{"id":5284,"date":"2008-09-22T19:37:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T03:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2008-09-22T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T04:04:24","slug":"dumbocracy-adventures-with-the-loony-left-the-rabid-right-and-other-american-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5284","title":{"rendered":"‘Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right, and Other American Idiots’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate this new book<\/a> by Marty Beckerman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He refers to George W. Bush as "King Retard" and Bill Clinton as "President Blowjob."<\/p>\n

Here’s a sentence from page 45: "The GOP is obsessed with depriving gay Americans of any and all freedoms."<\/p>\n

From page 46: "[Pat] Robertson is hardly the only traditionalist who wishes to bind, gag, tease and spank gay people."<\/p>\n

In what world is this kind of hyperbole amusing?<\/p>\n

From page 77: "Drunk from Jack Daniel’s and depressed from this horrible crypto-Nazi bulls—, I force myself to read the 2004 Republican Party Platform."<\/p>\n

It’s not as a Republican that I object to this writing. It is as a reader. Cliches are boring.<\/p>\n

In 2005, Marty "covered CPAC, the largest annual gathering of right-wing activists, politicians and college students, for Playboy magazine."<\/p>\n

He wrote:<\/p>\n

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"F— Rick Santorum — I’m getting laid tonight!" Steve yells, seemingly keeping this promise in the early morning after he climbs into a taxi with three brunettes from the George Washington University College Democrats. He can’t remember the name of his hotel, so the three coeds — who describe themselves as "huge sluts" who "would totally get an abortion" — directing the cabbie to their dorm instead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel writes that Beckerman’s book "delivers the message that young people need to hear."<\/p>\n

Oy ve!<\/p>\n

Here is Marty on Republicans’ adoration of Ronald Reagan: "Republicans get themselves so insanely hard for this guy; it’s like witnessing a vicious act of necrophilia. Why flog the dead horse when you can f— it instead?" (Pg. 95)<\/p>\n

Marty fantasizes about "carving through [Ann Coulter’s] uterus with a chainsaw." (pg. 101)<\/p>\n

It takes 15 minutes — thanks to Technorati alerts — from the time I first publish this blog post till I get a response email from Marty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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