Sunday, August 3, 2014

Info-novel

Lou Dobbs an James O Born have collaborated on a novel, Border War.

At least it's in the fiction section of my local library.

One doesn't get far into the book until one begins to sense that not all is quite right (as in correct). On page 12 there's this: "...where would you be if not here..." "At home watching Bill O'Reilly."

Huh?

Then there's the "popular TV host" who "drives both parties nuts" a newly elected Senator from Texas who is the child of immigrants and who "loves the sound of her own voice..." is "educated and knew the subjects [of terrorism and immigration] from all angles."

Guess who those two are supposed to be in "real" life.

The border problems are serious. There is no serious treatment of them in the first 44 pages.

It's a shame. The story itself is interesting, but Dobbs and Born have couched it in right wing blather about the inefficiencies of the FBI and Homeland Security and government in general.

It's in Info-novel. It's self-aggrandizing and facile in its criticisms.

Is Dobbs even on TV anymore?

If you finish it, let me know who won.

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