Thursday, November 15, 2007

Duke Case: The Perils of PC Exposers by Michael Gaynor

Stuart Taylor, Jr. and KC Johnson are political correctness exposers. That's bad for book sales. That’s why Stuart Rojstaczer's caustic review of their masterpiece, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, is titled "A Book in Need of an Editor." An editor should have put put rape in quotation marks, but the most important things that the book lacked were a publisher that promoted the book properly, especially when it was released, and book sellers who sold instead of shunned it.

Mr. Rojstaczer pompously began his repulsive review by telling us about himself: “I'm very picky about the books that I like. Many times I'll read a glowing review of a book somewhere and after I'm finished reading the book myself will wonder, ‘What the hell was the reviewer thinking?” Sometimes the book has a good kernel of an idea and there is obviously a lot of work that has been done, but no one bothered to shape the book. If only there had been a decent editor, I think.”

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