The following is a brief excerpt from a review posted on PopandPolitics.com:I try not to read crap. I really do. I am a very particular and meticulous consumer of books and generally don’t waste time reading nonsense from either the far right or the far left. I’ve dabbled here and there with a Sean Hannity book (and in my youth, Rush Limbaugh’s two books), but generally I try to read books with a higher pedigree of authorship. In the case of Michael Savage’s third and newest book, “Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder,” I am reminded of why I don’t read this sort of tripe anymore.
If you were to walk into any large chain bookstore right now, you would be able to find a bevy of books written by experts on a litany of subjects from the war on terror to illegal immigration. They’ll have their own slant for certain, but in most cases the reader should come away with a better understanding of the subject material they just read about.
The opposite is true with these “pundit manifestoes,” as I like to call them. Folks like Savage and Hannity, or Michael Moore and Al Franken on the other side, write these broad and schizophrenic books with nothing holding them together except that they have an unreasonable hatred for the other side of the political debate. Their collective lack of scholarship and generally terrible ability to compose a thorough narrative make reading their books an exercise in masochism. This newest pile of venom by crotchety old man extraordinaire Michael Savage is no different.
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