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Summary: What goes around comes around
Review: Finally, a book that--ahem--deflates Rush Limbaugh. Franklin's expose is as incisive as it is wildly funny. It exposes much of Rush's hypocracy including the fact that he:1. Was on welfare. 2. Avoided fighting in Vietnam because of a problem with hair on his posterior. 3. Didn't work. 4. Has received hand-outs all his life. 5. Is only capable of coping with a controlled audience but can't handle spontaneous questions. It also exposes many of the lies and demagogery that constitute Rush's discources. Most people ignore Rush Limbaugh because they consider him to be a bombastic idiot. But many ignored Hitler for the same reason which caused the world to suffer enormous conequences. I think we all owe Al Frankin a debt, not only for entertaining us, but also for deflating a bloated presense on the fascist landscape. It's nice when the people who make a career out of attacking people finally find themselves under the gun.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This is the funniest book I have ever read. It requires a general knowledge of current politics, but other than that all it requires is a sense of humour.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. IMHO anyone who is proud of the title "dittohead" needs to learn to think for themselves. Blindly following someone and parroting what they say during arguments is not a sign of intelligence
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Summary: He's lost weight, but he's still a idiot
Review: I read this book in 1998, the peak year (so far) for Clinton bashing, and, I swear, on some days it gave me a reason to hope for a little sanity in this world. To be clear, no one is perfect, including Clinton or Franken or even me, but this book is one of the very few mainstream sources that comes even close to expressing my own views on Clinton, Gingrich, Limbaugh et al. (Trying to find a little truth in the conservative media--i.e., CBS, ABC, NBC, NEWSWEEK, TIME, etc.--is like trying to find blood in a turnip.) Franken's views are every bit as subjective as those expressed by Limbaugh or FOX News or other conservative mouthpieces, and this is part of Franken's point. But his jokes are funnier, his general viewpoint is infinitely saner and more humane than Limbaugh's (or O'Reilly's or Novak's). Unlike Abrahma Lincoln, the Republicans in the forefront today have abslutely no idealism, no vision for a better world, and, as Franken shows so wonderfully in this book, the worst of the bunch are the most sanctimonious, hypocritical people on the face of the earth.
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Summary: Fat or thin, Limbaugh's still an idiot
Review: If ever there was a self-serving, egotistical, pusillanimous bag of wind that deserved skewering it's got to be El Rushbo. What's great about this book is that Franken took pains to do some research (or to have his researcher do some research) to show exactly where Limbaugh's pompous pronouncements veer rather wildly from reality. There have actually been other books devoted to pointing out specific instances of Rush inaccuracies/gross exaggerations/half truths/outright lies, but this one gives you the most yuks for your buck.
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Summary: This book is hilarious.
Review: Let's face it: If you are conservative then you probably will agree with Rush but if you lean towards liberal then you probably can't stand him. In my case, I've read Rush's first book "The Way Things Ought to Be" and found it to be full of inaccuracies, unsubstantiated and outrageous claims, and misinformation. That's not to say Rush is a complete moron because he does put forth some good arguments, but overall, I think Al Franken proves his case to convince me that Rush is a (big fat) idiot. I like this book because it is hysterically funny and quite entertaining. Al's wit it dry and sometimes vicious. I laughed to tears when I read the chapter about Phil Gramm ("I own more guns than I need, but not as many as I want.") He lampoons the right wing, and I think he does it well. If you are a conservative with no sense of humor, you will not like this book.
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Summary: Sense of Shame
Review: A great book! Conservatives are always moaning about people lacking a "sense of shame" and that they want to "shame" people into doing what they think is right. Well, this is the book that SHAMED RUSH INTO FINALLY LOSING ALL THAT JIGGLING UNSIGHTLY FAT (EXCEPT FOR THAT REMAINING ABOVE HIS SHOULDERS!) Get this book, share with a friend.
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Summary: Hillarious Bashing of Conservatives
Review: This book is the book that probably stopped the Christian Coalition. Good ways at proving most of the Conservatives views wrong. Proving that most conservative most likly are just facist idoits like Pat Robertson. Proving that there is hypocrisy in the republicans (Rush Limbaugh, Pat Bucchanon, Phil Gramm, and Dan Quayle never went to Vietnam.). For anybody trying to think of what is wrong with the government, check out this book.
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Summary: hilarious
Review: i love leftist political humor. this book is dead on, and is probably the funniest book that i have ever read. if you are an ignorant conservative: just leave it alone. the book is obviously not for you, and you will only prove (and have proven) his point by opening your mouth about it.
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Summary: America, Meet Satire; Satire, Meet America
Review: Some people will find Al Franken's ferocious and hilarious book merely ferocious, but these are people upon whom political satire is lost anyway--or, to be fair, political satire that attacks their own particular prejudices and pre-convictions. Franken himself on page 87: "I'm making fun of meanness in public debate by being mean myself. It's called 'irony.' Perhaps you've heard of it?" Hmm, Al, I'm not sure everyone has. Franken's task as a satirist in RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT is to pick out the blatant hypocrisies and idiocies of the Republican right and hold them up to the ridicule blatant hypocrisies and idiocies so richly deserve. That is the book's intention, and it succeeds on nearly every page. The funniest moment, however, is when Franken describes the thrill of playing touch football with the President--if you know just a little about football, you will laugh for four quarters after reading what Franken does. I submit that Franken, professional satirist that he is, could be just as funny if he set his sights on the left--no shortage of material there, either. But his targets are the Limbaughs, Buchanans, Ralph Reeds, Gingriches and Pat Robertsons of the world because they, as he says, "are always 100 percent sure of what they're saying." Well, if you brook no contradiction, whether arrogantly or psuedo-humbly (the same thing), and you can be proven to be wrong here and there, you may as well paint a big red and white bull's-eye on your chest. Fire away, Al!
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