Jimmy Moncrief with his book “Everything Obama Knows About The Economy” in Ooltewah on Friday. Moncrief originally had 100 copies of the 100 page book for sale on Amazon and it quickly sold out.OTHER BLANKSMoncrief has launched www.theblankbooks.com for future efforts.There are numerous other gag gift books for sale at sites such as amazon.com, including “Everything Obama Knows About Individual Liberty and Freedom, ” Everything Obama Knows about Gun Rights and the Second Amendment.”
The fact-checking process for a Chattanooga credit analyst’s 200-page book probably took record time. Not even one-tenth of a second.
Open up “Everything Obama Knows About The Economy” and Jimmy Moncrief becomes less of a god of journalism and more like a Republican with a joke: Every page, cover to cover, is blank.
“I’m not trying to start a revolution,” said Moncrief, who identifies himself as a fiscal conservative without a favorite GOP presidential candidate. “I just want to make people laugh.”
Asked about his inspiration, Moncrief’s credits a similar bit of emptiness from Sheridan Simove, who, ahem, wrote a 200-page bestseller titled, “What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex.”