President Me Preview Edition: The America That's In My Head (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
So you have to understand that Adam Carolla is terrible...right? I mean, you have to sort of get over the fact that he's despicable; maybe you have a lasting fondness for him because of the years and years you listened to him on Love Line when you were a teenager. Then you grew up and stumbled across his morning radio show during your commute and found yourself listening in just to see if maybe, just maybe, you'd find some of his crap funny (which you sometimes did). Then he disappeared from radio and who the hell has the time to dig up his podcast so you grab his books from time to time when they show up at the local library. It is much harder to suspend your dislike when you're faced with Carolla's written word versus his charismatic radio voice. This book (like so many of his works) lays out his long, angry, anti-woman, racist, objectifying, privileged, white guy whining in plain text and you know, it's just not all that terribly clever or insightful. Instead, it's sad and weird and outdated like that odd, libertarian, uncle you have to invite over for holidays. Sure, you might find yourself nodding a long a bit ('airplanes! What a hassle...') but then the rest of the pile is so heinous and over the top that it discredits any real, intellectual, logical argument he might make. From The Overweight to the Hispanic, no one is spared...and really, life is too short to waste time on reading a gazillion pages of one man's bitterness and complaining. Another entertaining book by Adam Carolla. He is honest, frank and will say a lot of things that everyone secretly agrees with even if they are too chicken to say or even admit to themselves that they are true. He, therefore, also says a lot of things that could make people angry, resentful or offended. He even points out how people are too easily offended about things and criticizes everyone for not being willing to face real problems because you might hurt someones feelings. This is very true and politicians are the guiltiest of this. You can't stay in power if you try and tell people they are wrong or they need to do things that they don't want to do. Instead, they tell people what they want to hear and give them things they don't deserve just to stay in power. Meanwhile the whole country goes downhill. Though some of his ideas are outrageous or impossible, many of his thoughts are rooted in reality, unlike any other president on either side of the fence for the past few decades. I'd be very tempted to vote for Mr. Carolla if he ever did choose to run.
What do You think about President Me Preview Edition: The America That's In My Head (2014)?
Same rants as on his podcast but it's hard to disagree with the ace man. Enjoyable and funny
—shirosakura
