NY TIMES Book Review: Kevin Phillips Bashes "American Theology"

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Robert Cohen - 17 Mar 2006 14:26 GMT

The 1960s Nixonite coiner/founder(?)
of the undeniably Machiavellian/manipuulative very successful
"Southern Strategy,"
who is today's ascerbic liberalistic commentator chewing-on/out his
(in)famous concept.

When you're old, you may so
pin a donkey's tales/analyses on an old or former elephant.

Otherwise, what's to disagree with of Phillips harsh perceptions?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/books/17book.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: March 17, 2006
Kevin Phillips, a former Republican strategist who helped design that
party's Southern strategy, made his name with his 1969 book, "The
Emerging Republican Majority," which predicted the coming ascendancy of
the G.O.P. In the decades since, Mr. Phillips has become a populist
social critic, and his last two major books - "Wealth and Democracy"
(2002) and "American Dynasty" (2004) - were furious jeremiads against
the financial excesses of the 1990's and what he portrayed as the Bush
family's "blatant business cronyism," with ties to big oil, big
corporations and the military-industrial complex.

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Featured Author: Kevin Phillips
Reviews of Phillips's books, including "The Emerging Republican
Majority" (1969), "Wealth and Democracy" (2002) and others.
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AMERICAN THEOCRACY
The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in
the 21st Century.
By Kevin Phillips.
462 pp. Viking. $26.95. His latest book, "American Theocracy," the
concluding volume of this "trilogy of indictments," ranges far beyond
the subject suggested by its title - an examination of the religious
right and its influence on the ...

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Bret Cahill - 18 Mar 2006 15:06 GMT

< When you're old, you may so pin a donkey's

< tales/analyses on an old or former elephant.

Why wait until you are old?

Just as an efficient heat engine needs to operate between extreme high
temperatures and extreme low temperatures, the easiest way to make a
buck is to go from one extreme to another.

Supposedly the Netscape guy went in one direction and then made
billions going back in the other.

Now that's what I call surfing the internet.

< Otherwise, what's to disagree with of Phillips

< harsh perceptions?

It's not so much what he says but what he "merely omits."

He merely omits that the only reason the religious right exists in the
first place is because of GOP induced wage slavery/economic insecurity.

There's no way he can not know this.

He also merely omits that a lot of social [corp. sponsored] "liberals"
are hyping culture wars for the exact same reason as conservatives:

Their corp. income depends on it.

Then the corp. sponsored liberals say they "can't figger out why the
country is getting more and more conservative."

Then I fax all Democrats that they don't need to listen to [corp.
sponsored] "liberals" who are too dumb to figger it out.

If a corp. sponsored "liberal" openly admits he is too stupid to
"figger it out," then there is no reason on earth for a Democrat not to
summarily toss everything the corp. sponsored culture war hyping shill
says.

No investigation as to his conflicts of interests is even necessary
once he openly admits he is clueless.

Bret Cahill

"It's hard to get a man to understand a thing when his salary depends
on his not understanding it."

Upton Sinclair

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