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  <title><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot]]></title>
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  <default_description>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 &quot;family values&quot; 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 &quot;chicken-hawks&quot; out on a Vietnam war patrol under the leadership of Ollie North.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that this was Al Franken's first political book, written before he turned into a politician himself.  I remember reading it at the gym,on the stair machine and laughing so hard that I almost fell off ...  How tragic is it that 14 years after this book was published Rush Limbaugh is still bei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52148206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ironically, just as I was finishing <em>Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot</em>, I happened upon <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/04/01/rush_limbaugh">an essay by Limbaugh's niece</a>, Julie Limbaugh, about the ups and downs of being second cousin to a man who makes a living by (in his own words) <em>making half the people in America hate him</em>. She calls her cousin's long...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51132987">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of the three Al Franken books I've read, this one is my least favorite.  It's also one of his earlier books, before <em>Lies</em> and <em>The Truth</em>, so maybe he just hadn't hit his stride yet, politcal satire-wise.<br/><br/><em>Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations</em> has a great title, mostly becau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47784578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it the *day* it came out in hardback, and just LOVED it.  Franken is brilliant, and has a crack team of ivy-league researchers to do his bidding, which doesn't hurt.]]></body>
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    <review id="21128500">
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    <body><![CDATA[Terrific book! All the information in is has been thoroughly fact-checked and confirmed by several sources. Among the interesting facts I learned about Rush:<br/><br/>- He received welfare for a large portion of his adult life.<br/>- This &quot;American patriot&quot; got a 4F deferment from the V...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21128500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't let the title fool you, this book is very short on personal insults.  Rather, Franken the commedian introduces us to Al Franken the logician who demolishes all of Rush Limbaugh's prize arguments by going after his...math?  By the time Franken is done, Limbaugh doesn't have a leg to stand on.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42523817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9499438">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Downloaded from Audible.com<br/><br/>Narrator: Al Franken<br/>Length: 2 hours and 48 min. (abridged) <br/><br/>Grammy Award Winner, Best Spoken Word Comedy Album, 1996<br/><br/>Publisher's Summary<br/>Fed up with the Republican Right? Then you'll love Al Franken's scathingly hilarious look a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9499438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45134528">
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    <body><![CDATA[Very funny stuff.  Al Franken was part of the SNL team during the glory days of SNL, when it was actually funny and often featured brilliant political satire.  Franken's understanding of politics is astute and his smartass comments are great.  Even 13 years after this book was written, it's still hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45134528">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72308916">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book treats Limbaugh as a joke, which is true to some extant, but it fails to go into his background in any detail. For example, what makes Limbaugh hate working people so much? Is it strictly to make his capitalist masters happy or does it stem from some developmental problem related to his ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72308916">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Al Franken in his new book, suggests several novel solutions for some of our social problems. To relieve Medicare and NASA budgets he says, &quot;Why not shoot the elderly into space? .. we could learn so much. What is the effect of weightlessness on arthritis?&quot; And for the next Republican tick...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37717704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Al Franken is funny.  Really.  Funny.  As a primer into the world of political talk show hosts, this may not be the ideal source… but have I mentioned that it’s really stinking funny?  Franken’s ability to satirize just about any aspect of (extreme) right-wing personalities, positions, shows, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7136641">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Franken is amazing and spot-on. Honestly, sometimes I just wasn't sure if he was poking fun or if he seriously believed some of the things he said. If he had actually believed them (which I know isn't true), it would've been an even better bookgasm than it was. A student of mine recommended this boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76006175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Al's humor gets a bit puerile, but he is really funny, and makes some excellent points about entertainment masquerading as news (as in, you can't just make stuff up and present it as the truth).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Al Franken states the obvious. Also there are jokes, and a Vietnam-War story featuring Oliver North leading worthless sacks of shit Gingrich, Limbaugh, Quayle and George Will into battle]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a pointed, full of venomous contempt for the right. I loved it. But that's really not the point. A book that is written to expose people, like Limbaugh, should appeal to a broader audience. Franken changed nothing except he might have given some Liberals a few more talking points. Anyone who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19459018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40738008">
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny, entertaining, but a little mean. Not that Limbaugh doesn't deserve what is coming to him, its just I didn't like reading it too much.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While he constantly reminds you he is writing like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly on purpose to prove a point, it still gets on my nerves. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because I sometimes need to know what the hapless liberals are thinking.  Otherwise, not much substance.  Just a hateful monologue.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very funny, AL is obnoxious, and it was great to see Rush taken on in a world he dominates. Not however for the conservative at heart.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book years ago and still remember how it had me rolling on the floor laughing my butt off! Al Franken is one sharp cookie!]]></body>
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