Franken seems to be relying on sheer guesswork.
There is not one footnoted reference concerning Limbaugh’s body weight, and Mr. For example, nowhere in the 288-page screed does Franken actually show any real evidence that Limbaugh is indeed fat. Franken seems to want to have it both ways, criticizing Limbaugh for “demonizing” those who disagree with him, but all the while attacking his enemies with invective and scurrilous assertions that remain totally unproven. Franken decries “the loss of civility in public discourse,” he himself is a most egregious offender, not just calling Rush Limbaugh “a big fat idiot,” but Newt Gingrich “a big fat jerk,” and House majority leader Richard Armey “a big dick.” Mr. Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations is not just unfunny. But I have simply been too busy trying to slog through this repugnant collection of vile, unfunny essays. O’Rourke be assigned this very same week to review Nigel Hodgeson’s wonderful tome The Falkland Islands War-Six Hundred Years in the Making? Is it possible that because O’Rourke and I have the same agent, some simple mix-up occurred? Perhaps P.J., our agent, or I should have tried to sort this out. It is almost as if this were the result of some awful mistake by the Times. I am an expert on geopolitical strategic paradigms, not on the sort of cheap, mindless mockery that seems to be Mr. IT REMAINS a mystery why the New York Times would ask me to review this dreadfully foul little book. RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT AND OTHER OBSERVATIONSīy Al Franken 288 pp.
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