Thanks to the generosity of Crown Publishing, I have a signed hardback of Chris Hayes’ new book, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy for some fortunate member of the BJ commentor community.
Your comment here will be your entry. Only one entry per commentor, please, because if you post more than one I’ll have to eliminate you from the pool. Doesn’t have to be a “good” comment—Pick me or Mine or Yes is fine, if you’re not feeling inspired. Newbies welcome (although, as per usual, if you haven’t commented here before WordPress will hold your comment for ‘moderation’ until one of the frontpagers approves it, so do NOT disqualify yourself with a string of why?why?why! follow-ups).
Around this time tomorrow evening, Tuesday, I’ll use a random-number generator, and the person whose comment matches that random number wins the book.
Any questions, you can either put them in your ONE comment, or email me at AnneLaurie @ verizon.net (click on my name in the ‘Contact’ list to the right for a direct link).
Good luck, and—GO!
Poopyman
What? “No comments”? It’s mine, I tell you!
TimE
Lame comment, but I’d love to read the book on this now unemployed teacher’s salary.
Linnaeus
Here is my awesome comment.
AliceBlue
Pick me! Pick me!
Reklam
I’d actually rather win the BJ Euro 2012 bracket.
Raven
A waku wuka
Kristine
::raises hand::
Memememememememememe!
Old Dan and Little Ann
I want it to give to my father in law. He needs a good head explosion.
Nicole
Do the elites sparkle?
La Caterina
me too, I’m in.
HRA
Me me me!
Villago Delenda Est
If I don’t win this contest, I will vote for Rmoney.
Cripes, no one is buying this. Screw it.
Linda
Hello
Yutsano
QUACK!!
Downpuppy
Dieoff starts in 8 years. Might as well read the last gasp of the old order, thinking that stopping total kleptocracy can bring back Hope.
Misha
My wife is testing a recipe for coconut chocolate stout pancakes and all I got was the rest of the Rogue Ale.
dmsilev
First! Wait. No. 14th?
beltane
Consider this my very official prize entry. Not as much fun as buying a Wonka Bar, but whatever.
Julia Grey
Enter me, please!
BGinCHI
If I win this book I’m going to Bobo’s house and I’m going to whack him good with it.
I assume he lives in Dickville, NJ.
geg6
ME! ME! ME!
MikeJ
Why do birds suddenly appear every time I am near?
jwb
I’m in.
pragmatism
Like all commie libruls, I believe in the power of free stuff.
Entitle this, bitchez!
smintheus
Why not give it to the 99th commenter?
reflectionephemeral
Pick me, please!
Mike Furlan
I’d like the book, please.
marian
oooh, oooh,pick me! pick me!
Clark Stooksbury
Now what were the rules again?
Chris
Its mine I tells ya! Mine all mine!
Sentient Puddle
I like pea soup.
elftx
you may well ask me what is my theory. … Well, this is what it is — my theory that I have, that is to say, which is mine…
Mr Stagger Lee
Oh I thought the other thread was the contest, come on hook a brother up. Anyway I see the Nobel Prize Committee has decided to cut the cash prizes 20%! Well screw them and I was to unveil my secret of atmospheric physics using mentos alka seltzer and Pabt’s Blue Ribbon, believe me it would make Einstein’s theory of relativity look like Seseme Street, screw em I says!
Tokyokie
Why? Why? Why?
Warren Terra
This is my pro-forma comment. It is guaranteed to win. Guaranteed, I tell you.
Halcyan
Ahem… cough cough
mi mi mi mi mi
Thank you.
Snowwy
Not gonna beg. Noooot gonna beg. Just gonna pray. :)
LM
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” Eleanor Roosevelt
Cap'n Magic
Roman Unemployment Dispenser: “Occupation?”
Comicus: “Stand-up Philosopher.”
Roman Unemployment Dispenser: “oh, a Bullshit Artist!”
Johnny Coelacanth
I will gladly accept this book as a small token of appreciation for all the quiet lurking I have done over the years.
andy
Commenty-comment. I was actually looking for this the other day (because Penny Red was waving it around on her twitter and I decided I wanted one too) and it would be sweet should I find myself the Chosen One.
gnomedad
In, please.
genghisjon
Brrrrrrrrrriiiiinnnnggggg,yep yep yep.
GWB
Pick me! Pick me!
Arclite
I like Hayes’ show, even though I don’t watch it much. He’s smart and tackles important issues.
