Off with Their Heads: Traitors, Crooks, and Obstructionists in American Politics, Media, and Business

By Dick Morris

Book Overview

What happened to the unity that so blessed America after 9/11? Where did our sense of determination go?

Our political, journalistic, and cultural leaders have mounted a campaign to oppose and impede the war on terror that seemed so vital in that rare moment of clarity. This book is my personal cri du coeur about deception in politics, journalism, and business--especially when it stops us from following through on the work 9/11 has left for us all to do.

This book takes on some pretty sacred cows, but it's about time they became fair game.

--from the Introduction

Are you appalled by the antiwar tone the news media has taken since the war on terror began--especially "objective" news outlets like the New York Times and the network news?

Are you wondering when liberal celebrities like Barbara Streisand, Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon suddenly became geopolitical oracles whose advice we're supposed to value above the wisdom of tenured experts?

Are you at a loss to decide who has betrayed us more outrageously: the French who abandoned us in our time of need, or our own elected officials, who tapped our 401(k) savings and the tobacco-settlement windfall with equal abandon?

In Off with Their Heads, syndicated columnist and Fox News Cannel political analyst Dick Morris points an accusing finger at the many ways the public has been lied to and misled, pickpocketed and endangered. Whether it's Bill Clinton, who ignored mounting evidence of impending terrorist catastrophe throughout the 1990s, or the members of Congress, who quietly sold our democracy down the river in exchange for lifetime incumbency, Morris rips the cover off the cowardly and duplicitous figures who have sacrificed America's interests for their own.

From private corruption to public treachery, even longtime political buffs will marvel at the astonishing behavior Morris reveals at every level of society--and at how it threatens to compromise the American way of life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060595507
• ISBN13: 9780060595500
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Score One for Americans who care

Morris is dead on the money with this one. I highlighted so many lines 3 pens went dry. Morris is a true benefit to the Right and tells many of his secrets about Clinton and Left that he learned during his time on the campaign trail. Get this book.

Not about ideology, everything about politics.

I find this book very fascinating and factually-backed in many respects. Whether you agree with his analysis and conclusion(s) or not, the facts are there, and we (the reading) will draw our own conclusions. One can elude or ignore the facts of events, but that would be a disservice to oneself and is intellectually disingenuous. Again, anyone can question his motives to right such a book, but thats not issues, the facts are there and they a backed-up. Considering Dick Morris's past experiences (good and bad), this book is hardly ideologically driven of the usually liberal or conservative bashing, especially from someone who has worked for both Democratics and Republicans. Whether you like Dick Morris or not, any and every clear-thinking person(s) should applaud for exposing the "political skeletons" that our elected leaders have been hiding from the public, and in many cases, backstabbing the very people who voted for them. I applaud Dick Morris not only for exposing a lot of truths behind people of power, but also doing so without being vicious or ad homen about it.

Off With Their Heads - Traitors, Crooks & Obstructionists

The title almost turned me off. I believe the title sells the book short. That is the only criticism I have.Because I have little regard for former President Clinton, and knowing that the author was his close advisor, I almost didn't read it. However, the author appears to treat everyone fairly and criticizes politicians on both sides of the isle. His review of a multitude of topics sheds light on issues that need more oversight by all of us. It was most enlightening and easy to read.It also reinforced my low regard for Clinton.

Rare insider insight

Unlike Hillary, who sees the Clinton years through rose-colored glasses thick as midnight, Morris's hindsight is a stark and clear. As a pollster himself, he debunks the way supposedly objective media giants bend the numbers to get the results they want. After reading this book, you'll understand why the New York Times was literally in-credible long before Jayson Blair. You see how entire strings of polls were weighted in favor of the liberal agenda plus being weighted against the Republican administration. The Times taught Blair how to write fiction, for Pete's sake.Morris stumbled his way out of the Clinton administration, falling on his face, getting up, and re-earning his reputation as an astute political observer. If you think this book is merely another conservative tirade in the vein of Ann Coulter, forget it. This guy shoots straight.And when the smoke clears, you're going to be skeptic about anything you hear on the network news and the NYT.This book is a grad course in how to read between the lines in the press to get at the truth.Off with their heads, Morris. Off with their heads.Now. When are you going to write the book that debunks Hillary?

He's Mad As Hell And He's Not Going to Take It Anymore.

There have been many books published since the events of September 11, 2002. Most skewer the Clinton legacy and the left-wing opposition to Bush. Some are excellent (O?Reilly and Coulter), some interesting (Savage) and some in between (Hannity). But this book by Dick Morris has them all beaten and beaten by a large margin. The difference? Unlike the others, who are looking into the fishbowl, Morris has actually lived in the fishbowl as an advisor to Bill Clinton. This special insight is what fuels his book and gives it a special weight not shared by the others.Although he begins with an attack against the left-wing bias so prevalent in our media, Morris does not stop there. He takes on all manner of sacred cows, and his chapter on the Hollywood liberals transformed by the media into America?s newest set of intellectuals is worth the price of admission alone, especially as concerns Streisand and Sarandon. His take, on the disingenuousness of France during the Iraq war, is also hilarious, and dead on target.What also makes Morris so special from the rest is his strong reliance on facts over opinions and feelings and his refusal to play the game of demonization. Clinton may have been dead wrong in his views and actions on foreign terrorism, but he was not a traitor. The only real venom I saw from Morris was toward France, and there I couldn?t disagree with him, especially with their tasteless and racist treatment of Serena Williams at the recent French Open still reverberating in my mind. Morris does run out of steam at the end when he begins taking on a slew of offenders (elected officials misusing tobacco settlement monies, the tobacco industry itself, and that all-round target, Congress itself), but, still, he does so with a deftness and panache that is simply not found in the other books on the subjects. Funny, informative and on-target.