Ghostreaders

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When we were in the eighth grade, a classmate did a book report on "Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." But the teacher reduced her grade when,
during her oral presentation, she said she "liked the music." He noted that
she was supposed to be giving report on a book, not a record album.

We were reminded of this by Ana Marie Cox's "review" of Sarah Palin's new
book, "Going Rogue," in yesterday's Washington Post, which includes this
astonishing disclosure:

I cannot claim to have completely read "Going Rogue"--I had
to skim the last 150 pages (or more than one-third). I only
got the thing into my hands late Monday afternoon with a
deadline of early evening. It's terrible, I know, but if I
didn't read it all, neither can Sarah Palin claim to have
completely written it.

Unless he's still alive, our eighth-grade English teacher is surely turning in
his grave at the revelation that you no longer have to read a book to review
it for one of the country's top newspapers.

--
It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.