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Summary: An Answer to some of these rt. wing reviewers!!!
Review: OH PULEESE We have to listen to your talk shows, your fox news, your hardball, your Limbaugh, and we get ONE smart funny clever and 100% right spokesperson and you wimps can't take it? Everyone should read this book, it will remind us what to use our free speech for. I think it's so funny how the right always talks about how they love our American freedoms and in the next sentence say how liberals shouldn't be aloud to exercise any of them. Thanks to Franken the truth is at least down on paper! Read This Book... or your a coward!
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Summary: Tsk Tsk
Review: Oh the dupes you all are. Don't you realize Al is really Rush Limbaugh playing both sides of the political spectrum? He's brilliant! Think of all the money he's making by doing this. Liberals and conservatives alike are rushing out to buy his books. A stroke of genius only a man of his stature could pull off. You go Rush.
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Summary: Lies and Author who makes them up
Review: Oh, boy. This book is by far the biggest collection of myths and lies I've read. If they make it a movie (of moronic skits and such) it will tie with Bowlin for Columbine for the most made up facts/passed for truth invented.
Not only does Al gripe and whine about right wing radio, he does so with the typical leftist poor me song and dance. I think it's so funny that folks like Al like to complain about the 'fanatical' right wing conspiritists who have taken over radio tv etc. To quote Jay Leno, "The left doesn't need thier own radio station or papers because they have ABC,NBC, CBS, New York Times etc. Nuff said, I don't recommend this book to read, but it might make good compost fodder.
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Summary: Where are the 2 biggest liars Bill and Hillary?
Review: Oh, I get it. Conservatives lie and liberals tell the truth right? It's especially funny when a lying liar named Clinton gets a lying liar named Albright to lie for him? Not only that, get the whole Cabinet of lying liars to lie for you! And of course, there's everybody's favorite book that we know is one big lie. It doesn't even NEED the word LIE on the title. It's called Living History, or is that, er, LYING History. Ya think all those women who accused Clinton were all LYING? YA THINK? How about Schwarzenegger? Were they all LYING? YA THINK? But that's liberal thinking in a nutshell, is it not? If you're a Democrat, you can get away with it. If not, then you're a sexual predator! Let's face it. Liberals live a lie every day. They say they support the troops, but they don't - they secretly want Iraq to become a quagmire and even call it that today! Why do liberals and Democrats always feel the need to say they "support the troops"? That's right, because NOBODY believes them. They're lying. Ever hear a Republican say he supports the troops? NO, because he doesn't have to! And that is exactly the reason why Franken feels he has to bleat about his USO tours - to prove he's a patriot. Yeah, right.
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Summary: better than Prozac!
Review: Ohhh, Thank you Al.
Its hard not to get frustrated and even depressed with the current state of politics and media. A friend suggested that this book might help me cope with the large amount of increddibly upsetting crap thats on television. It worked. Read this book if you are feeling frustrated and muted.
best,
david the shrink.
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Summary: Too much intolerance!
Review: OK so I tried to give Al Franken's book the benefit of the doubt. The liberal/democrat stance has always been one of tolerance and that all conservatives are evil; however, as I read this book it became obvious how perfectly INTOLERANT liberalism, and Al Franken, really is. This book is a look through a set of hateful, intolerant eyes. Such hypocrisy deserves to remain on the shelf. If you are liberal or just looking to get revenge for losing the elections of 2000, 2002 and recall 2003, then this book is for you. Otherwise wait for your favorite DVD to come out, buy it and enjoy it, it will be money well spent.
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Summary: Written with humor, insight, and pure political genius.
Review: Ok well I don't know about that last part. But this is a good book. Mr. Franken exposes a large amount of lies that conservatives in the media and White House spit out. He also exposes the myth that the media has a liberal bias. The conservatives have no limits or morals when it comes to lying. They will twist what you say to make it work in their favor. But you have to read the book to fully understand what I mean.
