What the (Bleep) Just Happened?
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| Author | Monica Crowley |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | American politics |
| Published | June 19, 2012 |
| Publisher | Broadside Books |
| Pages | 382 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-213115-7 |
| OCLC | 768800592 |
What the (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior's Guide to the Great American Comeback is a 2012 book by Fox News contributor Monica Crowley. It was published by Broadside Books, a HarperCollins imprint. [1]
What the (Bleep) Just Happened? was a New York Times bestseller. In 2013, the book was re-released with an afterword and the title What the (Bleep) Just Happened... Again?: The Happy Warrior's Guide to the Great American Comeback.
According to Crowley, the book's name came from a conversation she had with her friend about the Obama administration:
Every day, we were getting hit with a new piece of insane leftist social engineering or some new policy to take down American power or prestige abroad—a rapid-fire assault I call “Barack-a-mole.” Our enemies were getting olive branches, our allies were getting dissed, and millions of Americans were being moved into government dependency at home. “What the (bleep) just happened?” I sighed. She looked at me and said, “That’s your title.” And so it came to be.[2]
Kirkus Reviews panned the book, writing that Crowley's "vitriol corrodes any basis for rational discussion". The review suggested that readers pass on the book unless they are Fox News junkies, saying it is "just a restatement of similar xenophobic, snarkily presented sentiment".[3] A review by Lauren Weiner in The Weekly Standard said that Crowley's arguments were overstated and employed doggerel. Weiner wrote further that after "over 300 pages of cynical quips, Nixonian realism, and declarations that 'the romanticism of the Left is over'", Crowley declared herself a "happy warrior".[4]