Reply #9: I read his book in Borders (in Singapore of all places) [View All]

It’s a good read in parts –he basically argues the case for liberalism and puts forward some of the stuff that Franken and the other left wing political commentators have put forward about the Wellstone memorial and so on. He also reprints some of the hate mail he gets from conservative viewers and both the letters and some of the responses to them are hilarious! He does have a good sense of humour and it comes through in the book.

Unfortunately he ruins it by including all this stuff that makes him sound like he’s apologizing for being a liberal. For example he writes that he doesn’t think that Roger Ailes and the FAUX news channel is ideologically biased or else they wouldn’t have hired him. And he thinks George W Bush is a good man and he includes a whole chapter on what he agrees with conservatives with. He seems to dedicate a significant proportion to his book to distancing himself from the convictions he put forward in other parts of the book –which I find contradictory

Worth a read but not half as good as Franken or Mike Moore or heck, almost any other centrist/left political commentator