Posted on 11/22/2009 4:57:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
AT last the American right and left have one issue they unequivocally agree on: You don’t actually have to read Sarah Palin’s book to have an opinion about it. Last Sunday Liz Cheney praised “Going Rogue” as “well-written” on Fox News even though, by her own account, she had sampled only “parts” of it. On Tuesday, Ana Marie Cox, a correspondent for Air America, belittled the book in The Washington Post while confessing that she couldn’t claim to have “completely” read it.
“Going Rogue” will hardly be the first best seller embraced by millions for talismanic rather than literary ends. And I am not recommending that others follow my example and slog through its 400-plus pages, especially since its supposed revelations have been picked through 24/7 for a week. But sometimes I wonder if anyone has read all of what Palin would call the “dang” thing. Some of the book’s most illuminating tics have been mentioned barely — if at all — by either its fans or foes. Palin is far and away the most important brand in American politics after Barack Obama, and attention must be paid. Those who wishfully think her 15 minutes are up are deluding themselves.
The book’s biggest surprise is Palin’s wide-eyed infatuation with show-business celebrities. You get nearly as much face time with Tina Fey and the cast of “Saturday Night Live” in “Going Rogue” as you do with John McCain. We learn how happy Palin was to receive calls from Bono and Warren Beatty “to share ideas and insights.” We wade through star-struck lists of campaign cameos by Robert Duvall, Jon Voight (who “blew us away”), Naomi Judd, Gary Sinise and Kelsey Grammer, among many others.
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I finished the book today, it was very good. Hardly any mention of stars, Tina Fey, lots of stuff on energy, Alaska policies, and inside campaign staffer stuff.
Another tasteless screed by Rank Fish.
I don’t believe anything the Times says. Accordingly I do not read it and try not to look at this garbage from the Times posted here.
Perhaps it would be beneficial to intelligent discourse to stop posting from the NY TImes.
Perhaps, we could suggest to conservative politicans that they should also ignore the Times completely before it collapses on its own.
This is not censorship, just ignoring it completely so that readership is lowered. Like a tree falling in the woods, nobody reads it.
Frank claims that Palin’s assertion that Obama was palling around with terrorists is false, when he knows full well that Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers were associates. He also laments the lack of information about Levi Johnston in the book. Frank can’t get enough of Levi. This is what happens when you get the musical theater critic to work the editorial page.
A loud AMEN to that.
Interesting that he rips Sarah Palin when he could be bragging about how brilliantly Obummer, the Marxist now posing as a Fascist, performed on his recent trip to the Orient.
How he impressed the Japanese and the Chinese with his lovely old world appreciation and practice of protocol, and with such grace.
MY my, how proud we are of him.
Guess what, you dim-bulb Commie bastard Frank Rich, nobody cares what you think. And your unintelligble bitchy column will only drive her book sales and political appeal higher because people don’t like you and generally respond by taking the opposite point of view or doing the opposite of what you suggest.
Rich wasn't much of a theatrical critic, either.
On the other hand, he must've been very good at, er, what he did for Pinch.
TOO funny!!!!!
I nominate yours for "Posting of the Day Award."
:)
It’s the Joos Frank, the evil Joos...
Got better things to do than read lies.
I read the book in two days.
Hardly more than a cursory nod to those characters.
I hear him interviewed from time to time on Mark Simone’s Saturday morning radio show. It’s always the same whiney wimpy liberal crap. He thinks he’s preaching to the choir but all he does is reveal (or confirm) to the world what a creep he and his organization are.
You are right, reading the NY Times is a waste of time. And....who cares what Frank Rich writes in his review of the Sarah Palin tome. Ms. Palin does not need the three people who read the Frank Rich remarks to buy her book. Ms. Palin will sell millions of her book (that is, by the way, over one million books). Not bad for a little Idaho college gal who bests the flim/flam men & women who call themselves our representatives in Washington, DC!!! Frank Rich should be treated as a bad habit and, as such, should be totally ignored along with his other liberal, socialist, America hating brethren!!!
Frank Rich is a Jew.
I wonder who more out of touch
Maureen O’Dowd or Frank Rich
As virtually every lib scribbler understands next to nothing about the conservative philosophy of limited government being the best government, it’s an exercise in futility in reading their worthless ramblings. Every lib “journalist” holds as an article of faith that expanded, big government is great. Until someone can shake some sense into them i.e. explains the constitution to them, it pays little or nothing to read them. Only David Broder shows an occasional lick of common sense.
Being Jewish doesn't appear to preclude one from being an anti-Semite.
Why do call him an anti-Semite? Because he said that the NeoCons have latched onto Palin as a ticket back into power?
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