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Summary: This explains the years that SNL lost the quality....
Review: Pitiful attempt at weak humor filled with grossly unsupported "Facts".This explains the years that SNL lost it's quality and integrity of honest entertainment and solid humor. This man is a pitiful, spite filled looser, that can't stand another view, other than his own elitist babble. Save your money, don't buy Franken or Limbaugh. Invest in a bridge... it's a FAR better bet!
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Summary: Al Franken is the Liar!
Review: Please read Ann Coulter's Oct. 8, 2003 column at AnnCoulter.org to get a "fair and balanced" response to Al's book.
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Summary: If you disagree with Franken, please show me the facts.
Review: Please, if you're going to call this book a pack of liberal lies and a horrible twisting of the truth, please enlighten us as to one or two specific examples, including the page number, so that we can see your reasoning and check your sources. One reviewer described this book as bulletproof. If nothing else, it does encourage readers to check his sources. It's not unlike the difference between science and religion -- if you allow me to doublecheck your reasoning and the results are reproduceable, it's science. If I'm supposed to take your proclamations on faith alone, it's religion. Both will have their converts, usually equally vociferous. The only difference will be the average level of intelligence -- which is evident in reading the reviews for this book, as well as Ms. Coulter's. I'm not saying he's right in every instance. I merely ask you to convince me otherwise, with proof.
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Summary: Oh My Gosh!
Review: Please, please actually read the book, most of the stuff people are sayng agaisnt are explained in full detail, right inside the book, its making you people look like morons.
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Summary: Ridicule and FACTS expose O'Reilly, Coulter, Bush et al
Review: Please, PLEASE read this book. If you're a Republican, you will hate some of Franken's ridicule. His rhetoric is just as outrageous as Limbaugh and Coulter are from the right, but the huge difference is Al Franken has the facts to support his anger. With the assistance of a bunch of bright scholars from Harvard's Kennedy School, his TeamFranken, plus many other very knowledgeable friends, he repeatedly nails the pernicious and pervasive lies of the Bush administration and its media apologists. Example: Ann Coulter: "She was born in 1961. Or 1963. Depending on whether you believe her old Connecticut driver's license (1961) or her newer D.C. driver's license. Ann claims the D.C. license is correct, which means that when she registered to vote she was 16. That, of course, would be voter fraud."
Most of Franken's ire is directed at far more serious lies than Ann Coulter's prevaricating about her birthday. He is furious, with reason, not only at the lies of the Right but of the failure of the "liberal" media to expose those lies. "Liberal" media? As Franken points out, two thirds of newspapers, reaching 58% of all readers, endorsed George W. Bush in 2000. The "liberal"media were silent when rightwingers like Sean Hannity claimed Clinton gutted the military. They failed to point out, as Franken does, that 70% of the bombs and missiles used in Gulf War II were smart weapons, compared with just 10% in the first Gulf War. They failed to note that in Aug. 2000 Dick Cheney said "A commander in chief leads the military built by those who came before him.... It is all the work of previous administrations.... And when that war [the first Gulf War] ended, the first thing I did was to place a call to California and say thank you to President Reagan." As Franken says, "You suppose Clinton is waiting for Rumsfeld's call?"
Again, please, please read this. If you're a liberal it will give you facts to support your arguments and confirm your reasons for anger. If you're conservative it will give you food for thought - and lots of explaining to do.
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Summary: Please Read
Review: Please, please, please, please, please actually read this book before you bash it, I've hear nurmous remarks that Franken clearly explain it the book. It is obvious to tell who has and has not read this book by their remarks. I understand you people are agnry but have a little more insight then "Franken's an idoit."
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Summary: Completely new arguments from the left! Never before heard!
Review: Political Satire? Al Franken chose to hide behind this facade throughout the entire book, later calling himself a satirist after someone took him seriously. Al sadly downward spirals into countless ad hominem attacks that people sadly feel are well-plead arguments with actual substance. However, like most of his fellow attackers, a logical and cogent argument still alludes him. Nice stealing Fox's slogan too. Bet if I named a book "Just Do It," I'd be paying. Nice and original, Al, steal a slogan of a news source people can actually trust and use it to pawn a book not worth the ink used to print it.
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Summary: well, I wanted to laugh, but
Review: Politics has been described as the equivalent to making sausage. It's a messy process involving lots of competing interests that are chopped, diced, and squished together. But sometimes the result can be palatable... or at least not repulsive.
In this book, Al Franken puts on the chef hat of a political humorist who also wants to be taken seriously. Then he wants us to enjoy--even consume--this liberal sausage of his.
Sorry, tastes bland. Even worse, I knew what it would taste like before the first bite. Not much new seasoning here. Not very aromatic. Just bitter. And, oh yeah, too salty.
The great political humorists, like Twain or Mencken or Will Rogers, never latched on to a particular cause like most of today's political humorists. Al Franken will never be among them.
Just for fun, read "You Know You're a Republican/Democrat if...", which skewers both parties. Or re-read the greats like Twain all over again.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: Pretty easy to spot the republican non-readers of the book. I guess when you get all your info from Fox or Rush, you have a hard time believing the truth when you see it. Read the book. Check the facts. Like a previous reviewer stated, I haven't seen any of the one-star reviews showing facts to contradict anything Al has written. Go Al! the next senator from Minnesota!
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Summary: Al Franken Is A Genius
Review: Pretty much the only guy who has the guts to say what he says in the inimitable way in which he says it, Al has a strong and consistent message, couched in biting satire. Organized and moderate conservatives fear him, because they have no viable means to neutralize his arguments...so they resort to baseless lawsuits and slander. Crackpot and extremist conservatives fear him, because even though they don't completely get his jokes, they know he has their number - and that he speaks the truth. In fact, it's a shame more people don't get it, but that's the reason this country is in this mess to begin with...
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