Rick Mercer Report: The Book (Book Review)

Rick Mercer The Rick Mercer Report:  The Book (2007) Rick’s Rants, some complete, some excerpted, along with a few photos and snippets of dialogue. How little has changed, and yet how soon we forget! Politics is still a mix of farce and tragedy, and we, the electorate, still forget the scandals, corruption, and foolishness within weeks or months. If people had the contents of this book top-of-mind during the last election, Harper would not, I think, have garnered a majority.
     Mercer on the page doesn’t have the impact he has on the screen, but that’s a good thing: we can see both his tricks and shticks, as well as the substance of his complaints. A lot of the time, Mercer’s comedic, satiric style assists us in coping with the appalling contempt for democracy evinced by our leaders. But we rarely laugh out loud. Someone once said that war is too serious to leave to the generals. I wish more of my fellow Canadians realised that politics is too serious to leave to the politicians. ***