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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Dell; Reprint edition (January 12, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0440508649
  • ISBN-13: 978-0440508649
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (422 customer reviews)
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Rush Limbaugh claims his talent is on loan. With this book, Franken demonstrates that he owns. The frankly Democratic author's shtick reminds us how much of a free ride conservatives have gotten in the mainstream media. For instance, he really drives home the weirdness of the conservatives' preachiness about "family values" in light of Newt Gingrich's and Bob Dole's first marriages, and Rush Limbaugh's first, second and third marriages. And he has great fun with Rush's and Newt's miraculous draft deferments in a chapter where he imagines all of the great conservative "chicken-hawks" out on a Vietnam war patrol under the leadership of Ollie North. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Comedy writer Franken skewers conservatives in a book that spent 23 weeks on PW's bestseller list.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Rush is a deciever and Al Franken is funny as hell.
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The only reason this book received "1 star" is there is not a "0" or"minus" option.
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I like this book because it is hysterically funny and quite entertaining.
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122 of 170 people found the following review helpful
Very funny and honest, but extreme at times
By mrovich on October 23, 2000
Format: Paperback
I am English, and picking up a random satirical political book from the shelf seemed like a good idea for learning a bit about American politics. And having a good time.
I didn't like the title, because it is somewhat...confrontational. But between the covers of this aggressive book lay a very, very funny man. He combines an astute political sense with a level of indignant humanitarianism which allows him to put radical conservatives in a very bad light. Franken uses stats and figures to support his claims, but never attempts to pretend his book is any more than satire - slightly less political than P.J. O'Rourke, for example.
Radical conservatives might struggle to enjoy this, but anyone with a sense of humour should be able to appreciate most of Franken's character portraits and, even better, anecdotes - for example, when he played with the President American football and made a play which won his team the game...but the President forbore to congratulate him. The quick prose is funny and witty...
But...it does go a little far at times, and though I learned to share some of Franken's views on Rush Limbaugh, to whom I have never listened, I still thought some of the writing went too far. It reassured me tremendously to read in Franken's "Why Not Me" that Limbaugh himself had bumped into him and instead of pummelling him had yelled - "hell of a book!". This, and grudging praise to men such as Bob Dole gives Franken a bit more depth than an out-and-out liberal satirist with no punches pulled.
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125 of 176 people found the following review helpful
Remembrance of Past Zings
By Joe Eshleman on November 6, 2003
Format: Paperback
I can remember, like it was yesterday, when I first layed eyes on this screed. First, I did not know what a screed was until I read UN Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick's scathing review of Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot (RLBFI)that Al so graciously put in his foreward. How many folks would let a pundit from the hostile camp have that powerful a forum to shape opinion of the book? I think it is a credit to Al's fair and balanced nature that he let her.
Anyone offended by the book's title should remember that Rush made his career out of insults. That is the great irony. Look, I have two of my degrees at public institutions, and tubby (Rush) reminds his audience that we, public college graduates,
can not grasp the sublime arguments of Milton Freidman and the other apostles of Free Market ideology. Comments like"you public school and public college graduates probably cannot grasp
this" "you know, my friends, the sorry state of thinking by people who went to our public institutions is tragic." NUT JOB! YOU ARE A COMMUNITY COLLEGE DROPOUT! By your own definition you are an idiot, and Al is right. An aside, I would like to see Al take Rush and Bill O'Reilly on in a game of celebrity Jeopardy. Al would pummel them because he knows questions to answers other
than "My housekeeper." Answer in the form of a question is of course: "Who supplies my drugs illegally?" or category Awards answer: "The Peabody;" answer in the form of a question: "What award did I say I won but really lied about and then made a complete ass of myself by trying to cover it up." Rush and Bill would get those; but not much else. Although I must disclaim that Bill has two masters degrees and is much smarter than Rush,
a damnation by the feintest of all praises I suppose.Read more ›
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32 of 45 people found the following review helpful
One of the Funniest Books I've Ever Read, and Re-Read
By Danusha V. Goska on July 17, 2004
Format: Paperback
I've read this book straight through twice.
I really thought I'd never laugh out loud, as frequently and as uproariously, the second time as the first time, but I did.
Franken's "review," ostensibly by Jeanne Kirkpatrick, of RLIABFI is, alone, worth the price of the book. I laugh so hard when reading this I double over.
This humor is not for everyone -- it is for people who, like Franken, are both intellectuals and political junkies.
On the down side, I do have trouble with the title. It's funny, but ... it's rude and mean. I don't have a solution here. I don't know how to create humor that never hurts anyone's feelings, and I don't know the best way to respond to hatemongers like Rush Limbaugh.
If nothing else, the title of this book, which has become a classic, got us thinking and talking about the Right's muddying of public debate and its abandonment of civil discourse.
Too, at times I do find Franken's ability to be impressed by his own intelligence and high-power connections a bit hard to take, but ... I forgive him for that, he is such a valuable resource.
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73 of 104 people found the following review helpful
The Nation's Premier Political Comedian
By ANDREW MCHENRY on September 9, 2001
Format: Paperback
Franken admits that he came up with the title for this book before writing it. This is a hilarious collection of essays targeting the politicial right wing. The book kicks off with a chapter that pokes fun of Limbaugh's hypocrisy, weight, and political/social stances. He writes, "It's way too easy to quote him: 'It's time to start championing old-fashioned virtues like... self-restraint, self-discipline' and then write STOP EATING!!!" Much of the book is like this; spoofs on right-wing hypocrisy alongside exposures of some of their more asinine remarks. (e.g.- Rush Limbaugh: "Have you ever noticed how all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?" Pat Robertson: "The feminist agenda....is not about equal rights for women. It's about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft and become lesbians." Newt Gingrich: "If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... On the other hand, if combat means being on an aegis class cruiser managing the computer controls for twelve ships, a female may be again dramatically better than a male, who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes." Franken retorts: "Two images come to mind. The first is of the grasslands of Africa. During the Neolithic Period. Rush, Newt, and Bill Bennett, all 825 pounds of them, are trying to run down a giraffe. The giraffe is thinking, 'No problem here.' The second image is of Newt, about fifteen years ago, explaining to his thirteen-year-old daughter that she just got her first 'infection.Read more ›
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Complete garbage a political book with more opinion than fact and ...

