What the (Active Verb) Is Wrong with the Right?: A Fill-in-the-Blanks Game for the Rest of Us

by Shelby Gragg, Stefan Petrucha

Overview

After a long political season of listening to Glenn Beck's loony rants, Sarah Palin's off-kilter phraseology, and Rand Paul's downright oddball elocutions, authors Shelby Gragg and Stefan Petrucha were struck by an astonishing similarity to the beloved fill-in-the-blank games of their childhood. And so the hilarious spoof What the (Active Verb) Is Wrong with the Right? was born.

This laugh-out-loud parody invites readers to create their own fanciful sentences that would make any right-wing nut proud. From the roots of the rabid right (testing our knowledge of the McCarthy hearings and Richard Nixon's Checkers speech), through the O'Reilly and Hannity ascendancy, and up to the heyday of Glenn and Sarah, What the (Active Verb) Is Wrong with the Right? touches on the greatest hits and the most outrageous misses of contemporary conservative rhetoric.

Including favorites such as Ann Coulter and Ronald Reagan, along with a supporting cast of thousands of tea partiers and irate Fox News viewers, here's the ultimate impulse buy/graduation gift/stocking stuffer that will provide hours of cathartic and comic relief for the rest of us. Chuckle at the rabid right! Guffaw through O'Reilly and Hannity! Giggle at Glenn and Sarah! And laugh until you weep for the fate of the nation!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781595586384
Publisher:	New Press, The
Publication date:	03/15/2011
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.28(w) x 8.22(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Shelby Gragg is a lifetime New Yorker who is currently holding up well during his exile to Boston. He distracts himself from our nation's fate by poking at the right with a sharp stick, despite his belief that they have all the guns. Although Gragg worked in publishing for many years, this is his first book.

Stefan Petrucha has written twenty novels and scores of graphic novels. His most recent work includes the parody Harry Potty and the Deathly Boring, the vampire novel Blood Prophecy, and the nonfiction Paranormal State: My Journey into the Unknown. He does not want to tell you where he lives.

Table of Contents

You've Heard It Before 8

Sections

The Constitution & The Bill of Right-Wingers 10

A Brief Sanity: The Military Industrial Complex 12

A Good Republican Coating 14

I Have a List … Really, I Do! 16

Ronnie-Care 18

We Don't Need No Education 20

Worn Bill and Loose Change 22

Morals Clause? I Don't Need No Stinkin' Morals Clause! 24

Hail the Conquering Hero 28

I Never Said What You Made Me Say 30

You Like Me! You Really Like Me! 32

I'll Be Back 34

Humble Beginnings: A Tea Party Rally 36

Humble Beginings: Birther FAQ or Fiqtion? 38

Apologies Are for Wimps 40

You Get an Apology, You Get an Apology, You Get an Apology! 42

Hungry for Power: Al Gore Attempts to Steal the Election 44

Hungry for Power: Obama Attempts to Steal the Election 46

Hungry for Power: Al Franken Steals Election 48

Ode to a Decider 50

I'm a Doctor, and I Play One on TV! 54

More Fun Than a Trunkful of Aliens 56

My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose 58

I Did Not Have Text with that Boy 60

Can't Trust Those Presidents! 62

Service! Service! 64

Heroine Worship 66

The Hannity Diaries: President Obama 68

The Hannity Diaries: The Middle East 70

The Hannity Diaries: Global Warming 72

I'm Shocked, Shocked 74

Blankety Blanks: Sean Hannity 76

Blankety Blanks: Ann Coulter 77

Why ____ Must Never ____ 78

Texas Larnacatin' 80

I Was Against It Before I Was for It! 82

Is Obama Really a____? 84

Tear, Baby! Tear! 86

Won't Somebody Think of the Children! 88

Sorry, No Vacancy 90

Guns in Starbucks: We Don't Need no Stinkin' Cappuccino! 92

I Pledge Aliegummummble … mumble 94

This Is No Time for New Ideas! 96

Why the Republicans Will Win in 2012 98

The End of the World as We Know It: Michele Bachman on Overdrive 100

South Carolina Candidate Andre Bauer on Food Stamps 104

Oh, What Is It This Time? 106

Dick Morris on the Ground Zero Mosque 108

Dr. Laura Has Left the Building 110

God's Final Warning in 2008 112

Blankety Blanks: Rush Limbaugh 114

Suggested Word List 115