Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations
Move over P.J. O'Rourke! From Al Franken, America's premier liberal satirist, comes a hilarious homage to the wonderful, awful, and always absurd American political process that skewers a whole new crop of presidential hopefuls--just in time for the 1996 presidential election. "(Franken is)...
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Move over P.J. O'Rourke! From Al Franken, America's premier liberal satirist, comes a hilarious homage to the wonderful, awful, and always absurd American political process that skewers a whole new crop of presidential hopefuls--just in time for the 1996 presidential election. "(Franken is) responsible in part for some of the most brilliant political satire of our time".--John Podhoretz, New York Post.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780788161858 (0788161857)
Publish date: June 28th 1996
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Pages no: 271
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Comedy,
Literature,
American,
Adult,
Journalism,
Politics,
Political Science
Would be really funny as a couple of articles but very repedititve as a book.
Easy target, but Franken, with the help of several researchers, only seems to scare up minor errors, such as the misquoting of a single date by even dumber, less popular policital hacks. Then Franken harps on the error humourlessly for page after page. Franken strikes me as a humourless, egomaniacal...
Al Franken in his new book, suggests several novel solutions for some of our social problems. To relieve Medicare and NASA budgets he says, "Why not shoot the elderly into space? .. we could learn so much. What is the effect of weightlessness on arthritis?" And for the next Republican ticket he prop...
When I read this, back in the day, I was amused by Franken. Now I consider him my favorite politician. It may prove that speaking truth to power is less important than shouting "bullshit" to demagoguery.
I didn't want to read this. My step-father had it and I thought "what a stupid title and what an ugly cover" and not living in America I knew next to nothing about either Franken or Limbaugh but still I laughed like crazy.
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