The Joy of Hate

This book is much like Greg Gutfeld, filled with sarcasm and snark.

I have been an avid watcher of Mr. Gutfeld’s television shows since the days of Red Eye, which Fox News aired at 3am EST starting in 2007. I have followed his shows across the TV schedule because I find him funny and even being sarcastic and utilizing satire he makes sense

GG uses satire, sarcasm, humor, and examples to point out the silliness of the liberal left, conservative right and both sides need to divide us as a society. Throughout “The Joy Of Hate”, he takes aim at both ideology sides pointing out the hypocrisy and spin.

Hollywood stars, television journalists, political bloggers, educational institutions, government departments.... No one is safe from the show more spotlight of satire and humor that GG shines on people, politicians, various industries and events in the recent past.

The book was published in 2012 so while some of the topics are no longer current he makes excellent points.

Pointing out the hypocrisy of:

⁍Tea Party vs occupy protests
⁍Obesity and promiscuity
⁍Two women being called sluts - one a liberal the other a conservative.
⁍How conservative minorities are called racial does with no blowback

Added bonus is that the chapter titles are puns or satire of common sayings i.e.:

⁍Winners and Looters,
⁍Unreal Estate,
⁍Poop Stars,
⁍Working at the Death Star,
⁍Harmed Forces....

RECOMMEND?

I recommend this book to anyone who is not offended by salty language, sexual innuendo, and can handle seeing their “political team” eviscerated.

This review appeared on my website.

DISCLAIMER
I received via the OverDrive/Libby app from the Harris County or Houston Public Library system. It was read as a Kindle eBook. show less

Funny, insightful story of what people get upset over and how you can just ignore other people’s issues.

Greg Gutfeld has a very interesting way of telling a story

If you can mind the snark and off-color asides, it is a nice continuation of his other books.

yuck.

Gutfeld does, writes and comments on politics, what I would like to be doing. While at Cal Berkeley he became a conservative among the radicals, and then once he was around conservatives, he became a libertarian. Here a few quotable tid bits:

"The media, for the most part, tends to dismiss the “outrage” perpetrated by the left, often dismissing the slurs and smears as the product of “edgy comedy”, only because they rabidly agree with whatever's being said. … This liberal pass, however, is not afforded to those on the right. If Maher calls somebody a slut, the outcry lasts a few days. When Rush says it, the outrage lasts as long as a case of herpes. It flares up and never really goes away ..."

"... because of tolerance, there are show more no repercussions for bad behavior. And bad behavior won't just continue, but will accelerate, because the tolerati … provide the grease for the wheels."

"Now, somehow I just don't think viewing these threats as potential examples of workplace violence is going to be our most effective method of attack. What are we going to see on the walls next to the “no smoking” signs? Posters that exclaim, “No massacres in the name of Allah”?
Fact is, we are living under a government that's head over heels in love with euphemisms. Whether it's “man-caused disasters” or “workplace violence”, our leaders can't stop creating new lies out of old words. Taxing the rich is now “paying our fair share”. Class warfare is now called “a war on inequity”. As I've said before, calling the Fort Hood massacre workplace violence is like calling Pearl Harbor an air show."

"Freedom of expression and tolerating points of view are {whiny liberals'} expressed desires … unless you, um, disagree with them on something. Then it's sooo over, you Nazi!"

"All entertainment options came saddled with {liberals'} approved assumptions: Movies, theater, the art world, magazine publishing, newspapers, comedians … – you name it – they all uniformly turn left as if they're performing in an ideological NASCAR event."

"Because I'm confident in my mission, presenting liberal perspectives should only make whatever else that much stronger. Seriously, put a leftist on any show and you see how much more sensible the right is. You have me sitting there sounding reasonable and anyone to my left morphs into one of those LSD experiments from the fifties ..."

"If you're going to be intolerant of that kind of thing when it's said about people you like, you gotta do the same for those you don't. … The left isn't so consistent. You can wish death or ill will on anyone from George Bush to Sarah Palin, and you'll probably get a grin from every liberal blogger, comic, and talking head. But say anything like that about a precious liberal icon and you will be run out of town."

"But historians know: What begins as a utopian vision always – always – ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia. It's Uganda. It's 100 million dead. … And it's not like the folks behind the {Occupy} movement have hidden their intentions. …"

"What's truly amazing is how the left seems baffled by the revulsion it causes. … To them it's daring comedy. Why is that? It's because liberals are surrounded by liberals all day, and so they develop a massive blind spot concerning what's acceptable to everyone else … you essentially spend all your time around people who share your assumptions, which makes it exceedingly easy for you to say what's on your mind."

"I love a man in uniform. And I'm not talking about my house-boys (sarongs hardly qualify as a uniform). But for the left, tolerance is rarely afforded to the military." show less