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Title: Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News by Tucker Carlson ISBN: 0446529761 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71
Rating: 5
Summary: The funny side of politics
Comment: My daughter and I can't wait to watch Crossfire. Tucker Carlson is our favorite. We love everything about him, his looks,his hair,and of course his cute bow tie. I always new Tucker was smart, now I also know what a good sense of humor he has. This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. If you would like a look at the lighter side of politics,I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fun inside look at Cable News
Comment: Tucker Carlson, the witty, politically conservative co-host of Crossfire, has been one of those few on the right who actually seem less dogmatic than practical. Like P.J. O'Rourke, Carlson has a sense of humor, and this book serves not as yet another diatribe against "the liberals" who seem to be running things (The "liberal media" myth is a popular one, nevermind that almost all news operations are beginning to lean rightwards to counter those charges, and the most popular cable news outlet is Fox, full of rabid disgusting neanderthals).
The book is a nice trip through Carlson's career in a non-chronological way. You read about his many experiences as a journalist and public figure, his own brush with rape accusations, and his many tales of "only in Washington" shenanigans on both sides of the aisle. Carlson comes across as far more tolerant of his opposite number on the left, and even goes so far as to call James Carville one of his "favorite people".
All in all, this is NOT a book for the Ann Coulter/Rush Limbaugh set. This is a fun read, and while I disagree with him politically, I don't feel like a hypocrite when I say he is a born storyteller. Liberals and jerks, erm, Conservatives alike, will enjoy this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: No Worse Than a Bad Cold
Comment: Tucker Carlson is the perennially smug right-wing conservative with the affected bow tie on CNN's soon-to-be-canceled afternoon political soap opera "Crossfire." If this anorexic volume is any indication of his writing ability, his career as a print journalist isn't much healthier.
This is what they call in publishing a "McBook," the kind of thing that TV sitcom stars churn out in a week and serve to a credulous public to make a quick buck. "Journalism is really pretty easy," Carlson writes at one point. Which is arguably true, assuming of course that you're a complete hack.
Not that this book is total garbage: it's not. But it's so thin and insubstantial, sounding at times like something Carlson cranked out at his desk during his lunch hour, that unless you're eager to waste your money buying a book that's sure to be remaindered faster than you can say, "Where Are The Weapons of Mass Destruction?" it's not worth your time.
There are, however, some good things in it. I particularly liked Carlson's breathless encomium to British journalists: "I've run into a lot of them while covering stories, and generally they're impressive: witty, well-educated, and physically brave. They're also frequently drunk. As a rule, a British reporter will begin boozing at the first opportunity, and won't stop until he passes out or you run out of money." This is, as Gore Vidal would say, splendid stuff. And the story of how Carlson was falsely accused of rape by a self-proclaimed mentally ill fan, a false charge that ended up costing Carlson $14,000 in legal fees, is pretty amusing (although I'm sure it wasn't for Carlson, who does everything but print the woman's home phone number).
Carlson takes some engagingly heterodox positions, including taking on Fox News self-absorbed blowhard Bill O'Reilly for being a self-absorbed blowhard who has started to believe his own publicity. His account of how O'Reilly boasted of his faux-credentials as a war correspondent at a discussion panel in Washington on "The Press in Wartime" in front of many of the real thing, which, as Carlson points out, is "a little like bragging about your National Guard experience to a room full of Navy SEALs," is surprisingly honest coming from an avowed conservative. It's nice to know that Carlson can occasionally espouse positions that are somewhat more intelligent than the ones he spews on cable television.
But it's not enough for me to recommend "Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News," which is a puny little book that tries to capitalize in a cynical way on its author's rapidly shrinking fifteen minutes of fame. Unless you're the kind of person who buys every single book on politics that comes down the Beltway, give this one a pass.
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Title: Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America by Laura Ingraham ISBN: 0895261014 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush by David Frum ISBN: 0375509038 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Mona Charen ISBN: 0895261391 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Who's Looking Out for You? by Bill O'Reilly ISBN: 0767913795 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Reagan: A Life in Letters by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson, George P. Shultz ISBN: 074321966X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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