《tears of a clown》是2010年Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Dana Milbank 。
基本介紹
- 中文名：tears of a clown
- 作者：Dana Milbank
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780385533881
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair andbalanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News hostGlenn Beck.Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must berefreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.It is its natural manure.” In America in 2010, Glenn Beck providesthe very refreshment Jefferson had in mind: Whether he’s thepatriot or the tyrant, he’s definitely full of manure.The wildly popular Fox News host with three million daily viewersperfectly captures the vitriol of our time and the fact-free stateof our political culture. The secret to his success is hiswillingness to traffic in the fringe conspiracies and Internethearsay that others wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole: deathpanels, government health insurance for dogs, FEMA concen?trationcamps, an Obama security force like Hitler’s SS.But Beck, who is, according to a recent Gallup poll, admired bymore Americans than the Pope, has nothing in his background thatidentifies him as an ideologue, giving rise to the speculation thathis right-wing shtick is just that—the act of a brilliant showman,known for both his over-the-top daily out?rages and for weeping onthe air.Milbank describes, with lacerating wit, just how the former shockjock without a college degree has managed to become the mostrecognizable leader of antigovernment conservatives and exposes himas the guy who is single-handedly giving patri?otism a badname.
作者簡介
DANA MILBANK is a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post and a prize-winning White House reporter. He has written three books, including the national bestseller Homo Politicus. He lives in Washington with his wife and daughter.
