This book briefly flared into the limelight this campaign season when Barack Obama was seen reading it. It also inspired yet another dumbshit chain email asserting that the book was “a Muslim’s view of a defeated America!” Like most of the dreck which comes out of this specious subculture of conservative email forwarding, it’s utter [...]
I read this book once in 2005 when it came out, and then again in 2006. As this is my third time reading The Truth (With Jokes) since this meme began, it holds a record (as of now) as my most frequently-read book in the 52 Books in 52 Weeks meme. Why read it a [...]
I read Thomas Frank’s first book, What’s the Matter With Kansas?, after the first year of the second Bush II presidential term, when liberals were still morning the inarguable reelection of an arch-conservative. At the time, I remember marveling at how simply Frank managed to turn the crux of the last few elections into an [...]
For over a decade now, the home for urban legend debunking on the web has been Snopes.com, a personal website run by Barbara and David Mikkelson. While much of its initial incarnation focused on debunking the oldest of the old—”escaped serial killer with a hook” kind of stories, for instance—it has evolved, especially in the [...]
See if you can intuit this one: A bailout plan, created in the White House and pushed extensively by President Bush, is sent to Congress. A majority (≈60%) of Democrats voted for the bill. A majority (≈67%) of Republicans voted against the bill. “Republicans blamed [Nancy Pelosi]… for the vote’s failure.” What?
Living perpetually in Jon Stewart’s shadow, Stephen Colbert now throws his hat into a ring already occupied by America the Book with his own, an impressive looking tome bafflingly titled I Am America (And So Can You!). I should first qualify my own thoughts by saying that while I am a fan of The Daily [...]
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