The following is a brief excerpt from a review posted on PopandPolitics.com:Politics is a full-contact sport. Since at least the 2000 presidential election, there have been followers of both the Republican and Democratic parties who are more rabid and devout than any sports fan. If you’ve been to any bar or meet-up lately, the table top conversations between average Americans who have even a passing interest in politics can get hotter than butter dripping off of a hot biscuit.
The publishing industry, where politics is concerned, is also taking a page from the record industry. Some smaller record companies will release niche albums to certain core audiences in order to compete for parcels of the marketplace that the mainstream releases would miss. These days, the book publishing industry is doing the same. On the shelves of your local chain super bookstore, there are tomes specifically intended for niche audiences and rabid, partisan fans.
“Do As I Say (Not As I Do)” by Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer, is red meat for the South Park Conservative masses. Don’t get me wrong, I found it to be a fair and well-researched book, but let’s be honest here -- you’d be hard pressed to find a liberal reader willing to give this book a chance, as its intended purpose is to skewer the pantheon of Democratic Party icons.
Schweizer has chosen liberal luminaries Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, George Soros, Barbara Streisand, Gloria Steinem, and Cornel West as the targets of his professed belief that elite liberals cannot and will not live by the philosophical dictates they profess. Continued
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