Dave
Hey, I could always use another book to read.
TEL
Pick Me!!
piratedan
excelsior!
tom
I would like to read Twilight of the elites please.
Boudica
Mine, mine, mine!
John O
Subtitle: “It’s Too Late, Anyway.”
Aredubya
I’m just excited to get the chance to own a book signed by leader of the Fabulous Freebirds, Michael “PS” Hayes! Oh wait, wrong dude. Sounds good anyhow.
Bostondreams
I am intrigued by this author, and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
Tony
Gimme gimme!
Omnes Omnibus
Mememememe!
NancyDarling
Charlie Pierce has a particularly delicious take down of one of the self-professed “elites”, Sally Quinn, among others.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/sally-quinn-social-climber-9617160
As for Chris Hayes, I want his book, but I can’t forgive him for being married and a father. I wanted him for my daughter.
MikeInSewickley
I’ll read anything that is written by someone who knows that “class warfare” isn’t just a slogan if it is really happening.
So add me to the list of wanna reads…
Kevin Schultz
Yes
transientseeker
Just read his article in The Nation. Looking forward to reading his book!
catpal
me me me! I am looking forward to reading this book.
Jeffraham Prestonian
Me! I love cats! :)
.
Brian S
I had the banana whiffle bat and wheeeeeed until the cow.
Insomniac
Gimme!!
Joseph Nobles
Welp.
Merrily
I’d like the book, but I really long for the breakfast foods no one eats on his show.
blackfrancis789
The LA Kings are going to win the Stanley Cup. Winning this book would be a consolation prize of epic proportions.
Ruckus
@HRA:
Beat me to it.
Oh what the hell.
ME! ME! ME!
Chris Whitehead
Twilight? I hope he’s right about that. And I want to read it to make sure.
Spaghetti Lee
Nyarp.
JGabriel
Count me in.
Southern Beale
I never win anything.
M-Pop
Hi, I like Chris Hayes would actually read this book! Hoowah!
bemused senior
May the Fates pick me.
Dand
Say what?
Scuffletuffle
Moi?
cdmarine
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you, but I get the feeling that you don’t like it. What’s with all the screaming? You like monkeys. You like ponies. Maybe you don’t like monsters so much? Maybe I used too many monkeys. Isn’t it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?
Steeplejack
Not interested.
Kitty
I’m in!
maya
I hope it’s tall enough to prop up my three legged tortoise.
Kanamit
I am not feeling inspired.
Adam
Yay! I’m the wiener!
PJ
yes, please
RoonieRoo
Yoohoo! Pick me random number generator God.
The Dangerman
It’s either win this book to read or dig into my porn collection.
Valdivia
el pueblo unido jamas sera vencido
:)
Beeb
Yes, please.
chmatl
I want this book!
The prophet Nostradumbass
Me, Please.
Ed Drone
Me, too, two.
Ed
Cassidy
Front page this.
jayboat
I’m in.
HelpThe99ers
VICTORY!
(Oh. Wait…)
Umm… I can haz books naow?
Wiesman
Part of me wants to insult everyone individually in this thread on the off chance that at least one or two will respond and disqualify themselves and increase my odds incrementally, but it’s not the part of me in charge of typing.
This is my entry.
Earl
Hoping for some random love here…
Leslie
Oh random number generator, match me!
Karmicjay
Yes!
Sal
I spent all my money on an iPad, could use a free book. Although my comments are infrequent, they’re always pithy and trenchant.
arguingwithsignposts
Me!
kwAwk
me.
r€nato
free book me me me me!
Sagan
Love Chris Hayes!
Alison
If I win, I’ll get to take my already-signed book to his signing in SF on my birthday and ask him to add “P.S. Happy birthday to my most awesomest viewer ever”.
Or maybe just “happy birthday”. :)
Yay me!
Jamobey
I’m watching GI Joe cartoons.
marcopolo
I’d love to get this book so I could read it then pass it along to my friends! Thanks for the opportunity to get it.
Devon
I am quite sure that i am in the 99% of peeps who will get this book. Signed nonetheless. Wtf I say!
TG Chicago
I would like the book. Best of luck to all!
robertdsc-PowerBook
Tunch iz King!
ExurbanMom
I would love to read this book, thanks for passing it on to your commentariat!
