Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

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Summary: Lies and the Lying Liars Who tell the: (AKA Al Franken)
Review: Little boy Al Franken is the A-Hole lying liar who tells all the lies....

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Summary: Funny and Researched
Review: Look, Liberals like me love him and Conservatives should too -- and here's why: He is doing you a favor by rooting out the Right wing liars from those who tell the truth. Problem is, so many prominent right wingers these days have either 1) become enamoured with the trut-impaired types of Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly or 2) don't care and like their dogmatic red meat any way that it is served up. But, if you are a conservative, you probably ought if only becasue it is the truth, not the party line (everyone say "da" now) that will set you free. And in the case of Franken's book, it will make you laugh even if you disagree (well, perhaps). (And, yes, there are conservatives I respect and love. For example, the late Barry Goldwater, George Will, my father, Robert "Prince of Darkness" Novak, etc. In each case, I may disagree with them, but they aren't pathologizal liars.) The nice thing and Franken is that this book not only makes you laugh out loud, but he makes a sound case for how much crap passes as conservative fact. And, as you know, crap by any other name is... well, let's just say it smells. I haven't had this much laugh-out-loud fun in a long time.

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Summary: And the truth shall set you free...
Review: Looking back on all the events in politics we personally witnessed for the past four years, we sometimes wondered to ourselves who was telling the truth, who was bending the truth, and who was outright lying. Finally, we can know the truth. Nothing pleases me more than witnessing a liar called out for lying, and this book does just that. It's up to the reader to decide if he or she wants to believe the truth, and hopefully at least enjoy Franken's witty and factual presentation of those political years, and more.

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Summary: The one star crowd
Review: Looking throught the reviews you see a number of people giving only one star ratings for this book and saying he is a liar / moron / useless, etc... I really have to wonder if these people have even tried reading this book? I mean it is fairly well researched stuff... basically he is attacking some radical right-wingers for telling lies. I strikes me as odd that the one star fanatics here accuse the left of slander, treason, idiocy, lying, and controlling the media when they don't apply the same scrutinizing eye to their own group. One of Frankens main themes in the book is the myth of liberal controlled media. He is completely correct, somehow the conservative controlled corporations that control most of the media have managed to fool it's followers into thinking the left is actually in control. How sneaky is that?! And the right-wingers all fall for it! Amazing! The media is only as "left" as the right-wing corporations that own it allow it to be.

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Summary: Faux News and the right crying foul? Whaaah!
Review: Looks like these 'so-called' fair and balanced vampires can dish it out but their lies and deceit can't stand the harsh light of day. Kudos to Team Franken.

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Summary: I still hurt from laughing
Review: Lord help me, I still hurt from all the laughing I did from reading this book. Ann Coulter, can you ever show your fierce-eyed face in public again? (What IS that look in your eyes? Are you trying to kill something?) The only thing funnier than some of the lines in this book is Bill O'Lie-lly's public apoplexy over being flustered by Stuart Smalley! Al Franken, please don't stop!

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Summary: Hysterical
Review: Lost in the hype on this book is the fact that Franken is hysterically funny. The chapter discussing ways to manipulate footnotes in the fashion of Ann Coulter still has me laughing. A good read, cover to cover, particularly if you have the capacity for complex thought.

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Summary: Excellent read, the truth FINALLY!!!!!!
Review: Loved this book and he had alot of support for what he wrote, not the lies like in Treason or O'Reilly. loved this book and highly recommend it!

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Summary: Timely and Entertaining
Review: Loved this book--Franken is one of the funniest writers ever. His arguments, however, are dead serious in pointing out the hypocrisy and deception of the right wing. I tried to get into see Al in Pasadena the other night, but the crowd was overflowing--I think he's started a revolution! God bless him.

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Summary: Worthless piece of trash
Review: Lying liar Al Franken tries to be funny but just comes off as a shrill liberal hatchet man. He has been licking the Clintons' boots for years, delighting in furthering their lies and propaganda. He tried to be Rush Limbaugh's nemesis (already revealing the left's fear and acknowledgment of Rush, for all his faults), but Franken failed miserably, and is left lying in a pool of his own bile.
Franken has already admitted his own lies, playing several charades to try get a story. One of his attempts was to try con John Ashcroft into revealing his sexual past, fraudulently using Harvard stationery and pretending he was writing a book on abstinence education. Truth be told, Franken merely planned to refer dismissively to abstinence ed in one of his chapters, and probably try lampoon Ashcroft's values.
As for Franken faulting Christians who want to restrain government spending, including welfare spending, has Franken given fair consideration to the idea that Christians do not believe in government doing their work for them? No he has not because he continues to espouse the same tired rhetoric that is swallowed whole by his foolish fans. Paying taxes is not Christian charity, people. It's just a civic duty. (But that doesn't mean all taxes are just.) Christians do not believe in charity by default, but by intent, not trusting government to decide on "charity" for them. What reasoning will Franken use on the atheist who wants to restrain government spending, eh? Christians are an easy target for malicious people.
Only an idiot could believe Franken's lies and only an idiot could pretend that the mass media is not overwhelmingly leftist and has an agenda to portray the Bush administration in only a negative light. It seems there are even idiots who believe that this book's subtitle truly indicated the work was "fair and balanced"! Franken's tongue was in his cheek, people. He had no intention of being "fair and balanced".
I applaud Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and other voices of reason for putting Franken in his place, exposing him as the lying liar that he is.