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David Brock on 'Republican Noise'

David Brock is the author of the best-selling memoir Blinded by the Right: the Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. Brock defected from the Republican Party in the latter half of the 1990s and came to renounce the anti-Clinton movement in which he took part. His new book is The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy. He now heads a nonprofit media watchdog organization in Washington, D.C.

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Other segments from the episode on January 20, 2017

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, December 16, 2004: Interview with David Brock; Review of the best books of the year.

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