Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations

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Dell, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 313 pages
In the grand satirical tradition of Swift, Rabelais, and Twain comes...

Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, and Other Observations...

a scathing--but uncompromisingly fair--look at America's largest talk show host and the rest of the Republican right.

Penned by the Emmy award-winning Saturday Night Live writer whom John Podhoretz of the New York Post has called "the man responsible for some of the most brilliant political satire of our time," Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot tackles the issues--and the politicians--in ways few have dared...
Exploding Medicare Costs: "Why not shoot the elderly into space? Stay with me. Because I'm not just thinking about the budget here. I'm talking about science. Just think how many more manned space operations NASA could undertake if they didn't have to worry about getting the astronauts back."
Crime: "I have a radical gun-buyback idea that I guarantee would be a huge success. Here's how it works: hand in a gun, get a free vial of crack."
Newt Gingrich: "Many of us, like Newt, have acknowledged smoking dope and reading Toffler in the early 70s. But after reading his book, I think Newt's dirty little secret is that he smoked dope and watched The Jetsons."
Phil Gramm: "If you get beyond the fact the Gramm is ugly, mean, hypocritical, has a boob fetish, and drives his wife like a mule, he does have a certain folksy charm."
On the subject of Rush Limbaugh, Franken lets the facts speak for themselves. Listen to Rush, the "rugged individualist" and enemy of government handouts, explain how his second wife made him stop sitting around the house eating just food and go file for unemployment insurance. And learn all of Rush's several explanations for how he avoided the draft.
Of course, when it comes to draft-dodging Republicans, Rush isn't alone. Reading Al's Vietnam short story, "Operation Chickenhawk," you'll savor the exploits of Privates Limbaugh, Gramm, Quayle, Buchanan, Gingrich, and George Will as Lieutenant Oliver North leads them kicking and screaming into combat.
And don't miss Al's informative discussion with the man who has "the easiest job in America": Rush Limbaugh's fact-checker. And much, much more.
 

Contents

Book Review
1
One Giant Leap Toward Solving
31
The Newt Cancer Surgery Story
45
Rush Limbaughs Fact Checker
51
Bob Doles Nightmare of Depravity
71
Adventures in Politics November 8 1988
79
The Case for
88
Something We Can All Get Behind 146
94
Back to Newts Loot
139
Adventures in Politics April 23 1994
147
Everybodys Favorite Bastard
152
Fun with Nexis
160
Arlen Arlen Arlen And Other Thoughts on the 96 Election
164
Nazi Lover
171
The MiddleClass Squeeze
179
Rubbernecking on the Infotainment
181

The Republican Contribution to Public Debate
96
This Book Is Not Part of a Conspiracy
103
Get Letters
107
Adventures in Politics December 31 1993
108
The Secrets of Renaissance Weekend
115
Stop This Man Before He Kills Again
117
A Ticking Time Bomb
121
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Liar
124
Newts Loot
135
LexisNexis The Powerful Revolutionary Database Technology
137
More Fun with Rush Limbaughs Fact
197
Fair Mean vs Unfair Mean
215
The Urgent Need for Health Care Reform
234
Greatest President of
247
A Time for Healing
263
Adventures in Politics The 1996 Primary
278
Adventures in Politics May 4 1996
289
My Research Assistant Is Not Dead
302
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Al Franken is the author of I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me! and Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot. He currently serves on the United States Senate as the senator from Minnesota.

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