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"The Persecution of Sarah Palin": It's So Simple, Fred Barnes Can Read It!

I've written some fairly unflattering assessments of Fred Barnes' intelligence. I don't think I've ever managed to write something quite this cruel. It's a testament to Matt Continetti's hagiography of/job application to Sarah Palin, published in the Weekly Standard:

The book is what our literary editor, Philip Terzian, would call a real book--256 carefully crafted pages--but it's also what our executive editor, Fred Barnes, would call a readable book--a manageable length, and one moves through it at a brisk pace.

It's long enough that our literate editor would say that it qualifies as an actual book, but short enough that our semi-literate cretinous editor can read it!

Are there a lot of pictures?

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COMMENTS (4)

11/16/2009 - 3:19pm EDT | csmiller

I think there are lots of pictures, as a matter of fact.

It's shocking that Palin supporters, falling all over each other to persuade the nation that this woman is a serious person, would actually make these arguments in favor of her book. "See - it's over 200 pages! It's pretty long, like real book written by a real author! But fear not, it's not too long - Fred Barnes blew through it! So even you couch potatoes who haven't read a book since grade school can peruse this windy tome while sitting on your asses watching Fox News!"

11/16/2009 - 3:41pm EDT | williamyard

Pictures, schmictures: is any part of the book, um, scratch and sniff, if you catch my drift?

If the answer is no, then I'm disappointed at Our Gal Sarah. She may be winking all the way to the bank, but she's leaving money on the table.

11/16/2009 - 3:45pm EDT | rhubarbs

Oh, bosh. I don't believe for a moment that Fred Barnes actually read the book. At least not in the sense of "reading most of the words on all of the pages in sequence" that most of use mean when we say that we have read a book. Actually reading books would be catastrophically dangerous for Barnes: The moment he expresses a thought that does not reflect official GOP talking points, his career will be over.

11/16/2009 - 4:48pm EDT | csmiller

Oops - I didn't exactly read this too closely. Anyway, what's the dif. Whether the book is Continetti's or Palin's, it's all the same bullshit.

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