a little faith in humanity... and then they took it away

The New York Post writes:

"This is one of the most sordid volumes I've ever waded through. Thirty pages into it, I wanted to take a shower. Sixty pages into it, I wanted to be decontaminated. And 200 pages into it, I wanted someone to drive stakes through my eyes so I wouldn't have to suffer through another word. "

Clearly, the Hillary Clinton book to which I alluded earlier has gotten pretty much awful critical reviews. This is no surprise. What surprised me about this episode is that finally the right wingers have stood up and seen bullshit in something that smears a Democrat. Powerline, Fox News and even that racist fuckup Michelle Malkin have said that they don't see anything new in it, and that the number of unsubstantiated sources is disturbing. Well it's about time. So you'd think that putrid reviews from all across the political spectrum would be enough to keep people from getting fleeced out of $24.95.

Think again. Yes, this book is number two on the Amazon.com bestseller list. The really scary thing about the right is that many of them are even more hard right than Malkin. Here's a few of the excerpts from the amazon.com customer reviews:

"LIBERALS ARE RETARDED. Seriously, they lack logic - a crucial component of intelligence. Hillary, the leader of liberals, is one of the most vile human beings that exist. Even if you think this book is far from absolute, it must cause anyone to question (read: rescind) their support for Hillary."

"I am hopefull that this book will do for Hillary's presidential bid what the Swiftboat Vets did for Kerry's bid. Klein has done a very patriotic deed by writing this book."

OK, so I'm not going to find any more. Those are painful. Where to even begin with the bullshit that leads wingnuts to rate a book denounced by MICHELLE MALKIN five stars? I thought the rightist partisan blogs were the worst of the political debate. I am happy to see that their hackery has limits. However, it is extremely frustrating to see that there is apparently a large sector of the population that will buy this salacious bullshit and give it a good review. So now the right wing noise machine becomes a semblance of sanity in the center of a storm of right wing popular opinion? yu76y76ukizsdksdkisdfmksdfnmksdfmksdfsdfa (That's me banging my head on the keyboard)

*Full disclosure: I have not read this book. I hope this does not diminish my credibility in discussing the political implications.