Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot By: Al Franken – 264 Pgs. Right from the start of this book I could see that Al Franken was going to be a funny author. After graduating from Harvard in 1973, Franken performed stand up comedy, then joined Saturday Night Live. Franken has won five Emmy Awards, four for writing and one for producing. I really enjoyed this book for a number of reasons. For the most part I liked it because it is such a different type of reading material than I am used to.
The only running theme throughout the book was the degradation of Rush Limbaugh. In many chapters Rush wasn’t even mentioned, though. What Franken did in this book was jump from different subjects, stories, issues, and people in each chapter. Each chapter I found very unique and entertaining. I also learned a great deal about different political figures and what they stand for. Another theme of this book is derived from Franken’s very liberal nature, and that was the bashing of unreasonable right wing conservatives.
A lot of the book I could understand and enjoy, but on a number of occasions I didn’t know anything about the people or political events to which Franken was referring. Considering that this book was basically a compilation of political references, there was a good deal of writing that relates to political science throughout the book. I saw how different political leaders can really influence their followers. Franken refers to all of Rush Limbaugh’s followers as “ditto heads” because all they do is agree with everything Rush says, when really they are being misinformed. I feel like this book also gave me an idea of how to judge political leaders, which is good because this will be my first year voting. Hurricane: the Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter and Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot do not have a whole lot in common as far as the style of the books.
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Book Review The history of American Empire contains many secrets. As John S. Friedman writes, "secret histories usually reveal an unknown element of a completed event. Investigative journalism usually focuses on ongoing events. Obviously they can overlap. (Friedman) The Secret Histories: Hidden Truths That Challenged the Past and Changed the World written by John S. Friedman, Overthrow: America's ...
Hurricane was a biography which told the life of Rubin Carter in exact clarity, while Limbaugh described Rush Limbaugh’s life and doings from a very opposed viewpoint. Hurricane remained on the subject of Rubin Carter throughout the entire novel, while Limbaugh skipped around from subject to subject. Another major difference between the two books was that Hurricane was very depressing and Limbaugh was fairly comical and light hearted.
