Book: 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37)

[Some Moron]

I was browsing the local bookstore yesterday and ran into that book title. I said, 'Alright, I will give it a try'. I opened the book and was laughing the entire way through. It's also a quick read, but still, funny.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060761288/102-2999378-7403333?v=glance

This will obviously not be a favorite with liberals, but I am sure a rebuttal book will be written. Here is one I really thought was funny as hell:

Al Franken

AL FRANKEN SAYS HE'S A SATIRIST, by which he means he can say nasty things about anyone he wants and claim it is all in good fun.

Small world. I am a satirist, too.

Not long ago, I sat down with Al Franken for a one-on-one interview about his life and career. We spoke, appropriately enough, in his radio studio in New York City, where he hosts Al Franken Show on Air America, which is a liberal talk radio network that is carried in serveral cities.

GOLDBERG: Hi, Al, and thanks for letting me come in and have this chat with you today.

FRANKEN: You're a liar.

GOLDBERG: What do you mean I'm a liar?

FRANKEN: I never said you were a liar, you liar. You're telling lies about me lying about you lying. That's a lie.

GOLDBERG: Okay, but before we actually begin, I need to apologize.

FRANKEN: For what?

GOLDBERG: For listing you all the way down at number thirty-seven. When I started this project, before you went on the air here at Air America, I had you in the top five of all the people who are screwing up America. But I'm afraid that after the presidential election, when it became clear that lefties like you probably hurt Kerry more than they helped him, and that you were becoming more and more irrelevant politically, I had to drop you down to thirty-seven, and if we did this interview next week, you might be number seventy-three.

FRANKEN: You're a big fat idiot.

GOLDBERG: Excuse me?

FRANKEN: Liar.

GOLDBERG: Al. Someone once said that liberals have forgotten how to be liberal, meaning they're no longer open-minded. They think the other side is not just wrong, but morally repugnant. Any thoughts?

FRANKEN: Yes, I think you're a big fat idiot.

GOLDBERG: You just said that!

FRANKEN: No, I dind't.

Let's move on. You've had quite a career. Satuday Night live, movies, politics, and now your own radio show. What motivates you?

FRANKEN: Well, Bernie, as I'm sure you know, I'm good enough, smart enough, and, doggone it, people like me. That's what motivates me. Knowing how good enough and smart enough I am. And I think, if you send off positive vibes, as I do, people will like you, which is why they like me. I also have lots of self-esteem, which is good. And most of all, I'm not negative.

GOLDBERG: What do you think of conservatives?

FRANKEN: I think they are motherf***ing, Nazi, ass***** who should drink poison and die.

GOLDBERG: How does angry talk like that, which we hear a lot from liberals these days, jibe with your insistence that you're not negative? I don't get it.

FRANKEN: That's because you did not go to Harvard and I did. Harvard is where smart people go to college. I went there.

GOLDBERG: That leads me into my next quesiton, Al.

FRANKEN: Liat liar pants on fire!

GOLDBERG: Right. So here's what I'm wondering. You went to Harvard, Frank Rich, the New York Times columnist, went to Harvard; Michael Kinsley, now of the L.A. Times, went to Harvard. You're all very smart, but you're all very nasty, also. Why are so many Harvard media guys so mean-spirited?

FRANKEN: Come on, Bernie, you really need to ask that question? Just look at the three of us. We are proof evolution is only a theory. I mean Frank and I are always goofing on Kinsley--behind his back of course. The guy makes Richard SImmons look like Sylvester Stallone. He's always nitpicking because somebody used a semicolon instead of a comma. This guy is a looooo-ser. So is Frank, but don't tell him I told you.

GOLDBERG: That's quite revealing. Anything else?

FRANKEN: Yes. I'm going to tell you a secret, Bernie, because I like you. WE ALL HATE OURSELVES: Frank, Rich, Michael Kinsley, and me. We're self-loathing nerds who can't do much except make fun of other people. Why do you think I call people "liars"? Because it makes me feel better about -- ME! Bernie, I'm so SICK.

GOLDBERG: I've never seen you open up like this, Al. Do you really think that you're sick?

FRANKEN: Who said that?

GOLDBERG: You did. You told me exactly that.

FRANKEN: Have I called you a liar yet today, because if I haven't, I'm about to start.

GOLDBERG: Why are you wearing your tin foil hat?

FRANKEN: No comment.

GOLDBERG: Okay, Al. Thanks very much for your time. By the way, do you know why you're number thirty-seven on the list of people who are screwing up America?

FRANKEN: No, actually, I don't.

GOLDBERG: Well, you know who Casey Stengel was?

FRANKEN: Sure, that baseball man, right?

GOLDBERG: Right, Al, that baseball man. He was the manager of the New York Yankees. Well,Casry walked into spring training camp one year and told all of his players to line up in alphabetical order... thierty-seven! That's why I gave you that number.

FRANKEN: Do you like my hat? It's made out of tinfoil, you know.

GOLDBERG: Thanks again, Al.

FRANKEN: Liar.

There is another gem where I was thinking of Woody too, maybe later...

 

[XXIII]

Al Franken is supposed to be funny? Oh.

 

[Some Moron]

Al Franken is supposed to be funny? Oh.

Something like that. He did have that hit movie. What was it, Stuart Saves His Family or something...

 

[NonSexWithHer]

Al Franken was one of the original writers on Saturday Night Live and must be read in that vein of satire and comedy.

The Far Right nutjobs are as square and unfunny as Nixon is dead.

 

[Some Moron]

Al Franken was one of the original writers on Saturday Night Live and must be read in that vein of satire and comedy.

The Far Right nutjobs are as square and unfunny as Nixon is dead.

Yep, to be fair, Al was playing Goldberg all along, but I am sure Goldberg gave up on anything formal. There is obviously no love there....

 

[Paendragon]

Yep, to be fair, Al was playing Goldberg all along, but I am sure Goldberg gave up on anything formal. There is obviously no love there....

I don't think that was a real interview. I think it was a poor attempt at satire. But I could be wrong.

 

[NonSexWithHer]

Yep, to be fair, Al was playing Goldberg all along, but I am sure Goldberg gave up on anything formal. There is obviously no love there....

Have you read Franken's books? I don't agree with Al that often, but from a purely comedic point of view they're hilarious.

Whereas somebody like Rush or Hannity will bore you to death with their piety, Al's books really have set ups and punchlines and take you somewhere. His visit to Bob Jones University with his son is gold.

 

[Some Moron]

I don't think that was a real interview. I think it was a poor attempt at satire. But I could be wrong.

I agree with that as well. The entire interview was a jab session, imo.

 

[Some Moron]

Have you read Franken's books? I don't agree with Al that often, but from a purely comedic point of view they're hilarious.

Whereas somebody like Rush or Hannity will bore you to death with their piety, Al's books really have set ups and punchlines and take you somewhere. His visit to Bob Jones University with his son is gold.

Yes, I have. Al is pretty extreme left as Bob Enyart is extreme right...

Oh, and as for righties, this is really funny and not boring at all.

 

[bytor2112]

book is amusing...actually just a bust on liberals....nothing more or less...