignoring Iraq's ties to terrorism] | ||
*[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596&page=1 Gore's 'Assault on Reason' an Assault on Bush] - ABC News | *[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596&page=1 Gore's 'Assault on Reason' an Assault on Bush] - ABC News | ||
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Revision as of 19:52, August 8, 2007
The Assault on Reason is primarily an assault on the Bush administration, according to a New York Times book review.
It is a political book [1] by Al Gore which he denies is political. [2] In the book, Gore accuses President Bush of having an unprincipled hunger for power.
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.
In a June 12, 2007 review for Reason Magazine, Michael C. Moynihan wrote:
The Assault on Reason reestablishes Gore as America’s premier besserwisser and moral scold: the politician who both warns that we are scaring people to death and argues that Manhattan will soon be submerged beneath the Atlantic.[3]
ABC's Jake Tapper wrote:
"The Assault On Reason" is an assault on President George W. Bush -- 308 pages of professorially rendered, liberal red meat.
General critique of US politics
- This volume moves beyond its criticisms of the Bush administration to diagnose the ailing condition of America as a participatory democracy — low voter turnout, rampant voter cynicism, an often ill-informed electorate, political campaigns dominated by 30-second television ads, and an increasingly conglomerate-controlled media landscape ... [1]
False seque from general to specific
Gore's book quotes a general rhetorical question by Democratic Senator Byrd, which in itself raises a good point.
- "Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?"
But then the book makes the utterly one-sided claim that it is Republicans who give short shrift to truth, while giving his own Democratic Party a free pass.
Notes
- ↑ Gore still says he has no plans to run for president, but his latest book, "The Assault On Reason," is so nakedly political and sharply critical it's hard to discern what his plans may be. ABC News
- ↑ "I'm not a candidate and this is not a political book, this is not a candidate book," Gore told Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America. ABC News
- ↑ Free Speech for People Who Think Like Me, Michael Moynihan, Reason, June 12, 2007
See Also
- Generation Investment Management, a company that seeks to establish the rules and licensing for the new carbon-trading scheme.