I Still hate partisan political books.

Michael Totten has a pretty good post up on Pundits And The Stupid Books That They Write. The latest representation of this trend is Sean Hannity’s new book, whose title alone (Deliver us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism) is highly obnoxious if not actively pernicious in its attempts to brand 30-50% of the population of the United States as being the moral equivalent to terrorists and despots. I’m not particularly interested in whether Hannity needs to sell books or not, and it doesn’t become magically all right when it’s somebody supposedly on my side doing it: this sort of thing is stupid from both sides – and, yes, Hannity is only the last example of a long line. I also share Michael’s faint worry about the logicial conclusions to be reached from all this negativity and screams of slander and lies and treason and where the hell the country’s gone from our author-pundits. Jeebus, people. Get real jobs, or at least over yourselves. Just because you can get a book contract doesn’t mean that what you put down on the happy white pieces of paper is worth its weight in gold.

Moe