The Truth about 'The Truth'

There is a reason why movie sequels usually bomb. Story line is old, too predictable, been there done that,....well it appears that book sequels can also be bombs, and I can't think of a better illustration than Al Franken's new book, The Truth With Jokes.

Alan Skorski who has a book due out in November, an expose on Franken, titled, Pants on Fire: How Al Franken Lies, Smears, and Deceives, according to his site, www.alanskorski.com, has written a brief review on his blog on Franken's latest screed.

It seems that Franken really shot his load on his first book and has to keep reminding his readers of his last book, Lies and the Lying Liars, as if he's trying to increase his Amazon rating even on his old stuff.

When Franken was out promoting his last book, he actually used material from his book in his interviews. For anybody who watched him with Matt Lauer or Jon Stewart, he talked about the "impending execution of Rove and Libby." A controversy so recent, that it can't possibly be in his book.

A hundred bucks says his new book does nowhere near the success of his last book and that Skorski's new book, will be the surprise book of the fall season