Al Franken: Books and the Writing Writers Who Write Them (or Speak Them)

I’ve been on the fence about getting Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them because I like Al Franken, but I expect his book to be unbalanced. When I read his 20 questions in the 50th Anniversary Issue of Playboy, I decided to go ahead and grab a copy at iTunes. (It helps that I’ve got a 5 hour drive to S’port this coming weekend and the audio book is 10 hours.)

PLAYBOY: Now that Bob Hope has departed the scene, will we be seeing Al Franken entertaining the troops every Christmas?
FRANKEN: This Christmas I’m going to Afghanistan and Kuwait. We’re not going to Saudia Arabia, but we are going to Irag, and I think we can take cheerleaders there. It will be my fourth time entertaining overseas, but I’ve never been this far forward. I went to Kosovo while there was still some shooting. I was shot at. We were going over the Sar Mountains in a helicopter. I could see the tracers, and it made me really nervous. But the guys in the helicopter didn’t seem nervous. They get shot at, and they take evasive action. I love our men and women in uniform, and it breaks my heart that they’re getting killed day in and day out and that the president lied to us about why we were going to war. There was a case to be made about this war — Saddam defied the UN for 12 years — if Bush had only treated us like adults.

Seems the man and I are on the same wave-length. It should be a good read…or listen.

Posted by etrigan at December 21, 2003 10:18 AM