What do you think of Gregg Palast, and have you read Armed Madhouse?

[napi21]

I've only gotten about 1/3 of the way through it, but if even some of what he says is true, the neo-cons are much worse than I ever thought, and although Shrub is definately armed and dangerous, Cheney is WORSE!

[mod mom]

1. Yep, these are some very bad apples he exposes. I highly suggest his "Best Democracy

Money Can Buy" It was one of the books that helped move me to action.

[bryant69]

2. Warning Heresy ahead

He's good but I take him with a grain of salt.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[donsu]

3. his investigative reporting is great - digs out the truth and reports it

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[sinkingfeeling]

4. Yes, read the book and love Gregg Palast.

[napi21]

5. There's a lot of VERY frightening stuff in that book!

I can't tell you how many gasps I've made as I turn the pages!

[EST]

6. Palast is a penetrating and very effective investigator.

The only thing that bugs me-an admittedly minor point-is that his accurate speeches and appearances on various symposia have taken on a rather obvious, high level of shilling for his books. Understandably, he has to do some of this, but too much of it obscures his larger points on the truth of the destruction of the United States and its effects on the rest of the world.

[blm]

8. The problem is that the ACCURATE investigators get no corpmedia attention

and a reporter is left to hawking the product himself.

Hate to say it, but isn't that what happened in our elections, too? The party is supposed to unite and promote the candidates and unite behind the truth so the candidate isn't supposed to appear as bragging or out their on his own.

But how DOES the Democratic infrastructure and left media unite behind any truthtelling candidate or reporter? It's the same for both, unfortunately.

The RW media, RNC and their leaders have no such networking problem, do they?

[EST]

14. You make a good point.

To hear the r/w commenters, they do have considerable difficulty getting their views out.
Since I am limited by being inside my own body and mind, I cannot really appreciate the right wing position. I know that nobody, even the most nasty, vile, evil murdering rapist in the world, really thinks of himself in those terms. We are all heroes and victims.

It's possible, I suppose, that the oh-so-lying wingers haven't the capacity to step back and achieve even a partial view of reality such that they could see reality as it is, not as a challenge to their ideology that they have to overcome, no matter the cost to themselves or anyone else.

A fundamental tenet of wingerism has to be a dedication to infallibility; never a question of one's own views and consideration that when someone says, "you're wrong and here's why," there might be some validity to what they say--not that they are just sappy idiots whose aim is to hurt you and who must be defeated.

[magellan]

7. I hold him in the same high regard as Sy Hersh

I've heard Palast speak on TV about election fraud and Iraq among others. He knows his stuff. Although I haven't read his books I imagine they're just as illuminating as his talks and investigative reports. No one's going to be right 100% of the time putting together the puzzle pieces of BushCo, but Palast and Hersh are the best at nailing and exposing their motives.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Well, he must be doing SOMETHING right because he was banned from reporting in the USA for YEARS. He

had to move his family to the UK. I admire the man. HE is the one who uncovered the purged voter rolls in the 2000 election....that no one in this country would report on. I haven't read his latest book, but I would love to. I think he's a GREAT investigative reporter and, as we know, those are far and few between in this country.

[Robbien]

15. In the Abramoff email dump Rove talks about how glad

he is that no main media outlet is allowing Palast's stuff.

Anything that makes Rove happy must be real bad.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. There ya go! If KKKRove doesn't like what he reports, you know it's TRUE. n/t

[napi21]

21. You're absolutely RIGHT! Ifthe rover is afraid of his reporting,

it just made me believe most of what Gregg writes!

Thanks!

[Flarney]

10. Greg Palast is a bad ass...if more people like him were featured in our "news"...

...we'd be in great shape. Armed Madhouse is an excellent book.

[blm]

17. You never see real investigative reporters get the airtime - No Parry, no Jonathan Landay

or Warren Strobel on the network news - just the same old players who manage to downplay the crimes of BushInc even when they DO make reference to their most obvious actions.

[IDemo]

11. I appreciate all he's done on election theft, but

he missed the call on Peak Oil entirely.

An Open Letter to Greg Palast - by Richard Heinberg

[bananas]

18. or not...

Robert Rapier wonders if he's wrong about peak oil.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x92944

[IDemo]

23. No, seriously, he blew it.

He misrepresented the definition of 'peak':

Sometime during 2006, we will have used up every last drop of crude oil on the planet. We’re not talking “decline” in oil from a production “peak,” we’re talking “culmination,” completely gone, kaput, dead out of crude—and not enough natural gas left to roast a weenie.

Which of course is not what the issue is all about, but the inability of oil producing companies/nations/cartels to keep production at ever-increasing levels to match global demand.

I would rate Cavaney/API right along with Daniel Yergin/CERA in pushing absurdly optimistic scenarios of oil abundance for the next half century. There are plenty of analyses over at The Oil Drum and elsewhere that indicate the geologic factors may not be as readily agreeable to the Invisible Hand as they have for the past 100 years.

[NV Whino]

12. Greg Palast id my hero

I wish we had more investigative reporters of his caliber.

[Robbien]

13. I just heard him speak this weekend here in Chicago

It was great.

If you are interested I can find the link online.

[bonito]

19. Greg Palast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast They hate the truth.

[elocs]

20. I got it from the library on cd to listen to while I walk.

I'm sure the subject matter is just fine, but the way it is presented on the cd, I cannot stand to listen to it. I'm sure it is a better read than a listen.

[napi21]

22. What didn't you like? The voice, the way the speaker talked, or what?

I guess I must be wrong. I always thought audio books were the same as the written ones except they were read by someone.

[elocs]

24. It was not strictly read,

there were different guest speakers doing different voices and accents. It just was not easy to listen to. I would have preferred a straight reading.