Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Don't read this for the sake of humor. This book isn't as funny as Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right. Instead, you should read this book if you're interested in a somewhat candid look at the work of a U.S. Senator. While Franken admits he is not fully candid, I think this is as close as you'll get from a politician because Franken has a very non-politician bent in his governing style. When he ran for office he was an outsider and so he's able to see the process with outsider's eyes as an ordinary American might.

Also gives a nice in-depth and humorous look at some of the things that make Ted Cruz so awful he's even disliked by his own party.

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Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I first read this in 2004, but I recently re-read it because I couldn't remember it and Franken has a new book that I'll have to wait to get from the library. This book is actually really well-argued and researched, probably because Franken had an entire team of Harvard students to fact-check and edit his chapters. But the most remarkable thing is how inaccurate the purposefully conservative media already was by 2003- and how they have always (ironically) accused the mainstream media of having a bias. Fox News had already been in operation for about 6 years- since October 1996. You know what distinguishes real news from "fake news?" Fact checking, fact checking, fact checking!

Twenty years later we are living through the disastrous results of the right wing's attack on truth, which turned out to be an attack on American democracy.

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Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken

Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Actually funny.

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