Complete garbage a political book with more opinion than fact and I'm not even a rush limbaugh fan but fact check statements and it's easy to see its just a book to be negative

Published 9 days ago by Jack B.
Read it more than once!

Funny, intelligent, and educational.

Published 1 month ago by Marilena
One Star

Al Franken is a Big Eye-Slanted Idiot.

Published 2 months ago by Gashek
The Worst

Nobody should have to pay for this book…it should be GIVEN AWAY…at gunpoint….

Published 2 months ago by Gary Johnson
Did Brian from family guy write this?

All this is is an attack on a true patriotic radio show host. People give Rush too much of a hard time, as with Sarah Palin. Liberals, can you give it a break? Read more

Published 4 months ago by Luke Jenkins
Better and more relevant than ever

I read this when it first came out and it was great. I will have to look around for it and re-read as people like Limbaugh are even more disgusting and vile than previously. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Guiseppe Gramanzini, Jr.
I paid a penny and still feel like I got ripped off

Conservative or Liberal, this book stinks. Al tries entirely too hard to be comical and has no support or evidence for his views. Read more

Published 11 months ago by Jen Allen
Worth every penny.

Worth every penny. It was pretty cheap. But Limbaugh ain't worth much. I wish Franken could take some time off from his other duties and do more comedy.

Published 12 months ago by rhrhm
Informative and Funny

If you like Rush please read this book, If you don't like Rush you have to read this book! lol Al Franken at his best in my opinion.

Published 15 months ago by robert pitts
Very funny and also very true in a purely satirical way

This book, although by its current event nature already somewhat dated, is laugh out loud funny! Satire plus a load of facts debunking and dismantling right wing talk radio and... Read more

Published 15 months ago by D. Walters

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