Joe Conason

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1. Joe Conason

   Author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth, The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush

2. David Brock

   Author of Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy

3. Al Franken

   Author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, The Truth (with jokes)

4. Molly Ivins

   Author of Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

5. Eric Alterman

   Author of What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News, The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America

6. John W. Dean

   Author of Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, Conservatives Without Conscience

7. Sidney Blumenthal

   Author of The Clinton Wars, How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime

8. Glenn Greenwald

   Author of How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics

9. James Carville

   Author of Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back, ...and the Horse He Rode In On: The People V. Kenneth Starr

10. Sheldon Rampton

    Author of Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-Party State

11. Kevin Phillips

    Author of American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush

12. Thomas Frank

    Author of What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

13. Greg Palast

    Author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild

14. Vincent Bugliosi

    Author of The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President

15. David Corn

    Author of The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception

16. Paul Krugman

    Author of The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century

17. Royce Flippin

    Author of The Best American Political Writing 2003, The Best American Political Writing 2005, The Best American Political Writing 2002

18. Craig Unger

    Author of House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties, The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the

19. Ron Suskind

    Author of The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill

20. Jim Hightower

    Author of Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back, There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion