Wonkette Gets 'Rourked

P.J. O'Rourke says Ana Marie Cox should keep her day job.

Whoops, too late!

Comments

[Downtown Lad]

So she should keep blogging instead of taking $500,000 for book deal?

And you call yourself a Republican????

[Malcontent]

No, you call me a Republican. I call me "libertarian/centrist-to-right-leaning."

[Josh]

Mal, no offense, but this is old news. A few weeks old.

[Malcontent]

The O'Rourke review was just three days ago.

[Jack Malebranche]

I'm not a Wonkette reader, but that sort of scathing review says a lot more about the reviewer than the product. It had 'self-involved snob with a juvenile axe to grind' written all over it. Either that, or Wonkette really did write the very worst book ever written, which I find hard to believe. I always assumed those are the ones on sale at the grocery store.

[Craig Ranapia]

DL:

No, if Cox got offered half-a-million she should take it with both hands. It just would have been nice if she'd written a decent books, because - as O'Rourke quite rightly pointed out - it's not as if good Washington novels, espcially those with a satirical bent, are exactly spilling off the proverbial five-foot shelf.

Anyway, as Samuel Johnson wisely observed, "To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace." And in our fucked out culture, a tsunami of bad reviews (or winning the Nobel Prize) can be the best thing for a mediocre book - just ask James Frey, Brett Easton Ellis, Jay McInnery or Toni Morrison.