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2084: The Year of the Liberal

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It's about time someone poked fun at all the socialist ideas of the liberals in this country. Hale does it with a wacky sense of humor using Orwell's 1984 as the vehicle. After seeing the comedy of errors in Florida, 2084 is more timely than ever.

This absurd little story made me laugh more than any book I can remember. And the liberals deserve every word of it. I've never heard of David Hale before, but I'm looking forward to his next one!

I know this is political satire but it reads like a Saturday Night Live skit (if Saturday Night Live ever lambasted liberals). It's about time we started laughing at liberals. God knows they provide us with enough material. Get this book! Read it and pass it on.

This book was recommended to me by a friend and it was a surprise. Like most satire, it is not particularly subtle, but as in Candide, more in the Monty Python vein of over the top humor. I don't know if most liberals will be laughing much, but I sure did. I've never heard of the author before, but he sure made me laugh. Could it be that the right has finally found its sense of humor?

POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS AT ITS FINEST, HALE HAS DONE IT ON THIS ONE. I'D NEVER HEARD OF HIM BEFORE WHEN I PICKED THIS UP AT MY LIBRARY AND WOW! THE WRITING ISN'T PERFECT BUT THE BELLYLAUGHS ARE WORTH IT. IF YOU'RE NOT AFRAID TO READ SOMETHING OFF THE WALL AND YOU AREN'T A CLINTONISTA, THIS BOOK'S FOR YOU.

I just happened to see this at a friend's apt and picked it up. I couldn't put it down! Had to borrow it. This is funny stuff. Absurd as anything I've read, but FUNNY!

David Hale's "2084: The Year of the Liberal" is an uproariously entertaining political satire. Well-paced and scathingly accurate, Mr. Hale's no-holds-barred style of writing has a proverbial field day with the societal disease known as political correctness. "2084" will be immensely appealing to conservative readers; downright maddening to liberal audiences; and food-for-thought for moderate-thinking individuals. Kudos to Mr. Hale for knowing that there is an undeniable relationship between truth and humor; in other words, the more truthful you are when you satirize something, the funnier your writing will be.

Who is Big Mama? Picture Maya Angelou or Opra Winfrey with a whip and a gun loving you (to death) if you don't think right. If we don't watch out we may have our own Big Mama in four years. Call her HRC. Read this book and keep your powder dry, conservatives.

I find myself amazed that anyone could find this book "clever" or "biting" in the least. It's a hardly even a novel - it's basically a collection of rants thinly veiled under an even tone.

The only intriguing part related to the book, for me, is that some people really believe his charming "message:"
-Affirmative action is almost the same as kidnapping non-white men and women and forcing them to work at certain jobs.
-There's a vast liberal conspiracy to destroy heterosexual relationships and force as many people as possible into homosexuality.
-Rape and sexual harassment accusations *from women* are a feminist conspiracy: no woman ever really tells the truth about those things.
-Rape against men, however, does happen and it's a horrible thing, but liberals think it's insensitive to call the rapist on his actions.
-AIDS only affects homosexuals and drug users.
-Multiculturalism is disgusting.
-Non-traditional gender roles are disgusting.
-Non-heterosexuals are disgusting.
-Non-whites are disgusting.
-Rush Limbaugh is god-like in his wisdom, and feared by the left for his, well, god-like wisdom.
-If everyone saw things The Way They Really Were, they'd magically and instantly turn conservative.

All of these statements are affirmed proudly and without an ounce of cleverness in the book. I have no idea why it wasn't just published as one of the endless conservative rant books - it's not as if he has any skill as a novelist.

If you want a farce that takes a swipe at all things liberal, this is the tome for you. The PC among us will hate this book but then that's their loss. For the rest of us, it's about time Hale came along and blasted the PC crowd.