Sunday, February 06, 2005

Why Did Salon Publish This 12-year-old Masquerading as a Book Reviewer

Someone named Ann Marlowe reviews The Neocon Reader, a book I'd actually like to read a real review on. Unfortunately, Ms. Marlowe, whose most impressive accomplishment to date has been to write a book about her love affair with heroin, has the mentality of a twelve-year-old:
If you're old enough to have followed politics in the '70s, you'll remember that liberals used to be the exciting ones. They were more open-minded, more imaginative and, well, sexier than conservatives. And one big reason Bush won in 2004 was that many of us who were ambivalent about the man and his politics -- I voted for Gore in 2000 -- found the Democrats and their candidate smugly self-righteous, prissy and joyless. Sure, red-staters can be smug, too, but it's as incongruous in liberals as it is in garage bands. My liberal friends asked how I could support the candidate of the Christian right, but Kerry came off as so plastic and corporate, so backpedaling and two-faced, that by election night I felt that wearing a Bush button was a punk rock gesture.
Not just a twelve-year-old, a fascist twelve-year-old. Why did Salon publish such a piece of shit 'review'?

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