Christopher Cerf is an Emmy and Grammy award-winning author, composer, and producer. A charter contributing editor of the National Lampoon, Cerf has written more than 300 songs for Sesame Street and co-edited the celebrated newspaper parody Not The New York Times.
Victor S. Navasky is the publisher emeritus of The Nation and chairman of The Columbia Journalism Review. He is the author of the National Book Award-winner Naming Names and A Matter of Opinion. In 1984, with Mr. Cerf, he cofounded the Institute of Expertology.
Robert Grossman's illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Observer, Rolling Stone, and many other publications.
"All the golden oldies are here, from the title of the book itself
to Rumsfeld's "freedom is untidy" to Kenneth Adelman's prediction
that the war would be a "walk in the park" to Cheney and McCain's
prediction that the Iraqis would greet us as "liberators." Readers
may wish to do Sudoku puzzles instead of wallowing in memories of
Ari Fleischer and WMDs. But readers who opt for Mission
Accomplished may find that it pins them to their, um, seats." --
Salon.com
"Almost 25 years after the amusing The Experts Speak: The
Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation, Victor
Navasky and Christopher Cerf have compiled its successor, Mission
Accomplished! The new book, nicely illustrated by satirist Robert
Grossman, hangs authorities of all vocations and ideological
stripes with their words about slam dunks, cakewalks, willing
coalitions, the war's cost, Jessica Lynch, Blackwater and much
more." -- Washington Post Express
"Having amassed an aircraft carrier's worth of lies about the
lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, Christopher Cerf and Victor
Navasky can now crow Mission Accomplished!. Indeed." -- Vanity Fair
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