Mind and Media Book Review - Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!

Again, it's an honor to be able to review another book under the banner of Mind and Media. As I read Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed I was looking forward to a book that I'd feel comfortable sharing with my children or at a minimum, to help explain what liberalism is to them. Instead, I got a re-hash of what Rush Limbaugh was doing back in 1988, only Rush did/does it much better. I didn't find the book very funny and I'm not a big fan of sterotypes. This book was all about taking stereotypes of liberals and taking the liberal ideas to the extreme. I have friends that are liberal and I'd be embarrassed to let them see this book. Not because it's offensive, but because it's so absurd as to not even be relevant.

This book is not for children unless you want to teach them absurd stereotypes and an "us" vs. "them" mentality. Are there liberals that want to tax us too much, or remove all references to God, or overregulate? Of course there is but going to absurdities isn't going to help the conservative cause. I also don't want my kids developing a hate towards other people and to turn everything into "us" vs. "them". I work with many different types of people and plenty of them are liberals and they work their butt off. They are good people but I believe they are wrong on many issues. So what! Let's discuss things but let's keep it clean. If they aren't fair it doesn't give us license to do the same to them.

I put off writing this review for almost two months because I knew, that if I'm to be honest, that I'd have to write a very negative review. I hate having to do this but it is my job as an honest broker. I'm sure the author, Ketharine DeBrecht (a pen name), has good intentions but this is not the language I want to use with my kids or with my friends.

Posted by Tim at February 26, 2006 09:41 PM