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Downtown Son Returns: Flies Back to the Coop

Sander Hicks, the Beau Friedlander of his day (albeit with a greater propensity for socialist work songs), is back for a second act. Hicks, the former publisher of defunct downtown press Soft Skull, has sent a dispatch to the press announcing "Drench Kiss Media," which will do the expected mix of left-wing and messily energetic books. The first title is Whistleblowers: The Authoritative Guide to the Case against the Official Story of 9/11. In his note, Hicks cites his and co-founder Charles Shaw's "vitality of youth and the wisdom of experience" and notes his ability to "ruffle feathers." Hicks is best known for picking up J.H. Hatfield's book that contained the Bush cocaine allegations after SMP dropped it. He became a character in the documentary about that episode titled Horns and Halos.

Publisher's Weekly

Drench Kiss is a multi-media attack that includes print publishing, new media, and innovative projects in television and film. Drench Kiss publishes books that are so truthful, so powerful, other publishers are frightened of them. We will examine secrets currently unexamined and broaden the parameters of public discourse set currently by the Establishment media. The following is an excerpt from our Executive Summary:

The Bush Administration has become synonymous with aggression, crony capitalism and assaults on liberty. Bush's “War on Terror” is a war of perception, seeking to distract the American people from the real politics they deserve.

Our economy is in shambles, with unemployment at a nine-year high. The reputation of the US suffers abroad, as global security vanishes and panic ascends. Post-Iraq, no nation can be completely certain they won't be preemptively attacked on a pretext that later proves fraudulent. Since 9/11, Bush has waged two wars that have done little for freedom and democracy and much for augmenting the position of the US as the strategic lynchpin of Central Asia. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman called the forged justifications for the attack on Iraq a scandal that dwarfs Watergate. But his reasoned analysis is rare in this world of big corporate media, where image and sentiment drown out intelligent analysis.

Drench Kiss Media Corporation has a solution: The Truth Destabilizes Tyranny. This new media corporation is a living act of resistance. Our immediate goal is nothing less than the electoral demise of the Bush Administration. Their loss in 2004 is freedom’s gain. Their removal is possible, because the truth still matters. Yes, Bush has already raised $35m for Campaign 2004, but fresh, progressive upstart Howard Dean was able to raise $3m in a single week after winning the MoveOn.org primary. Dean is a fresh New England progressive and he personifies a growing, turbulent, insurgent mood of the country as it wakes from its stupor.

Please read our Executive Summary for more!