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The paperback edition of John Stossel's Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... is out and available for sale online.
Read the excerpt we published last year, "Confessions of a Welfare Queen: How rich bastards like me rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars."
And read our 1997 interview with him here.
The interview is included in Choice: The Best of Reason, for sale here.
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|2.4.05 @ 4:54AM|#
Nick, you've hooked me. I just signed up for my subscription. And I'm gonna buy Mr. Stossel's book, too.
|2.4.05 @ 1:18PM|#
Read it, it's fairly good. A little preachy.
b-psycho|2.4.05 @ 1:35PM|#
I take it that it was the publisher's decision to subtitle it w/ that "liberal media" line despite Stossel (far as I can recall) not buying into the idea...
|2.4.05 @ 2:26PM|#
John Stossel is bastard (and I love 'em for it), but is he actually rich?
|2.4.05 @ 2:30PM|#
Judging by the shack he had on LI (the one that got washed away - twice) he's pretty well heeled.
|2.4.05 @ 4:12PM|#
He's ok.
He tends to do the same thing as those he is railing against. Only uses the data that supports his ideas and dismisses the rest as bad or biased data.
|2.4.05 @ 5:02PM|#
Stossel is a fraud, coward and an hack that has no place for any self-respecting mag. like Reason. Spare me the camaraderie.
|2.4.05 @ 5:29PM|#
....dismisses the rest as bad or biased data.
Stossel is a fraud, coward and an hack...
Care to give an instance?
|2.4.05 @ 11:12PM|#
John Stossel as some kind of intellectual? Really, try using some honesty. Many trial lawyers are dumb and crass, but so is John Stossel. The fact that he was "a psychology major at Princeton" doesn't redeem his stupid shtick. I thought this magazine had a little more sense than to endorse a stupid pundit like Stossel.
The Kenosha Kid|2.6.05 @ 12:00PM|#
This is a good place to start:
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/4393
|2.6.05 @ 4:28PM|#
Kenosha
Yor link proves what, exactly? A bunch of crackpots are upset?
If you pointed to 20/20 since Stossel took over you'd have something. I never thought anyone could make it worse than when Baba Wawa was running it but it really sucks now. I have stopped watching it.