Review and Poll: What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, by Bill Maher

Bill Maher

Today’s book review is of “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You,” by Bill Maher

A great book for those who are not political partisans. As Maher explains, a partisan lens is counterproductive if your goal is to accurately interpret the world.

Another comedian Stephen Colbert may be right about some things (and quite funny to boot), but he was wrong when he famously said that, “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

It doesn’t.

While I lean to the left, I must admit: The empirical world is not liberal or conservative. Sometimes the right answer happens to be liberal; sometimes it happens to be conservative; and sometimes it has no home on either side of the rigid ideological divide. The world unfolds according to the immutable laws of nature and science, not the transient perceptions of politics. Leaves don’t rustle in the wind differently depending on which party controls the presidency. And political policies, events, and scandals don’t conform to the knee-jerk narratives of distant partisans.

A funny, insightful--nonpartisan--book about American politics.