Matthew Reid Krell
So she went into the garden
to cut a cabbage-leaf
to make an apple-pie;
and at the same time
a great she-bear, coming down the street,
pops its head into the shop.
What! no soap?
So he died,
and she very imprudently married the Barber:
and there were present
the Picninnies,
and the Joblillies,
and the Garyulies,
and the great Panjandrum himself,
with the little round button at top;
and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can,
till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
redheadedfemme
I’d love to have the book, but man that is one weird cover.
Jared
I worship David Brooks! Just kidding :)
Jade Jordan
Dang…Back of the bus again!
Dee Loralei
My 50th bday is this week, and I’m feeling lucky! LOL
PurpleGirl
Well, why not try…
JR
“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”
-Mitt Romney
gbear
Wait. How does this work when you’ve already posted this contest about four threads back? There’s going to be two comments for every number.
Randiego
Do you want my address now?
JoyChan
Oh, why not try?
Bobby D
Pimpshack Cadillac and a shout out to my meaningless comments up in this mutha brotha.
Kris Collins
“I want it, I want it, I want it–YOU CAN’T HAVE IT!” But I still want it.
jeffreyw
This is my lucky number.
Bnut
Your mom wants the book.
Harry Lane
I’d like to read Hayes’ book.
Mary
What if I promise to pass the book around to the other lurkers when I am done? I would share if I was randomly chosen. ;-)
polyorchnid octopunch
I’d be interested. :)
sacrablue
I’ll try this, but I never win anything, ever.
feebog
If the Audi A5 Cabriolet is already taken, I will settle for the book.
karen marie
Oooh, please pick me!
tomjoad
Yes please!
SteveLS
I’d love to get the book.
LongHairedWeirdo
All you obots and bush-haters should – oh, damn it, I can’t do it, even as a joke :-).
hrprogressive
I love Chris Hayes’ opinions and his ability to speak clearly and concisely. But holy FUCK I wish they didn’t put his show on so Godawful early in the morning.
Some of us sleep in on the weekends, ya know? Idiots.
Steeplejack
@gbear:
Here is what she said in the previous thread:
This is your entry in this thread. But don’t reply to me or you’ll disqualify yourself!
Kristin
I love Chris Hayes. So pick me, please.
Fallsroad
This comment is 97% content free.
Big Wayne
Please, please for the love of God, pick me! Pick me! Pick meeeeee!!!!!
amk
If it ‘s a book about tunch, I’m in. Otherwise, I don’t give a shite.
brantl
I think Chris Hayes is either the best host on TV, or the second best. I bet that he and Rachel Maddow never miss each others shows.
Kathy in St. Louis
I really like Chris Hayes. That said, I’m certain that he’ll be under attack by the right for something foolish again soon. They really, really don’t like smart people.
Served
Even if I don’t win, I might snatch this for Kindle to read on the bus to work…and then rage at our out of control “meritocracy”.
Z
Yay to commenting.
ZW
Book???
Tsukune
OOK!
Ron
I hope your random number generator likes prime numbers. that would increase my chances of you picking me!
cckids
Hi, want. Thanks!!
muddy
Chris Hayes is so great. Yes, it’s early. I dvr it just in case. Never miss it.
zombie rotten mcdonald
Scott Walker is a douche-canoe.
gorram
I think it’s very interesting how douche has essentially become a prefix in modern American English (and potentially other English dialects too?). Especially since that prefix holds all the semantic weight (emphasizing that the person is awful, full of themselves, and otherwise “not good”), while the root of the word (bag, nozzle, canoe, etc) essentially contributes nothing other than a word to gain the prefix.
freemark
I’m in it to win it.
Laura
Thanks for the opportunity!
tofubo
since yer gonna have 736 replies, the random.org generator says it’s gonna be 400
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers: 400
Timestamp: 2012-06-12 03:04:41 UTC
i’m s.o.l. @ #146 then
Vodkamuppet
Sweet, sign me up. I’ll take any free swag I can get, actually liking Chris Hayes is a huge bonus.
PZ
In the Game of Signed Books by Chris Hayes, you either win or you die…
JJ
Winner winner chicken dinner
Klaus Kinky
I love the night life. I got to boogie.
WaterGirl
I am a big fan of Chris Hayes. Way better than Rachel. Book, please.
phantomist
If he is the guy who played Ted Striker, I’m in.
danielx
Nice to see the book, although it’s not exactly news.
RalfW
I’m ready. I’m steady. (sort of).
