Dr. Helen Smith (wife of the Instapundit) received a book for review and delivered a wonderful smackdown to the publicist:
Please Take Me off Your List of Hate.
So I received this press release about a newly released book by psychologist Kirk J. Schneider Ph.D:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONTACT
Lorna Garano
510-280-5397
lornagarano@gmail.com
A Psychologist Diagnoses the Tea Party-and other extremists threatening our world. In "The Polarized Mind: Why It's Killing Us and What We Can Do about It," Kirk J. Schneider Ph.D., calls for a new and deeper psychological understanding of our greatest political and social conflicts and those who drive them.
It's easy for liberals to snicker at the misspelled signs and misplaced anger of the Tea Party, but psychologist Kirk J. Schneider says that we dismiss or diminish groups like this at our own peril. Schneider, the author of THE POLARIZED MIND: WHY IT'S KILLING US AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT (University Professor Press, 2013, paperback), has done an exhaustive study of extremist movements throughout history and he says it's time for us to look more seriously at what he calls "the polarized mind." In "The Polarized Mind: Why It's Killing Us and What We Can Do about It," Kirk J. Schneider Ph.D., calls for a new and deeper psychological understanding of our greatest political and social conflicts and those who drive them.
Dr. Smith replied with this:
Here is the reply I sent back to Lorna Garano:
How DARE YOU send me this trash associating law abiding American citizens with Nazi Germany and Maoist China. I am a psychologist who has sympathy for my fellow Americans who are so "extremist" that they believe in lower taxes and the Second Amendment. Horrors!
What is "killing us" are polarized minds like Kirk J. Schneider Ph.D who is so narrow-minded that he thinks those who have different political beliefs than himself are the enemy and seeks to assign them with a "diagnosis." What is truly extremist and scary to those of a more conservative or libertarian persuasion is that so many psychologists such as the one below are such political hacks for the Democratic Party. Please take me off your list of hate.
Helen Smith, PhD
Kirk J. Schneider Ph.D sounds like an odious little toad.
