Mill shares with MTV News his outlook on life on MMG single. By Rob Markman
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Phil keeps it trill. Phil Jackson Said He Resented Kobe Bryant After Denver Sex Assault Accusations Via LATimes Phil Jackson’s memoir hit bookshelves Tuesday and in addition to talking life, Michael Jordan, and Zen, the 13-time NBA champion, the former Lakers coach spoke on how Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault case drastically changed the way he viewed #8. It’s coming out now, though, in Jackson’s 339-page memoir co-written with Hugh Delehanty and available Tuesday: “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success.”… Jackson talked about how the sexual-assault charges levied against Bryant in 2003 temporarily changed his outlook on the perennial All-Star. It “cracked open an old wound” because Jackson’s daughter was the victim of an assault while on a date with an athlete in college. “Brooke expected me to get angry and make her feel protected. Instead I suppressed my rage — as I’d been conditioned to do during childhood by my parents … it left her feeling alone and unsupported. (In the end, after filing a report with the police, Brooke chose not to press charges.) “The Kobe incident triggered all my unprocessed anger and tainted my perception of him. … It distorted my view of Kobe throughout the 2003-04 season. No matter what I did to extinguish it, the anger kept smoldering in the background.” Charges were dropped against Bryant in 2004, a few months after the Lakers lost to Detroit in the NBA Finals. The coach-player relationship eventually improved to the point that Jackson defended Bryant after his infamous trade demand in 2007. Bryant was irritated after three languid seasons and wanted to continue his championship pursuits elsewhere. “No question, losing Kobe would be a blow to the organization and to me personally,” Jackson wrote of that summer. Can’t say we blame Phil, Kobe been an “ain’t isht” n***a for a long time now. Continue reading
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Aren’t They Free At Church?: Woman Arrested For Stealing Bible From Book Store [Video]
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Dear Bossip , I have been seeing a guy since February of last year and in October we finally decided to make it exclusive. It has been a relationship full with lots of ups and downs because we are polar opposites. Everything from how and where we were raised, to education, and et cetera. To put it in simple terms, he’s more of the street savvy guy while I am more of the spoiled girl who had an easy life. His different perspective and outlook is what made me interested in him. However, I realized that his outlook on relationships differ from mine as well. I feel so dumb in writing about this, but social media has become a venom in our relationship. When we first started dating, I did not have a Facebook account, I was going thru one of those temporary phases of privacy I would like to say. Probably weeks later, I opened a Facebook account, and we joked around about not adding each other as a friend. At that time our relationship was still so fresh, I didn’t mind. We went on a cruise, I posted pictures of us together, and let’s just say some people were slightly shocked that me and him were seeing each other. Like I said he is very different from what I dated. After seeing the photos, some people took it amongst themselves to reach out to me, and disclose his colorful history in regards to women. I told him about it, and we had a discussion of what I was told. I am not really into the he said/she said gossip, and I also believe that everyone does have a past, as long as it stays there. But I will admit that I felt a certain way about it. As we became more serious with one another, I suggested for us to become friends, and he was adamant in saying no. He used the excuse that Facebook brought a lot of friction between his last relationship so he vowed that the next relationship he will delete his Facebook. Mind you, I know a couple of the girls he messed around with in his past, and they were all his Facebook friends. Fast forward, he deleted his Facebook, however, I still had mine. He would casually mention I should delete my Facebook, but I was insistent in saying no. Now moving to the main issue, and unfortunately Facebook wasn’t the only social media site we argued about. Here comes along Instagram, same thing, but this time I never asked him about being a follower. I just requested to be one, and he threw a huge fit, and ended up deleting his IG. This behavior was beyond suspicious to me. But I eventually got over it. So, he did not have IG for a while, until he reopened his account in December. Mind you, he never told me he opened his IG again. I found out because a mutual friend followed him, and it popped up on my timeline. I was beyond livid. I brought it up to him and we just got into another argument. The whole point is according to him, I can follow him, however, he will not follow me because he does not want to see guys liking my pictures and etc. And, on top of that he will not put any pictures of us on IG because he likes his relationships to be private…but then again he has pictures of his son. Am I getting played here for a sucker? We are about to move in together, and we just started shopping for engagement rings (because I do not play roommates) but I cannot stop letting his rules of social media bother me. I feel beyond insecure when it comes to it and I always bring it up in arguments. I