Re: When Did Dennis Miller become a right-wing mouthpiece?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Ryan Chang) wrote:

> Lyapunov  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >And I'm not even on the same planet as "right wing" or the GOP. I just
> 
>       Haw!
> 
> >find Franken yet another in a long line of hatemongering (sorry, but
> >that's what it is), ideological twerps who have somehow convinced a
> >segment of the public that kindergarten level insults and taunts and
> >potty humor are valid replacements for intellectual discourse.
> 
>       This is a misstatement of Franken's books insofar as there's more
> than just insults, taunts, and potty humour.  There's also embarrassingly
> long exposes of right-wing hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty
> (generally done in a funny manner), which help clear the table towards an
> eventual evenhanded discourse.

Actually, I was very disappointed after reading Franken's book. Although 
brilliant in specific individual chapters, it was not nearly as amusing 
or penetrating as I had expected. It also had a very thrown-together 
feel, not really hanging together well as a book. The last chapter, 
where he wrote his conclusions was especially disappointing, as it had a 
very tacked-on feel, as if he felt he had to write something to try to 
put all the previous chapters in perspective but did it in a very 
slapdash manner.

That being said, there were parts of the book I enjoyed enormously, 
particularly his skewering of Ann Coulter. My politics tend to be 
moderate to conservative, but I've always thought Ann Coulter was off 
her rocker. Heck, even a friend of mine, who's an arch-conservative, 
thinks she's more of an embarrassment than anything else...

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