Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden.
The blurbs kinda threw me--Michael Moore and Arianna Huffington, Ann Coulter and Al Franken. The last asked that his blurb be as far from Coulter's as possible. That might have been the funniest thing in the book.
I thought the whole thing was going to be a take-off on WWII posters, like the title one (when the object of the preposition was Hitler). But different wars need different posters.
At first I didn't see the Libertarian stuff that annoys RDC about him--I didn't know anything about him but "Politically Incorrect," which I never watched, and why he was fired. He seemed to understand the social contract, which seems to be generally absent from the Libertarian mindset. ("Which should the government tell me to wear a seatbelt? It's my life!"--"Because if you die or are injured, society has to pick up your slack. Because you don't live in isolation. Because no one is an island.") He admires JFK's speech on asking not what your country can etc. He understands that individual actions have worldwide consequi.
I agree with him that They hate us because we don't even know why They hate us, that the States commits violence by negligence on the rest of the world, and that the States hasn't been as obviously violent in its domination as previous powers have been. I also think the last is meaningless, because you cannot compare 20th century America even to 19th-century Britain, let alone any earlier power. I said this of war but it's true of superpowers as well: that the point of earlier wars is to make subsequent wars less necessary.
I also agree that we're so paralyzed by political correctness that we apply the same precautions to tottering grannies as to the demographic that's actually done harm. I cannot agree with him--and here is where the Libertarianism reared its ugly head--that we must have security at any cost and that security is government's only function.
Overall he was more left than I intended to find him. He illustrated how sense and dissent both are now vilified and I hope by his format made himself accessible to the apathetic.