So, go random number generator, go!
Ben H.
It’s been 9 years since I won anything. Should be about time.
nickgb
C’mon, random number generator!
Quincy
This gives me an excuse to delay ordering the book for another 24 hours.
scav
Always in for reading material.
Scout211
random, random, random, random, ME, random, random, random, random . . .
gussie
156 for the win.
ETA: Dammit. Apparently I want Scout211 to win.
Michele
Pretty Please?
freelancer
The dilemma of watching Chris Hayes’s show UP is that you will come away having learned a lot, but inevitably feeling DOWN.
Pick me.
Hill Dweller
@WaterGirl: Hayes invites too many wingers with no absolutely credibility on his show. If he would rhetorically slap down their bullshit, the presence of wingnuts would be justifiable, but he usually just lets them get away with their lies.
Melissa Harris Perry does the same thing. In fact, her show has been a huge disappointment.
Ben Cisco
here’s mine.
ItAintEazy
Tits.
Clime Acts
Everything about Balloon Juice is perfect just the way it is.
Michael Bramel
Want book.
brettvk
I love random numbers, but they hasn’t paid off yet for me. Which I suppose is the point…
Kay (no, not that one)
Please may I have Chris’s book? I promise to share it with my husband, who claims still to be a Republican, although he hasn’t voted for one in at least 30 years, and believes most of the current batch to be treasonous traitorous twits.
Anyway, we love Chris Hayes and watch his show whenever it is raining, or the temperature is not predicted to be above 90 degrees before noon (the garden, you know).
Also I have sons around his age. I could be his mother. Doesn’t a mother deserve a copy of her son’s book?
That is all.
Karen
Me want. I am reduced to babytalk.
Reno Rick
Pick me cause I said so!
Both Sides Do It
1, 2, 1 2 3 YEAH
Inslumnational underground thunder pounds when I stomp the ground (hooo)
Like a million elephants and silver back orangutangs you can’t stop the train
Who want some? Don’t come unprepared I’ll be there but when I leave there better be a household name
Hello, ghetto, let your brain breathe, believe there’s always more, ahhhhh!
Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog
Random just wants to be friends!
mapaghimagsik
Comment!
Jim C
Hero
lahke
My turn, please.
patrick II
I’m in.
Mary Brown
Yes is fine.
H.P. Wren
bloop!
mclaren
The notion that scoring people by tests or credentials involves “meritocracy” is hilarious. Actual meritocracy involves identifying excellence. Automated systems, computer-scored 4-bubble tests, and numerically averaged GPAs can’t do that. Only a human can reliably identify actual excellence.
Jeffro
How about me?
Snarki, child of Loki
ONE comment, as requested.
Does the book have blueprints for a guillotine? Because that would be awesome. And apropos.
danimal
@Wiesman: Shove it, jackass.
The book is mine.
jon
Twice a year, they hang as equals. Those times are the Scrotumnal Equinoxes.
It’s a well-known fact!
eldorado
i’m in.
bitches.
Ed Dane Defender of Donuts
Although it may be admirable to approach the issue of meritocracy, most people would rather use the topic to score free swag or at least something to read while taking the shuttle bus to the airport.
Wag
Twilight without vampires. How Novak.
Mary G
Hope springs eternal
The Other Chuck
memememememememememememeMEEEEEEE
leinie
As the LA Kings know tonight, winning is schweet!
Peter
Pick me!
Triumph
Why hello thar book, get in my totebag
dp
If I don’t win the book, I’ll probably buy it. Hope that doesn’t disqualify me!
celticdragonchick
I want a book. Gimme a book.
ImJohnGalt
Thanks. Pick me!
snetzky
Sign me up
That Other Mike
Give me a goddamn book already, you fucking fuck. And maybe when I have it I can use it to shoo away the goddamn cat engaged in OccupyMyLap – she is Tunch Lite and thus a fat bastard.
So give me a goddamn book already!
Glen
Pick me…
Calimatt
Comment!
Turgidson
Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo
LT
Oz allowed? (If so – this here’s my entry.)
suekzoo
I’m feeling lucky.
Parmenides
I love books, I do I do I do.
kramarch
Long time lurker. First time commenter.
NotQuiteYetThatQuiet
Sure, I want to read it. I am feeling I need to be more outraged. Sigh.
wmd
did I win?
Make7
Who is Chris Hayes?
PookapookaP
Hereʻs my entry.
