New book for kids: ""Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed"

This idea seems so bad, is it possible that the book was intended as a gag gift item? I’m having a hard time imagining someone thinking this would be a good way to explain things to their child.

Damnit! I came here to post that to. Screw you guys!

: Takes ball and goes home. :

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a lemonade stand with a picture of Jesus on it, but if I ever did see one, I’d probably keep on walking. Nothing against Christians; non-denominational lemonade just tastes better. I don’t know why.

I ate in a restaurant last month with a statue of Krishna in it, and the local government has never, to my knowledge, done anything to stop this. I was in an Italian restaurant with a picture of the Last Supper in it, too, right here in liberal New York City, and they’ve never been bothered, to my knowledge.

This coastal liberal wants to know: could the author possibly have gotten that little fact wrong? My sources say: yes!
I’d like to see a story where the kids’ parents, who own outright the furniture for the stand, the tablecloth, the pitcher, the lemon tree and the very ground from whence the lemon tree is sprouting, insist on taking their cut of the lemonade stand’s profits, since they in effect funded the whole operation. Then they could threaten to evict their children, who despite their heavily subsidized lemonade venture, are turning out to cost more than they’re returning. I’d call it Help! Mommy’s Under My Bed—and She’s a Bloated Plutocrat! Or something like that.

Interesting. You’re bitching about that book and yet when this was published, you didn’t say a word.

Nor when this was published.

Shorts in somewhat of a knot, hmmmm?

I didn’t know Al Franken wrote children’s books. Or that he was trying to subvert kids’ political views (other than his own kids, that is).

All we’re doing is discussing the book, and many of us are finding faults, and we’re explaining and justifying our positions. It’s a very liberal way to go about things.

I guess you could start a thread where you discuss what’s wrong with the Al Franken books if you want to, Clothahump. I enjoyed discussing the obvious flaws with Mommy, There’s a Liberal, which I’ve read. I’ve also read Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, so if you want, we can discuss that book, too, as well as its relative merits (or lack of merit.) I always enjoy discussing a book I’ve read with someone else who’s read the same book, you know?

As to Lies: I think it started out strong, but it sort of slowed down in the middle, when Franken started getting serious. He got funny again at the end of the book, but the serious part sort of screws up the momentum… wouldn’t you agree? Discuss.

Oh, don’t confuse Clothahump with facts, you filthy liberals! :stuck_out_tongue: :wink:

(And I vote for “Supply-Side Jesus” as the best bit in Lies and the Lying Liars, myself. Having the artist for Megaton Man chip in was just an extra bonus…)

Are you trying to get into the Guinness record books for stupidity, or something? 'Cause I think you’ve got a real shot, with this last post of yours.

Nope. Not at all. It was fun to see all the Frankenhaters get excited over it though. But then, you have the Bleach Blonde From Hell (Coulter) on your side. With her “helping” you, who needs enemies? For every lefty liberal commie America hating jerk, there is a corresponding and equally stupid righty fascist freedom hating jerk. Too bad they can’t just cancel out like matter and antimatter.

I laughed myself silly when he talked about dancing naked after Condi Rice lied to Newsweek (was it Newsweek?) But I found the bit at the end about the pig farm the most eye opening part (not to mention disgusting and terrifying). On the whole, I preferred “Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot.” Not only is it truth in advertising, it’s fun to say.

Because I haven’t read it and making a judgement based on a few snippets from some reviews is a bad way to evaluated stuff. It’s the scientist in me.

The only reason I’m hesitant to say, “Geeze, this thing is stupid,” is that I haven’t actually read the book, and such a sweeping statement leaves me open (correctly) to scathing rebuttal by anyone that HAS read the book and challenegs me to provide evidence for my statement.

However, from what I’m able to observe, this book sounds like an over-the-top straw-manish effort to portray liberal views, and an effort to demonize liberals. I don’t relish this sort of tactic coming from “my side.”

But that view is based solely on the information about the book provided here - I have not read the book, and leave room for the possibility that it’s the most insightful presentation of conservative thought since George Will.

Er… just not, you know, lots of room.

The book does look unbelievably dumb, but to the people trying to say that it gets certain facts wrong, well there this thing called hyberbole.

Next book put out by the Homosexual Agenda Press: Help! Moms! There’s a Religious Right-winger in our bed!

For a look at another anti-liberal childrens book, check out Truax, which targets anti-logging activists and anti-logging environmentalists. I am under the impression it does so a bit more gently than “Help! Mom!..” does.

How do you know?

Seriously. I’d really, really like to know! :smiley:

The point of that previous post, Clothahump, was that there’s no way you could’ve known what I said when Al Franken’s Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot was published. It came out nearly 10 years ago.

Why you would make a ridiculous claim about what I may or may not have said years before either of us joined the SDMB is beyond me.

Because Al Franken’s books are intelligent, well-written satire with documented, well-researched facts to back it up rather than ill-conccieved reactionary bullshit?

Wait. You mean it isn’t true there are more trees now than when America was first settled?

Fair enough, fair enough.

Debaser thought it was cute, though. In the past, I’ve never known him to measure up to you.

Not to mention they’re NOT targetted towards children.