Humor along with a lot of hard facts.
Al Franken and his team had to work hard to write this book I'm sure. Because even though a lot of us know the media lies in favor of the RNC along with the RNC itself, sometimes it's hard to dig up the proof. Al and his team dug up the proof and presented it in a way that was fairly funny.
I try to explain to my relatives and friends how the RNC lies and distorts information to their own personal gain, but it's so complex at times simple minded people won't take the time to learn. This book gave a good number of people a chance to finally sit down and learn since it included humor to keep them interested along the way.
Target: Toes
I read this book 5 pages at a time over the past 6 months, whenever I had a few minutes to kill in the smallest room in the house. This seemed somehow APPROPRIATE to the subject matter, being a jokey, light-hearted diatribe against Fox News, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and other such "opinion entertainers."
Holding them to standards of journalism is almost beside the point. They themselves never claim to represent anything resembling factual accuracy, and they rarely do. The scary part is that a substantial portion of the non-reading public do not have the breadth of experience to understand that "entertainment" is not the same as "news" and have conflated the two in their minds.
This situation makes an expose of egregious errors something akin to shooting fish in a barrel. So who is the book written for? Surely not the Fox viewers, since they don't read. Surely not Rush Limbaugh's mongrel listeners, since they probably CAN'T read. Also surely not the educated Elitist Left-Wingers since we already know Rush Is A Big Fat Idiot. In the end, the purpose of the book is left unclear since it both skewers the radical truth-impaired Right and does so in a totally frivolous, ah-shucks manner. Franken throws in exaggerations and falsehoods of his own, then retracts them, further undermining any claim he may have to seriously discussing media veracity. He skewers his own credibility, he cheapens what should be an important discussion.
In short, 5 pages at a time was about all I could take in a sitting.
I love this book
NOT! What trash, I thought this guy was funny, but he's nothing but an idiot and he shows it here. Fair and balanced? Now that's funny! I returned this one fast, and washed my hands. Should be recycled along with the author!
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