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Summary: Why bother with this book?
Review: If you have read Michael Moore, no need to bother with this book. Just like Moore, Franken perfects the use of copy / paste to edit speeches, columns etc by his favorite conservatives to instill a sense of humor into the GOP. Just like Moore, Franken generates a "documentary" of supposed lies and bias by conservatives that will be gobbled up by people of the left, unquestioned and untested. Why not? Ann Coulter does the same for the right. Same techniques, different target audiences. If you look for an in depth analysis of the bias by conservatives, keep on looking or read the WSJ and the Washington Times and think for yourself.
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Summary: A Must Read!
Review: If you haven't read a book this year (and the stats say most Americans haven't)... read this one! Please! Brilliant and funny and, for once, the truth. No way Al didn't check his facts on this one. But watch your back, Al. There's a lot of truly nasty people out there who deserve to be exposed for what they are and what they're doing to this country. You did good!
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Summary: The myth of the "liberal press" revealed.
Review: If you hitched your wagon to the corporate agenda led by Bush and Co. you will not like this book. If you are too frightened to see how the current administration has manipulated 9-11 for political purposes, you will not like this book. If your head is buried in your religious opiate in the hopes that your one and only true God will make it all better someday, you will not like this book. Franken with clearly presented well-researched facts (unlike the crowd of phonies like Coulter and O'Rielly who publish books without indexes) presents one of the few helpful publications that stand against the tide of the right-winged owned media. BOOTLICKERS and SHEEP - get brave and throw off your chains.
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Summary: In the Fiction Area
Review: If you like a good laugh, read this book. If you want information and facts, look somewhere else. Bookstores need to display this book in their fiction area. Al Franken presents an accurate depiction of reality as about as well as Michael Mooredoes. Factless opinions are fictions, and this book is full of fictions.
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Summary: In need of a life Bridge Troll
Review: If you like to read fiction and like to read the ranting of a complete fool you are going to need to sink no lower than this book. It is remarkable that this untalented, hate mongering, no-life low-life is still around. The most positive thing I can say about the author is he would be a real natural with a bald head and wearing a turtleneck.{if you get my drift}
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Summary: A real pageturner-- funny AND informative.
Review: If you like to think of yourself as openminded and a friend of truth you ought to try reading several chapters of this book before passing judgement on it... While some chapters might go down poorly with a nonliberal, I think that "The Waitress and the Lawyer: A One-Act Play" and "Operation Ignore" alone are educations that make up for the cost of the hardcover book. Entertaining, too. I am reminded of a debate I had three years ago with some young friends who favored privatization of Social Security, then a key proposal of the Bush-Cheney campaign. Privatization seemed too good to be true. I was troubled, so I discussed the issue with older, retired friends, who pointed out that the point of Social Security was the "security" bit. Low returns aside, you were assured that you _would_ get your savings back. The fundamental problem with privatization is that you can't time the market when you need to retire. If the economy is down when you have to retire, you are out of luck and may cash out at a loss. If you aren't a lucky investor (even if a hard worker) you are also in trouble. However, my pro-privatization friends cited a study done by the well-respected conservative Cato Institute, which examined the wildly successful privatization of pensions in Chile. How could you argue with 11% returns? I went to the Cato site and noticed that their co-chairman on Social Security was Jose Pinera, the architect of Chile's pension plan! Rupert Murdoch is on the Board of Directors! I examined an article on the Cato site by a L. Jacobo RodrÃguez and was disappointed to find that the numbers in the charts didn't even add up correctly. The 11% return is a myth after adjustment for loads and unique economic conditions. In addition, many important issues were neglected or glossed over in the study. I'm not at all educated in economics so I may be way off, but little or no mention was made of:
1.What looked to me like a whopping front-end load of 27% of the investment and a minimum expense ratio of .84% on the Chilean pensions
2. Fixed commissions meaning higher management costs percentagewise for smaller investments (i.e. higher costs for poorer people)
3. Low participation rates in the programs except where mandatory and nonreversible
4. No accounting for the effects of the other changes in the Chilean economy at the time, including inflation
5. loss of public benefits such as public healthcare and education I realized that if you but scratched the surface of Bush's economic policies, they collapsed into rot and ruin. Not many people would have the time to add up the numbers in a 23 page study, but would take the word of their politician that his sources were reliable and disinterested. We need the media to help us check facts, not muddy the waters further! Al Franken has put his finger on a great festering wound which threatens to destroy our democracy.
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Summary: Easily Franken's best yet!
Review: If you liked his book that took on Big Fat Idiot Rush, you'll absolutely love Franken blasting Ann Coulter, Bernie Goldberg, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and their ilk, not to mention Resident Bush, for the lies that they knowingly spout to an unquestioning public on a daily basis through our largely right-wing controlled media. Though there is some degree of overlap, I would also recommend the book "Lies" by Joe Conason.
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Summary: Rush Limbaugh is a big fat racist wasted hypocrite!
Review: If you love Al, you must buy the audio version of this book, even if you already read the book. Listening to Al read this book gave me multiple mental orgasms. God. I love Al. I worship him. If I were married to him, I would just follow him around and listen to him talk all day long.... I can't wait for his next book. Will it be a follow up on the guy who put the "rush" in Rush Limbaugh? I am laughing my liberal a** off already. It's a pity that the only thing L3WT2 taught you silly one-star conservatives is that it "sounds smart" if you throw around the term "ad hominem" -- but for heaven's sake, spell it correctly! (BTW -- when I called you silly, I was kidding . . . on the square.)
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: If you need a reason to truly love this book, refer to the review by DW24. Al Franken is driving the right to hilarious new levels of psychosis. From the celebrated Faux News law suit that helped launch this worthy tome to the top of the charts, to the constant drumbeat of sinister sounding cable babble coming from the so-called commentators of the right who Franken has reduced to international laughingstocks, the little world of reactionary liars everywhere has been severely rocked by this wonderful book. Buy it and be joyful!
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Summary: You have been waiting for this...
Review: If you only read one book this year, this should be it. Do you watch the news nightly or listen to talk radio and find yourself in disbelief with regard to the days rantings? Do you wonder why callers in disagreement with popular show hosts are "mysteriously" cut off or talked over when stating their case? Well look no further than Al Franken's carefully written and researched book which diagrams the family tree of the American Right-wing media elite and challenges their most popular one-sided arguments. I could not put this book down. Franken provides plenty of comic relief and simplifies the most complicated issues for the reader. Prepare to do research after reading this work...this book leads the reader to go in search of more answers than those it provides. If you read only one chapter DO NOT miss The Blame-America's-Ex-President Crowd (pg 104).
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