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  • Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants

  • The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror
  • Written by: James Wolcott
  • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins

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Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants

Written by: James Wolcott
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
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They are coddled and well-groomed. They chase after the latest scandal and then run around in crazy circles, using the TV studio as their show ring and wee-wee pad. There is no controversy they can't trivialize, no issue they can't vulgarize. They obey their political masters and betray the trust of the audience with every bark. They're the attack poodles: a new breed of celebrity pundit.

Wisecracking and impassioned, Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants laces into an all-star cast of blowhard egotists who pound our eardrums and insult our intelligence: Bill O'Reilly, Joe Scarborough, Peggy Noonan, Dennis Miller, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson. But it also delves below the surface squall of infotainment to show how attack poodles function as pets of the Republican party, guard dogs for George Bush, and tail-waggers for war.

In the iconoclastic spirit of Michael Moore's Stupid White Men, Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, and Molly Ivins' Bushwhacked, Attack Poodles makes serious fun of the pack mentality that has taken over politics and the press in this country and urges us to rip off our blindfolds before it's too late.
©2004 James Wolcott (P)2004 HighBridge Company
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"Intelligent, amusing and insightful." (Publishers Weekly)

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