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Title: Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken ISBN: 0-440-50864-9 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 12 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.47 (351 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Relentless With Side-Splitting Abusive humor!
Comment: Al Franken jokes that he first thought of this book's title and then panicked when he realized he would actually have to listen to Rush Limbaugh. That's the kind of hilarious pathos that Franken passes on from his days at "Saturday Night Live". He never lets up with the Rush Limbaugh fat jokes and just when they an seem to be on the edge of 'just plain mean', he blasts out another semi-truth that's even funnier. Limbaugh is only one of many conservatives that get analyzed, chewed and spit out. No one escapes the humorous wrath of Al Franken, especially regarding hypocrisy in issues like war, marital fidelity and religion. Just take a look at the chapter selection to see who's lined up for public ridicule. Jeane Kirkpatrick's New York Times book review is at the beginning of the book with a riotous response from Franken that sends the highly respected reviewer into a frenzied, screaming, man-eating maniac! Also, the entire Index is a faux - relating every word to Rush Limbaugh and his extraneous girth. How Franken gets away with his highly amusing (and rightfully deserved) conservative Republican bashing is confounding. There is still hope for a dreadfully depressed and ungainly uptight America!
Rating: 5
Summary: Hilarious
Comment: I loved this book--I don't know when I've laughed so hard. Maybe it helps that I'm a "liberal"--but what makes this a good book rather than just a book that says things I happen to agree with is that it's clever and well-executed. The humor runs from silly to witty, but it's pretty consistently funny.
It's too bad the satire seems to be lost on some people. The point of the book is that Franken is using the same methods that Rush Limbaugh & co. use in a _satirical_ fashion in order to expose these methods as ridiculous. Take his "interview" with Rush Limbaugh, modeled after the latter's "interview" with Hillary Clinton. Yes, obviously it's quite easy to come up with the same sort of "interview" with Al Franken, but that doesn't do much to hurt his case. The point of the Rush Limbaugh interview isn't so much to make Rush admit that he is indeed a big fat idiot by taking his words out of context as to make fun of the idea of such an interview as a cheap shot with which you can make anyone say anything. So you can't really use Franken's methods against him to make him out to be a hypocrite, because the basis of the book is a humorous refutation of those very methods. That's why it's funny.
Rating: 5
Summary: Al Franken's Great American Novel
Comment: This book is so imaginative that I am ashamed that I didn't write it.
It made me laugh so hard that milk squirted out of my nose. Now that says a lot for a dead guy.
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Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken ISBN: 0525947647 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bushwhacked : Life in George W. Bush's America by LOU DUBOSE, MOLLY IVINS ISBN: 0375507523 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Oh, the Things I Know!: A Guide to Success, Or, Failing That, Happiness by Al Franken ISBN: 0452284503 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore ISBN: 0446532231 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Why Not Me? by AL FRANKEN ISBN: 0385334540 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 08 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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