Co-Author of Donkey Cons is LYNNE VINCENT CHENEY!!!!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

I think.

I googled the authors, trying to get their background and find out who funded this peice of crap. I thought it was curious that this "jounalist" had the same name as Mrs. VP... then I found this...

Lynne Vincent Cheney lives in Dallas and commutes regularly to Washington, D.C., to co-host CNN's "Crossfire" on Sundays. She also works as senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She serves on a number of corporate and philanthropic boards, including the Reader's Digest Association, Lockheed-Martin and the Grand Teton Music Festival. In 1995, Simon & Shuster published "Telling the Truth," her book on the culture wars. This year, they will also reissue an updated version of "Kings of the Hill," a book Lynne co-wrote with her husband, Dick, about Congress. Dick is now chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company. They try to get to Jackson Hole, Wyo., whenever they can. Their most important news: "We have a granddaughter, Kate Perry, now 2 years old."
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Publications/thebulletin/summer96/ClassNotes.html

I can find no other Journalist named Lynne Vincent. Gee...why don't they tell us up front that the VP's wife helped write this smear book :shrug: hmmmm?

[tanyev]

1. Are there any lesbian sex scenes?

That would answer any doubt.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. still searching...

:rofl:

good one!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Wikipedia on Robert Stacy McCain

The neutrality of this article is disputed.
Please see the discussion on the talk page.

Robert Stacy McCain is the Assistant National Editor for The Washington Times and has been involved in a number of controversies over his pro-Confederate and white nationalist views. Groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center have demanded his resignation from The Washington Times, but have not yet been successful in achieving it.

:rofl:

[C_U_L8R]

4. ummmm...excuse me

please correct me if I'm mistaken BUT ...
isn't it a law that the President and Vice President
must be from separate states??? At least at the time
of this bio.. Dick and Lynn were also Texans.
(no surprise if they wiggled their way around the law again).

[karynnj]

7. Cheney was living in Texas when he was selected

but he changed his address to Wyoming. I think he already had property there and had been their congressmen - who voted against school lunches for poor kids.

But what's one more occasion of ignoring the law among the Bushies.

[rzemanfl]

8. This issue went to court in 2000. Ruling was that Mr. 19% had

moved to a place he had in Wyoming. So much shit, so little time.

[Benhurst]

10. The laws do not apply to the Bush Crime Family and gang members.

Try making a quick move like that to get out of state tuition waved for a child and see how far you get.

All the pigs are equal. Some are more equal than others.

[Kurovski]

15. That's Mr 18% to you, rzemanfl!

:-) Cheney is lower than OJ Simpson himself.

[peekaloo]

5. I found this:

http://www.worldji.com/teachers.asp?educator_id=52

sorry

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. bummer

thanks, I was about to go off on a tangent. It would have felt good. Party pooper. :P

How did you find that? I've been looking at links for an hour, and never found this.

[knitter4democracy]

9. Had to read her book in college.

Evangelical college, senior colloquium class. Horrible, horrible book--poorly written, poorly argued, crappy evidence to start with. I think she actually talked a few into questioning their beliefs and lead a few to become liberals other than my hubby and I.

[Kurovski]

16. She is a miserably bad writer.

From the passages I heard read aloud, I actually became agitated at how fricking awful it was. it was ARROGANTLY, insistently bad.

[knitter4democracy]

18. Amen to that.

It's soooooo bad. I complained to the prof about the book choice (English major--serious snob when it comes to pop writing), and even he had to admit that it was worse than he'd been led to believe when he'd chosen it (he admitted that he hadn't read it first). Just freakin' awful.

[MrMonk]

11. Where this is coming from

WORLD magazine, of which Lynne Vincent is features editor, is associated with the World Journalism Institute.

The mission of the World Journalism Institute is to recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists who are Christians in the mainstream newsrooms of America.

A quick romp through the WorldJI site shows that it's predecessor organization was founded to counter what it's founders felt was a threat from liberal theology. It presently has connections to the Washington Times, Heritage Foundation, Moon (through Insight mag), and other "conservative" organizations. It's interns seem to come primarily from Regent U., Liberty U., Biola, and Patrick Henry U.

More on the book
http://www.donkeycons.com/index.htm

and the publisher
http://www.thomasnelson.com/consumer/dept.asp?dept_id=260000&TopLevel_id=260000

In other words, more of the same old shit, in spades.

ETA: WJI is actually a creature of WORLD magazine. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/123/51.0.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. Thanks for the info!

I knew it had to be the same wing of sleaze that was after Clinton all those years.... TrooperGate etc. I just watched the reading on BookTV, and ya, it's about as factual as the Spectator. Scuse me, I need to go shower now... with bleach. :puke:

[coda]

12. They go all the way back to 1800 to bash the Dem Party

Aaron Burr! Aaron Burr! :)


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From reviews on Amazon



"At times ridiculing but never becoming a rant, liberal readers will be gratified to see the authors are unafraid to tackle corruption in the Republican party as well." :rofl:


"Donkey Cons went to press just before Abramoff was convicted, however the book does offer a fair and reasonable breakdown of the party affiliations of the members of congress who were potentially tainted by receipt of Abramoff money (more Democrats on this list than you might expect)." :rofl::rofl:



"Vincent argue that the fundamental difference between America's political parties is that when a Republican commits a crime he resigns in disgrace, but when a Democrat commits a crime, he never faces punishment and typically becomes a national icon of the party, to boot! " :crazy:


"Starting in the 1700s and finishing with the Abramoff scandal, DONKEY CONS exposes the Democrat Party's corruption, immorality, and hypocrisy." :wow:



"Flies in the face of the popular notion that the Republicans are the party of corruption." :nopity:



"We also learn about the true founder of the Democratic Party, namely Aaron Burr." :eyes:

Donkey Cons traces the history of the Democratic Party from its ignominious origins (founded by the scoundrel Aaron Burr - among many facts the modern Democratic leadership do not want you to know) "


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1595550240?v=glance

[MrMonk]

19. Help me understand something

On the linked Amazon page, there is a date of April 4, 2006 next to the publisher's name. Does that mean that the book was released on April 4th?

If so, why are so many enthusiastically positive (and so professionally written!)reviews dated a week or more before the release date?

[Kurovski]

14. WOW! Great work! (I think.) :)

The book certainly smacks of Lynne's turgid prose: "His hazel eyes sparkled like diamonds...", "One storm-soaked February..."

Edit: but now I see there is a different goofball named Lynne Vincent who is the culprit.

[kevinbgoode]

17. We should write some reviews of our own

and then ask where the parts are which point to how Republicans produce "homosexual" children at a three-to-one ratio over Democrats. It wouldn't hurt to ask when the wife of the Vice President suddenly became a journalist...is it before or after research about lesbian affairs?