In the Carter Administration, Trudeau responded to Jimmy Carter's reference to Bob Dylan with "Jimmy Thudpucker," a sort of John Denver/Jackson Browne figure who was hanging out with Bob. Asking Bob how he felt about being labeled "an authentic American Voice" by Carter, the off-strip figure responds, "I was just trying to make it rhyme, man..." Probably that's the best way to become an authentic American voice...
So, it's with glee that I read that Joe Wurtzelbacker has a book deal. Joe is rapidly becoming the symbol of all that is wrong with the "working class American Reagan Republican" mythos. He's a fraud, and he's got a big mouth. I wouldn't hire him to run a lemonaide stand...and, on his own, I doubt he could finance one. So, with crotch shots of Caribou Barbie and Joe's new tome, I think we're in for multiple treats over the remainder of the Bush administration. Hopefully, nobody on the Obama team will do something worthy of indictment for a bit after the inauguration, and these folk can go back to doing their own thing.
Will the book sell?
You betcha!
Posted by: Agi | 20 November 2008 at 04:47 PM