The only thing more painful than reading Todd Starnes’ dreadfully unfunny book is listening to him recite “jokes” from it, as he did last week while hosting a panel on religious persecution at the Watchmen on the Wall conference.
Starnes, who always goes to great lengths to assure his audience that he remains a Southerner at heart despite the fact that he lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of New York City, told the gathering of pastors that the idea for this new book, “God Less America,” came to him one day while sitting at brunch in Brooklyn when he realized that he is “a Duck Dynasty guy living in a Miley Cyrus world and I feel like Washington D.C. is twerking on all of us”:
