Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Daily Diversion / Hargrove Marsha Blackburn's Summer Reading: Nuclear Apocalypse and a Silly Conservative Manifesto
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Let's start a Marsha Blackburn Book Club! This summer's suggested reading: Start with One Second After by William R. Forstchen. It's the story of a history professor and his two daughters struggling to survive after a high-altitude nuclear bomb is detonated, unleashing an electromagnetic pulse that disables every electrical device in the country. They must cope with starvation, disease and roving bands of barbarians...wait a minute, doesn't that sound like Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road, only not brilliant? But with a twist, because Publishers Weekly describes the novel as at-times jingoistic and a bit maudlin. As you see in the video, she's just doing her homework. Scary.
Next, Blackburn suggests Liberty and Tyranny by conservative radio wacko Mark Levin. I'll sum this one up for you. Immigration is bad and immigrants are diseased. Multiculturalism is overrated. Climate change is utter nonsense. The Bush administration should have been able to wiretap whomever it pleased, without court approval, but, at the same time, there's too much government. Waterboarding works. It's chock full o' tea baggish talking points and misinformation. Also scary.
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Give us some sizzle, gurl. Da cam'ra luvs you. That Marsha could suck the chrome off a Buick . . . wait, first she'd have to bail 'em out . . . that won't work.
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Marsha Blackburn is a national embarrassment who can thank her incredibly gerrymandered district for her presence in Congress. As for her summer reading, it's more nutjob programming for the Stepford Congresswoman.
Pete, I think you overestimate Marsha's reading ability. She probably listens to the books on tape while jetsetting from Brentwood to DC.
Wow, y'all are so sweet!! Must be all that liberalisming group think going on. Such an incredibly tolerant group of people. If you don't like someone, say horrible things about them, cause that'll make a difference, right? Do you feel better, having vented your bile in the one forum where almost everyone will agree with you? Such an upstanding group. I'm with Pete on this one; at least she reads. I was genuinely taken aback that a fictional book about a high altitude nuke going off is relevent to someone on the energy committee.
One doesn't need a ph.D. in physics to know that the EMP "dirty bomb" is possible, however slight. Even, liberal goddess, Janet Napolitano recognizes that.
Moreover, an advanced degree in philosophy nor geology is requisite to factor the intentions of the pseudo-science behind man-made, global warming theory.
I personally don't care for fiction. That's why I'll neither read Forstchen's book nor algore's.
As for Mark Levin's masterpiece, looks like he's Number One for 2009.