feel like why is he hiding me? I mean I know all his friends, all his family is following me and etc, but I can’t help but feel insecure. Should I believe his rules or do you think he is using IG for other purposes, like to be unfaithful? – Instagrammed Insecure Dear Ms. Instagrammed Insecure , SMDH! I can’t with you all and these damn social media sites. UGH!!!! They are truly the bane of relationships. People fight, argue, break-up, divorce, and do all crazy sorts of –ish because they won’t change their status to “in a relationship,” or, someone puts, “it’s complicated,” and you won’t add them or follow them. Just delete the damn –ish and stay off the computer! How about that?!?! Y’all are acting like you’re thirteen years old. I can’t believe that you’re moving in together, and talking about engagement, yet, you can’t even manage your social life together. He doesn’t want you following him on Facebook. He doesn’t want to follow you on Instagram because he doesn’t want to see other guys liking your pictures. And, he won’t put any pictures of you and him together on Instragram because he wants his relationship to remain private. Then, he is adding, and deleting accounts because you follow him, but then he secretly opens another one without your knowledge. (You’re out of your league) Uhm, sweetie, if you can’t see and smell the deception happening here, then that poor little spoiled girl routine of trying to date the bad savvy street smart guy will only leave you strung out on some hood street fighting other ratchet birds your man is sleeping with. He is internet community d**k, and you’re sharing him with the other ratchet birds who fell for his asinine bull-ish talking about, “I don’t want anyone to know about our relationship and I want to keep it private.” Uhm, hell to the naw! Why does he need to keep you private and hidden in the shadows? If you’re his woman, then he will be happy and proud to show the world that you are his woman. (You’re out of your league) These silly a** games are for the birds. And, I need for you to stop all that damn chirping. UGH! Girl, stop trying to be cute chirping through the hood, and get a freaking backbone. He doesn’t want you following each other on Facebook because he doesn’t want any of his other women to know about you! He doesn’t want to post any photos of you and him together on Instagram because his other women will find out he is cheating on them!! HELLO!!! You stated that your friends called you up and told you about his sordid past, and you knew he was from the streets, so did you not think him being a player would cease because he met you? (You’re out of your league) Girl, I can’t with you! I swear some of you can have everything staring you right in the face, and won’t see the damn STOP sign because all you see is, “But, I love him.” Your man keeps up this internet charade and games because it’s a place to keep all his women in one locale and place to remain in contact with. He creates accounts without your knowledge because he doesn’t want you knowing or discovering his dirt. If you’re shopping for engagement rings, then don’t you think he would be happy and proud to share that he found a woman he can settle down with? A woman he loves and wants to share with the world? Thus, he will end all other relationships and boldly post photos, status updates, and the like about your love! Girl, you can’t be this naïve. You can’t be!! (Chirp, chirp) You’re out of your league. Obviously, and it’s apparent to me that you are the naïve chick who is willing to put up with his antics and games. You are the one woman who is probably not like the other girls he runs through, but, you’re not quite the woman to settle him down because he doesn’t want anyone to know about you. Yes, you may know the family and friends, but he has created this illusion for you and painted this picture of him being ready to commit, however, his actions are clearly not those of a man who is ready to be a one woman man. (You’re out of your league) So, get into marriage counseling before you commit to marrying him, and before you move in together. If he hasn’t changed, or is willing to change his player ways, and if his views on relationships are still different from yours, then it’s time to move on. You don’t want to add a headache of social media into your life because you will find yourself snooping through his phone and computer searching for his screen names, anonymous accounts, and other things he will be hiding from you. And, then you’ll be trolling the streets chirping looking for your man at some other woman’s house. Either you both end your social media pages, and focus on one another, and your family and friends, or you have one account each, and you follow one another. But, either way, stop playing the role of spoiled naïve girl because it’s not cute or attractive. No one will feel sorry for you. Open your eyes to this movie playing out because we all know how it ends. – Terrance Dean Hey Bossip Fam, what do you think? Share your opinions and thoughts below! Also, e-mail all your questions Terrance Dean : loveandrelationships@bossip.com Follow Terrance Dean on Twitter : @terrancedean “LIKE” Terrance Dean on Facebook , click HERE! Make sure to order my books Mogul: A Novel (Atria Books – June 2011; $15); Hiding In Hip Hop (Atria Books – June 2008); and Straight From Your Gay Best Friend – The Straight Up Truth About Relationships, Love, And Having A Fabulous Life (Agate/Bolden Books – November 2010; $15). They are available in bookstores everywhere, and on Amazon, click HERE!
