Hey.Al Franken's on Charlie Rose.Charlie Rose blose but Al Franken's o

[Algorem]

n.Making fun of Limburger and O'Liely...says O'Liely is a pathological liar literally and also would lose to Franken in a gunfight because Al is 3rd best quick-draw expert on the state fair circuit(says he does this in summers)...now talking about his new radio show...Rose is laughing a lot maybe he doesn't bloe so much...Al says if election today Bush would win but anger is growing...Bush did nothing about terrorism,,,Al doesn't know which Dem he's for yet...giving opinions of various candidates...doesn't know who he's leaning to...integrity,crony capitalism,economy what election should be about,,,Bush blew after-911 opportunity to remake economy FOR Americans... .

[Bozita]

1. David Denby is also on -- author of "American Sucker"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316192945/002-4178679-6891205?v=glance

from the reviews on Amazon:

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

"I wanted to be wealthy," Denby bluntly admits near the end of this absorbing memoir of the dot-com boom and bust. "I didn't make it." Like millions of other amateur investors in 2000 and 2001, Denby (Great Books) was swept along by greed, by the nearly messianic belief that the stock market offered easy opportunities for unlimited prosperity. Denby sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Nasdaq, digested unhealthy amounts of CNBC and the Wall Street Journal and forged friendships with some of the era's brightest stars (and, later, its most public criminals). He lost his balance in the excess of the time-stock tickers in strip clubs; parties at executives' lofts-and then lost his money when the market crashed. ("The ax had swung," Denby writes, "and heads lay all over the ground.") Though exceedingly well written, Denby's portrait of the great "Dot Con" generally echoes the sentiments of other, similarly themed books about the period. The work is more appealing when Denby focuses on himself: he had nearly suffered a nervous breakdown when his wife of 18 years left him, and making enough money to buy out her share of their apartment was his initial motivation for investing in the market. Denby brutally details his decline, from a night of impotence to an affair with a married woman, then a six-month obsession with Internet porn-harrowing stuff for a New Yorker staff writer. His dissection of his own Upper West Side narcissism offers some of the most candid critiques of the Manhattan bourgeoisie ever found outside of a Woody Allen film. More of Denby, and less of the Nasdaq, would have made this good book even better.

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[ochazuke]

2. Rose is irritating

What I hate about him:

1. He often asks a question, and then, before the guest has a chance to answer, Rose starts blurting out answers while the guest is trying to get a word in edgewise.

2. He has too much respect for people in power or who are successful. For example, he simply wouldn't believe that Bill O'Reilly is a pathalogical liar. On the other hand, he belittles ideas that don't have the sanction of the power elite. For example, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, he acted like anyone who said our involvement there was based in our oil-dependent economy was an idiot or simpleton.

But Al Franken is great and I really look forward to wasting my afternoons listening to him.

[Th1onein]

3. Al Franken PISSED me off!

I expected Rose to completely forget about Kucinich, because that's what all the talking heads are doing these days, when it comes to Kucinich, but I didn't expect Al to let him get away with it. Earlier today, some guy on CNN did the same thing. And that's to say nothing of Braun, and Sharpton. What they are doing is setting the agenda for the American people, and I very much resent that.