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Summary: Truth hurts (some people,anyway!)
Review: If you put your stock in facts and research, well then you can bet on this book. Finally, someone cuts through the bull of the state of the nation,the last election, and the underhanded tactics of the GOP obfuscated by the right wing media blitz and kowtowed to by lackey politicos afraid to lose their jobs by not lining up with the "resident" and his zombie wards. I just wish Al had spared us the faux O'reilly outtakes, almost nauseating to read while eating any repast, but that's part of journalistic license, I think(?). Good book for everyone interested in understanding why people are fighting and dying in some Godforsaken place, and why I(and many others!) don't have a job!
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Summary: Don't listen to the reviewers below
Review: If you rate this book with only one star -- you abviously did not read it.The evidence is clearly displayed and noted. Check Nexis if you don't believe him. It's all there in black and white. This book is absolutely brilliant. Even a "liberal" like me -- and I take pride in being one -- was shocked with the evidence of all the lies being told in the conservative media. Bottom line -- If you think there's a liberal bias in the media, you abviously live under a rock and don't read newspapers or watch TV -- because it doesn't exist!! If there's any bias in the media, it's a conservative one.
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Summary: Re: Bill O'Reilly's ("Jim Beamer's") Comments
Review: If you read the review directly below this one, you will hear the inimitable narcissistically wounded tone of Bill O'Reilly (i.e. "Jim Beamer") once again utilizing the time-honored "Factor" trademark: Ad Hominem attacks that can be easily refuted by the facts. So. Franken was never a friend of Wellstone, Bill? Let's see. Direct from the LEXIS Transcripts: "SHOW: The Saturday Early Show (7:00 AM ET) - CBS October 26, 2002 Saturday TYPE: Interview LENGTH: 907 words HEADLINE: Comedian Al Franken remembers Paul Wellstone ANCHORS: GRETCHEN CARLSON BODY:
GRETCHEN CARLSON, co-host: Comedian Al Franken knew Wellstone and campaigned for him several years, often in their home state of Minnesota. " Note also, Bill, that the fact that Franken campaigned for Wellstone for several years prior to the book is easily documentable. As is the fact that Franken's own parents campaigned for Wellstone as part of a Senior Citizens for Wellstone theatre troupe that went around to nursing homes. Thirteen years ago, Bill. In 1990. So let's see...distorting the memory of the dead to attempt to assauge personal vanity...gee...who does that sound like? If you're going to make these kinds of statements, you simply have to realize that they can be checked. LEXIS exists Bill.
It will always refute the "splotches" that you attempt to place--on the truth. Try facts, Bill.
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Summary: The Lying Lies of Frankenlies.com
Review: If you read the reviews of Al Franken's book, "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them", you see many 1-star reviews that say "GOTO FRANKENLIES.COM! GOTO FRANKENLIES.COM! AND HE USED 14 HARVARD RESEARCHERS?! WHAT A LIAR!". In fact, dozens, if not hundreds point to that site or copy and paste a "lie". And how many of those reviewers do you think ever read Al's book? Probably few to none. This website was designed to counter the assertions of that website: http://frankenlies.blogspot.com I just got started recently so I don't have everything down, but head on over anyway, you'll be surprised.
