Rod Dreher Gets His Fweelings Hurt, Bashes Palin Book In Return?

Gee. Do you think Rod Dreher may have had an ax to grind given his opening graph?

Sarah Palin is back to tell us that she loves Alaska. And America. And Todd, the First Dude. She loves God, Ronald Reagan, cutting taxes and serving those she calls "ordinary hardworking people." Who's on Sarah's enemies list? The media. Good ol' boys who condescend to her. Elites like the Alaskan gadfly she describes as a "Birkenstock-and-granola Berkeley grad." Oh, and she really hates cynical McCain campaign staffers who, in her view, sabotaged her vice-presidential campaign.

Blogging can bite you on the butt sometimes, no matter how high and virtuous you fashion your little throne in this world. NewsBusters suggests that's the case with Dreher's review. I can't say if that's the case, but he certainly didn't have much time to read and contemplate the book. Whether he went full-metal Ana Marie Cox and didn't finish it, or not, who knows? I'm sure he'll say he didn't. 

Via Newsbusters:

But what if those conservative guests just happen to take a stand NPR likes? Case in point: on Tuesday night’s All Things Considered, NPR touted a Sarah Palin book review by "conservative columnist" Rod Dreher, who concluded: "She quotes her father's line upon her resignation this summer as Alaska's governor: Sarah's not retreating, she's reloading. On evidence of this book, Sarah Palin is charging toward 2012 shooting blanks."

On his Beliefnet blog yesterday, Dreher blogged at 12:35 pm that he was 100 pages in. All Things Considered starts airing locally at 4 pm. Did he really finish the book and write a script before the taping?

Comments

[Josh]

Ugh, it is at times like this that I enjoy reading Jonah Goldberg's critique of Dreher's crunchy book:
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200603020807.asp

Of course, Mark Levin's "Drehertown" is a classic too:
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/05/mark-levin-on-dreher-frum-and-friedersdorf.html

[bishop]

Ironically Dreher, gets a mention in the book, describing her speechwriter as a crunchy con

[Mark]

Dreher needs to understand that McCain staffers did not just torpedo Sarah's campaign. They torpedoed McCain's campaign. It's called shooting yourself in the foot.

[Robert Stacy McCain]

Dreher had to beat out tough competition to get that NRP gig.

http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/11/quick-npr-needs-conservative-douchebag.html