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Dear Bossip: We’re Getting Engaged & Moving In Together, But The Social Media Sites Hinder Our Relationship
Dear Bossip, I really need your advice on how to handle a family member. I know all families have their relatives that are a hot mess, but some of my family just really depresses me. This past week my family had the home going celebration for one of my uncles that passed recently from health problems. When I say a celebration that is exactly what it was. Family from all across the country and some even from overseas traveled to attend. The funeral was that Saturday and the family get-together that evening at my grandmother’s house. Like most family get-togethers we had food, fun, music and plenty of liquor. A relative from Mississippi brought two big gallon jugs of Moon Shine a.k.a. White Lightning. I didn’t partake in the drinking, it is not my thing. I prefer the herb, which there was plenty of. My wife and kids attended with me and spent much of their time in my grandmother’s house. Well, I have this one cousin that likes to drink and smoke, which I am sure we all have. The cousin that drinks and smokes, but can’t handle neither. My cousin is a straight clown, a little of “Smokey” from the movie, Friday, “JJ” from Good Times, and Old Dirty Bastard. He started celebrating Wednesday night when family started arriving, and had stayed drinking all weekend. I hate being around drunks that can’t control themselves and they don’t understand that there is a time and a place for everything. It really irks me to see a drunk break down crying, and they can’t stand up, slob everywhere, the ugly faces they make, and keep acting like they about to pass out. Here are three things that my cousin did that week that just make you shake your head and not want to claim him. 1. He drove a new four-wheeler into a pool. 2. Drinking and driving and hitting what he thought was either a deer or a zebra. 3. Just put on a show of straight drunken ignorance all week. But, what really pissed me off is what I learned happen that Saturday while inside my grandmother’s house. On our way home Sunday, my wife out the blue asks me, “What girl did you date that died from AIDS?” I didn’t have to ask who said it because I knew who it was and she confirmed it. My cousin, in one of his drunken rants, started talking about the girl to one of my aunts that knew her. But, it was around my wife and my aunt tried to change the subject, but my cousin just kept talking without any consideration that my wife was sitting in listening range. I had to explain to my wife, that I never talked to any female that had AIDS, and that when I did talk to this girl we were, ten years old. TEN! I don’t even consider that a relationship. But, this has been my last pass I am giving my cousin and I really want to whoop his a**. This is the type of crap he does all the time, just looking for attention. And, I know saying anything won’t get us anywhere but only arguing and cursing back and forth. But, I really want to say something or else it’s going happen again because this is not his first time. I feel it is disrespectful to my wife, me, and this girl that has passed. And he continues to show that he has no respect for his family or himself, and I am tired of it. I have been weighing on whether or not to say anything or let it go. So, I am asking your opinion. Signed – My Cousin Is Ignorant and Needs His A** Beat Dear Mr. My Cousin Is Ignorant and Needs His A** Beat , LMBAO!! I can’t! First, I’m sorry about your loss. My prayers are with you and your family. Second, your cousin is a straight fool! I wish I could have been there to witness all of his antics! Driving the four-wheeler into the pool, and him saying he hit a deer or zebra. LOL! I’m sure he is the life of the party. And, yes, we all have that one family member in our families that can’t handle their liquor, or herbals, and want to show their a**es, embarrassing everyone, including themselves, especially at family reunions, funerals, birthday parties, or holiday gatherings. Chile, it comes with the territory. LOL! Now, let’s get to what has your drawers in a bunch. Your cousin spilled some beans about a girl you dated as a child, but said girl died from AIDS as an adult. Your aunt tried to change the subject as your cousin was giving the Tea in his drunken