The Intimidation Game

How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech

By: Kimberley Strassel

Narrated by: Jennifer Edges

Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

From Kim Strassel - one of the preeminent political columnists writing today and a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board - comes an insightful, alarming look at how the Left, once the champion of civil liberties, is today orchestrating a coordinated campaign to bully Americans out of free speech.

For nearly 40 years, Washington and much of the American public have held up disclosure and campaign finance laws as ideals and the path to cleaner and freer elections. This book will show, through firsthand accounts, how both have been hijacked by the Left as weapons against free speech and free association, becoming the most powerful tools of those intent on silencing their political opposition. The Intimidation Game provides a chilling exposé of political scare tactics and overreach, including:

• How Citizens United set off a wave of liberal harassment against conservative politicians
• The targeting of Tea Party groups by the IRS
• How Wisconsin prosecutors, state AGs, and a Democratic Congress shut down political activists and businesses
• The politicization by the Obama administration of a host of government agencies, including the FEC, the FCC, and the SEC

Timed to arrive at the height of the 2016 presidential season, The Intimidation Game will shine a much-needed light on how liberal governance and the Democratic machine bullies the political process.

©2016 Kimberley Strassel (P)2016 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"Public shaming encouraged by leading political figures. Pre-dawn police raids. Federal agencies targeting groups and individuals because of their political views. It's hard to believe these things are happening - and taking place with increasing frequency - in the United States. But they are. And in this searing indictment of the systematic attempt of the political left to shut down political debates they cannot win - Kimberly Strassel provides the often-horrifying details. The Intimidation Game is a shocking and assiduously well-reported chronicle of the illiberal tactics of the new progressives - and a must-read for anyone who wants to understand American politics today." (Stephen Hayes)

"An eye-opening lesson in the law of unintended consequences: where 'a vast new disclosure regime' intended to curb corruption has spawned a corruption all its own." ( Kirkus Reviews)

"Progressives' objective is to extend government's regulatory reach ever-deeper into society's dynamics. Strassel reveals how fast and how far this project has been expanded to include an especially sinister objective: Empowering government to control political campaign speech - speech about the government's composition and behavior. Her frightening reports come from many fronts in this war on America's open society. This book is a fire bell in a darkening night." (George F. Will)

This book is important

I passionately believe every American who still believes in the right to free speech, the right to assembly and practice our faiths without government intrusion or intimidation should read this book. It is for liberal minded people on all sides of the political debate. Our government has become bullies and unless we recognize our rights are being attacked by corrupt politicians and activists who are working together to silence Americans we will lose them.

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The book is great, but I don't love the reader. Her imitations of the people she's quoting (like lowering her voice to sound like a man) is distracting. Otherwise, she's very clear.

Wonderful Expose

Very essential reading for everyone desiring the truth and protection of our most important free speech.

Scarry !!!!

Is there anything more scarry than " we are the government and we are here to help?"

A real eye-opener to liberal corruption.

A detailed rendition of liberal efforts to silence anyone who opposes their agenda. We all know Hillary is a criminal. She's just the tip of the iceberg.

A great book

This book is well documented and shows the importance of government transparency we need to see.

complex issues made easy

So important to have this issue documented this way. It was clear and thorough.

A must read

Amazing account of the war on free speech of 1st amendment. A lot of things started to make sense.. a must read.. highly researched and well written.

On steroids . . .

Barack Obama didn’t create socialist intimidation tactics, but it’s clear from this thoroughly researched and wonderfully written expose that he did put that effort on steroids.

Tectonic

I present my view as an outsider (Scandinavian) observer, but a voracious reader of American history and American planetscape; do not think me an objective reader either. I had and have strong (albeit remote) opinions about the issues; I had wireframe knowledge about the narrated events too, before consuming this book; and while the local presstitutes here are completely clueless, 'bless you, Internet.
I wont vaporload you with my conclusions about the book or the events; instead I give you this. I think that the vividly narrated Mosaic of stories here will not bore you; in the end I felt hammered by it. That is, hit in the noggin By a bloody sledgehammer.

The book is tectonic.

PS.
On closing this book, In this readers mind, echoed these familiar verses: "We hear drums, drums in the deep."