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Summary: Best book i have ever read
Review: Al fanken does a beautiful job at portraying the status of american politics. After reading this book my views of American Politics were shaken and i think as a result of reading this im a more enlightened person and hopefully some of humor has rubbed off on me.
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Summary: Carefully researched and presented with humor
Review: Al Franken & his support team have put together a carefully researched and compelling case for what's wrong with the conservative movement. I will never look at Bill O'Reilly the same way (no wonder he broke out in hives).
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Summary: Blistering Satirist, Best-selling Author, Our Nation's Hero!
Review: Al Franken - Blistering Satirist, Best-selling Author, Our Nation's Hero!Watch! - as he makes short work of Ann Coulter, Hannity and the rest of the Fox News cabal - (which, for any thinking person, is easy to do just by reading/watching their specious, bilious work) - Listen! - as he shares his hilarious exploits with the thin skinned bully O'Reilly and shows how Mr. No Spin can dish it out, but he sure can't take it! Marvel! - as he systematically points out not only the lies of these mediocre right-wing shock-jocks (i.e., O'Reilly's lie about his sleazy tabloid show winning 2 - count'em 2! - Peabodys when in fact he won 0 -- count 'em 0!), but, more importantly, how when caught lying, they lie about lying about their lies! -- stupidly, on videotape! (i.e, O'Reilly, again, and his fictitious Peabodys)! Enjoy! - as he relates the infamous, shameless Rush Limbaugh episode where Rush called Clinton's TEENAGE daughter a "dog", then tried, appallingly, to blame a technician. I saw this Rush episode, and his cowardly subsequent attempt to cover it up on a later show -- to this day Rush has never been able to explain what picture instead of the Clinton's daughter was supposedly meant to be shown for his "joke!" A particularly tasteless, utterly classless and spectacularly evil-spirited Ditto-head episode - maligning a little girl on sub-national TV! What a brave guy! Exult! - as Franken skewers and lays open these exploiters of misery and finger-pointing - right in the chapter you're reading, not hidden in the back of a bunch of baseless and deceitful "footnotes" a la Clueless Coulter. Grimace in disgust! - as he points out how Rush Limbaugh slandered Paul Wellstone's memory (have you know shame, Ditto-head?), debunks the myth (and illogic) of the liberal news bias, and cleverly "lowercases" the pathetic Alan Colmes (Fox's token "I don't talk unless Hannity lets me" faux-"liberal"). Sigh with gratitude! - as, unlike Rush/O'Reilly, who sputter and pound the table, or Coulter, who can't stop frothing hatefully (and calling over half of all Americans traitors!) with every sentence, Franken deftly points out examples, with cutting humor, wry observation, and undeniable, irrefutable, hilarious truth. Buy his book! - and, thank you, Al, for standing up to these lowest-common-denominator, America-attacking, death-exploiting TV thugs, bullies, and plain out and out liars!
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Summary: Give me a break!!
Review: Al Franken - Political Analyst?? If you are looking for an extreme liberal interpretation of humor, I suppose that this could be what you are looking for. But political trash is really more like it. A great GAG gift to get your republican friends. I would rate this MINUS a star if possible. Not worth the paper that it is printed on unless used as toilet paper.
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Summary: Perfect Title for a Perfect Fool
Review: Al Franken a man of too many words. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - THE NEW AL FRANKEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY! Al is the liar - for sure - and twists everything and still is not funny - even when he and I had a meeting together at SNL office he was as mundane as this stupid new book of his. He's never been funny on SNL - poor Phil Hartman had to pretend to laugh at him on the show - now the world is laughing at him and not for his jokes! But for his new Joke Book! How the Left went Wrong and the Right is Right - my new book - all about Al and Barb and Tim Robbins and the other... who believe their own trashy rhetoric.
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Summary: Read this book!
Review: Al Franken absolutely nails it in this book. While maintaining humor throughout, though he does include a moving chapter on the death of Paul Wellstone, Franken exposes the lies from the likes of O'Reilly, Hannity and Coulter, not to mention the lies the Bush administration has spun since the 2000 campaign. I read this book in two days because I couldn't wait to see what else Team Franken would come up with. I've enjoyed other Al Franken books, but this one has a visceral passion to it that might surprise the reader.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Al Franken absolutely wipes the mat with Fox News, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and all the other right wingnuts in the right wing propaganda lie machine in this brilliant book.
He catches all of the above in so many falsehoods, I lost count. O'Reilly says he's not beholden to any party? Wrong. He's a registered Republican. His voting registration record is right there on one page.
Coulter says the NY Times is out of touch with "ordinary" Americans by not putting Dale Earnhardt's death on the front page? Wrong, the actual front page from the next day is shown, with the story right on the cover.
It goes on and on like this, to the point that you're amazed so many Americans have fallen for right wing lie machine.
The joke's on you, right wing! This book shows the emperor has no clothes after all.
As a judge recently said of Fox News' stupid lawsuit trying to supress this book (how ironic a media organization would fight to suppress a book coming out - so much for the first amendment, eh Fox?), the right wing is "wholly without merit."
I agree.
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Summary: Most entertaining political book to date.. Nice to laugh!
Review: Al Franken admits to having fourteen undergrads from HARVARD doing the research for this book. He has added his own slant and humor to the information gathered which makes the book all around entertaining, educational and truthful. "Foot notes" provide the proof of what is written for any skeptics.
"Reviews" that have knocked this book must have been written by die hard conservatives, who have no intention of truly reading it..nor do I believe really spent their money to do so.
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Summary: stupid book by stupid liberal
Review: Al Franken along with Michael Moore, James Carville, Molly Ivans, etc... and the rest of those clowns from liberal lala-land all have their heads up their arses. Franken needed an army of assistants from Harvard to write this book and yet the final product is nothing more than a collection of incoherent thoughts. Franken needs to get back on his medication and stick to doing unfunny skits on SNL.
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Summary: Not worth your hard-earned money
Review: Al Franken and Gray Davis are still crying in their beer that "the Republicans stole the election." If your are not balanced, but very far to the left, you'll think that Franken's opinions are worth reading. If you feel that there is no such thing as being sacreligious (or blasphemous) you'll think he's funny. If, however, your political views are from the center or anywhere right of center, you'll view this as the ramblings of someone who couldn't make it in television or the movies, but found that he could make a buck by hurling insults at people who are far smarter than he is. Those of you who think that Michael Moore produces great films full of truth will enjoy this book.
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