Monstre
September 22, 2005, 5:04am
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Stephe96:
Hmmm. I’d like to see more books in this series. How 'bout Help! There’s A Liberal Driving The Car! , featuring, of course, the Ted Kennedy character?
splort ow, my sides…
Maybe… Help! There’s a Liberal Trying to Mark a Ballot! – set, of course, in Palm Beach County?
No, when the Soviets did it it was government policy, not good ol’ free-market Republicanism.
Other than that, what’s your point?
Miller:
I’ve not actually read Heather has Two Mommies , so I don’t if it actually comes out and says, “It’s okay to be gay.” My impression is that it shows the home life of a young girl be raised by in a stable household by a pair of monogamous lesbians. Which is a situation that exsists many times over in real life, and which more and more children from heterosexual households are going to encounter. Even if the author is putting a positive spin on the relationship, it’s still a factional situation. (Or at least, fictionalized representation of a factual situation.) I suppose it counts as indoctrination, and there are all sorts of arguments over the validity/morality of the relationship being presented, but it’s being honest: there really are couples just like this. The book mentioned in the OP, on the other hand, is simply lying. Liberals have no interest in, for example, forcing private enterprises to refrain from mentioning Jesus. It’s also indoctrination, just like Heather , but it does so by lying. To children. Now, call me crazy, but I think that kinda sucks, no matter what position is being advocated.
I read it years ago in an ed psych class. The only problem we found was that it talked about how Heather’s Mommy Kate had the doctor put sperm in her vagina, which I thought was a little too technical for kids. (How does one explain artificial insemination to five-year-olds? I think that MIGHT be a little confusing to them). Other than that, it was fine.
Revtim:
Check out this comic, “Liberality”:Web Page Under Construction
"America’s future has become an Orwellian nightmare of ultra-liberalism. Beginning with the Gore Presidency, the government has become increasingly dominated by liberal extremists.
In 2004, Muslim terrorists stopped viewing the weakened American government as a threat; instead they set their sights on their true enemies, vocal American conservatives. On one dark day, in 2006, many conservative voices were forever silenced by terrorist assassins. Those which survived joined forces and formed a powerful covert conservative organization called “The Freedom of Information League”, aka F.O.I.L. "
“The New York City faction of F.O.I.L. is lead by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North, each uniquely endowed with special abilities devised by a bio mechanical engineer affectionately nicknamed “Oscar”. F.O.I.L. is soon to be joined by a young man named Reagan McGee.”
That’s a parody comic, right? Right? Please, please tell me it’s a parody?
When a syringe and a vagina are really, really in love…
rjung
September 22, 2005, 5:53am
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I think those are the only “values” conservatives have left these days.
mhendo
September 22, 2005, 6:13am
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He’ll be here all week, folks.
Dr. Suess might be viewed as liberal indoctrination:
Yertle the Turtle (Okay, maybe more anarchist than liberal…)
The Butter Battle Book (Pacifism)
The Lorax (Environmentalism, condemnation of conspicuous consumption and unethical capitalists.)
Etc… etc…
If any of the values put forth in the Suess books were abhorrent to you, I imagine you’d see them as pretty sinister brainwashing efforts.
As a counterpoint, I offer you Horton Hatches and Egg . This book clearly condemns non-stay-at-home mothers and promotes genetic engineering.
A non-partisan book:
Heather Has Two Senators .
Can we retitle this this thread? Maybe to, The SDMB Meta-review of Books We Haven’t Read ?
Metacom
September 22, 2005, 12:25pm
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To be fair, I think the chances of this book having content that differs significantly from its title and back-cover blurb are about the same as Noam Chomsky’s latest saying something like “Imperialism really isn’t so bad; and it’s time for linguistics to move one–I was wrong.”
Actually, I read snippets of it, thanks to the avalibilty of searching inside of a book on Amazon . It seems it really is as bad as it sounds.
Amazon:
on Page 17:
on Page 19:
on Page 35:
on Page 37:
from Back Matter:
from Back Matter:
from Back Cover:
SteveG1
September 22, 2005, 1:08pm
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Stephe96:
Hmmm. I’d like to see more books in this series. How 'bout Help! There’s A Liberal Driving The Car! , featuring, of course, the Ted Kennedy character?
That would be in the Gothic/Horror section
Revtim
September 22, 2005, 1:25pm
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I don’t think it was intended as one, but yeah, I think it’s a pretty damn good parody.
If You Give A Lib A Welfare Check
SteveG1:
Am I the only one who is having a hard time taking this seriously? I haven’t read this book. From the title and the little bit of description it sounds pretty dumb. Instead of getting all outraged and throwing tantrums, why not just hold it up for all to see and ridicule the shit out of it publicly? make fun of it. Make fun of the author. Make fun of “the kind of people” who would buy it. Give it as much attention as possible, turn it into a huge laughing stock and be done with it.
Well, that WAS kinda the point of the OP.
Since we don’t have a separate “ridicule the shit out of this” forum, threads that take that approach go in this forum, for lack of a better choice.
I’m not taking the book itself at all seriously. I think it’s a hoot that something that improbable even exists!
And if the author and publisher decided to donate the proceeds from the book to, say, Katrina relief, I’d buy copies for friends and family members as gag Christmas presents.
If **Liberal **were under *my *bed, it would certainly scare the shit out of me.
:: splort ::
Oh, well, I needed a new keyboard anyway.
