Title: More Misses than Hits
Review: To his credit, Franken does a decent job of pointing out the foibles of Anne Coulter and Co. But then again, just how hard is it to find inaccuracies, half-truths, lies and worse in the rantings of zealots like Coulter and Co.? Unfortunately, Franken misses the larger issue, which is that public discourse in America is increasingly dominated by zealots of right and left, and Ivins, Moore, Hightower and their ilk play just as loose with facts and are just as ideologically driven as their right wing counterparts. So unfortunately Franken misses a nice trick by focusing on the blatant stupidity of his political and cultural enemies, and ends up merely preaching to the choir instead of capitalizing on the opportunity to examine a problem of real urgency, which is the increasingly fundamentalist character of America, or rather, of two competing Americas.
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