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Summary: Civil War
Review: If you sit, as I do, night after night listening to the vomit [that is] conservative broadcasting (FNC) and wonder "where are all the reasonable people in the world?" then buy this book. It's the purest, if only intabgible, form of vindication in writing I have ever read. My father always said to "keep your friends close, your enemies closer." First, sit and ingest copious amounts of the poison that drips into the veins of simple minded people everywhere (easily found on FNC, LATimes, OCRegister, Wall Street Journel, etc). Then read Al's book over and over and over again. This book is a study of just how far the personality flawed right wing will go to win (for money). To me, the RW represents hate, class warfare, racism, and lies. To those who say Al is too biased to belive all of what he says I have this to say: You obviously are not as offended, frightened, and jarred as I am to clearly understand not what is being said by Al, but the high crimes and lies perpetrated daily by the Bush administration. I remember seeing my conservative OC bretheren on endless street corners at the onset of the Iraq invasion rallying our troops (?) and thought "well at least they have passion if not truth." Where the hell have they all gone? The best of this book details Al's multiple encounters with the enemy at large and winning with the simple hammer of truth on his side. Get this book, not to understand more about politics because you won't. Get it to be entertained and educated on how to effectively deal with destroying the conservative agenda by simply executing some elementary research. A concept that is sighted time and again by Al for the reason why so many lies are launched. Two [billion] words: Cheney and Halliburton
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Summary: VERY FUNNY BOOK THAT TURNS THE TABLES ON THE BLOWHARDS
Review: If you sometimes dream of doing Bill O'Reilly TO Bill O'Reilly, or have trouble disengaging yourself from your fantasies of having said EXACTLY the RIGHT THING to the RIGHT WING blockhead who sits next to you at work industriously digging a third hole in his nose, this is DEFINITELY the book for you. I laughed out loud, called friends, read passages over the phone, and just generally felt like the world was looking up again after years of thinking all the other liberals were in hiding. This book makes you want to go round up a dozen others like you and take back our country from the LIARs and the LYING LIARS who tell LIES. Especially from Ann, you sure throw around slander and treason accusations a lot for someone recovering from a lobotomy Coulter whose discourse sounds like wicked curses from frightening story books you were terrified by as a child. Does anything nice or civil ever come out of her mouth--I keep waiting for the reptiles and amphibians to go back in! Thank you AL Franken for taking these dishonest and disrespectful people on and making it clear that if they and when they lie we will call them liars and challenge their lies.
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Summary: I Love These One-Star Reviews!
Review: If you want a compelling reason to read Al Franken's book and trust in its veracity, look no further than the negative reviews at this site. The asinine, ill-informed ravings of these clods actually support Franken's position. When you realize that THIS is the crowd that the right-wingers are trying to manipulate, it doesn't seem so far-fetched that people would believe lies and hypocrisy so patently obvious that their perpetrators no longer bother even to hide them. These fools would eat their own feces if Bill O'Reilly told them it was filet mignon. Like the man said, no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public.
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Summary: Must Read Infotainment
Review: If you want both an entertaining read and an informative view from the left, this is it. Franken's book is a blend of satire and facts that do a great deal to counter the increasingly acidic media and talking head attacks on the left side of our democracy. Franken's book may ramble from topic to topic, but he does something the right wingers haven't -- he gets the numbers and the facts, and he tries to set the record straight. This book is well-footnoted (living up to the name "Fair and Balanced"), and should be read by everyone that is tired of the ditto-heads and constant flaming from the right.
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Summary: What is Good and what is not.
Review: If you want something funny with a Liberal and anti-conservative point of view this book is a great read. Although it is not likely to change anyones mind, it does provide insight and another point of view.
What makes this a bad book is that Franken again takes a conservative and uses them to sell his book. First with "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot" using Limbaughs name to sell books, and now using Democrats and Fox News' Bill O'riellys distorted picture on the cover. Lets face it, the vast majority of those who will read this are not learning anything new, and Franken even admits that he took the work of Alterman, then added humor and called it his own. No objective sources makes it Ideological... so to add the tagline "A fair and balanced look at the right" isn't satire, its Propaganda.
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Summary: Franken has problems with the facts....
Review: If you want to check out an objective review of the book, look at "spinsanity.com" Which leans to the left. They point out that with 14 researchers, Franken's facts are way off. He is good at calling people "evil" however. "It's easy to understand why liberal readers have so eagerly lapped up this book. But Lying Liars is also vicious, sloppy, unfair, paranoid, and a pretty good sample of the kind of unhinged and self-destructive anger on the Left that is one of George W. Bush's great secret weapons this year." Alan Colmes' book is a better read anyway.
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