MjOregon
Oh, awesome random number generator – please choose mine!!!
Gus diZerega
How can I not want to be included in this? I hope I get it.
But whoever the Gods choose.
Gus
Ben
201st!
BrendanL79
Oh boy! Hope I win!
Uriel
Eh, why not…
catdevotee
I’d love a signed copy, but I’ll probably have to buy a regular copy from Amazon.
slag
I, for one, welcome our new unmeritocratic overlords. The only place to go from here is up.
Also, Chris Hayes seems to have a pretty decent show, relatively speaking.
Jon O
Watching the Mad Men finale right now. Previously: bad things. Next: everyone is doomed.
Jon O
Watching the Mad Men finale right now. Previously: bad things. Next: everyone is doomed.
Zagloba
I will consider winning this book as my dessert for DVRing and then watching every damn episode of UP since it came on the air.
bumper
here goes nothin…
IrishGirl
Count me in!
Soylent Green
Screw you guys, I’m going home.
newnumbertwo
This comment is straight out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.
andrewsomething
Don’t mind if I do….
cbear
me, me, me…..
Unsympathetic
Everyone on this thread should watch the movie at http://urokomovie.com
For example: World War 1 was not started by the assassination of some Serbian leader. This should be obvious.. who really cares about Serbia? Their GDP is 2/3 of New Hampshire. The important thing, however, was that oil had recently been discovered in Iran and Iraq – and Germany planned to build a railroad thru Turkey down to the Gulf. This couldn’t happen. If you think this is false, research the destination of the first British regiment sent overseas in World War 1.. Basra.
George
Comment. Pithy.
Desert Rat
I’m in.
Batocchio
Gotterdammerung!
pete
Ribeye pancetta pork shankle salami. Hamburger pastrami tenderloin venison pig, strip steak turkey boudin flank ribeye. Beef venison turkey spare ribs, bacon jowl bresaola. Cow bresaola beef ribs, pork belly ham pastrami ribeye meatball shank capicola short ribs jerky frankfurter brisket. Bacon tenderloin ball tip frankfurter biltong chicken beef ribs kielbasa.
Carl Nyberg
I’ve been working on an idea that part French Revolution, part a modest proposal, part prisoner’s dilemma and takes advantage of the new powers government has “enemy combatants” and the like.
It involves cruise ships, the U.S. Navy and borrow “there can be only one” from the movie Highlander.
If I win I’ll read the book until my ADD kicks in.
DaddyJ
Meka leka hi, meka hiney ho!
thundermonkey
Can I get a digitally signed file for my e-reader instead?
natthedem
I’m in.
John T
I never win swag giveaways but I’ll leave a comment here regardless.
scooter
Post punk Tucker Carlson
Elizabelle
Kicking myself on passing on Maddow’s Drift.
In for a dime, in for … a free book.
Drc
Chris Hayes is okeydokey
Pseudonym
valeofglamorganconservatives
Also, clear out your spam word list!
cthulhu
Already pre-ordered the Kindle edition but a signed copy would be nice.
SiubhanDuinne
I would be honored to win this book. But I have to confess, I’d laugh and laugh if the random number generator decided to pick a notorious troll.
Frances Rath
Sounds like a great, yet somewhat depressing read. Thanks, and enjoy your day!
FlipYrWhig
I remember when Chris Hayes was starting out as a guest on talk shows, it seemed like everything he said began with “Yeah!” But our little Christopher is all grown up now!
max
Since I’ve been bitching about our elites, specifically using the phrase ‘elites’ (did you know using the word ‘elites’ to describe any ruling group comes from archaeology? Using it that way avoids the kind of political judgements that might be implied by phrases such as ‘ruling class’. And now they even use the word on the back nine when they’re watching out for the black helicopters.) at least since Comrade Cole was a Republican, I would enjoy a free book explaining my thesis to me.
max
[‘That was random, wasn’t it? But was it random enough?’]
joes527
I do not want this book.
Loneoak
Good thing this blog isn’t a meritocracy.
Jay
Count me in.
megamahan
Book, please. Thanks!
decitect
noone expects the Random Inquisition!
jordanb
I’m excited about this book. I hope Chris gets some better hours for his tv show.
Xenos
” “
TheMightyTrowel
nom nom nom peanut butter and dates for lunch
hells littlest angel
I thought the word was “l33ts.”
Tony J
“Spasm” – I really like that word.
