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Summary: A great book
Review: It's great to hear shameless conservatives rip democrats for criticizing policy when morons like Rush Limbaugh and SEan Hannity and felons like Ollie North and Liddy have made a career out of it.It's about time someone ripped these eternal liars.
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Summary: Finally someone stands up!!
Review: It's great to see some of the good conservatives who soak up the rhetoric of pill popping drug addicts like Rush Limbaugh speak their mind about Al's book. Now my turn. Bill o Lielly worked for a trashy tabloid "news" program called Inside Edition on which he won no awards for anything. He then lies about winning 2 Peabodys on his tv show and then stands corrected and says it was really was a Polk, which he also did not win. Al finally brought some truths out about the bullying tactics of the right wing with his hilarious and timely book. Like the fact that Republicans use push polling, which is basically rumor spreading to character assassinate Democratic candidates. Or the fact that Bill olielly pulls statistics out of his a** that are completely false. How about the fiction that Clinton was soft on terrorism? Franken goes step by step showing Clinton's hardline stance on madmen like Milsovic in Bosnia and asking for more funding to help the CIA and FBI capture terrorists such as Osama. It seems the good Republican congress was too interested in whether the president was getting a blow to care about terrorism. Franken goes into detail on how the Bush administration essentially reversed everything Clinton set in motion for anti-terrorism policies by focusing on missile defense systems. If you give the book a chance I think you will find out some interesting things about the right and especially the so called "fair and balanced" network Fox. They are in actuality a right wing spewing machine that claim to be "objective" when in fact they push a conservative agenda. Way to go Al! Keep up the good work!
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Summary: More Lies than those he accuses of being liars
Review: It's hard to believe that an apparently intelligent person such as Franken can be so consumed by jealousy or hatred for how the conservatives have captured the hearts of America that he stoops this low. Franken has been exposed for not telling the whole truth in his accusations, but his targeted readers will probably not care. This was not worth my time of $. I'm very disappointed.
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Summary: He DID say Norm Thomas was Evan Thomas Jr's grandfather!!!
Review: It's in the endnotes people - page 379. Look the damn thing up before you accuse someone of lying or twisting the truth, the very point that Franken is trying to get across with this book. All of you who say he purposefully mis-led readers when he said Ann Coulter lied about Norm Thomas being Evan Thomas Jr's father are proving Franken's argument against Coulter for her use of endnotes instead of footnotes. That is, Coulter uses hundreds of endnotes in her book "Treason," but not a single footnote. She does this because she knows that by burying all her questionable sources and clarifications in the very back of the book, most people will never check them, and thus they'll be taking her word for it instead of calling her on all the bogus crap she's been putting out. Check out www.alfrankenweb.com if you want more of the real, verifiable TRUTH.
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Summary: Read All of the Bad Reviews, Then Read This Book
Review: It's incredible how some of the hateful babble in the bad reviews for this book only loan credence to Al's work. Franken merely exposes the "bearers of false witness". Although some of the exposed lies are trivial, others are mind-boggling! I read the book and then decided to write a review as well... but before I did I read other reviews... the bad reviews had me rolling because they obviously hadn't read the book. Oh wait! Maybe they had read the book! I know, it was hateful Osama-loving liberals, not America-loving conservatives, that had written the bad reviews just to make the conservatives look like idiots. Pretty shrewd... p-r-e-t-t-y shrewd
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Summary: read it for yourself
Review: It's interesting that when "liberals" write anything negative about the right wing that they are simply doing it "to make millions". I guess that doesn't hold true when all the right wingers out there do the same and propegate the lies, huh? No, they're "good Americans". No wonder why so many countries hate us. Thankfully people like Al Franken are around. There's allot of people who just don't want to hear the truth.
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Summary: Entertaining, but disturbing
Review: It's interesting to see the same kind of tactics uncovered in the book are used by some "reviewers" attempting to discredit the book. An example is the review above the claims the book says Bush knew about 9/11 ahead of time. There is no such claim in the book. That purported review is just another lie from a lying liar - it's classic! Something needs to be done about the low and falling quality of politcal discourse in this country. The book is a fascinating expose of what to look out for - from both sides - and is a must read for anyone who considers themselves to be a responsible citizen of the United States.
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Summary: Thanks, Mr. Franken
Review: It's lovely to see that people are finally starting to notice how unbelievably full of [stuff] the corporate media are (the word "media" is plural - get off my back). It is even lovlier to see that a best-selling book on media bias is approaching the subject from a reasonable angle. But it is lovliest of all when the book itself is full of the kind of base and infantile tactics it claims to deride. This is "irony" - a beautiful thing, and a dying art.
This book is both funny and painful - much of progressive commentary these days is (humor is a defense mechanism for the brutally oppressed - remember high school?). Humor-wise, Al Franken is in the company of Michael Moore, Tom Tomorrow, and the Onion staff writers, all of whom have the knack of reducing common misconceptions into their root absurdities. In a perfect world, Coulter or Hannity fans would be forced to read this book before opening their mouths in mixed company, but hey, I'm not king.
So to Mr. Franken, who I assume will check Amazon's customer reviews periodically, or to any other members of team Franken - thanks a lot, well done, take no prisoners, and keep 'em coming. Can't wait to see what's going in the paperback.
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Summary: Entertaining for liberals; probably not for conservatives
Review: It's not going to change your mind about anything. I consider myself liberal, and I do enjoy seeing right-wing squawk boxers taken down a peg (for a change). The point of this book is to be CLEARLY partisan (and get some comedic mileage out of it) so to view the book as a political manifesto is a mistake. I'm not naive to blindly trust all of Franken's "facts" anymore than I'd trust Ann Coulters or Bill O'Reilly's. But it's nice to know I'm not alone in my loathing of them. Conservatives have no reason to read this book other than to get themselves mad at liberals. If that's your thing, go for it. For liberals, it's pretty self-serving but at least it's fun.
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Summary: A great read
Review: It's particularly refreshing to see the duplicity (and stupidity) of Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly documented in print. Franken efficiently summarizes and exposes a bevy of spurious right-wing propaganda, backing up his assertions with meticulously documented facts. One wonders how anyone could continue to take Hannity, O'Reilly, and the rest of the far right's lap dogs seriously after this. I hope to see more from Franken in the near future.
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