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Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism-True Stories That Should Be Fiction [Hardcover]

Michael Smerconish (Author)
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April 4, 2006

Sick of the total BS of rampant PC?

This brazen, furiously funny book is the antidote to today's poison of political correctness. With humor and chutzpah, attorney, commentator, and popular radio host Michael Smerconish takes on today's oversensitive culture with a collection of entertaining, outlandish anecdotes about PC gone wild-stories that are hilarious, horrifying, and unbelievably true.

Why are sports leagues handing out trophies to losers? Why are little old grandmas hired to guard 200-pound prisoners? Why are newborn babies and old men with walkers singled out at the airport while likely terrorists are ushered through security with ease?

This book shows through these absurdities that today's atmosphere of censorship and multiculturalism is paving the way for serious threats to our cultural identity and national security: "It's one thing for the forces of political correctness to muzzle our day-to-day lives here at home in the US, quite another when that same cancer metastasizes into the war on terror."

We must eradicate the PC disease. Our sanity-and our very lives-depend on it.  

"Michael Smerconish talks the talk: If you say unpopular things, watch out! Using vivid examples of PC rubbish, Muzzled will lead you into a world that would terrify Rod Serling. An entertaining and provocative book."

-Bill O'Reilly

"Reads like fiction, too bad it's true."

-Nelson DeMille, novelist, author of Night Fall and The General's Daughter

"The PC virus is out of control . . . and it's worse than you think! In this entertaining and important book, Michael Smerconish chronicles just how mindless things have gotten in politically correct America. He tells fascinating stories that will make you laugh . . . right up until the time they make you scream. Thanks to the PC crowd, we are all living in The United States of the Absurd."

-Bernard Goldberg, journalist and author of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, Arrogance, and Bias

"I really squirm whenever I find myself agreeing with Smerconish. (I know the feeling is mutual.) I did a lot of squirming while reading this provocative book. All true liberals and conservatives must agree with Smerconish that the PC muzzles must be removed so that people can decide based on the marketplace of ideas."

-Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard and author of Preemption

"I don't often find myself on the same side of the political barricades as Michael Smerconish. But Muzzled is a witty, provocative, and timely book. Even when Michael is wrong, which is often, he draws you in and keeps you reading."

-Arianna Huffington, author of Pigs at the Trough and Fanatics and Fools

"By proving the link between America's political correctness at home and its looming defeat abroad, Smerconish performs a great and courageous public service. Citizens should take this book to heart . . . and then vote to defeat the rogue multiculturalists who value 'ethnic and racial sensitivities' far more than America's survival."

-Michael F. Scheuer, author of Imperial Hubris and Through Our Enemies' Eyes, former chief of the CIA's Osama bin Laden Unit

"In Muzzled, my American Blood Brother of status-quo-obliterating defiance, Michael Smerconish, once again smokes out the cockroaches of political correctness . . . Muzzled is a great title for a book that I am convinced every American school kid should read and be tested on. If a new generation doesn't grow some intellectual balls, our Once Great Nation will continue to repeat horrific mistakes and pay the price . . . Read it. Live it."

-Ted Nugent, rock star, author, television personality, and hunter extraordinaire


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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Thomas Nelson (April 4, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 159555050X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1595550507
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,110,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Content Of This Book Is Hiilarious, And That's The Sad Point, June 12, 2006
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Caesar M. Warrington (Lansdowne, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism-True Stories That Should Be Fiction (Hardcover)
Philadelphia attorney and talk-radio host (WPHT 1210 AM) Michael Smerconish has collected here about two dozen examples of victim culture and political correctness gone goofy, among which are:

-How the Philadelphia Daily News, for which Smerconish writes a column, felt pressure to apologize for a front page featuring the mugshots of 18 non-white murder suspects in Philadelphia, even though no whites were among the 56 people wanted for murder at the time.

-In New Jersey, bars that use the term, "Ladies' Nights," have been branded as "discriminatory."

-Teachers who refuse to mark a failing student's schoolwork or test with red ink because they fear it would stigmatize the kid.

-5ft. grannies who are hired as policewomen (I bet my use of this gender-specific term will inflame some people reading this) and prison guards who are assigned to duties calling for them to deal with murderers and rapists who often are packed with well over six-and-a-half-feet of muscle.

-Little girls who are prohibited from leaving flowers on soldiers' graves.

-How firefighters who volunteered to help out in the Gulf states ravaged by Hurrican Katrina were directed to undergo diversity training.

Too bad this book has come out before the recent "controversy" here in Philadelphia involving Joey Vento, owner of South Philly landmark, Geno's Steaks. An opportunistic city councilman, Jim Kinney, looking to make points with his increasingly growing Hispanic constituency, has publicly criticized Mr. Vento for a sign in his place that says, "This is America, order in English." This has become considered "newsworthy," making the rounds at CNN, Good Morning America, etc. Consequently, the city's Human Relation Commission is now involved.

The majority of us Americans find these things absurd; unfortunately, however, too many others out there see it otherwise. As Smerconish points out, such things have become battle symbols for professional activists and guilt-ridden middle class white folks. More importantly, besides being fodder for the legal industry who clog up our courts with such ridiculous junk, the words "racism," "sexism," "discrimination" are being cheapened by such constant use in reference to such trivialities.
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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars OVERREACTIONS OF THE PC KIND!!!!!!!, October 14, 2006
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This review is from: Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism-True Stories That Should Be Fiction (Hardcover)
Author Smerconish puts the spotlight on the arena of political correctness. Is this trend in todays world really about "righting a wrong" or "overreactions"? Decide for yourself as you read this well-written collection of true stories.


You may recognize some of the situations cited from your daily newspapers:

-little old ladies hired to guard 200 pound prisoners,

-newborn babies or toddlers and old men with walkers singled out at the airport for security scrutiny vs Profiling?

-LADIES NIGHTS promotions for discounted/ free drinks at restaurants and bars debated as discriminatory.

- a 9 year old boy ordered to stop putting flowers on dead soldiers' graves in a cemetery. He noticed that everyone's lot in the cemetery had flowers but none in the soldiers' lot where veterans of Vietnam, Korean, Revolutionary , Civil, Spanish-American Wars and WW I and II were buried. His compassionate action inflamed others and became the catalyst for a furor between Cemetery Board trustees, City fathers and Veterans.

- the Miss America beauty pageant candidates' platform issues


-Religion,

-Politics,

- T-ball.



"Muzzled" may make you squirm, laugh, and even start thinking about the increasing encroaching effect of this trend on your way of life.


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45 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great stories -- too bad they're true, March 30, 2006
This review is from: Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism-True Stories That Should Be Fiction (Hardcover)
Don't listen to what the first reviewer said -- Muzzled is an unbelievably interesting and frustrating (for what it exposes) book that everyone should read. Political correctness has become all to pervasive in society and Smerconish is working to end it.
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