Pynchon's money gig

[Mitchell R Coffey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nconaty at juno.com at Internet
> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 1999 5:41 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org at INTERNET
> Subject: Pynchon's money gig
[snip]
> Well, in Al Franken's _Why Not Me?_, he describes the
> creation of _Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot_:
> "...our writer's room consisting of Kurt Vonnegut, Tom
> Pynchon and [Isaac Bashevis] Singer...  But they weren't
> funny, at least not ha-ha- laugh-out-loud funny...There
> was only one solution: I would have to write the book
> myself."
[snip]

Well, as everyone knows, Franken went on to be something
like "Political Satirist In Residence" for the Cliniton White
House.  Now, my father, Bert Coffey, was once Chairman
of the California Democratic Party.  That was sometime ago,
of course, but I still have my Democratic contacts.  They tell
that me Franken's authorship claims, as you quote above,
were intended solely to divert attention from the true ghost
writer of the monumental _Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot_:
J.D. Salinger.

Mitchell Coffey
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I read a book on cognitive dissonance once,
but it only proved my point.