I finished The Truth this morning and told my wife she could read it now. The first thing she said was “I didn’t hear you laughing.” To be honest, there isn’t much to laugh about.
Oh sure, there are jokes in there, but far fewer than his previous books Lies and Rugh Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot.
But really, how can you laugh about an administration that has screwed things up this badly? How can you laugh about a member of congress supporting an organization that tricks girls into moving to Saipan, working in sweatshops or as sex slaves, forces them to have abortions if they get pregnant, all so you can put a “made in the USA” sticker on it and sell it at Wal-Mart? How can you laugh about a prominent religious figure first saying that indian gaming is bad, then turn around and say it’s good?
I don’t have the chance to listen to Air America as much as I like (see my article about Sirius for why I don’t listen to much terrestrial radio anymore). This book condenses a lot of the problems we’ve seen and how Bush was able to beat Kerry in the 2004 election. A lot of these things that regular listeners of “The Al Franken Show” would already know, but you can get it in three hours of reading instead of three hours a day over a few months. And no commercials.
It also takes a step away from what we’ve normally seen in politics. The “Us vs. Them” mentality that drives a lot of the fringes on both sides. Neither side has the absolute truth, and anyone claiming otherwise is a liar. There are good Republicans along with bad Democrats. Included is a great excerpt from Sen. Barak Obama’s keynote address to the DNC in 2004. He’s right.