Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War - Softcover

Dennis Perrin is the author of Mr Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O’Donoghue, The Man Who Made Comedy Dangerous and American Fan: Sports Mania and the Culture That Feeds It. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Realist, Huffington Post, Mother Jones, at MSNBC, and in numerous independent weeklies and newspapers. He was a jokewriter for Bill Maher, and has blogged under the name Red State Son.

Proclaiming that American political life has always been a feeding frenzy of delusion, uplift, and fantasy, blogger and satirist Perrin (Mr. Mike) focuses his attack more narrowly on the Democrats, arguing that from Andrew Jackson on, they have robbed, cheated and lied to their constituents in order to consolidate power and maximize mega-profits. The book moves from a historic overview to a contemporary critique of the Democratic support for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, skewering such Democratic heavyweights as JFK, FDR, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, America's most underrated imperialist. The final chapter offers a blow-by-blow account of the liberal blogger convention YearlyKos, an event that the author uses to illustrate his conviction that the Dem [sic] elites will continue to gorge on corporate money and favors. Perrin undermines himself with his reliance on ad hominem attacks and joyless one-liners (JFK was smoked, genocide in Bosnia is an Ian Fleming scenario, the Iraq era had been satirically deficient). The result is a combination of self-righteousness and puerility. (Sept. 18)
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