Can't we all just get along? The 2004 election is over and people are pissed. The re-election of W for a second term has divided the country in ways we haven't seen since the OJ verdict, since Britney v. Christina, since paper v. plastic. The cultural divide between the liberal elite and the compassionate conservative has pitted family member against family member, co-worker against co-worker, and on a much larger scale, the Blue Stater v. Red Stater. We're supposed to be the "United" States, but right now, we're about as united as Shaq and Kobe in the NBA finals. RED v. BLUE is an irreverent guide to the history, demographics, ideals, and philosophies of "the enemy." This hilarious humor book is an equal opportunity offender, and the Red side of the great divide will embrace how its handbook showcases the hypocrisies and vulnerabilties of the opponents. The book includes: The History of Stater Hating, including origins of Red v. Blue; A rundown of divisive issues defining each side's position on Coke v. Pepsi, creamy v. chunky, Roe v. Wade, paper or plastic, Vietnam, Leno v. Letterman, Big Mac v. Whopper, Ruben v. Clay, et al.; The 10 Commandments (according to the Red side); State of the Red nation—laced with fun factoids—with an in-depth look inside the mind of Red Staters regarding morals, foreign policy, drinking, smoking, and drugs, religion, entertainment, and consumer characteristics.; Quizzes to determine what shade of red you are.; A turncoat's survival guide (ways to survive in you're living in a state of the other color). And much much more hilarious commentary on the great divide.
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Deborah Baer has worked as an entertainment editor at Ladies Home Journal, Parents, CosmoGirl!, and Lifetime magazines, where she interviewed more than 100 celebrities including Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Pierce Brosnan, Ellen DeGeneres, Julianne Moore, and Shania Twain. Now freelancing, Dibs has written for Seventeen, US Weekly, Star, Hamptons, More, Marie Claire, Galmour, Self and the New York Daily News. After earning a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. E.J. Boeke began working in promotions/marketing at Conde nast. She has spent most of her eight-year career there at Conde Nast Traveler, Details, GQ and now Gourmet, with a few stints as a copywriter for The New York Times in between.
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Conservatism and comedy just don't mix,
This review is from: Red V. Blue: The Red Starter's Guide to the Great State Debate (Paperback)
Steve Sweeney said it best about a Republican who came up with a gag events listing for the 2004 Democratic National Convention: "He's not a joke writer." Maybe it has something to do with the fact that humor is the exercise of a superiority complex and that conservatives appear to have an overcharged inferiority complex, or that it requires challenging established authority and conservatives reflexively side with authority, but with the exceptions of Mitt Romney, Bill Weld and PJ O'Rourke they can't write a joke to save humanity from extinction. While Laura Bush was able to get the crowd roaring, she was shredding Republicans at the time. Even Dennis Miller was funnier when he was unafilliated and ripping both sides of the political divide a new one.It read like Baer and Boeke had been ordered by their publisher to put out a counterargument to BLUE VS. RED, and they just dashed it off in a couple of hours so they could get an early start on the weekend. While it does make you think at times, such as the fact that 1.78% of red staters are farmers, the rest of them are recycled from BLUE VS. RED with some subtle rewriting to fit the intended audience, and even then they're hit-or-miss. When those recycled jokes aren't making the rare valid point (if red staters make up only 6% of American tourists overseas, who's more likely to be promoting the Ugly American stereotype?) they're working along the weak yeah-but rebuttal to ineffectively show superiority over blue staters ("Yeah, Britney Spears is perpetuating every trailer-trash stereotype out there, but at least she isn't having sex outside of marriage like Christina Aguilera!"). Even the Blue Stater Ten Commandments read like the Red Stater ones from BLUE VS. RED with only a handful of word changes. If you want good Democrat mocking, you're going to have to go to an independent comedian or even an insider giving his crew the Carl Hiaasen treatment, such as stuff on THE DAILY SHOW or pre-sellout Dennis Miller.
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