stupor, but your wife overheard this conversation and on your drive home she asked you about this girl. It rattled your head, and you wanted to rattle your cousin. But, I don’t understand why you are upset. If you dated this girl when you were 10-years old, and as you’ve stated, “You were ten! I don’t even consider that a relationship.” Then why are you upset with your cousin? Is there some other closet secret about this girl and you that he revealed that you didn’t reveal in your letter? Or, are you afraid that there is something else hidden that he knows about you and will share in the presence of your wife? I don’t think the real beef, and your source of anger is about what he said about a 10-year old “like,” or crush you had with some girl, but it’s more so about him and your embarrassment and dislike for him and his drinking. You said it in your letter that some of your family members depress you. You are embarrassed by him, and you are internalizing his antics, and his drama, and his foolishness. As a matter of fact, all of your family members are embarrassed by him, and hates when he comes to any event because they know he is the one who is going to get high and drunk and show his a** and reveal some family secrets. So, everyone tries to stay far and clear from him because no one wants to end up on the opposite end of his truth serum revelations. You can confront him, whoop his a**, or whatever you want to do with him, but nothing is going to come between him and his liquor and herbals. If that is his way of dealing with his grief, pain, or whatever ailments he has nothing or no one can stop him from partaking. Yes, confronting him while he is sober and in his right state of mind will resolve YOUR issues, but just know that when you do say something he is not going to remember anything, or even remember saying what he said. He will apologize and say it will not happen again, but wait until the next family gathering, holiday, or funeral and he will back to his old antics. What I’ve learned to do is start loving and embracing my family members who love to partake of the spirits and get totally inebriated to the point that they need someone to carry them and put them to bed, or drive them home and put them in their house. I love watching them dance, falling all over the place, acting silly, and hugging on me with their slurred speech telling me how much they love me, and they are proud of me, and so on and so on. I find it comical now. I stopped the judgment and my opinions of them. If that is what they need to feel good, have a good time, and enjoy themselves then let them have at it. THEY ARE WHO THEY ARE! I cannot change them or make them be who I want them to be. I just know not to tell them anything that I don’t want revealed or disclosed. They are the ones I definitely would not share any secrets or intimate conversations with. Yes, they can talk about my youth and things of the past I did, but it doesn’t faze me any longer. They love recanting stories, and getting a kick out of the plots and the humor of what happened. But, that was years ago. I don’t hold on to the past, and I could really care less. And, my suggestion to you is if it happened many moons ago, and the only thing he can bring up is about some girl you dated when you were 10-years old then let him enjoy his story. He’s enjoying that moment, living in it, and it’s his fond memory of you. Brush it off, and keep it moving. Once you change your outlook on it, and let go of the anger, hate, and embarrassment of HIS actions, it will no longer affect YOU. So, let Jim Bo have his Moon Shine, and act a damn fool. HE IS WHO HE IS! If you embrace him and love him regardless of who he is and what he does then you will see a different person and his actions will no longer affect you. – Terrance Dean Hey Bossip Fam, what do you think? Share your opinions and thoughts below! Also, e-mail all your questions Terrance Dean : loveandrelationships@bossip.com Follow Terrance Dean on Twitter : @terrancedean “LIKE” Terrance Dean on Facebook , click HERE! Make sure to order my books Mogul: A Novel (Atria Books – June 2011; $15), and Straight From Your Gay Best Friend – The Straight Up Truth About Relationships, Love, And Having A Fabulous Life (Agate/Bolden Books – November 2010; $15). They are available in bookstores everywhere, and on Amazon, click HERE!
