Last night, I skimmed through the last 30 pages of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken. There were some funny bits. A couple of things that made me laugh out loud.
But the book commits the, perhaps, unforgiveable sin of a “comedy” book by not really being that funny at all. Oh well.
Instead, the book paints a picture of a right-wing media machine which has lost all shreds of any intellectual rigour which it might once have had. Which is perhaps important, but not really funny.
The best bits of the book were the descriptions of Al Franken interacting and encountering people, such as offering to fight a right-wing commentator for calling Democrats “sissies”. Notably, the right-wing commentator refused to fight.
Anyway, there’s sort of a desultory official websitehere and a more interesting unofficial one here.
This is an angry book, but after reading it, you can understand why. Especially regarding the Paul Wellstone funeral stuff. Personal, personal stuff. (And how does he have all of these people’s phone numbers? He’s always just calling people up on the telephone to chat with them…)
Anyway.