Part of a panel by Ward Sutton.
Our "Drift" challenge yielded an embarrassment of hilarious, literate blurb offerings. Here is a Top 10 list, though a top 20 or even Top 30 list could have been easily compiled. Many humble thanks for your collective genius.
- In my farewell address I warned of foreign entanglements, yet I fail to find myself cited as a source of inspiration, nor am I mentioned in the dedication. Otherwise, a decent read. --G. W. Washington (@Dogjudge)
- I'm drinking over it! --Carrie Nation (@eaglelady11)
- Drift reminds me of a movie I was in. --Ronald Reagan (@leopardgrrl1)
- Examine carefully. Within these lines you will find what you seek: a primer for any would-be emperor. After all, the art of war is of vital importance to the State. --Sun Tzu (Marlene J. Geary)
- Reading Maddow's "Drift", I find myself reaffirmed in my belief that Man is the only animal that blushes, and the only animal that has a reason to. --Mark Twain (Carol Louise Atkins)
- There are the unmoorings we know, and the unmoorings we know we don't know. And then there are the unmoored unmoorings. Dr. Maddow gets that. --Donald Rumsfeld, poet. (@whaddyameanzeitgeistisnotavailable?)
- "...I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I saw the book in the store where the Andalusian girls shop or shall I read the book yes and how she told me about the unmooring and I thought well as well she as an author and then I asked her with my eyes to ask again yes and then she asked me would I write a blurb to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around her yes and drew her down to me so she could feel the book under my coat yes and her book was selling like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes." --Molly Bloom (@ShadyShrew)
- Buy the book, take the ride... --Hunter S Thompson (David Christopher Roach)
- This is the Chuck Norris of books! --Chuck Norris (@Jools64)
And my favorite, a marvel of concision:
- Drift is Hell. -William Tecumseh Sherman (@js9w:)
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Typically,I read more fiction than nonfiction. As an informed, progressive person, pre-ordering Drift was a no-brainer.
Drift is a tragic, twisted comedy of civilization unraveling before our eyes. I wish it were fiction.
To not be outraged is to not be paying attention.
I am confused: Why does ExxonMobile sponsor your show?
ExxonMobile...the commercial with the guy lying about millions of jobs from the Keystone Pipe Mess..yeh, that's when I go make a cup of tea and try to calm down!
I'm going to have to wait until my copy of Drift arrives to make up a review.
Those were pretty funny blurbs, I gotta agree.
"It was Military-Industrial Complexual from beginning to end!" --Dwight Eisenhower.
That's the biggest disconnect for me as well: ExxonMobile commercials. These are the ads Mark Ruffalo is going on about. So what's going on with this?????
I think the bigger question is, why do these companies advertise on MSNBC, probably knowing that the audience is not going to believe them?
The answer to the questions above about sponsors can be found in this video, http://youtu.be/4cTyY9xV9D0 - Rachel talks about it at the 42nd minute mark.
Exxon-Mobil, just a few months ago, was running an ad about how they are trying to produce commercial oil from algae. The ad was part of the same series that now shills for the Keystone Pipeline. I noticed that the oil-from-algae ad stopped running when Newt started going around with an empty gas can making fun of algae. As that great Star Trek character, Khan, might say: "Exxon-Mobil! Exxon-Mobil!! EXXON-MOBIL!!! Unrelated: Where can I get glasses like Rachel's???
Thrilled. Thank you! I was pretty psyched to see my blurb up there in the Top Ten!! Reading Drift is like walking through my childhood again - my high school years are forever linked to the Iran-Contra Affair. Great insights.
Thanks again,
Marlene
Central Connecticut
My copy made it to Japan a month sooner than Amazon projected. I haven't finished reading it yet--so no blurb--but I can now see where all of these ideas came from.
Congrats, Rachel. I hope this becomes a huge step in demystification and mental disarmament. <3
Son and his wife heard you here in Milwaukee, bought two books of DRIFT
and loaned me a copy, finished reading this AM. A real eye opener makes a lot
of sense from my 70 year perspective. Hope this gets real traction across
America but I am concerned as a conservative that most of my types will dismiss
the book, sure hope not. At this point I will be looking to presidential
candidates getting tough questions posed by Drift.