Showing posts with label Hugh Hewitt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hugh Hewitt. Show all posts
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Author, radio host, and semi professional George W. Bush teabagger Hugh Hewitt has a new insta-book out that is sure to sweep the right wing nation. I was alerted to it by a spam email from Human Events offering me the book for free. Since the book was just released this Monday, it's either a sign that the book sucks really badly, or that the right wing bulk purchase machine is smoothly running as usual. Actually, it's probably a little of both.
In his book, 'A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney' (catchy title), Hewitt tells fundamentalists Americans to ignore the underwear, and the whole Joseph Smith thing, as well as to ignore the obvious contradictions between their church's teachings and that of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Salamanders).
What's amusing to me is the fact that the reviews are coming in and they are spectacular. All by people who have never reviewed a book at Amazon before. I am not suggesting that this is an astroturf campaign, but you do get a complimentary square inch of last year's NY Giants field with every purchase.
Mitt or Hugh apparently couldn't get Publisher's Weekly to allow them to write their own review, but I would take the following critique as positive.
Hewitt is an agreeable, if inelegant, writer, wise enough to take detours (such as an edifying primer on Mormon history and thought) that stave off tedium. He spends far more time extolling Romney than excoriating his Republican and Democratic opponents. This is an efficient and effective exercise in political hagiography.
You are agreeable Hugh. They really like you. I think Mitt needs to do a bit more work. Perhaps he can burn a witch or post videos of him on Youtube bashing gays with Ann Coulter, a baseball bat, and millions more free copies of this new thought provoking book if he truly wants to energize the Republican base.
A follow up point. This book is published by Regnery, so you know it ain't junk!
Friday, March 09, 2007
"Star" Hugh Hewitt blogger Dean Barnett ponders a deep question for all the ages:
I’ve been crunching the numbers, poring through all of those obnoxious press releases that the DNC sends out. The results may surprise you:
In 2007, the pit-yorkies at the DNC have released a bunch of attack press releases on GOP presidential aspirants. Of those that focused on a single candidate, Mitt Romney got the honor 26 times, John McCain 18 times and Rudy 8 times. In other words, the DNC has aimed its flaccid wrath at Mitt as much as it targeted Rudy and McCain combined. Strangely, the DNC, which obviously has way too much time on its hands, also released one attack just on Tommy Thompson and two on some guy named Gilmore who I guess is also running for president. Who knew?
Why does the DNC have it in for Mitt? Is it because they think he’ll be the ultimate standard bearer? Or is it because they don’t want him to be the ultimate standard bearer? Or perhaps, in applying an Occam’s Razor application, is it because under Howard Dean the DNC is capricious and illogical and just fires at random with no underlying purpose or strategy?
Ummm, perhaps it's because John McCain and Rudy Guiliani are already nationally known figures who already have some familiarity with the American people and Mitt Romney doesn't? Romney has money behind him and has a good shot at winning. However, nobody really knows anything about him. I know Newt Gingrich's playbook is kinda sleazy, but you define the enemy first before he defines himself. Remember that or did you flunk professor Luntz' course? Is it really that confusing when this attack method is deployed back against your side as well?
You aren't too bright are you?
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