Hoax
Subtitle: why Americans are suckered by White House lies
By: Nicholas Von Hoffman.
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-; Political culture -- United States; Truthfulness and falsehood -- Political aspects -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations; United States -- Politics and government
Description: "All that George W. Bush had to do was plant a weapon of mass destruction on Saddam Hussein in his little cave. He could have posed the tyrant holding a baby atom bomb in his lap with a bucket of anthrax at his side. He didn't bother. From the start of the Iraqi affair the Bush Administration's mendacities have been negligently slapped together because their artificers knew that they had a public which will believe any preposterous confabulation tossed in its direction." "As it turned out "old Europe" didn't buy it, nor did old Asia or old Africa or old South America or old anywhere. Only in new America did the masses and the elites swallow more White House whoppers than they serve at Burger King. How is it that the rest of the world saw Iraq for the toothless military has-been it was, while Americans looked at the half starved, bombed out, burned out, dilapidated country and saw a juggernaut?" "Hoax explains that Americans have their own reality at variance with the rest of the world's. Having perfected the domed stadium, Americans have erected a transcontinental astrodome, their own private biosphere, under which they breathe their own air and cultivate life forms unknown anywhere else on the planet. Like Russian nesting dolls, Americans live in a succession of diminishing bubbles. They shop in bubbled malls, they live in gated communities, and they move from place to place breathing their own, private air in the bubble-mobiles known as SUVs." "Hoax tells the story of how Americas lost their pioneer independence to become bobbleheads in Bubbleland and found a new world to conquor in the far off Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.