This is some serious inside the blogosphere nonsense, but for those of you obsessed enough to get the joke, its really just too good not to pass along.
Once upon a time, conservative talking head Jonah Goldberg wrote a book called "Liberal Fascism." The thesis of the book went something like this: Hitler was a vegetarian, and so are liberals! Even before the book hit the streets, Jonah was already being fairly widely mocked. That led to this response over at NRO, which included the following lines:
My book isn't like Dinesh's latest book. It isn't like any Ann Coulter book. It isn't what the Amazon description says or what the Economist claims it is. Or what Frank Rich imagines it is. It is a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care.
That last sentence led to even more widespread mocking, but eventually it seemed to die down.
Until tonight. Tonight I got my copy of Matt Yglesias' new book, Heads in the Sand, from Amazon. After prying it from the box, I flipped it over to read the blurbs, and look what I discovered:
"A very serious, thoughtful argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care." --Ezra Klein, staff writer at The American Prospect
I don't know which I'm more impressed with: that Ezra thought to do this, that Matt had the balls to let him, or that they managed to get it all past the publisher. I mean.... wow.
Anyway, I'll read the book this weekend and get back to you with a review some time next week.
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