A BuzzFlash Preview of Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason"

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A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

The title of Al Gore’s new book, "The Assault on Reason," says it all.

We have lived through a period in which the mainstream media and most Capitol Hill politicians – including most Democrats – have accepted the irrational and failed framework offered by the Bush Administration, right wing think tanks, and right wing media echo chamber.

The continued general unwillingness by the mainstream media to challenge the preposterous, radical, failed and illegal activity and statements by the Republican Executive Branch and its minions is mind-boggling to those Americans who have not been lobotomized by television, comfort and greed.

Al Gore is constantly marginalized by the mainstream media because he understands this.

Just looking at the top of the inner leaf of the book jacket to "The Assault on Reason" leaves no doubt that Gore has evolved into our modern day Jeremiah: "A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason."

Gore’s new book returns to the themes of the speeches – sponsored by MoveOn.org – that he gave prior to the publicity surrounding "An Inconvenient Truth." Those lacerating commentaries on our perilous times were widely dismissed as "rants" by the corporate press. It is thus that a person who argues that we should return to the principles of the Age of Enlightenment – upon which America was founded – becomes scorned by a media co-opted by corporate greed.

Full article here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/136

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2. Cool book to get

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