Professional: Al Franken's awesome!!!

While driving home to Texas, I had the distinct privilege of listening to a book on CD entitled "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" written by Al Franken.

Let's just say I thought the book was so funny and well written and eye opening that I listened to it TWICE!

He did a superb job of point-counterpoint throughout the book, taking great pains to discredit alot of the myths that I had come to hold as truth simply because I was told that they were true. Like the idea of the "liberal media." That term has been thrown around for years and only now I'm I realizing that it's simply a ploy by folks with a louder voice to influence and taint our basic sensibilities.

It's very evident in the fact that there's a whole channel devoted to right wing aggressive viewpoints: Fox News Channel. Yet there's no direct liberal correlation...in fact, the conservatives use their own invention to say "hey, look, everyone else has to be liberal because we are only one channel and that's the only place conservatives can be." Yeah, fucked up thinking but it works cuz people are buying it hook, line, and sinker.

And apparently, Ann Coulter is awful. And judging by the things that she apparently writes in her book, you're damn straight she is.

Anyway, I wish more people would listen and or buy his book because I think it's worth reading or at least thinking about. S'funny though; if I proposed that to some of my friends or to other folks, they'd think I was simply trying to brainwash them into becoming liberal, something that I don't always agree with.

Ah, the shitty yucky side of politics...