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Summary: Don't wait. Read it now
Review: 1) Because it's a funny book
2) 'Cause as a teenager, I didn't get all the jokes, and have a feeling that in five years, I'll get a lot less.
This book is great, especially if you're not Republican. It is a clear snapshot into 96 or 97. But like most politically orientated books, it has an expiration date. Soon.
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Summary: You gotta laugh
Review: We can't laugh at ourselves anymore, and this book hits that nerve with a monkey-wrentch. Humor is such an essential, so we all need to be class clowns and take a laugh at the other guys expense!Ther is relaxaTION ASSOCIATED WITH LAUGHTURE, AND BESIDES sometimes laughture is tyhe best medicine. You need to take the pill and swallow hard.
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Summary: One of the best political books I ever read!
Review: Al Franken debunks myths ranted around from such conservatives as Rush Limbaugh. As a conservative myself but not a huge fan of Rush's banter, I thought this book was extremely humorous. You have to enjoy Al Franken's sense of humor though and swallow hard as he refers to Rush as "gigantic" for the millionth time. Otherwise, this is absolutely one of the greatest books and audiobooks of all time!!!
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Summary: Hilarious, and more than a grain of truth in there
Review: ... I really don't know what the conservatives who have read this book are complaining about; calling this book thinly veiled hatred attack on Limbaugh and Republicans. Franken doesn't veil his hatred, it's right out there in open for everyone to laugh at and enjoy. I mean, anyone with a modicum of intelligence who has spent any time at all listening to Limbaugh's view of things know full well that he is exactly what Franken says he is. It takes next to no effort to check out FAIR's website and a few other sources to cross check and verify that most of what Limbaugh states is nothing more than hot air spewed forth in an attempt to obfuscate what's really going on. While I admit that Franken spends a little too much time on things like Limbaugh's weight and choice of neckties, the rest of it is merely a series of humorous essays where he takes Limbaugh to task on a lot of things he has said, and proves them to be wildly inaccurate or outright fabrications. But he doesn't stop there. Franken happily points out that Republicans like Limbaugh, Gingich, Dick Armey, Phil Gramm (student deferment), Pat Buchanan (he had a bad knee), etc. who seem to have no trouble referring to Viet Nam and accusing Clinton of being draft dodger, when they themselves also found very creative ways to avoid not going themselves. Funniest of all we learn that Limbaugh, who touts Reagan as the greatest president nation has ever seen, never actually voted for him. Rush never registered to vote until he was 35. He illustrates the reason why Limbaugh rarely gives interviews. It's easy for Limbaugh to sit in front of his mostly white audience and slander people or better still, behind his microphone in a radio studio and attack so-called 'liberal compassion fascists', because no one is around to call him on anything. He is apparently notoriously thin skinned and incapable of defending himself against questions about his behavior as rivers of sweat flow of his corpulent body. But he doesn't stop there. New Gingich is another favorite target of Franken's... Franken completely sinks Limbaugh's claims of how great Reagan was for this country. Limbaugh likes to deny the explosive debt Reagan racked up in his eight years, as if two-trillion dollars was chump change. He undercuts Limbaugh's own fact-less explanation of how Reagan's tax cuts really benefitted the poor. But since they didn't, Limbaugh had to play with the numbers on his charts to make it look as though the poorest of the poor got huge tax cuts while the rich got hosed... Franken's wit, however, is off-set slightly by the jumbled nature of the book. It seems unevenly edited as he jumps back and forth between topics and chapters. But that doesn't detract much from his brilliant (if phony) conversations with Limbaugh's 'fact checker', Waylan, a job I'd love to have since it apparently doesn't involve much of anything. If things like 'Styrofoam is biodegradable and paper isn't' or 'There is more acreage of trees now then there was when Columbus arrived' can get through, what exactly is the fact checker doing... But don't take Al Franken's word for it, don't take mine, either. Buy Limbaugh's book, 'The Way Things Ought to Be', then go to your local library and government web sites or their published books of statistics and check things out for yourself. 'Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations' is in my mind the best compromise for a title, since calling it 'Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Liar and So Are All of His Republican Heroes' would have been too cumbersome. I enjoyed this book immensely, though I feel Franken really does believe that the Democrats will save us, and we all know that just ain't true, either.
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Summary: Hilarious !!
Review: It's Hilarious! "can't be I'm silly conservative because my parents told me to be one," you say. Well this book also includes many disgustingly true facts, that prove that "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot." This may not be the best book for changing oppinions but it might still.
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Summary: Franken's Far-Left Fisaco
Review: As a conservative appeasing the humor of Stewart from SNL I entered into reading this book with little to think. Incised from the advertisements of his new book and blown away comedically from his Harvard Graduation Speech giving his literary prose a gander seemed to be the next step in my quest for "infotainment." As a man of superior intellect and quick wit I was shocked upon learning of the book's title, but for those who haven't read it; much of the novel revolves around much more than his rotundness. Franken offered anecdotal experiences that he has been able to experience in the political arena from touch football alongside the president to Christian Coalition meetings that set him aback. One could perceivably be offended by the rancor put on by Franken from time to time. In order to gain the most amount of entertainment from the book as possible all aspects must be taken with a grain of salt. Take for example his research assistant Geoff who supposedly sues Franken. Clearly this falls into the category of humor for Al, but given my low IQ I wasn't able to pick up on it early on while others may have. Albeit not a scholarly novel Al Franken offers one of the best political satires that I have read in a while. Do yourself a favor and buy/rent it for yourself today.
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Summary: nice surpise!
Review: i generally have no interest in left leaning political commentaries. however, after accidentally listened to al frankin on a local middle to right talk radio program, i ran to the public library and checked out the book. frankin raised some valid points supported by well researched facts with footnote and documentation. irrespective of your political belief, you have to give credit to frankin for pointing out the factual inconsistency of our leading conservative personalities. i learned from this book that rush was on welfare for some time even though in his radio program he spoke against welfare and welfare recipients; he divorced two women even though he lamented the infidelity of clinton, weighted 350lb+ even though he talked about the lack of self discipline of many. the book is filled with documented facts to showcase the inconsistencies between words vs.the deeds of the leading figures of conservatism. as a conservative, i think it is high time we demanded high quality leadership who lead by their deeds rather than just words. al frankin hasn't convinced me to change party....yet....however, this is a very factual book just wish it was written by a conservative writer....
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Summary: Well-Researched and Laugh-Out-Loud Funny
Review: Although this book is very obviously geared toward liberals, people on all ends of the political spectrum with a brain will find this book well worth the read. Franken includes a lot of well-though-out arguments backed up by research in his humorous arguments, and at times I didn't know which I was doing more: learning or laughing. The bits on Gramm, Gingrich, and of course, Limbaugh himself are priceless. I only have two gripes: first, Franken includes a lot of shameless self-promotion (such as newspaper reviews of his standup routines and the like); and second, while there's a lot to laugh at in the Christian Coalition, Reed, and Robertson, Franken sounds ignorant and obnoxious when he makes fun of some of the most basic and mainstream ideas in Christianity. He's far funnier when he's lambasting ideas he's researched. Overall, though, an excellent read and well worth it!
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Summary: Get it if you dont think Liberal is a dirty word
Review: I was expecting strictly a humor book, but it is loaded with information. Al has researched some of the well known anecdotes that some conservatives have told and found out where they stray from the facts in order to make a political point.
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Summary: So true
Review: If you hate Rush then this book is for you. I had such a laugh at this expose of this lying Repugnican. Especially "Operation ChickenHawk
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