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frankenbook – concluding remarks

I finished the Frankenbook and I have a few brief comments:

1. Conservatives probably won’t like it. Liberals probably will.
2. It’s pretty damn funny (if you’re liberal).
3. It has a lot of statistics. Franken admits to being a statistic freak.
4. I wanted to see where each of these stats came from; alas, there were a few un-cited stats. He busts the balls of various Conservative writers and commentators for dishonestly using bullshit stats but fails to cite some things himself. That’s not so funny.
5. He quotes a particularly graphic, awkward, and poorly written excerpt Bill O’Reilly’s little known novel “Those Who Trespass.” I won’t even give it the honor of an Amazon link. He then compares the excerpt (and entire novel) to a Ludacris album. That was really funny.
6. He and an assistant researcher mock Bob Jones University, an unaccredited religious institution. That’s pretty mean and it puts him on a level tantamount to his right-wing counterparts…but it was also really, really funny.
7. He hassled Alan Colmes at a benefit dinner about why Colmes doesn’t stand up for himself and the Democrats on the Fox New Channel’s “Hannity and Colmes” show. That wasn’t funny. Leave the poor sap alone.
8. A fellow FNCer took notice of the conversation and got in Franken’s face. Franken responded with equal zeal. As the tension came to a peak, a drunk FNCer waddled up and asked for a picture. Franken spun the angry FNCer around, put an arm around his shoulders, and said, “Smile.” That was funny - and classic.

Comments (2)

p-man:

3&4. good idea. busting the buster ought to be fun. 8. agreed.

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to address your analyses: 1 & 2. really, it should be funny to anyone with a sense of humor. he's fairly self-deprecating which everyone should find funny. Conservatives should at least appreciate his earnestness - fascists, on the other hand, won't like it. 3 & 4. You should email him or post on his blog asking about the missing cited stats. his blog is in my 'web' link below. 5. no comment. 6. even he felt bad about the Bob Jones U. ruse. then again, it was funny. 7. Alan Colmes is a tool. Al should write a book about fake liberals. Alan Colmes, Zell Miller, Joseph Lieberman - all ripe for an expose. 8. drunks are easy to manipulate. I'd also recommend the book. Even to people who don't read books all that often. It's a quick read and you'll be laughing by page two.

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