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Somebody's Gotta Say It
Neal Boortz
HarperCollins
February 2007
On Sale: February 20, 2007
336 pages ISBN: 0060878207 EAN: 9780060878207 Hardcover
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"I've come to the conclusion that roughly 50 percent of the
adults in this country are simply too ignorant and
functionally incompetent to be living in a free society.
You might think I'm off base, but every day around half the
people in this country go out of their way to prove me
right." -from Somebody's Gotta Say It Think you've got it all figured out? Think again.
Neal Boortz - the Talkmaster, the High Priest of the Church
of the Painful Truth - has been edifying, infuriating, and
entertaining talk radio audiences for more than three
decades with his blend of straight talk and twisted humor.
Now, the author of the smash number one bestseller The
FairTax Book returns to gore every sacred cow in the
pasture, from the subversive agendas behind children's
books to the scam artists behind "High Art." In Somebody's Gotta Say It, Boortz warms up for the
coming political season with a preemptive strike in "the
War on the Individual": "The Democrats' theme for 2008 will
be 'The Common Good.' I can't speak for you, but I am an
individual. Government exists to protect my rights, not to
order my life. And I damn sure don't exist to serve
government." He takes on liberal catchphrases like giving
back ("Nobody - especially not the evil, wretched rich -
actually earns anything anymore. Why do liberals think this
way? Because they find it impossible to acknowledge that
people work for money"), our rampant civic idiocy ("We are
not a democracy. Never were. Weren't supposed to be. And we
shouldn't be"), and Big Brother ("We have smoke-free
workplaces. We have drug-free school zones. I say let's
start establishing government-free oases, where we can be
free to leave our seat belts unbuckled, and peel the labels
off anything we choose"). And somehow, along the way, he
finds room for pop quizzes, cat-chasing contests, and an
answer, once and for all, to the eternal question, "Neal,
why don't you run for president?" - in a chapter called "No
Way in Hell." Full of irresistible wisecracks and irrefutable libertarian
wisdom, Somebody's Gotta Say It is one man's response to
America at a time when the government overreaches, the
people underperform - and the truth hurts.
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