Battling the Big Lie Out in Paperback Now!
Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media are Destroying America is out in paperback! For those Message Box readers who bought the hardcover edition last year, thank you so much for reading my work and for putting it on the New York Times Bestseller List. For those who are new to this publication or haven’t yet read the book, this is a great chance to do so.
Don’t take my word for it; here’s what my old boss Barack Obama had to say about Battling the Big Lie:
Here’s the truth: @danpfeiffer’s latest book, Battling the Big Lie, is an important read for anyone who’s wondering how the far right traffics in lies and what we can all do to fight back. As we head into election season, it could not be more timely.
In particular, the book examines:
How Republicans, from Roger Ailes to Steve Bannon to Donald Trump, exploited the media’s biases and the Democratic Party’s blind spots to build the most powerful weapon in American politics.
How Facebook became a willing enabler of the MAGA movement.
The failures of the traditional political media to fight back.
Methods to counter Fox, Facebook, and the trolls spreading disinformation and hate on the Internet.
The paperback edition contains a new chapter discussing what happened in 2022 and looking ahead to the role Right Wing propaganda and disinformation could play in the 2024 presidential election.
Thank you for considering.
Is there any way that those of us who bought the hardback can see what’s in the new chapter?
This is an excellent book. Dan is a writer gifted with the ability to explain the most abstract ideas in ways that make sense to those of us outside his profession. Even more importantly, to put these ideas in a narrative that is compelling to read. I will buy a few of these for my friends.
Change of subject. Did anyone notice that Jack Smith said there would be a “speedy trial”? That means he wants the trial to start 70 days from Tuesday. There is a specific law governing this for federal trials. (I think all states have separate speedy trial laws for state trials also).
Usually it’s the prosecutor trying to get a defendant to waive speedy trial rights. They usually have many cases in flight, and getting an indictment usually does NOT mean you’re ready with witnesses and a trial plan.
I don’t know if there are effective ways for a defendant to slow the process in any effective way. I am not a lawyer. This could see Trump in court in late August.
Two of Trump’s lawyers just quit. I suppose Judge Cannon will be accommodating to Trump, but there are limits to the delay she can create.
In the middle of this will be RICO and other criminal charges from GA, and possibly criminal indictments from the insurrection.
This is the summer of shit for Trump. He may be deciding—way too late—that running for president because Obama made public fun of you at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner was, after all, a shitty idea.