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MDE FROM THE ARCHIVES: FRANKEN DESCRIBES OWN BOOK AS “GRATUITOUSLY MEAN”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | February 27, 2007
"Let's be perfectly Franken. No one, particularly the author, foresaw the runaway success of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.
'It's certainly more than I expected, and probably even more than I hoped for,' humorist Al Franken says. 'We had done no advertising at all, and just the smallest amount of publicity. So this thing has been selling just purely on the title, and I guess me or something. . . . One guy came up to me and said he's sleeping with the book.'
Franken's 271-page political offensive – 'Some of the stuff is really playful, some of it gratuitously mean' – debuted at No. 4.
Might Limbaugh-ites be buying up copies for the purpose of destroying them?
'I hope so.' Plant that idea, would ya?' Franken says." Source: Dallas Morning News, February 19, 1996
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February 27th, 2007 at 11:19 am
And your point would be…?
February 27th, 2007 at 11:31 am
MDE FROM THE ARCHIVES: FRANKEN DESCRIBES OWN BOOK AS “GRATUITOUSLY …
February 27th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Rush and ‘gratitously mean’ go hand in hand:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Clinton
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On November 6, 1992, three days after her father won the elections, when Chelsea was still in braces, Rush Limbaugh said the following: “Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat; Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?” He then pointed to a video monitor, which switched to a picture of Chelsea. Although Limbaugh has claimed that it was a technical error, as Al Franken documented in his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, since the show was on a tape delay, if it truly was a technical error, it could have been corrected prior to airing of the show.
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February 27th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Is Rush running for US Senate?
February 27th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Michael, when describing your blog, you should go with, “Gratuitously Slanderous”.
February 27th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Christine… So?
Are the new leader of using non-sequiturs to obfuscate the conversation?
Lame.
February 27th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Yeah, this post was just dumb.
Franken is descrbing the tone of the book, so what?
Yeah, the Democrats will attack Coleman based off of his voting record, you guys can continue attacking Franken based off his best selling books. Lets see whose attacks the public thing are more plausible.
Honestly, Franken was a comedian, a damn good one. He is now giving up the comedy to become a serious politician. He’s evolving and now going into a different aspect of politics, from making fun of the idiot politicians out there who just so happen to be Republicans to instead deciding to run against them and take them out of office. Evolution my friends, evolution, oh wait, I mean creationism, creationism
February 27th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Andrew, you are entitled to your wrong opinion that Franken was a damn good comedian.
However, even the DUmmies admit that their hero, Al Franken, sucks -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104×5031844
Al Franken is just another run-of-the-mill, Bush-hating liberal hack.
February 28th, 2007 at 12:00 am
You guys are right–please disregard my post and instead post a ‘mean’ quote from Al’s 1996 book about Rush and then I can tell you why Rush deserves it (M.J. Fox, Dononvan McNabb, Chelsea Clinton, Jerry Garcia, et al)
A comedic interlude (Requires quicktime:)
http://onegoodmovemedia.org/movies/njenson/bluechristmas.html
Woodbury, your link doesn’t work
February 28th, 2007 at 11:19 am
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104×5031844
February 28th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Still does not work, sorry.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1500547/posts
has a link that works.
March 2nd, 2007 at 9:33 am
The comments from that link are all about the radio show and from 2005.