Enter the Kissinger! Barrett Brown's hilarious review of Kissinger's 'White House Years'

[Luminous Animal]

http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2014/03/11/the-barrett-brown-review-of-arts-and-letters-and-jail-enter-the-kissinger/

Not long ago I requested and received White House Years, Henry Kissinger’s 1,500-page account of his stint in the Nixon Administration, the Ford Administration being covered in a later and no doubt less edifying volume. I was so excited that I wanted to share a bit of my joy with my cellmate, Tom. Tom is a bank robber who has the words “Game Over” tattooed on his knuckles, which is to say by implication that at some point in his life he happened to glance at his knuckles, noticed that the words “Game Over” were not to be found on them, and said to himself, “I’d better get that rectified.” When I was first assigned to his cell, I noticed that he was in possession of something called The Anger Management Workbook, which is rather a cliche thing for one’s new cellmate to have lying around. I like to think that before he came upon this textual remedy, he spent a great deal of his time pummeling people to death while shouting, “Game Over!”

“Tom,” I asked him now, “Would you like me to read to you from Henry Kissinger’s memoirs in Henry Kissinger’s voice?”

“No.”

[marble falls]

1. Best laugh all day!

[Luminous Animal]

3. I loved the passage about Henry Cabot Lodge.

[marble falls]

6. The first big laugh was, "No." And it only got better after.

[Louisiana1976]

2. Interesting that the reviewer is in prison. That's where Kissinger belongs. During the Nixon years,

Kissinger greased the skids for the fascist overthrow of the democratically-elected Allende regime in Chile. Kissinger is a war criminal.

[starroute]

4. Most of Barrett Brown's jailhouse letters are laugh-out-loud funny

I don't see any way of getting a complete listing through the D Magazine, site, but a Google search will turn them up.
https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Barrett+Brown+Review+of+Arts+and+Letters+and+Jail

Also recommended is this article explaining the ludicrous reasons Brown is in jail in the first place: http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/free-barrett-brown-anonymous-house-cards/

And this 2011 interview which provides the background of what he's really sitting in jail for: http://www.globalhighfive.com/barrett-brown-the-puzzle/

(Edit: Fixed the third link, which had been a duplicate of the first)

[Luminous Animal]

5. Barrett Brown is a political prisoner. And he is making the best of it.

I tried to send one of Barrett Brown's articles to Chelsea Manning. The government wouldn't allow.