One of the most anticipated books of the year David Kupelian's blockbuster "The Marketing of Evil" will launch nationally on Monday when WND's managing editor is a guest on both "The Sean Hannity Radio Show" and Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."
Disclamer: The terms "most anticipated" and "blockbuster" are not legally binding, and your mileage my vary.
Already receiving wide and enthusiastic acclaim, the book, published by WND Books, is subtitled "How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom."
According to "The Marketing of Evil," Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation from easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers.
I can't speak for my parents' generation as a whole, but I do know that my deeply conservative parents don't horrify as easily as what WND seems to believe.
Does that mean today's Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than previous generations? Of course not, says Kupelian. But they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.
How else to explain how "Red-State America" could be in favor of legalized abortion, civil unions, and sex education? I mean, they must be moral, values-voting people because they put Bush back in office, so the only explanation is that they are victims of a massive brainwashing campaign conducted by radicals, elitists, and John Stossel pseudo-experts.
Highly skilled marketers, playing on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity and tolerance, have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that which all previous generations since Americas founding regarded as grossly self-destructive in a word, evil.
You know, my grandparents' generation thought that miscengenation was self-destructive and evil, but now it's legal for people of different races to marry. I guess the highly skilled marketers duped us again.
In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, Kupelian peels back the veil of marketing-induced deception to reveal exactly when, where, how, and especially why Americans bought into the lies that now threaten the future of the country.
Ah, we'd believe you, WND, if last year you hadn't given us a sneak peak of the of the first two chapters, "Selling sex and corruption to your kids," and "Why today's youth culture has gone insane." So, we already know that this book is neither groundbreaking nor meticulously researched (at least, not researched by Kupelian). About half of the first two chapters are quotes from the work of other people: Patricia Hersch's book A Tribe Apart; the PBS Frontline documentary Merchants of Cool; a Rolling Stone article about "bug-chasing"; Steven Levenkron's book Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation, "Body Modification Ezine," etc. Kupelian's only contribution is the addition of over-the-top commentary, such as:
Remember in the classic, biblical epic films of the 1950s, how Sodom and Gomorrah were portrayed? Drunken men with multiple piercings and bright red robes, with one loose woman under each arm, cavorting in orgiastic revelry against a background of annoying, mosquito-like music? Maybe a bone through the nose as well?
Does anybody remember a '50s biblical epic that featured anybody with a bone in the nose?
Well now, is it just my imagination, or is there something about today's celebratory piercing and tattooing of the body, and the free sex that permeates this culture, that literally evokes the spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah? It's as though the rebellious spirit of reprobate, pagan civilizations of the past was being tapped into (dare I say "channeled"?) by today's pop culture.
Can tattooing literally conjure up (or channel) the spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah? I think we'd better get the Ghost Busters on the case to find out.
Today's youth rebellion is not only against failing parents, but against the entire adult society against the children of the 1960s cultural revolution who grew up to become their parents. Unfortunately, many of us never shook off the transforming effects of that national trauma, which birthed the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" youth counterculture, the leftist hate-America movement, the women's liberation movement and overriding all, of course, the sexual revolution.
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So we grew up to elect one of our own a traumatized, amoral sociopath of a baby-boomer named Bill Clinton. (His wife and partner-in-crime, Hillary, is the most popular Democrat in American public life today, and has a good shot at being president one day.)
And does Kupelian offer any proof of his claim that Bill Clinton is a sociopath? Well, certainly not in the first two chapters -- I guess that's what WND means by "meticulously researched."
And what proof does Kupelian offer that such self-destructive behaviors as self-mutiliaton and trying to contract AIDS are popular, widely accepted, and promoted by anybody? None. But the fact that he read articles about these practices means that society is going to hell in a handbasket. A HANDBASKET!
And presumably that's why Sean Hannity is helping to launch the book.
Anyway, the highlight of the new WND "news article" about Kupelian's book is the blurbs from famous wingnuts. Here are a few of them, along with one that I made up. See if you can spot the impostor:
"'The Marketing of Evil' is a serious wake-up call for all who cherish traditional values, the innocence of children, and the very existence of our great country." DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER, talk-show host and author
"If you really want to understand the adversary's thinking and help turn the tide of battle, read this book!" DAVID LIMBAUGH, syndicated columnist and author
"David Kupelian skillfully exposes the secular left's rotten apple peddlers in devastating detail. From pitching promiscuity as 'freedom' to promoting abortion as 'choice,' the marketers of evil are always selling you something destructive with catastrophic results. Kupelian shines a light on them all. Now watch the cockroaches run for cover." MICHELLE MALKIN, Fox News Channel
"Did you ever want to know I mean really know how and why America is being transformed from a unified, Judeo-Christian society into a divided, false, murky, neo-pagan culture? Even if you think you know the answers to those questions, in fact, especially if you think you know the answers, you must read David Kupelian's 'The Marketing of Evil.' " JOSEPH FARAH, WorldNetDaily
"David Kupelian's book is like a giant X-ray machine that exposes the atheistic, secular left's brilliant marketing campaigns aimed at seducing America away from its founding Judeo-Christian faith. If you want to know how such a thoroughly decent country as America could go so wrong so fast, you simply have to read 'The Marketing of Evil.'" -- HAL LINDSEY, columnist and best-selling author.
"MTV, teen magazines, television, and pop tarts like Britney Spears are trying to sell America on the idea that premarital sex, homosexuality, and cross-dressing are acceptable. As I detail in my book, 'Porn Generation,' these beliefs are destroying my generation. 'The Marketing of Evil' also deals with this subject." -- BEN SHAPIRO, columnist and author.
"Marketers are out to get America's youth, and they'll stop at nothing to do it. ... The game's over, folks the con men have been exposed." REBECCA HAGELIN, the Heritage Foundation
"Liberals are Satanic Nazis who want to drink the blood of your children, and David Kupelian has got their number (it's 666). 'The Marketing of Evil' must be read by every decent American, upon penalty of death." -- ANN COULTER, Noted female impersonator.
"Now we have somebody to blame for everthing we hate about the culture." SEAN HANNITY, Multi-media superstar
Anyway, The Marketing of Evil -- soon to be remaindered at an online bookstore near you.
UPDATE: Okay, maybe I fabricated more than one of the blurbs. But marketers made me!
