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Va Lefty

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Thu Jan 4, 2018, 02:16 PM Jan 2018

Has anyone else read Ed Asner's book The Grouchy Historian?

Got it for a Christmas gift and it is very entertaining! He describes Supreme Court Justice Antonino Scalia as “one of the great minds of the 13th century”. As for Ted Cruz's autobiography "A Time for Truth" Asner says it's “a faith-based romance novel in which the hero falls in love with himself at an early age.”

"Republicans are supported by a phalanx of Right-Wing radio and TV hosts who wave the Constitution at us like so many brainwashed Chinese once lofted copies of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book."

"Mark Levin and Glenn Beck have made small fortunes publishing books that rewrite the Constitution to suit themselves. Rush Limbaugh’s website once featured him beside a blow-up of the Constitution’s Preamble, a wide smile across his face as if he had just scored a prescription for painkillers. Bill O’Reilly used to give away free copies of the Constitution with every purchase of his “patriot” coffee mug. That was, of course, before he was fired from his television show where he advocated family values on the one hand while calling female employees and masturbating with the other."

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Has anyone else read Ed Asner's book The Grouchy Historian? (Original Post) Va Lefty Jan 2018 OP
this sounds fucking great.... dhill926 Jan 2018 #1
Sounds good - will order from B&N tonight! TheDebbieDee Jan 2018 #2
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