Playboy's 20Q: Al Franken

January, 2004

Playboy's 20Q: Al Franken1[Q] Playboy: Your recent book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, became a best-seller after Fox News and Bill O'Reilly tried to block you from using their "fair and balanced" slogan. That was your plan all along, right?[A] Franken: The lawsuit was the best thing that ever happened to the book. People have tried to find some kind of explanation for how Fox could have been that stupid, and the best theory is that I hy...