Brachiator
Is that the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate on the cover of the book, picking me?
Rachel in Portland
Me! Pick me! Also, I deserve it.
Janus Daniels
Pick me or Mine or Yes
Thor Heyerdahl
Well, shit…better late than never.
Joey Maloney
BuddhaBuddhaBuddha
not motorik
Your mom is in college.
moonmullins
maybe too late, but sure I want a free book if its coming my way
JoeC
Book Please !
Belcarra
50 Shades of the Elites
Bock Bock Bagock
Thanks for the contest. Chris Hayes is terrific.
Amir Khalid
It should be no contest. I am clearly the one who most deserves a free autographed copy of Twilight of The Elites. Especially since I am dying to know what happens to Bella and Edward after Breaking Dawn.
Kane
Yes, please!
269. 269. 269…
JoyceH
Me want book.
auntieeminaz
Let it be me!
montanareddog
Jeez, the red on the book cover is dazzling on my PC
moderateindy
Technically, can it really be a random number generator since it is given parameters within which to pick? Seriously, this proposition confuses me. For instance, slot machines supposedly use random number generator algorithms to assure security, but since they have a set payout percentage over the life of the machine how can it actually be random?
See Cole you ain’t the only one that stays awake into the wee hours contemplating crap that doesn’t matter
Swellsman
Big fan of Chris Hayes.
kdaug
Me.
Sinnach
I ordered Rachel Maddow’s book about two months ago but Barnes and Noble decided I needed the audiobook version instead. I’m still waiting for the paper-bound copy to make its way here.
I wouldn’t mind a second good read.
Halcyon
Yay! Books!
Phoenician in a time of Romans
First!
(there’s a really slow connection here)
sfbay
Window
c u n d gulag
283 people ahead of me?
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!
I feel like I showed up at the Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant just ahead of closing time, but right after the bus from the Fat Farm’s pulled out.
Well, looks like my unemployed ass’ll have to read Chris Hayes’ great new book the old fashioned way: get in another line – this time, at the public library!
Oh well…
SpaceSquid
If I win this book, I will eat it. After seasoning it, obviously; I’m not weird.
Napoleon
I need a summer read!
Celia
I have a huge crush on Chris Hayes. I’d love for him to use his fast talking brilliant rhetoric on me but I know he’s married with a beautiful baby, an amazing wife. I’m happily married with two kids of my own in college;also, too have a brilliant sweet liberal talker for my own, but still…. A girl can dream. It’s the glasses and the enthusiasm and the confidence he project that he knows he’s right. What a turn on especially when I agree with it
13th Generation
Moar books please!
whitney
Here
Liberal Sandlapper
Okay, here ya go.
Patricia Kayden
Too late?
donovong
Me!! Me!!
barbara
Please.
Schlemizel
Thinking it is twilight for the elites may be whistling past the graveyard. They are still in ascendancy. Once they have gutted the 99% they will start cutting each others throats and that hasn’t started yet.
limehelper
okayyyy ! What ??
Xboxershorts
Pick me, Pick Me!
Josie
Hope springs eternal.
ned
Gimme gimme gimme.
abo gato
Pick my number, random number generator!
'Niques
Here’s my comment.
MBL
Bleb.
Lance Boyle
Chris Hayes is the best thing on T.V., and my penis is enormous.
t jasper parnell
Do I have to read it if I win?
Ohioan
Last thing I need is another book, but here I go…
Ronzoni Rigatoni
I wannit I wannit I wannit (throws self onna floor; kicks feet)
chopper
Oh yeah, pick me
JPL
It’s an honor to be considered for this great gift.
Phylllis
Too early in the morning to be clever; would love to win this though.
Lance Boyle
Moderation in all things, except comments. i meant to say, “Pennis, anyone?”
Sarah
I like books
Suezboo
Yay for Chris Hayes!
ryk
Looks like a good read. I’m in.
celiadexter
I want Chris!
Eileen
Book sounds fascinating.
gelfling545
Eliterdammerung? Who will write the score?
dan
comment
befuggled
Oooh! Pick me!
Horse dave
Mine
Knight of Nothing
I like books, and they like me, I like books, just wait and see…
Jimbo
Count me in!
iLarynx
Why not me?
Dr. Omed
Better odds than Lotto. I’m in.
B W Smith
Chris Hayes’ show rocks!
Mino
Kthug and Chris Hayes in the same season. Think somebody’s worried?
