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Markos Book Signing in the Haight This FRIDAY !

by: navajo

Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 16:19:50 PM PDT


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MARKOS (Daily Kos) MOULITSAS / American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right

Start: September 10, 2010 - 7:30pm

Location:
The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, California 94117

Markos Moulitsas is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos, America's largest online political community. His publications include the acclaimed Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics and Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era. He is a frequent guest on cable news and shows like Meet the Press and Real Time with Bill Maher, a weekly columnist for The Hill, and a former Newsweek contributing columnist.

America's main international enemy -- Islamic radicalism -- favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. In American Taliban, Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.

"I can't remember a time in my life when anti-intellectualism and intolerance has been more pervasive. From America's prejudice against evolutionary science to its reactionary condemnation of a scholarly African American president, the time has never been more ripe for a book such as this, which reminds us that fanaticism isn't always an import."  
-- Brett Gurewitz, Bad Religion

"It isn't possible to understand American politics now without understanding the worldview and arguments of Markos Moulitsas. If you still believe the beltway caricature of the squishy, compromising, conciliatory American left, American Taliban should disabuse you of that notion."  
-- Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show

"Markos writes with a conscience and armed with facts to let you know: no, you're not crazy. What you suspected all along was true-America's right wing lives on a myth of self-constructed lies about the Other, with a juvenile disregard for reality, and Obama's presidency has further radicalized an already radical conservative movement."  
-- Janeane Garofalo, comic and actor

American Taliban

"Moulitsas alerts us to a clear and present danger in America: radical zealots who disregard our Constitution and our freedoms, and who disguise themselves as patriots."
-- Roger Ebert, film critic

"A thorough compendium of right-wing hypocrisy and selective memory that is either hilarious or tragic, depending on your mood. And it's all lovingly couched in outrage and profanity."  
-- David Cross, I Drink for a Reason

American Taliban available HERE.

Who's going to this?

navajo :: Markos Book Signing in the Haight This FRIDAY !
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I will try (6.00 / 1)
I wish I would have known about today's before today.  But it would be better if I can meet you all there.  Are you going for sure?

I just check map quest and I would have to take bus from bart which is fine getting there but leaving it is a bit late.  Do you think I can get a ride to bart from anyone if I go?  


email me. We generally drive so we can probably (6.50 / 2)
help out.


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Thanks. (6.00 / 1)
I have a ride now.  Can't wait to meet you!

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Not free Friday, unfortunately. (0.00 / 0)
Wish I'd known about the one in Berkeley a bit more in advance -- so close!  

Any chance of a signing somewhere on the peninsula? (0.00 / 0)
He did one at Kepler's for the first book.

Mr. Cat and I will try to be there... (0.00 / 0)
it is late enough I should be off work by then...


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