Has anyone read "The Republican Noise Machine"....

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...by David Brock? I heard he being interviewed on NPR today and it was interesting to hear his reasons for writing this book after having been an intricate part of the far right wing conspiracy under Richard Mellon Scaife as one of their paid writers. Now he claims he has had a complete reversal in attitude and wishes to set the record straight and expose what he learned about the vast right wing conspiracy and its workings. Here is a short excerpt from the new book and a link:

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With the right-wing media now a seemingly permanent and defining feature of the media landscape, if Democrats cut through the propaganda and win back the White House in 2004, they still face the prospect of being brutally slammed and systematically slandered in such a way that will make governing exceedingly difficult. There should be no doubt that the right-wing media’s wilding's of 1993—which led to Clinton’s impeachment four years later—will be replayed over and over again until its capacities to spread filth are somehow eradicated.

<link> http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/brock/excerpt.html

He also wrote "Blinded By the Right" which was the beginning of his awakening. How much can this person be believed? David Horawitz seems to think very cautiously:

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How Unreliable Is David Brock?
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 25, 2004

David Brock has written a new book called The Republican Noise Machine: How It Corrupts Our Democracy. In it, he purports to expose the vast right-wing media conspiracy, a menace Brock claims to know first-hand as someone who was once a cog in its malignant machine. First-hand knowledge is an important claim for Brock because, as a famous self-confessed prevaricator, he is aware that he stands on shaky ground as he attempts to extend the successful career he has made out of his confession of malfeasance and the political reversal it announced. A similar dilemma haunts the postpartum lives of other reborn dissemblers like Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair. Brock’s advantage over them in finding a readership willing to believe his stories again is that he is selling a message his new political allies are eager to hear.

As a conservative writer and publisher, I have the dubious privilege of appearing as one of the culprits in Brock’s profile of what he claims is a vast right wing media conspiracy. In a dozen pages of The Republican Noise Machine, Brock offers readers an account of my career as a cabalist of the Right and polluter of the nation’s journalistic airwaves.
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<link> http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13925

What do DUers think? Comments, input.