![]() ![]() (He traces Gingrich's theory of sedentary woman versus giraffe- hunting man to its ostensible source in a 1955 Reader's Digest.) To be fair, he also discusses Mr. ![]() Franken's sarcasm is an assault weapon fired at the Goodyear blimp (not to be confused with the title character): "If you ask me, the man who has the easiest job in America is Rush Limbaugh's fact checker.'' Colin Powell, Arlen Specter, and Ross Perot, along with Newt, Phil Gramm, and the rest of the men on white horses are treated to the comic's scorn. To be sure, it's the nutcakes on the political right, the religious bigots, and the paranoid paramilitary that he disses, and he does it with two murderous weapons: satire and facts. ![]() As one may surmise from the title, ad hominem is his modus operandi, and he attacks with a wonderful lack of civility. ![]() If he continues in this vein, Franken may emerge as the funniest public affairs analyst since Walter Lippmann, and he's a tad less scatological than the Hon. Five-time Emmy Award winner Franken (formerly of Saturday Night Live) becomes a political pundit with a vengeance-a vengeance directed against Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, and others of similar stripe, as well as fat old Rush. ![]()
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