Mark R. Levin, a Right Wing radio personality and "the #1 bestselling author of Liberty and Tyranny and regular Fox News contributor" is on January's cover [of the Books-a-Million catalog]. (Last month it was Glenn Beck). Levin has a new book out called, "Ameritopia, The Unmaking of America". Before I saw that cover, I confess I had never heard of Mark R. Levin. (Go ahead and strip me of my Rotten Persons Investigator badge--I know now that his new book, "Ameritopia" is at the top, the very tip-top, of this week's New York Times non-fiction bestseller list! )
So I took a look at the new book by this guy who--my god! NYT Best Seller!--I really should have heard of by now. I turned page after page and, okay, as a new Mark R. Levin reader who is also a liberal, I'm as biased as biased can be. But even I am shocked at how badly this book stinks!
...So here's what I'm thinking: What's to stop [Books-a-Million] from manipulating the market? (They also own a book distribution company.) What's to stop Threshold? What's to stop any of the Right Wing top guns--the Koch Brothers, say-- the people with all the money? What's to stop them from buying up tens or even hundreds of thousands of these books and sitting on them? ... And what's to stop 800+ stooges from churning out magnificent reviews for a book that nobody in their right mind would actually read through to the end?
I truly hope this isn't what passes for informed commentary on the Left.
Eh, Junior: Levin has roughly 10 million listeners for his radio show not because the Koch brothers paid them to listen, but because he explains -- in great detail -- the philosophical, moral, legal and ethical underpinnings of this country.In other words, conservatism is winning in the marketplace of ideas. And, furthermore, the book's not for dummies. i.e., not for you.
Levin outlines the lessons of Smith, Locke, Montesquieu and others who influenced this nation's founders; the rationale for the form of government they created; and the thousands of years of human experience they leveraged to try to prevent the rise of a corrupt, massive, authoritarian central government. i.e., the Democrat Party.
So tune in to Levin on your local station, schmuck, and try learning something for a change.
Because your philosophy -- the philosophy of Utopianism -- has failed every time it's been tried in human history. Which is, as Levin has also explains, why liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid.
Note the typical REgressive MO, that is, "....this book stinks..." But wait, there's nary a, shall we say, a direct refutation of something mark has written.
ReplyDeleteMaybe she would like to match one of her philosophers and their rationals against...well, against history. A history of centuries of REgressive failures very nicely encapsulated by this book.
Naah.
MM
Must say this about these kooks...they do not stray far from their narratives/talking points..its the same droning message from yet another kook.
ReplyDeleteThey do not refute anything written because they do not read it nor do their followers..
Just more grenade lobs at the opposition.
I'm liking your recent falling in with Frederic Bastiat. He is perhaps my favorite political philosopher.
ReplyDeleteAs is common with liberals, any time they accuse conservatives of doing something, they are already guilty of it.
ReplyDeleteCase In Point:
"The State Department on Wednesday defended spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on books authored by President Obama, while White House spokesman Jay Carney called the book-buying an “embassy-based decision.”"
Meh!
Hey, how come the Koch Brothers didn't send me one of the copies that they bought in bulk?
ReplyDeleteI thought we were friends.
"...for a book that nobody in their right mind would actually read through to the end?"
ReplyDeleteWhat she really means is "nobody she knows," the poor little bubble brained lefty.
Tell 'em to read Liberty and Tyranny first. Ameritopia's a little slow to get going and, thus, harder to get into if you're not already sold on Levin's writings.
ReplyDeleteWil this be deleted if i write negative?
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