How do you know if a writer is a liberal? There are lots of clues. I am recently working through the novels of David Baldacci. He writes an entertaining story. The first couple I read I enjoyed with no qualifications but as I began to read through the different series he is working on I began to see certain patterns.
In one book he continually used the acronym ISIL instead of ISIS. As far as I know President Obama is the main one who used this term in trying to push the legitimate cause of Islam in the Middle East. ISIS stand for “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”. ISIL stands for “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant”. To geographically challenged Americans the question is, “So what?” Using the term Levant is granting that the Islamic state has a legitimate claim to the land of Israel. If you question this, Google “Levant”. When the results come up you will see some maps on the right that include Israel. When you look at the major cities of the Levant you will find Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Obama was making a political statement by his choice of words. I have to feel Baldacci was doing the same. The other possibility is he only reads the New York Times.
There are a lot of other clues. The tone he takes on issues like business, medicine and such. So far the balance between irritating liberal doggerel and a good story are coming down on the side of the story, so I will continue reading. He seems to have a theme in some of the books. He dealt with human trafficking in one. The one I am reading now seems to highlight the problems in foster care. Another dealt with secret government programs that seemed to be developing cyborg soldiers. Good topics that need to be highlighted. Somehow I don’t think he will ever deal with the Planned Parenthood scandal of selling baby body parts or the lack of credibility in the media. That would be too much to hope for but I will hope anyway.
I continue reading with my baloney meter turned on and my mind in gear.
homo unius libri
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Comments are welcome. Feel free to agree or disagree but keep it clean, courteous and short. I heard some shorthand on a podcast: TLDR, Too long, didn't read.