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Essay on "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
David Brock is an author of the best-selling book Blinded by the Right, and founder of Media Matters for America, a not-for income research and information center dedicated to widely monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conventional propaganda in the U.S. media, and Media Matters Action Network, the sister organization of Media Matters for America. In the decade since the Clarence Thomas hearings, Brock spent the first half detested by liberals and the second half despised by conservatives. Usually, that might be a signal that he was doing something right, however this is not a normal case. It's a case of a character assassin transforming himself into a journalistic exhibitionist. And yet Brock became embarrassingly for the rest of us pivotal in the recent political life of this country. A novel Blinded by the Right has its own imaginative truth and facts can block the imagination. A few right-wingers can be found including Brock, but made a point of not learning too much about Brock himself. (Bram, Christopher)
Brock had been long estranged from his emotionally distant father, who is recognized politically with Patrick Buchanan ("Dad was a winger through and through"). however his political adaptation didn't afford much improvement in family relations, mainly because, during the same period, he informed his parents that he was gay. After college he joined the staff of the conservative Washington Times. He knew plenty of gay conservatives, some of whom were high-ranking officials in the Reagan administration, but all of whom were "in a constant state of panic about being discovered." At the same time as brushing aside the gay-bashing remarks of his allies, Brock joined them in cheering for Robert Bork and Oliver North, and at the age of 26 he made his first television appearance (speaking about the Iran-contra controversy), which he viewed as "just another knife fight."....
