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"Michele's Must Read List"

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Aug 15, 2011.

  1. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    As a New Jersey resident, so do I.
    We'd be rid of him as governor. And the rest of America would have to decide whether public school teachers really are the root of all our economic problems, and whether it's fun being lectured to on "discipline" by an obese blowhard.
     
  2. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    Oh, and on the original subject of the thread -- as the original poster kind of alluded to, the New Yorker piece was about how someone like Bachmann comes to believe what she believes ... that she lives in a bubble created by books and institutions most of us have little familiarity with. She pretty much has her own reality, which is where some of these strange pronouncements come from.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I think at some point Lizza wrote something along the lines that there is an evangelical culture that is as familiar to people in that culture as, say, "Seinfeld" or the Beatles are to people in the at-large pop culture.
     
  4. Point of Order

    Point of Order Active Member

    I've known this virtually my entire life. It does bear repeating, though.
     
  5. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    Which is where the disconnect comes from, I think, with people who know the deeper meaning of "submit," as Bachmann means it, and those who simply don't. It's not just a word. It has specific resonance with a specific group of people. And to those people, it is absolutely NOT a synonym for "respect."

    But if you're not cognizant of that particular subset of evangelical culture, you simply won't see it that way.
     
  6. CarltonBanks

    CarltonBanks New Member

    When is Lizza's in-depth piece on Obama, including what he reads and who his influences were, coming out? When is anyone going to publish anything on Obama as in-depth as this piece on Bachmann?

    Does anyone else see it as a reach to say, since she lists a certain book on a "must read" list that she actually "endorses" every viewpoint in that book? Come on, are we muddying up the waters like this already? I thought the in-ernest character assassination would at least wait until the nomination was secure.

    Put it this way...I think everyone should read "The Turner Diaries" because it exhibits the mindset of a sick, twisted group of people...people that actually live and breathe among us. Does that mean I "endorse" the viewpoints in it?

    Next they are going to selectively edit Rick Perry on the Ed Matthews Show to attempt to play the race card. Wait...what?
     
  7. vicd

    vicd Active Member

    http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/what-obama-is-reading/
    http://santitafarella.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/an-intellectual-president-what-barack-obama-reads-and-has-read-over-his-lifetime/
    http://www.abebooks.com/books/barack-obama-favorite-books.shtml
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/08/13/obama-reading-the-complete-list-of-his-favorite-books.html
     
  8. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    July 21. 2008.

    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza
     
  9. CarltonBanks

    CarltonBanks New Member

    Wow, a 15-page blowjob piece right before the election! Whoda thunkit?
     
  10. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Then why ask the question?
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Anything else? By this one particular author on this very topic?

    I didn't think so.
     
  12. CarltonBanks

    CarltonBanks New Member

    Then there is this:
    http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/article/SB10001424053111903918104576502093021646166.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
     
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