In a way, a good political satire is kind of like a campaign promise, you don’t necessarily have to believe it [not one dime!], for it to be effective. But a good political satire should exploit the target’s weakness. The image below accomplishes that very effectively.
01 - In Cold Blood - Truman Capote [HC book}
02 - Berlin 1961 - Frederick Kempe [Library]
03 - Mozart - Peter Gay [HC book]
04 - Charles Dickens - Jane Smiley [HC book]
05 - Moneyball - Michael Lewis [Book & Audio]
06 - A Little History of the World - E. H. Gombrich [Audio]
07 - Cell - Stephen King [Audio]
08 - The Big Short - Michael Lewis [Audio]
09 - Timeline - Michael Crichton [Audio]
10 - Prey - Michael Crichton [Audio]
11 - The Death of Ivan IIyich - Leo Tolstoy [Audio]
12 - Freedomland - Richard Price [Audio]
13 - Boone's Lick - Larry McMurtry [Audio]
13 - Roads - Larry McMurtry [Audio]
14 - The Heart of the Manner - Graham Greene [HC book]
15 - Stan Musial - George Vecsey [Library
01 - My Reading Life - Pat Conroy [Audio & HC book]
02 - Books - Larry McMurtry [Audio]
03 - Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns - Jack McCallum [HC book]
04 - Light in August - William Faulkner [Audio]
05 - Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson [Library]
06 - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien [Audio]
07 - The Social Animal - David Brooks [Audio]
08 - Through My Eyes - Tim Tebow [Library]
07 - The Social Animal - David Brooks [Audio]
08 - More Room in a Broken Heart - Stephen Davis - [Library]
09 - Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head--My 25 Years in Baseball - Tim Kurkjian [PB book]
10 - Inception: The Shooting Script - Christopher Nolan [Kindle]
11 - Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball - R.A. Dickey [Kindle]
12 - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby [HC book]
13 - Popular Crime - Bill James [Kindle / HC book]
14 - 14 Minutes: A Running Legend's Life and Death and Life - Alberto Zalazar [Kindle]
15 - Alger Hiss’s Looking-Glass Wars, The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy - G. Edward White [Library HC]
16 - Calico Joe by John Grisham [Audio]
17 - Duel in the Sun
2 Think Good
Obama gets more “scary” by the day…
Check this out at:
http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/08/04/call-for-informants-if-you-oppose-obamacare-the-white-house-wants-to-know-about-it/
“Call For Informants: If You Oppose Obamacare, Even in ‘Casual Conversation,’ the White House Wants to Know About It”
If you see anybody publicly opposing President Obama’s plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the health care system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP.
From the White House website:
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Emphasis added. Of course, as we’ve seen in the health care debate to date, the term “disinformation” is used by the Obama White House as a catchall to describe any opposition to the President’s push for single-payer, government-run health care — meaning the White House wants to be informed of any forwarded emails or blog posts or any “casual conversations” that could be taken as opposition to their health care overhaul plan.
The White House has, as yet, offered no explanation of what it is they plan to do with the tips on policy opposition they hope to receive from citizen informers.
Interestingly, as Jake Tapper pointed out on Twitter this morning, the title of that post on the White House is a quote from John Adams’ 1770 “Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials.”
(h/t Jon Henke)