Neech
Count me in
Proudhon
I NEED this book!
Bex
Thank you in advance.
Spring Texan
What fun! Have to agree that the cover is weird, but I’d enjoy getting the book :-)
I love prizes though the best things I’ve ever won are a Black and Decker work-mate and tools and a vacuum cleaner and (perhaps best of all) $50 cash from Hamburger Helper in 1981 or so when I’d just been let go from a temporary job.
Free prizes are a lovely imitation of grace, which I don’t believe in in a supernatural sense, but do believe in in an experience-of-life sense.
I’ve known people who won: a car, a mink coat, another car, free carpet, well that’s about it actually :-) Always thought I’d win a car sometime in my adult life, but hasn’t happened and I’m over 60 now, still waiting. But a book would be NICE!
Joy to whoever wins!
Keith G
My two kitties meow when they see Chris Hayes.
So do I.
Kate in TX
Yes please
Redshift
cynosurescence
I’m in!
auntie beak
ooo, me, me, me. i love free stuff.
maurinsky
in
+Roger Burgess
In like Flynn. I get up early and fight with my three year old to watch his morning show.
Old Fogey
If I don’t win the book, can I at least get that foam hand on its cover as a runner-up? I promise to wear it pointing down at all times.
Corbin Dallas Multipass
MOAR GRAVY CINDERELLA
Will Valverde
Yay.
Marek
I’m pretty sure I don’t already have this book.
tybee
what?
Chris
Yippee-ki-yay.
Joy
Oh please, please please, pick me!
jayackroyd
way too late, but if you don’t win the book, buy the book. i’m about halfway through, and it is pithy, precise and spot on.
handsmile
My tarot card reader assures me that this will be the winning number.
Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
I’d like one o’ them books…
Alchemist
Given the number of times I’ve seen him plug the book on Up, I feel I am (nearly) owed a copy.
Chukwu
I want to go to there… Hayes is a solid television host and an excellent writer.
gorillagogo
Yes please!
Smiling Mortician
I would read that book.
realbtl
Why not.
diakron
Hooray for whatever number this is!
David Hunt
Okay, I’m in.
j
Okey-doke.
terraformer
Commented. Hayes is a breath of fresh air!
Chris
Gimme! =)
James Hulsey
Insert witty comment here.
RL
Me like win. Also, too, the great Ronald Reagan.
I'd like a free book!
Yes, please.
Waldo
What a coincidence — free is my price point.
ralphdibny
[insert witty comment here]
All Belly
I like books!
EIGRP
This is my comment.
Does editing a comment still count as one?
Eric
Rusty
Won $300 at a blackjack table last week. I’m on a roll.
TOP123
No Coffee = No creativity; sorry!
Michael Demmons
I’d love the book. Will this drawing be monitored by, say, PriceWaterhouseCoopers or something?
Swishalicious
By the powers of Tunch and Rosie combined, Oden, grant me this awesome book!
(I left Lilly out – she wouldn’t be involved in such a naked bleg)
socratic_me
+1
WereBear
By the powers of Greyskull!
McWaffle
Come on lucky number 365.
bemused
I love Chris Hayes. That is all.
someofparts
well, the odds don’t look good, but yeah, I’ll bite too
jp7505a
I’LL TRY MY LUCK
Mayken
Me, me, me!
Ruviana
I want to read this books so here’s my comment!
El Kabong
How can I possibly not win?
jheartney
Ah, a Platonia Dilemma! I’m sure you’ll all believe me when I say I rolled an n-sided die and came up with a “1”!
mazareth
Me please!
Soprano2
Pick me, please!!
Jennifer
I can haz book?
Neldob
So I don’t have to say something pungent? Socialize the costs and privatize the profits!
matryoshka
I would like to win that book. I would read that book. Yes, I would.
exlitigator
But is the movie Twilight an example of the failure of elites?
Socraticsilence
Awesome comment is Awesome
wataguy
I’m in Bangkok, with nothing to read but badly-worded signs like “A momentous of top Italian Products represented famously by italasia”. I could use some coherent reading material.
Jesse
Chris Hayes has the best show on Cable. Maybe he should take Dylan Ratigans daily afternoon spot now that DR is gone. No cancel that…..then I won’t be able to watch….
