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Summary: As Funny as it is Frightening
Review: I have never read a book by Franken before, though I have been a long time fan of his work with Saturday Night Live. As with doubtless numerous others customers, the media hype generated by the Fox suit encouraged me to buy this book. In sum, I devoured it rapidly, and hung on every word. Funnier, and with better fact-checking than Michael Moore (with the help of TeamFranken) this book details the many lies propogated by the radical right, and all-too-blithely disseminated by our lazy, ineffectual media. Franken alternates between humorous tidbits, biting satire and devastating research that picks apart the lies told by the likes of Ann (Thrax) Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and everyone's favorite right-wing blowhard, Rush Limbaugh. I recommend this book to everyone who needs a break from the all-too-serious political season that is upon us, and who nonetheless wants to get it all straight, sift through the hype, and see what's going on in our society.
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Summary: Vicious, Cruel, Immature, Lacking Substance
Review: I have no problem with a Democratic spokesperson disagreeing and arguing his points, but when he resorts to calling people "fat" "idiots" "liars" "nutcases" and makes fun of O'Reilly by saying his face is "blotchy" I am offended and disgusted. These cruel insults have nothing to do with the issues and are attacks against individuals, not ideologies. Fair minded individuals should not support these types of vicious attacks and should recognize that they only expose the true weakness in Al Franken's positions. How can Al Franken write 2 chapters trying to prove that Ann Coulter and her book "Slander" are wrong in believing that the left has to resort to personal defamation when Al Franken calls Limbaugh "fat" "idiot", O'Reilly "blotchy", and Coulter "nutcase." Furthermore Al Franken has physically attacked people like Sean Hannity in person. Franken criticizes everyone with a different political viewpoint personally and he seems completely unstable and insane (perhaps a side effect of his admitted longterm cocaine abuse while working for SNL). These type of personal attacks should be condemned by both sides of the political spectrum. How would Al Franken feel if a conservative author resorted to the same tactics and referred to the head writer for SNL and friend of Frankens, Tina Fey, as "Scarface" in their book?
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Summary: I cry for this country. Then I laugh. Good book.
Review: I have no way of checking the facts in Al Franken's latest book any more than I would any other book I've read. You read a book, you evaluate its ideas in light of your own experiences, you make a decision. It's very similar to being on a jury -- you listen, you weight, you decide. 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right' stikes me as the truth. And that's what hurts. Once you start understanding what Al Franken is saying, you realize how our beloved freedom of speech is being used against us; how it's being used to grind all the compromise and discourse out of our political lives. Lies hidden in innuendo. People called traitor for having a differing opinion. The free press printing and reprinting all of it. I begin to dispair. Thankfully this book is also very funny. Al Franken's touch is a bit heavy handed at times, but he makes his point with wit and humor. It helps a lot to face this country's problems with laugh -- makes them smaller somehow. It makes the lying liars smaller too. It leaves you with the feeling we're gonna make it after all.
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Summary: Sleepless in Amelia
Review: I have not been able to put this book down and because of this I am losing much needed sleep tonight. I call this brilliant peice of work: "Message in a Bottle" that has finally made it to shore.
Waiting for Breaking News on CNN "Fox News is Reporting a Massive and Sudden Decline in Ratings"
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Summary: On a roll!
Review: I have NOT read this book, I have just read enough exerpts to feel that I am able to express my opinion in a review of what I have read. In fact, if you'll note the title of this review you'll get a clue. The only reason I would even think of buying this book was if it came in a roll! That's where all of Al Franken's books belong. Then it could at least be put to some good use.
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Summary: The Conservative Lie
Review: I have read all of Franken's books and have enjoyed each. While Franken is often thought of as a humorist, his political commentary is biting. He has written some things that has needed to be said. Franken dissolves the myth of the Liberal media bias through his research. This research is the element that all the conservative attacks on the democratic party lack. Franken's writing on Bill O'Reilly and the Fox network exposes it as a less then truthful news source. His attacks on Bush and the Bush Adminstration should scare any intelligent reader. The administration has been a sham from the beginning. The book is also full of laughs including a test on "No Child Left Behind" and "Supply Side Jesus". I am truly glad Franken said a lot of things that needed to be said in this book. I hope that this book is strong enough to fight the less than truthful conservative media and remove Bush from the White House in 2004.
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Summary: Angry Al
Review: I have read both LIES and Bill O'Reilly's new book and have come to the conclusion that Bill O'Reilly wrote a book about his views and that Franken wrote a book about how he doesn't like O'Reilly or his network. I think O'Reilly will be more successful in converting readers to his philosophy than Franken will be in making readers HATE a president they already won't vote for or not watch a cable news network they already don't watch.
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Summary: Liberals should save a tree! Don't buy from a tree murderer!
Review: I have read over many of the reviews, both the glowing 5 star and the more realistic one star. I think the real truth probably lies somewhere in between (pardon the pun) Al Franken is nothing but an unattractive failed comedian (Did you see "Stuart Saves His Family? Neither Did I!) who represents the views of the Hollywood liberal elite. The utter stupidity of this book is evident in its oh-so-funny title. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them...how clever! The glowing reviews were undoubtedly written by the brainwashed Harvardites whom he paid to write the book for him... I am a person who believes in questioning the media, so unlike some poor saps I don't swallow every story hook, line, and sinker. There are lies being spread. However, Franken reserves his hatred for liars only for conversative liars. Speaking of LIARS, does this sound familiar: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman...."? Need I mention that your darling Clinton will go down in history as being IMPEACHED? This book is nothing but a piece of garbage. Liberals are hell bent on destroying this country. They vilify those who made this country great, namely white males with Judeo-Christian values. They seek a country that has been turned on its head, with political correctness taking the place of any form of fairness or justice. The media, BESIDES the one lone voice in the wilderness, Fox News, overwhelmingly slams conservatives and glosses over the foibles of their pets, the liberal left. Ann Coulter is a brilliant woman and her work is clearly above the head of simpletons such as Franken.
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Summary: Verily, a drunken postman for a president.
Review: I have to admit I thought the Republicans would have taken better care in their selection for a president. This book only verifies what I had feared, Bush and his group of followers are a real and present danger to this country.
Don't get me wrong. I voted for Reagan, Bush elder and yes Nixon. But after Nixon got caught in his shady business with Watergate I thought the Republicans learned an important lesson - honesty. Boy was I wrong!
Oh, and you know as well as I anyone with a good pair of eyes and ears knows that Fox, Rush, O'Reilly and the others are uninformed ignorant pie-holes just trying to make as much money as possible by reporting sensationalism and not facts. I think its called capitolism. The people that actually believe that dribble probably cannot be saved, so I would not try.
This is why we must remain vigilent. They are trying to turn the white house and its environs into a branch of the multi-national corporate industrial complex (eg look at the contracts in Iraq).
Bush needs to be attacked on all fronts, lest he damage this country beyond repair... Help!
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Summary: Affirmative action for rich white kids.
Review: I have to admit that I have not read the book. I just wanted to respond to the reviewer who said that since George Bush Jr. went to Yale that must mean that he's smart. However, I don't believe that most of us could be admitted to Yale with a C+ average if our father wasn't an alumni and a former president.
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