cereal:
Just reading the reviews of the
Liberals Under the Bed
book. This made me go "WTF?":
12 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
Teach your children to hate now!!!!, August 22, 2005
Reviewer: GWB "George Bush" (Washington DC) - See all my reviews
This book will surely teach your children to hate everyone that doesn't agree with them. Any parent who buys this book for their child will probably raise a BTK killer!
OK, funny as hell that someone signed in as George Bush, but why is this review getting marked as "helpful?" Clearly Amazon needs another voting category, something like COMM.
And that reviewer definitely needs to go review "My Pet Goat."
From the comments:
There is no "hatred" anywhere in the book, as suggested in other reviews, nor is there any attempt to proselytize our kids into any political party.
Uh... but it uses "liberals" as a dirty word. I can tell -- it's in the title.
The trouble with liberals under your bed is that they spend all night having non-procreative sex.
Sometimes not even in the missionary position!
BWAH! There's a story like that in Hockenberry's book.
(Only he's under their bed and the guy is a LOTR fanatic.)
Sometimes not even in the missionary position!
If they're under a bed, what other positions are there room for?
Hee! I love y'all's responses to the book, even if the book itself is...frightening. Though I do like the companion suggestion of the "Help, there's Conservatives in my Closet!".
I'd heard of "King and King" (and the uproar against it) but not the other two. Whatever, man. Indoctrination only goes so far...my Ashcroft-loving dad has a pot-smoking son, a queer daughter, and another daughter who married a guy who is black and Muslim. Not super conservative.
Whatever, man. Indoctrination only goes so far...my Ashcroft-loving dad has a pot-smoking son, a queer daughter, and another daughter who married a guy who is black and Muslim. Not super conservative.
This gives me hope.
I sent the link to my brother noting that my niece's birthday is coming up soon. He thanked me. With no irony.
I think he missed my point.
"Help, there's Conservatives in my Closet!".
And the whole point of that book is the kid has to help them come out of the closet.
It's a fine but important difference between the liberal kidprop and the conservative kidprop: one seems to be focused on teaching hate, intolerance, and name calling. The other is like "people make their own decisions: rope or dope?"
