Book Review: Liberals Are Funny

Michael Graham
That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom
Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Washington DC
(c) 2010

For those who enjoy political discourse and have a sense of humor this is a great book. Humorless liberals should stay away. It made me laugh out loud several times. The best chapter is about the 2010 election of Scott Brown.

Graham points out that "for typical Americans who've never been involved in politics, being called a racist is both serious and scary. It's the rhetorical equivalent of being charged with rape. Even when proved untrue, the charge itself is damaging to your character. White Americans[. . .] have seen the the charge of racism wreck entire careers. [. . .] co-workers disciplined or fired over allegations of racism that were, at best, questionable and sometimes out-and-out laughable."

When Graham appeared on The Dr. Phil show as the only conservative, the other guests attacked Tea Party protesters as "weirdos" and "homegrown terrorist radicals." He said, "The show's premise that day was that it was stupid and wrong to make assumptions about people based on the group they're in; that we should overlook stereotypes and try to understand the individual; and most of all, that it's wrong to take bad actions of a single person and extrapolate them to impugn the character of an entire group." This is a pattern repeated in the book, where liberals condemn what they do.

Graham suggests three responses to Obama's elitist agenda. "You can outwardly agree with the O-bots, which means you're a closet racist. You can voice your concerns, get called a racist, refuse to respond, and your silence will prove that you are, in fact, a racist."

On government work, Graham says, "not all government workers are incompetent. But all government workers work for the government; [. . .] where there are no consequences for being lousy at your job."

Acting like Baghdad Bob, Robert Gibbs showed his inability to recognize reality. Gibbs' response to the election of Scott Brown on the Chris Wallace show:
"Wallace: But Robert, Scott Brown had a clear platform, and let's lay it out--stop health care, cut taxes, end backroom deals with special interests, and don't give terrorists Miranda rights.
It wasn't the same thing that swept Barack Obama into office. Scott Brown explicitly campaigned against the Obama agenda.
Gibbs: Well, that may be what he campaigned on, but that's not why the voters of Massachusetts sent him to Washington."