Mar 27
Young Dick Cheney: Great American (Andrew reviews)
This book, which claims to be a satire, is just one long attack on Cheney. Its no surprise that it has been praised by sites like Huffington Post and people like Keith Olbermann. Correct me if I am wrong but aren’t satires supposed to be the least bit funny? I read the entire book and didn’t laugh once.
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Young Dick Cheney: Great American
by Bruce Kluger & David Slavin
This book, which claims to be a satire, is just one long attack on Cheney. Its no surprise that it has been praised by sites like Huffington Post and people like Keith Olbermann. Correct me if I am wrong but arent satires supposed to be the least bit funny? I read the entire book and didnt laugh once. Now I am not a hard-core Republican, far from it, more a libertarian rogue, but this is just lame.
The authors think its terribly funny to take that one hunting incident and repeat the joke over and over again. Basically Cheneys young friends and teachers keep dying in gun accidents. The book even implies that Cheneys wife is a lesbian. It aims to track him from his use implying he did not have a normal child-hood. Along the way mid-Westerners are tarred as anti-semites (ironic considering some of the content of HuffPo which one of the authors contributes to) and indulge in a game called Chase the Jew.
This book is vile and completely unfunny. Lest I be accused of not laughing because its from a left-wing perspective; I would point out that I used to laugh quite a bit at much of the anti-Thatcher comedy from the UK in the 80s even though I greatly admire her (ex: The Young Ones). Satire can be harsh and close to the bone if its funny. This just isnt.
If this is left-wing humour in the US these days its a sad state of affairs. Their hatred of anything related to Bush so clouds their minds as to make them unfunny.
What a waste. I will say one nice thing; the illustrations are decent.
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Yeah, the left lost its sense of humor awhile ago. They tried a mirror image of Rush Limbaugh a few years back. The dolts seemed not to know or care that their program “Air America” was named after an acknowledged CIA front company. They didn’t understand that Limbaugh wasn’t funny because he is some kind of comic genius. He is funny because he pulls stuff out of regular news stories that is screamingly funny to a significant part of the population, and gears his entire show toward that one (sizable) part. Air America had no analogous material. Try and find anything in mainstream news that is so skewed, about some off-the wall ridiculous right-wing program. Doesn’t exist, with the possible bipartisan exception of the Patriot Act. Beyond Limbaugh, there is G. Gordon Liddy’s brilliant show, which the left prefers to pretend simply does not exist. I can’t even have a funny debate with leftists anymore; everything is about President Bush. The friggin’ toilet clogs, they blame President Bush even after I explain how the “low flow” fiasco happened on Clinton’s watch.
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Andrew your name came up here in the comments to my review of the same book. I reviewed it for another site and published that April 1.
There I defended you as a great guy but we obviously disagree on this book. I liked Al Franken’s books, too, and I’m not sure if you’ve read PJ O’Rourke but he’s a funny conservative I enjoy immensely, if only because he’s flexible and isn’t rigidly clinging to things he doesn’t believe.
Cheers.
Temple