Before I summarize more deeply into this review, let me explain my political beliefs: I am against gun control. I think it is our Constitutional right to own a gun(granted of course we have no record of crime or psychosis). I have doubts about the death penalty system but I support it for now. I think abortion is not a real issue. Its an issue but its not really a worldwide problem, but I'll save that subject for another review. I believe working men and women are more important to America than businessmen. Working men are the ones who built this country with their bare hands. I am also in favor of any organizations who improve the quality of life to working class men and women. I consider myself liberal but not too liberal.
OK now back to the review. Al Franken explains with examples and proof just how brutal the conservatives' lies can be. In the middle of the book Al shows us how the conservatives took advantage of a memorial service to Wellstone and turned it into propaganda for the news. My favorite part was the chapter called "The Gospel of Supply-Side Jesus". This was a satirical look about how Jesus felt about rich and poor people. Its a cartoon, and on one of the panels is a quote from Jesus saying "It is easier for a rich man to enter heaven seated comfortably on the back of a camel, than it is for a poor man to pass through the eye of a needle." Of course the real quote from Jesus was "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." as it says in Matthew 19:24. This is what confuses me about conservatives. They claim to love God so much yet they have policies that benefit the rich man at the expense of the middle man, they promote capitol punishment, which Jesus was a victim of, and they love the fetus but cut the budget for it when it is born, as they are doing with No Child Left Behind (which public schools all hate).
You will without a doubt enjoy this book.
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Summary: ITN is the best - and try for a fair balance on your TV
Review: OK, I am prejudiced, as my cousin Andrea Catherwood was an embedded journalist in Iraq with ITN during the recent war. I agree that Fox is probably not as fair and free as it says it is, but then, sadly, many of your channels aren't either! It is a shame that the USA does not have a history of the kind of public service broadcasting that makes ITN a beacon of genuine righl/left political balance in a world where we really do need a free and fair picture of what is going on. Christopher Catherwood, author of CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS AND ISLAMIC RAGE (Zondervan, 2003)
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Summary: Al Franken Is AMAZING!
Review: Ok, I see all these one star conservative Rush Limbaugh-loving republicans and why should it surprise anyone? Of course they are going to hate this book. They are just pissed off at the fact that a democrat has found them out. For the 8 years of Clinton all they did was whine and moan about Clinton's LIE! Well thanks to the wonderfully brillant Al Franken, despite Clinton's one lie that almost got him thrown out of office, this book goes into RESEARCHED detail about the many lies of many liars. Hence the title of the book. Everyone from Bush to Cheney to Hannity to Colmes to Limbaugh to Coulter to O'Rielly. They are all here and its a great time. VOTE FOR KERRY 2004!!!
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Summary: A Bright, Shining Lie
Review: OK, I think I've finally gotten this down. According to those mad-cap loonies on the far-Right ( and some truly bizarre e-mails yours truly has received concerning previous critiques here on Amazon ) I am officially a ' Christian-hating, ACLU loving, pro-Choice, Liberal media follower ( I subscribe to the N.Y.Times ), UN supporting, NRA opposing, anti-war peace nut, Socialist/Communist ( this person apparently believes the 'Cold War' rages on! ) and ultimately Godless 'elitist' who is subverting America and all she stands for. Not only that but many Neo-cons suspect that us Liberals secretly abhor Mom and apple pie! And to make matters worse I proudly possess the complete catalogue of Barbra Streisand cd's. Well, while being a Liberal/Democrat certainly has its pitfalls amongst the perennially peeved Conservative movement it does help to have books such as Al Frankens " Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them " around to add a much needed dose of humour/satire. Granted though, for Conservatives who subscribe to Ann Coulter's or Bill O'Reillys rather bizarre views on social criticism then you may have ( inadvertenly of course! ) located all the humour you may very well need. Enjoy Mr. Frankens offering...and in the words of our illustrious leader, " Bring'em on! " All the very best,
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