Moonbats Maher and Colbert monologues help increase sales.
The mention on Real Time With Bill Maher was only fleeting.
“New rule, the illustrator of this children’s book, ‘My Parents Open Carry,’ has to tell me what the dad in this picture — Freddie Mercury, apparently — is doing with his hand,” Maher said, toward the end of the show that aired on Aug. 1.
The audience laughed.
“Also, if mom and dad are both safe because they’re packing, why are they using their daughter as a human shield?”
Maher moved on, but it was the start of a surprisingly good month for Brian Jeffs.
Jeffs is a geologist with the state of Michigan. He is one of the founders of a group called Michigan Open Carry.
Together with Nathan Nephew, he is the author of “My Parents Open Carry,” a niche book that became a minor best seller and an international curiosity after two famous people made fun of it on national television.[…]
The book “tells the heartwarming story of Brenna, her mom and what looks like her other mom wearing a mustache,” Colbert said during the Aug. 6 episode of The Colbert Report.
While the fact that Brenna’s parents openly carry loaded firearms might make her feel different, he said, “her father reassures her that, ‘Brenna, there is evil in this world, and we want to protect you the best we can…When seconds count, the police are minutes away.'”
“What a beautiful bedtime story,” Colbert said. “The world is full of maniacs who want to hurt you and the police can’t help. Goodnight honey.” […]
They never expected to make much money, and they didn’t.
“We were lucky to sell a book a month for close to three years that it’s been published,” said Skip Coryell, the owner of White Feather Press in Hamilton and the book’s publisher.
Last month, they sold 2,000 copies in 10 days. Jeffs and Nephew were interviewed by conservative television host Glenn Beck, who remarked that Colbert and Maher “have played Santa Claus and Book Jesus for you guys.”