Defining Literacy Down

If you ran a publishing house, would you operate a website that makes you look subliterate? Would you promote your featured selection with prose that should shame a twelve-year-old? If so, you could run Regnery Publishing.

Witness Regnery's blurb for its new book on President Carter:

"Despite the praise and near saintly reputation he's been given for his time spent in the oval office, Jimmy Carter has been given a free ride by liberal media and historians. Before now, his Nobel Peace Prize and feigned humanitarianism has given him carte blanche to criticize and interfere with sitting presidents. But, the masquerade is over."

Nice!

Regnery boasts that it was "[o]nce a small publisher of important scholarly books," but has now "become a consistent producer of national best-sellers." Can't argue with that.