Summary: Fooled Again E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Political Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 17

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The must-read summary of Mark Crispin Miller's book: "Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)".

This complete summary of "Fooled Again" by Mark Crispin Miller, a media studies professor and activist for media reform, shows that the presidential election of 2004 was marked by  mass quantities of irregularities – machine malfunctions, logistical misinformation, bureaucratic red tape and overt partisan harassment. In his book, the author explains that all of these seemed to hamper the Democratic vote, and leave the Republican vote unaffected. In addition to this, the press remained oddly silent. This summary demonstrates how this form of "electoral fraud" is the reason for the outcome in 2004 and constitutes the new Republican strategy.

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• Understand how electoral fraud may have changed the outcome of the 2004 presidential election
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To learn more, read "Fooled Again" and discover the dark secret behind the Bush administration's electoral success and how the media may have abetted it.

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Book Presentation: Fooled Again by Mark Crispin Miller

Book Abstract

According to Miller, the 2004 election was marked by mass quantities of irregularities – machine malfunctions, logistical misinformation, bureaucratic red tape and overt partisan harassment. And all of these irregularities, seemingly random in and of themselves, had the cumulative effect of hampering the Democratic vote, but not the Republican vote. Adding to the injury, the press – far from suffering from the ‘liberal bias’ it has been accused of – stayed oddly silent, never giving anything but token shrift to the multitudes of anomalies. Miller believes this pattern of “electoral fraud” is the new Republican strategy, designed not to compete with democracy, but to do away with it.

About the Author

Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at New York University. His writings have appeared in publications such as The Nation and The New York Times. He is the author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001)and Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order (2004). Miller is also a regular commentator on Air America radio.

Summary of Fooled Again (Mark Crispin Miller)

The Miracle

Bush’s victory in the last presidential race was nothing short of a miracle. For example, it was reported that Bush had won 11.5 million more votes than he had received four years before, despite drastically dropping approval ratings. It would have been remarkable enough if, with such ratings, Bush had just squeaked by. That he could win by such a hefty margin in 2004 was extraordinary.