What the (Active Verb) Is Wrong with the Right? A Fill-in-the-Blanks Game for the Rest of Us Shelby Gragg and Stefan Petrucha
P APER AC K OR IGINAL The ulti m ate party game f o r o u r times—f il l in th e b l an k s as y o u p e er in to th e loony, laughable world o f th e Righ t
A new poll suggests that one in five Americans still believe President Obama is a . noun —from What the (Active Verb) Is Wrong with the Right?
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
Includes: • Reagan on Economics • A Tea Party Rally Speech • Palin Acceptance Speech • Inside a New Texas Textbook
Gragg and Stefan Petrucha were struck by an astonishing similarity to the beloved
• Death Panels
fill-in-the-blanks games of their childhood. And so the hilarious spoof What the
• Ode to Lou Dobbs
(Active Verb) Is Wrong with the Right? was born. This laugh-out-loud parody invites readers to play a game of fill-in-the-blanks, creating 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
• A Medley of Fox Commentators • The Ann Coulter Memorial Section
touches on the greatest hits and the most outrageous misses of contemporary con-
• Medley of Congressional Floor Speeches
servative rhetoric.
• Palin’s Resignation
the heyday of Glenn and Sarah, What the (Active Verb) Is Wrong with the Right?
Including selections such as “The Ann Coulter Memorial Section,” “Ode to a Decider,” “A Beck Word Finder,” “Drill, Baby, Drill!” and “A Teabagger Fill-In,” here’s the ultimate impulse buy/graduation gift/stocking stuffer that will provide hours of cathartic and comic relief for weary liberals everywhere.
March Paperback, 978-1-59558-638-4 $12.95 / $15.50 CAN 5 3⁄16” x 8 3⁄8”, 128 pages with b&w illustrations throughout Humor/Politics
Shelby Gragg was born in the Bronx. A lifelong New Yorker, he is currently located in Boston. After working 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 vampire novel Blood Prophecy, the non-fiction Paranormal State: My Journey Into the Unknown and the parody Harry Potty and the Deathly Boring. He lives in Amherst, MA. WWW.THENEWPRESS.COM
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