Research Catalog

Title

Confessions of a former dittohead / Jim Derych.

Author

Derych, Jim.

Publication

Brooklyn, N.Y. : Ig Pub., c2006.

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Details

Description

x, 195 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

• "Everyone knows a dittohead. In addition to being devoted listeners of Rush Limbaugh, they're also loud, judgmental, and absolutely certain they are always right. One of the most common phrases you'll hear them use is "if you only understood politics you'd be a Republican." And from national defense to fiscal policy to social issues, Rush shows them how it only works the Republican way." "Confessions of a Former Dittohead is the true story of how one average American rejected Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Party and became a liberal Democrat. Originally a diary on the popular website Daily Kos, this unique political memoir follows red-stater Jim Derych on a journey from the heart of conservative darkness to the light of liberalism.".
• "In addition to recounting the "thousand small cuts" that led Jim away from Rush and the Republicans - including a friend who had an abortion, a gay college roommate and an ill-fated attempt to join the Young Republicans - Confessions also discusses the major political, economic and social issues of our day, providing "insider" observations on how dittoheads think, and what liberals and progressives can do to change their thinking."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• 1989-2009
• United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009
• United States > Politics and government > 1993-2001
• United States > Politics and government > 1989-1993
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
• Limbaugh, Rush H
• Derych, Jim
• Conservatism > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-195).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

My first confession -- What's with all the hate? -- Amy's story -- Love the gay, hate the agenda -- Watching them make sausage -- 9/11 changed everything -- Iraq : my personal road to Damascus -- From Hannity to humanity -- The death of fiscal conservatism -- The last straw -- You can lead a dittohead to knowledge, but you can't make him think -- How to talk to a dittohead (and you must!) -- Silencing the big gun of personal responsibility -- The weak faith of the religious right -- The evolution of a wedge issue -- Beating the gay drumhead -- The Rodney Dangerfield of issues -- The whole made-up social security thing -- Taxes are evil -- Dittohead judicial philosophy--consistently inconsistent -- Why torture matters -- They are the party of the military, we are the party of the troops -- The log in Rush Limbaugh's eye -- Treppenwitz.

ISBN

• 0975251783
• 9780975251782

LCCN

^^2005036452

OCLC

• 62679874
• SCSB-11335229

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library