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I recently heard one of those right-wing radio guys claiming conservatives argue on a much higher level than liberals, who resort to name-calling.
He asked rhetorically if it's conceivable a conservative would write a book with a title as nasty as Al Franken's Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot. (Actually, the intentionally over-the-top title strikes me as more funny than nasty.)
Rhetorical or not, let me ask him back if it's that hard to find equally harsh titles from conservatives?
posted by LAGuy @ 1:10 AM
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Anything by Anne Coulter. If she didn't exist, Al Franken would have to make her up
Where's your World Series prediction, New England Guy? We're all waiting for it.
I liked when Franken was asked why he named it that and he would say, "Well, first of all, he's really fat." Which somehow he could say in a way that was hilarious.
I think the left has almost all the best political humor these days. So much so, in fact, that people forget satire is, historically speaking, more a conservative phenomenon.
Writers like Aristophanes and Swift tended to be reactionaries, if that's the right word. They would look at newfangled ideas and mock them.
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