Word: zeitchik
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...chapter, "How to Talk to Your Conservative Brother-in-Law"--than in whipping up their own berserkers. At heart, the anger business is show business, which is why it's been so kind to comics like Franken and showmen like Limbaugh. "What you have," says Publishers Weekly editor Steven Zeitchik, "is the marrying of the interest in political books with the culture of celebrity." Even the noncomedians in the bunch use the tropes of comedy and show biz: sarcasm, hyperbole and shock. Britney kissing Madonna, Coulter saying we should convert Muslims and kill their leaders--hey, it's all publicity...
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