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Summary: With facts and truth on his side
Review: If you are a "movement" conservative he crushes your world view.
So you can either respond by calling Al Franken a pitiful liar or by re-evalutating your own political thought process.
In my experience, most conservatives are too weak minded for such a thorough self examination, and will resort to the first option. Such is the world we live in.
If you are a liberal/progressive like myself you will love this book. This book is so strong, forceful and funny, that it might have the ability to transform. A few conservative minds will wake up and a bright light will go on, and they will leave the black and white world they now inhabit.
If you lean way to the right, it will take courage to read this book!
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Summary: Fair? Only to the Democrats.
Review: If you are a Democrat and dislike anything Conservative, then you would love this book. Basically this is written for a specific audience.Fair? Far from it. A fair-minded person would debate issues but not attack others just because he disagrees with their ideas and opinion.
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Summary: Excellent book on the state of politics in America
Review: If you are a liberal, you will love this book. If you're conservative, you will undoubtedly dismiss it as left-wing propaganda. However, this book is excellent. Franken does a terrific job of disproving many conservative myths, including the one about the "liberal" media bias. In addition, Franken shows the unbelievable lengths that conservatives will go to in order to gain control (such as painting the picture that a triple amputee from vietnam is unpatriotic). If you are liberal, this book is for you. If you are conservative, all I ask that you try to have an open mind about it, and not dismiss it right away.
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Summary: For narrow-minded liberals
Review: If you are a narrow-minded liberal, you might enjoy this book. A fair and balanced look at the political right this is not. Al Franken's name calling and extreme left-wing point of view negate any thoughtful analysis of the political landscape of this country. Thoughtful people should skip this book.
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Summary: A Must Read for Any True Patriot!
Review: If you are either a liberal or conservative you will want to read this book. Franken points out, with both wit and detailed facts, how easily truth is routinely manipulated and that many of those with the the widest reach have lost any real desire to tell the truth. True patriots will be outraged by the lies Franken exposes and hopefully will take action during our upcoming election year. Bravo Mr. Franken!
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Summary: Entertaining, Informative, and Infuriating
Review: If you are frustrated with tax cut politics where people are duped into voting for tax cuts that mainly benefit people much richer than themselves (and you), this book is for you. If it drives you crazy that all of cable news and talk radio and much of the mainstream press (which has become so afraid of being called "liberal" that it has become anything but) ignores with impunity the failings of the current government, then this book is for you. If you did not like how this country was led into war, when plenty of people knew Iraq was no threat but the press would not report that fact, again this book is for you. If you are highly annoyed by how all sorts of right wingers get all sorts of airtime to accuse someone else of moral depravity, when they themselves are heartily engaged in sinful activates, then you will enjoy this book. If you are none of these things, this book is REALLY for you, but you probably won't read it, or be in complete denial of everything it talks about, and will write a one-star Amazon review about it complaining about something irrelevant or not even in the book. Don't believe the caterwaulers who will try to brand Al Franken's work "just like Coulter and Hannity's, except from the left." Note how reviewers who make this claim (or something similar) this usually seem to be at a complete loss to point out where Al Franken's actually makes an error in fact or actually tells a lie (that isn't meant as a joke.) Personally, I would have no interest in a "liberal Rush Limbaugh" and I doubt any fans of Al Franken would either. This would have been a best-seller even without Fox News' lawsuit for good reason. If you read only one political book this season, this should be it.
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Summary: A Challenge to all you 1 star "reviewers".
Review: If you are going to post a vitriolic, slanderous and vile review, at least have the guts to read the book.
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Summary: The book doesn't work
Review: If you are going to write a book called "Lies", you should be sure that you get your facts straight. Unfortunately, there is no way to know if Franken has his facts straight. Other than a few charts and tables and maybe a few quotes, his book is completely unsourced. He faults Ann Coulter for using endnotes instead of footnotes, and then proceeds to include neither in his own book. That doesn't stop him from making damaging allegations that are impossible to verify, though. Franken also uses his standard "comedy" defense against his critics. His first book about Limbaugh was a commentary on how mean our politics has become, therefore Franken's meanness was satire. This is a book about lies, so Franken's lies are satire and therefore cannot be criticized. Franken moves back and forth between fact and fiction in this book (there is a long sexual fantasy about Katherine Harris, for example) in a way that undermines his credibility. Also, since he is not particularly funny, it is difficult to tell when he is joking and when he is serious, which is probably what Franken wants (in order to avoid any serious criticism of his book). Although this book is intended as a rebuttal to "Slander", Franken inadvertantly proves many of Coulter's arguments correct. For example, it is clear from his pornographic portrayal of Katherine Harris that he doesn't like her, but he never tells us why. If he has some problem with her interpretation of Florida election law, he is keeping it to himself. Thus, as Coulter put it, Franken is refusing to engage ideas or make arguments; he is simply smearing people he doesn't like. Of course, Franken would claim it was "satire".
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Summary: A Wake Up Call
Review: If you are looking for the single most compelling series of arguments against the beliefs and actions of the Ridiculous Right that exists, this is will be your bible. If you despise Bill OReilly and his 'just-reading-the-cue-cards' intellect you must check this book out. If you're a conservative who tends to get easily offended when proven wrong, then back away...this is going to hurt. A lot.
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Summary: A cure for uninformed populism
Review: If you believe everything your told by the CONSERVATIVE media (well...OK, NPR exempted) NO WONDER you make idiotic and misinformed political decisions. Al Frankin has the cure for what ails ya. Like "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot", Al Frankin takes the hot air out of conservative talking heads. And he's funny. Besides, Rush was recently (again) unmasked as a racist. Al Franklin already told you that.
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