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Summary: I used to agree with O'Reilly all the time...
Review: Insightful and hilarious! "Bull" O'Reilly is not ALWAYS right, I used to watch him faithfully but I finally got tired of his bullying ways, and Ann Coulter? What a freak! She needs to relax.
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Summary: Hilarious Satire
Review: Insightul, accurate, and laugh out loud funny. Reminiscent of Mark Twain. Much better than I could have anticipated. Current events and politics made lively. Must reading for people who care about America.
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Summary: Moronic
Review: Insipid, petty, and plain mean, Al Franken shows why he was the kid who always got beat up in school.He was funny once. Now he's become a pathetic caricature of a "serious" liberal author, grasping at the fame he used to know. Save your money, or spend it on a book worthy of your time.
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Summary: Try reading a history book for a change.
Review: Instead of everyone, liberals and conservatives alike, making potlitical pundits like Al Franken and Ann Coulter rich, why don't we read more factual history books. I do not need someone to tell me what to think or how to think. I just want the facts. Not someone's slanted take on the facts. Everyone knows that 2 peoplecan see the exact same thing and reach different conclusions about what, why or how an event occurred. All of us would be much better off if we read more history and less punditry. It would certainly be a much more interesting debate. As opposed to debating who is lying or who is telling the truth. So many people on this review page are arguing over which pundit is lying, and which one isn't. Read a history book. I certainly hope that people do not use books written by talking heads as history lessons. If that is the case, we really are in trouble. I read these books, including this one, with a grain of salt. Are they entertaining? Yes. I guess the one thing that they do is encourage me to actually try to find out facts. But I certainly don't base any opinions of mine on something Al Franken says.
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Summary: Why I'm Important too.
Review: Instead of wretching at this title, I feel a bit of pity at this man. Stealing both the background and the "fair and balanced", it's clear seriousness isn't his biggest trait. He a satirist, and so anything his says (or ends uo saying) needs to be taken with a grain salt, specifically since he's trying out politics with that bitter twist of "humor". Maybe he should have chosen. "Why I'm important and why you should listen to me". And then bash Bush. In that order, please. (Giggle. Just LOOK at those glasses!)
Cough....nerd.
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Summary: Finally - the truth!
Review: Intelligently written with a good sense of humor! Finally a book that explains some of the politics going on & documents things truthfully. I hope Al Franken continues to write!
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Summary: Good info, funny, but why all the sarcasm and name calling?
Review: Interesting - The book kept me up late into the night reading it. Funny - some things, when he wasn't being rude, were very funny. Good Info - aside from the almost total lack of critique of democrats, the info seems sound to my partially informed mind. Micheal Moore has a more balanced view in this regard, but doesn't write as well. Harsh - telling the truth is one thing. Truths in this book alone will bring on a lot of attacks. But he adds some name calling, though not too many ad-hominym (spelling?) attacks. It is the sarcasm that will limit the effectiveness of this book. If I gave it to my Republican leaning friends they would probably throw it out after a few pages (just as I would any book by Hannity or Limbaugh). Franken is unnecessarily rude, in my opinion. But, if you can get past that, and his (hypocritical) cry for a nicer tone in politics, this book has a lot of good information. I like the book. I like the guy. He just needs to find ways to be funny without being caustic. As his son said in the chapter on Bob Jones University, "Dad leave them alone. What have they ever done to you?" (Hmmm - well, maybe the Republicans have done horrible things (See Michael Moore's movie Bowling for Columbine), but so have the Democrats (ditto) and why return evil for evil? Why not try to be fair and balanced in tone as well as information?)
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Summary: anonymous
Review: Interesting how Sept. 11 brings out all the neocon reviewers to throw stones at liberal authors... Anyway, fantastic book. I wish the Democratic party would sign Al Franken up as a consultant and fast, for the next election. For he has that all too rare talent of being able to throw highly accurate stones at the neocons and make you laugh while he's doing it. And honestly, with the current administration in power, the American people need to laugh, if just to keep us from crying.
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Summary: Franken's a liar.
Review: Ironically, Mr.Franken got caught up in lie immediately after publishing the book. A lie that he responded to saying it was "regrettable" by citing a source that was made up. Liberal's look at this book as a bashing on O'Reilly and enjoy it because of O'Reilly's huge following. Yet, O'Reilly IS a political commentator and not a comedian. Naturally, he (anybody) will have a large following if he speaks to Americans critical mind. I'm sure all whom agree with the words of Franken also find the political commentary of people like Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Alec Baldwin, Danny Glover, etc. to be well thought out rationalization about politics in America. And if you believe that you probably also think that Bill Clinton was a moral man injected with family value's. Think critically when you read this book, and consider the source, just like anything else in life, liberal or conservative, black or white.
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Summary: Liars and Cretins
Review: Is a lying liar telling the truth? This and other apparent paradoxes are untangled by Al Franken, who can distinguish a Cretan liar from a mere cretin, as he demonstrates in this book, in which he proves that the Republican Right belongs in the latter category. For people who are tired of the bad writing and louche attitude toward the truth (i.e., lying) of the Rileys, Coulters et al., Franken's book is welcome. For the lying liars (i.e., cretins) and their fans, there's always Fox TV. To quote the hand-written post-it that someone placed on the table in the East Hampton bookstore on which this book had been stacked -- before it sold out -- "Al Franken -- God bless him!"
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