An Epiphany: When you are a journalist with nine years of academic research experience in communications and you spend hours surfing the Internet, libraries and news on TV for the truth - from an undeground bunker no less - occasionally there is a huge pay off in the discovery of good research and real knowledge.

Listening to Mark Crispin Miller on C-SPAN'S Book TV Sunday night, it was mostly the usual boring, whiney affair from another New York journalist, professor and author who was bashing Bush - and Kerry by the way. But it was enough to bring me out of a late night Stratolouger semi-stuper when he said this, something you may not understand if you've never gone for a graduate degree in journalism and communications.

He refused to take sides in the debate between American quantitative researchers and the more European "critical theory" school of thought. Why?

"Because that debate is as obsolete and irrelevant as talking about the Cold War."

Exactly, which is what I tried to argue six years ago - before Bush stole the election of 2000 - but was shot down by a committee of quantitative American researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the Ph.D. program.

I'll have more to say about this once I get my hands on the book on Monday. For now, the full title of the book is Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them).

Here's an excerpt from the C-SPAN blurb.

Mark Crispin Miller argues that the outcome of the 2004 election, in many states including Ohio, was manipulated to favor George Bush and the Republican party. He discusses the evidence he has for this charge and talks about the reaction that Sen. John Kerry had when presented with the evidence.

Professor Miller also argues that the Republican party has been taken over by religious fundamentalists who see their opponents as evil and whose ultimate goal is to bring about Armageddon.

Mark Crispin Miller is a professor in the Culture and Communications department at New York University. He is the author of several books, including The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder and Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order.

For more on Professor Miller and his work, visit his blog, News From Underground.

Watch the show if you get a chance. And/or back order the book from Powell's Books.