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Dear Bossip: I’m Tired Of My Cousin Embarrassing The Family With His Drunken Stupors
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Lindsay Lohan is denying a slew of hilarious reports that she hid in her closet when her father, Michael Lohan, paid her a surprise visit yesterday afternoon. The troubled star claims she wasn’t even home in Venice, Calif., when MiLo came by, and was reported quite desperately trying to get her to open the door. “I’m fine,” she told E! “I wasn’t even home so it’s funny how I was in my closet.” Reports surfaced that Lindsay was hiding from Michael out of fear. It was said that Michael was pounding on her front door trying to break in, then after getting no response, peered into windows as he tried to spot her. That may well have happened, but Lindsay says she wasn’t there. Though if she were there and hiding in the closet, no one would’ve seen her, so … You have to wonder. Girl does lie a lot. For what it’s worth, MiLo, who was recently arrested for domestic violence , left before the police were called. Just another chapter in Lindsay’s crazy personal life, a saga that long ago eclipsed whatever career she had. Betty White would not approve. [Photos: WENN.com]
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All for one, and one for all. The Jersey Shore cast will officially be back, intact, for Season 4 of the hit show, having been granted the raise they sought. The crew will reportedly receive at least $100,000 per episode per person for the upcoming season, expected to last about 13 episodes later this year. Having delivered record ratings this winter, they wanted to get paid. They weren’t exactly hurting, but wanted bank commensurate with their stardom. WE’RE RICH, BEEYITCH : The Jersey-ites are runnin’ it back! Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Jenni “JWoww” Farley and Paul “Pauly D” Delvecchio delayed filming over it , but all is good now. The scheduled Season 4 in Italy has run into various snags, but the cast holding out is no longer one of them. It’s on to the old country before long. While $100,000 per episode is certainly a ton (up from $10,000 per in Season 1), it’s nothing compared to their endorsement and appearance dough. The Situation banked $5 million last year. That’s enough to make you slit your wrists or raise a glass of Ron-Ron Juice, depending on your outlook.
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The latest issue of Rolling Stone features Lil Wayne on the cover. Need we say more? This is a man who once let us in on a little secret regarding birth control. He’s as quotable as they come, so you know this will be good. The rapper and frequent dad opens up for the first time about the eight months he spent behind bars at Riker’s Island. Some excerpts from the interview: Out of jail. On the loose. Ready for strip clubs . On dominating at a card game so much, fellow inmates tried to cut him out of the game : “I’d bust a n***a’s ass at Uno. We gamble for phone time.” “I’d take n***a’s commissary. Lemme get them cookies, lemme get them chips, get that soup. They’d be like, ‘Oh, we thought you were asleep.’ Like you can’t look inside my cell and see that I’m right there! We ain’t got no doors n***a!” On his reading material in jail : [Anthony Kiedis’] Scar Tissue was really good. I also read the Bible in there for the first time. It was deep!” “I liked the parts where some character was once this, but ended up being that. Like he’d be dissing Jesus, then he ends up being a saint. That was cool.” On the dude who saved him from more time in solitary confinement by claiming a contraband MP3 player was his and not Weezy’s : “He was a solid n***a. Shout-out to Charles. Being in solitary was the worst. No TV. No radio. No commissary. Basically in there 23 hours a day.” As you can see, Wayne uses a light tone in describing jail, but he does note that the whole experience has really changed his outlook on quite a bit. Think he’ll come away from this a better person? If nothing else, the man needs to give more interviews like this one. He is sound bite gold.
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Singer and her husband, Mario ‘Souleye’ Treadway, welcome Ever Imre into their family. By Jocelyn Vena Alanis Morissette Photo: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Alanis Morissette welcomed a son over Christmas, People reports. Morissette and husband Mario “Souleye” Treadway named their boy Ever Imre. “Alanis Morissette and Mario ‘Souleye’ Treadway welcomed a baby boy, Ever Imre Morissette-Treadway, on Dec. 25th,” a rep for the singer told the magazine. “All are healthy and happy.” Morissette, who had a baby shower in October, announced she was pregnant in August, sharing her excitement with the world. She took to Twitter at the time to share the news. “Yes, happy news….i’m pregnant,” she wrote. “We’re so excited to start our family…. xo a.” Shortly after making the announcement, she stopped by “Chelsea Lately” and recalled how surprised she was when she found out she was expecting a baby. “I actually thought I wasn’t,” she told the talk-show host before recalling how the doctor broke the news to her, much to her own shock. Morissette and Souleye married back in May in Los Angeles. She had previously been engaged to newly single Ryan Reynolds , whom she credited for changing her outlook on love in a 2004 interview. “I’m ready to commit to someone and ready to do the work. And I’m ready to allow that part of myself to come out,” she said. “I think for a long time, because of my compulsively wanting to be viewed as an
