Keep Rootin’ For Putin: Establishment Pundits and the Twilight of American Competence

by Barrett Brown

"A hilarious, brilliantly crafted, full-on verbal assault on America’s pundit class. Brown shows us just how lazy, stupid, and corrupt almost of all our nation’s most beloved columnists have become. I’m now fully convinced that this entire generation of over-published bullshit artists deserve to be tasered in the face, one at a time, preferably on live television."
— Michael Hastings (1980-2013)

"The book is a knockout; a hilarious, inarguable skewering of the self-indulgent empty-headedness and hypocrisy of Friedman and various other members of establishment punditry, the strength of whose brands somehow mysteriously manages to outpace the wreckage of all their mistaken judgments."
— Barry Eisler

192 pages, ebook

First published April 15, 2014

About the author

Barrett Lancaster Brown is an American journalist, essayist and activist. He founded Project PM, a research collaboration and wiki, to facilitate analysis of the troves of hacked emails and other leaked information concerning the inner workings of the cyber-military-industrial complex.

Reviews

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Barrett Brown is an astounding writer, and I was flattered to be The Reader for the length of this book. The only downside was that the take-downs of the various columnists started to get repetitive when read one after the other. I suggest reading this in parts at breakfast to start the day off with the recommended daily value of snark.