Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Erica Payne's monkeyshines

Weekly Standard,

Left wing activist Erica Payne, founder of Agenda Project, is encouraging people to deface Paul Ryan's new book by replacing its cover jacket with one she designed for it. Apparently it is not enough to simply get your message out there, where dialogue fails you must shut down the voice of your opposition and  ridicule them in whatever mischievous manner your perverse little mind can concoct  by whatever funding and energy available to you. She falls back on the absurd "pushing grandma over a cliff" meme demonstrating again that she is flatly not listening, just talking over, now acting over, encouraging other to act over the rational voices that counter her antagonism.

That silly reindeer game is played by two or more, Little Sister.

Paul Ryan's actual book cover:


Erica Payne's bogus cover for Paul Ryan's book:


Ha ha ha, good one, Little Sister. That again. It worked so well on your dummkopfs before. We see that you're stuck. Keep it up, Little sister, you're going to be naughty stepped.

Thing is, you have a book too. A lot less imaginative, natch, so easy to mess with that hardly anybody will notice a difference. All that is needed is a home printer, a can of spray glue and a visit to the bargain bins, psssssst, stick, BLAM, new cover.

Ericka Payne's actual cover


Yuk. I do judge a book by its cover, and I can tell your book is a drag. Mine is better. This here is what you call satire. It looks so close to the original you can hardly make out a difference. Your satire is too obvious. Whereas one could honestly take this for the real cover. Not just another silly little girl act out. This took three whole minutes on account of your actual cover being so achingly unartistic. 

Bogus cover for Erica Payne's book. 


Erica designed a whole jacket, not just a glue-on defacement. See? There's Grandma again on the back, screaming in fake distress, and there's the cliff again on the inside fold. These silly things could become framable collector's items for complete FAIL. 

Ericka Payne's bogus jacket for Paul Ryan's book:


Bogus jacket for Erica Payne's book, some folding required:

9 comments:

Chip S. said...

The difference is that her book is available only via the remainder bins of independent bookstores in Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Madison, and Cambridge.

Lydia said...

Scott Johnson at Powerline is on Erica Payne's mailing list and just got another message from her about the book cover, which includes this:

Tomorrow, we are arming protestors with posters of the GRANNY COVER. We’ve already contacted local activists who are ready and willing to go. Those protestors are going to show up at every stop on the Paul Ryan book tour.

And she helpfully attaches the book tour schedule. These folks mean business.

Methadras said...

The Practical Progressive has already been written. It's called Rules for Radicals. Duh.

Amartel said...

Haha! Evolution and devolution. Perfect. It's Idiocracy. When they're done destroying private property because it frightens them they'll try to make the car go by hitting it with a stick.

"Rules for Unemployed Retards With Time on Their Hands Who Can't Think for Themselves. By Similarly Situated Typist."

rcocean said...

Chip, if I ever start a political "Dirty Tricks Department" I'll give you a call. Well done.

rcocean said...

This incident represents the difference between Right and Left. The Left loves this kind of stuff. And even after they win on an issue they still keep attacking, attacking, and attacking. Most of them love no-rules political conflict.

You only get them to stop by punching back hard enough.

bagoh20 said...

"Practical Progressive" is an oxymoron which is an 8th degree moron and leader of the lesser morons.

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Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

That is funny.