RNC Chair Candidates Stumped When Asked To Name Favorite Book

How do you silence a politician? Ask them to name their favorite book. Republican Party leaders are not bullish on literature, apparently, because when Tucker Carlson floated the question to the candidates for Chair of the Republican National Committee at their January 3 debate, it elicited the sound of crickets, followed by a range of awful, stammered non-answers. My favorite response is from Michael Steele, who blurts out, “War and Peace,” and then misquotes Charles Dickens.