Local Cartoonist Has Hand in Franken's Right-Wing Roast (Used Harvard Aide to Prank Bob Jones U)

Post-Gazette ^ | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 | Tony Norman

[nickcarraway]

If I were to take a wild guess, I'd bet that Bill O'Reilly and his colleagues at the Fox News Channel spent the weekend, as many of us did, reading Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."

[JusPasenThru]

Ho hum.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

"penned by a critic as caustic and funny as Franken"

Wow- what a maroon. I stopped reading right there, because while Franken may be fairly described as "caustic", I promise you that I have never laughed at anything he has ever said or done. He is as studiously UNfunny as it is possible to be. In fact, he makes that pious wimp Lieberman look like the class clown.

[GluteusMax]

Yawn.

[Michael.SF.]

where was the barf alert?

[skeeter]

Starved for a humorous but factual dissection of the histrionics of right-wing pundits and the politicians they shill for, Americans are gobbling up Franken's book. Yesterday it clocked in as the No. 1 top seller at Amazon.com.

Yes, another Franken classic (destined for the ages) is selling like hotcakes, folks. Gobble up your copy now before they're all gone, gone, gone.

What an arse.

[nickcarraway]

where was the barf alert?

I thought that ``Franken'' in the title makes that redundant.

[Leo Carpathian]

Where is the barf allert?

Hitlery should rush and get bunch of copies. I wouldn't even nail it on the bathroom wall to be used as a Russian toilet paper, waste of moni.

Being stupid is not funny.

[Ed_in_NJ]

Be on the lookout for my new book "Al Frankenshmuck is a Cheap Two-Bit Whore: Inside the Mind of a Dopey Opportunist" -- it will be full of blank pages.

Do you think Al will 'get' the joke?

[Ichneumon]

[Duke Nukum]

You would think, or at least I would, that a columnist would consider his audience and try to have a point.

This goes a long way toward explaining why illiteracy is so high. I want to be illiterate after reading just four paragraphs.

[weegee]

O'Reilly reads every word written about him? Then he must have Google searched and hit some FR threads at some point. He'll probably be dropping in here too. Hiya, Bill. I don't care for your radio show. I'm more of a fan of Rush, Michael Medved, GG Liddy, and Lara Ingram. I'll listen to some Michael Savage too but I'm not an O'Reilly or Sean Hannity fan. Nix too to Glenn Beck.

Some of it is politics and some of it is personality.

That said, I find the gripes in this article to be empty.

Kids may be able to buy O'Rielly's fiction but I doubt that many express an interest in reading anything (even if it contains a pornographic sex scene). The sex is supposed to be between a serial killer and someone else. The columnist is upset that the 2 aren't married. Where's the outrage tht one of them is a serial killer? There are bigger issues at hand, doofus. It is a work of fiction. Read once and set aside.

Gansta rap targets young adults (some over 24 may listen but I'd believe that the majority buying it are 14-24). They don't listen to a song just once either.

Apples and oranges.

[Dog Gone]

Wow, Pulitzer quality stuff.

[Boxsford]

anybody know what the prank was on BJU?

[ambrose]

O'Reily is a jackass and ensured that the Buck Toothed Moron would have a bestseller. Just as the liberals trying to censor The Passion will ensure its success at the box office.

[CaptainK]

Meanwhile, the only mistake I could find in Franken's heavily fact-checked tome is a relatively minor one on page 34. In a footnote referring to a story in this newspaper, Franken refers to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette without its patented hyphen.

Since Tony, the proofreader supreme and oracle of all facts, could only find one mistake there is no need to question anything in the book

[holyscroller]

I'm still waiting for something funny to come out of him. Mean? Yes. Vicious? Yes. Lying? Yes. But funny? No.

[weegee]

Obviously, O'Reilly has walked the same mean streets as Snoop in the darkened corridors of his imagination. But unlike the star of "Doggy Fizzle Televizzle," O'Reilly hasn't been able to make a lot of money packaging soft-core porn for the masses.

Snoop had marketed harcore porn for the masses too. He doesn't star in the sex scenes but he is behind them. He does introduce the videos (his picture is on the box) and even MTV has promoted them.

MTV: Snoop Dogg Wins Porn Awards For 'Doggystyle' Flick

Snoop Dogg's triple-X video, "Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle," took home two trophies at the 2002 Adult Video News Awards last Friday, and the Doggfather and his entourage took over a fellow pornster's hotel room to celebrate.

The rapper's first foray into the porn world won the Best Music award and was named Top Selling Tape of 2001, according to a spokesperson for the movie's producer, Hustler Video. The flick features 11 previously unreleased songs by Snoop protégés Tha Eastsidaz. Snoop cast the actors and wrote the score, and he can be seen rapping and cavorting in several sequences that introduce X-rated scenes.

BET: Snoop Dogg Wins Porn Awards For 'Doggystyle' Flick (By Joe D'Angelo, MTV News)

A search on the internet reveals that he has 2 videos out so far. Snoop Dogg's Hustlaz and Snoop Dogg's Hustlaz 2: Diary Of A Pimp.

Bill O'Reilly has no "Letters to Hustler" book out.

[IronJack]

a critic as caustic and funny as Franken.

Like who, Josef Goebbels? Spiro Agnew? I know dead people who are infinitely more amusing than Al Franken.

[ambrose]