I have to begin by saying I can’t stand Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe. So, to review her book without my preordained prejudice calls for more fairness than I am able to muster. With that full disclosure, I can honestly and fairly say the book is terrible.
What is with all these people who rise to the top of media without credentials but rather with the name their parents have branded, and then they present themselves as if they actually paved their own way? It’s beyond my comprehension. Her book, and her belief in her rise to success, is no exception. The point of the book is to say that you can have all things at once. Well, let’s get real. If you look good and are on a show where the guy has such a big mouth you don’t need to do any evening homework to be articulate because you never say anything, then, yes, you can have all things at once.
Her story is not remarkable. Nor is mine I might add, or probably yours. But if we wrote our story we would know that it’s not remarkable. She writes the book the way she presents herself on TV, as if there really is something to say when there isn’t and she isn’t saying it.
She speak of her feminism, and then has a man be her book’s co-writer. You can’t make this stuff up. And, the fact that she is on the best-seller list shocks me. It really does. I figured she was on TV because men like looking at her as she ribs the guys around her. But I think women are actually buying the book and looking to her to show them the way. Yikes, are we in trouble!
She talks about how she stretches herself too thin. Oh, I get it. You have a a full-time job that calls for travel and hours that make being a mother who matters close to impossible. So, what do you do? Take time to write a book all about…you? Let’s guess when this book was written. During Morning Joe’s commercials maybe?
I know I sound bitter, and it’s not that. I just hate that women like her represent my gender on the news and are not expected to be well-read at the same time. Do we need to talk about Barbara WaWa again and her inability to ask a follow up question or leave herself out of the interview even once?
Bottom line; leave the book alone and do your own reading on world events and how to get to the top of a man’s industry.