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The Washington Post reviewed Laura Ingraham’s best-seller The Obama Diaries on Sunday. Steven Levingston even handed her some high praise, good enough for a dust-cover blurb. But the headline in the Outlook section only contained a diss: “In ‘Obama Diaries,’ self-absorbed musings.” Levingston found the satire was quite effective (even as he later said he didn’t like non-satire portions): As these hilarious, self-absorbed reveries demonstrate, Ingraham has a gift for acerbic expression. Her takedown of the 44th president is always entertaining, and at times brilliant. With “The Obama Diaries,” Ingraham establishes herself as one of the cleverest thorns in the administration’s side. In the diaries, we hear Obama, full of himself after his nomination, cheer the decision to move his acceptance speech from the 20,000-seat Pepsi Center to Invesco Field, big enough for 80,000 adoring fans. “If John Lennon and George Harrison came back from the dead for a Beatles reunion,” he writes, “do you think they’d be playing to a piddly 20,000 people?” Not long after his election, the Nobel Prize committee sprinkles Miracle-Gro on the young president’s megalomania. “Oh, so Mr. Senator from Illinois . . . [is] in over his head, is he?” Obama snorts. “I’ve got three words for you, Diary: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE .” Obama calls up Bill Clinton and asks for advice on how to handle his latest honor. “I could hear him seething over the telephone,” Obama gloats. We read Hillary Clinton’s diary entry for the same day, full of spleen: “What did Bill and I ever do to deserve this? . . . Bill’s been calling me all day, and I know he wants to vent, but I just cannot deal with it right now. Let him grouse to one of his ‘friends.’ ” Obama’s religious commitment gets more than a few darts. At a White House Easter breakfast for Christian leaders, the president begins to read a speech from a teleprompter when a pastor interrupts him: “Excuse me, Mr. President, could you lead us in grace?” First lady Michelle writes, “I had to put my coffee cup in front of my mouth so they wouldn’t see me laughing. The only time I’ve ever heard Barack say grace is when it was preceded by ‘Will & . . .’ ” We glimpse other White House figures. There’s the stud Biden who ogles any babe passing through the West Wing. When Colombian pop star Shakira chats with Obama about immigration, Biden confides to his diary: “Honestly, if they all looked like this hot tamale, I’d tear down the border fence myself.” The vain VP worries endlessly about his thinning hair and prepares for a new procedure to thicken his mane, even though his doctor warns that he no longer has enough hair on the back of his head to replant on the crown. “Doc,” Biden confides, “you can always graft some off my tookis.” There’s also Grandma Robinson, who brings a dash of reality to Michelle’s Stalinist dietary rules for her children. The babysitter in chief writes: “Miche caught me in the hallway bringing a stack of cookies to Sasha’s room. You’d swear she had busted me with a crack pipe.” Robinson knows Michelle herself isn’t a paragon of dietary virtue. “Since she dug that vegetable garden , you’d think Miche never touched a dessert in her life,” she writes on another occasion. “I know better! I’ve seen the panels they added to the back of that state-dinner dress.” All of this is great fun. And the book might have been a little masterpiece, if it weren’t for a fatal flaw. Ingraham can’t decide whether she wants to be a satirist or a polemicist. The satirist would have given us the diaries, kept herself out of the story and let us make what we wanted of them. That’s the power of satire: to awaken its audience by shock and exaggeration, without commentary. But the diaries, unfortunately, make up only part of the book. Half, if not more, of “The Obama Diaries” is Ingraham’s critique of the Obama family and administration — smartly written, to be sure, with effective rhetorical flourishes. For instance, Ingraham blames Obama’s mother for failing to instill strong religious faith in her son. As the author puts it: “Stanley Ann Dunham exposed her son Barack to religion the way one would expose a child to poisonous snakes — as a distant curiosity.” But Ingraham’s interposition essentially kills the satire. No reader of the genre wants to know that the author gets “choked up at ball games” every time she hears the national anthem. A laudable sentiment, but not one for a snarling, thick-skinned satirist to acknowledge. You either maintain the literary conceit or you abandon it — flip-flopping, as any political pundit knows, only leaves a ruinous imbalance. In Ingraham’s case, it causes her to squander her literary deadeye on vapid hyperbole — the kind of political belching commonly found in the pages of inferior conservative stylists such as Glenn Beck , Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity. “So we have a lot of work ahead of us,” she stoops to conclude. “This is ‘freedom’s last stand.’ ” And she was so close to a seat at Swift’s table! The New York Times has yet to review Ingraham’s book, but did explain to liberal readers who complained it was on the Nonfiction list .
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