SES
I’m in!
dww44
I’ll enter the pool, although I think I will either buy or get my little library to buy. The librarian likes my suggestions which counter all those righto books that I hide behind other books when there. Also, I really like Chris Hayes and the refreshing new take he’s bringing to the TV pundity genre, even though his very fast verbalization drives my husband nutty. So, on the weekends, he goes to one TV and I go to another room to the other. I’ve come to look forward to being up relatively early on weekend mornings.
Stellours
Leaving a comment… Hmm, I like Christopher Hayes and would like to read his book…. whew! Left a comment.
time4acool1
Why not take a chance?
w3ski
I’d Love to read a dead tree again. Count Me in.
Spiffy McBang
Give it to me baby, uh huh, uh huh
What a horrible song to be quoting.
Dave Trowbridge
Sparkly elites! Sounds good.
Sourmash
I’m in!!
dcBill
I watch Chris with my 16-year old (on DVR, you think he’s “UP” that early?) every weekend. Smartest show on TV.
Queerbec
As a victim of the elites ( I was unceremoniously laid off after 30 years of service), I am curious as to how Mr. Hayes believes that the elites are going to give up their power and wealth. They don’t want to improve unemployment benefits nor give Obamacare a chance (it’s virtually impossible for me to get private health insurance due to pre-existing conditions–sleep apnea–so I’m painted as a lazy, good for nothing human being without any worth. But let’s face it–I do want to work and am willing to pay for my health insurance.
Edo
We are all but commenters upon the blog of life.
dave
I am here, pick me!
Chris
Hoo-ray for Chris Hayes!
mtraven
I am the most random.
Mr_Gravity
Am i too late yet?
rsn
Would love to get this copy :).
Hawes
I’m in.
cfkdaddy
I think you should pick me because GAME OF THRONES thats why!
Tyrion just called and said I deserve this book, because when you play the game of free books, you win or you lose, and when you lose, you have to go to the library and who likes that. Jeez.
jnfr
I’m in.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
Yessir.
Libby
I never win anything, but I like my positioning in the 400s.
yankeedevil
I have glasses that are remarkably similar to Chris Hayes. Victory is mine!
Ben Franklin
I refuse to insult John Cole.
DanF
If it’s not too late, ME!
aa
How come every time I find a line, I’m at the end of it?
ninja3000
I’m not an elite, so I never win anything…
Andrew
I’d love a copy. Thanks.
AntiCliche
Free books are un-American. Also, too, austerity
Heirn
I would love a chance at this too.
SixStringFanatic
Here’s my one comment.
dance around in your bones
Maybe the last comment on this dead thread will win. Nah, prolly not.
phein39
Naked lust comment.
btom89
Putting myself up for consideration
Sawgrass Stan
Sounds like a good read.
Lauren Guilbeau
Sounds interesting
JugOPunch
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delosgatos
ceci n’est pas un comment.
Jeanne Daykin
@Keith G: so do I
flyerfan
Really want to read that book, would love a free copy
5x5
Thank you!
Americanadian
ceci est actuellement un comment
gordon schumway
What ever you do, do it witchy!
Trakker
I probably won’t win but I just reduced everyone else’s chances of winning and that’s reason enough to enter. Plus, Chris Hayes ROCKS!
BillinGlendaleCA
I never win anything.
t4toby
First?
evinfuilt
Nice book you got there…
Hann1bal
I’d like to win this. But it’s no big deal if I don’t.
Shabbazz
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Sasha
Wake me when you’re giving away Krugthulhu’s END THIS DEPRESSION NOW!
ahurazo
Pick meeee!
uila
Preteen vampire literature has a well-known liberal bias.
JG
Winner, winner…chicken dinner?!
Less Popular Tim
Okay me please
Lee
mememe
peon
curious to explore this topic
MeDrewNotYou
Kaboom!
dslak
I’m in.
Bill
I should very much like the book, please.
anna
Am I too late to comment? Comment.
NobodySpecial
Commenting just to comment on the previous comment.
Chris
Vote for the little old lady!
Porco rosso
Elite mw
JackHughes
Chris Hayes is one of the smartest guys on TV.
Scott S.
Okay, I’m tempted enough to enter. Deal me a book, por favor?
doofus
Hope I am not too late.
JohnM
Oh pleeeeze! Pick me! I promise I’ll read it.
Neutron Flux
Me. Pick Me
Mary
I would love a copy of Chris’ new book!
Dylan
I never win anything, but if I can reduce the odds for everyone else, great!