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Summary: sly, clever, and hilarious
Review: Read this book the day I got it. Hilarious lampooning of right wing talking heads, chickenhawks and all who believe anyone speaking against "W" is an unpatriotic traitor. Laughter, as always, is the best revenge. Enjoy!
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Summary: Laughing out loud and crying at once
Review: Readers (and Al),
This book is wonderfully written -- intellectually appealing and emotionally confusing -- leaving me laughing out loud one moment and trying to contain the sadness the next.
Franken is not "just a comedian", unless you think Jon Stewart of the Daily show is too. He is insightful, honest, and explains complex social and political issues in blunt transparent terms. I don't think it's possible to offer an analysis of the state of our political discourse and our policy choices without pointing out the humor in it.
By making the analysis and commentary humorous, Franken shows exactly how serious this is in a way only a good comedian with great Harvard researchers can do.
This is obviously not a fair and balanced reporting. Fair -- yes. Balanced -- no, but the points need to be made loudly. My goal is to get as many conservatives I can to read this book, if only just to put more money in Franken's pocket, but hopefully to help them see the world from a more honest and less selfish perspective.
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Summary: It's Franken who's the liar
Review: Readers of this book beware: When Franken accuses conservatives of doing something unethical, HE's the one who's actually doing it.
Franken starts slamming Ann Coulter in Chapter 1, so I spent some time with "Lies" in one hand and Coulter's "Slander" in the other. Turns out Franken's accusations of Coulter are either wrong, suspect, or petty (He calls her a liar for using the word "footnote" to mean "endnote". Gimme a break!). He says Coulter dazes and confuses readers by writing misleading endnotes, but if you check the direct source, you'll discover that Franken conveniently abridges Coulter's full citations, thereby misleading his *own* readers. Franken also calls Coulter a liar for claiming Evan Thomas is the son of 6-time Socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas (Coulter did inaccurately say 4-time). In an endnote of his own, he provides the punchline: Evan is Norman's GRANDson. Well, Franken needs his glasses checked, because Coulter wrote "grandson" all along.
In short, Franken is another liberal whiner who just can't stand being on the losing side.
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Summary: Finally, someone is taking it to the right with intelligence
Review: Reading Al Franken's "Liars, etc" was so refreshing! It is about time that the right wing media and Bush administration had a sufficient tongue-lashing with facts, not rhetoric or half-baked, wishy-washy protests. Franken gives it to you straight with facts and figures in a most hilarious and incredibly intelligent way! God bless Franken--we want more!!!
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Summary: total waste of time
Review: reading this book was a waste of my time.... the only people Frankin will be able to convince are the weakminded and the ignorant.
just because you site sources doesn't mean what you write is true, or even close to the truth.
just like his stuart smally bit... this book is a work of comedy than any investigative truth
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Summary: More shrill whining from the left
Review: Reads like the democratic debate the other night, shrill shrill shrill. Might find some ground on college campuses though.Some mildly amusing parts in the book, hit and miss like his writing on SNL. Don't bother.
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Summary: Book? More a collection of cartoons and "Thoughts"
Review: Real analysis hardly matters anymore, really. Who has the attention span to really focus on an issue, after all? Certainly not this guy. This book is a chopped-up collection of paragraphs and pictures for the MTV crowd. A little flash from a comedian that has a lot of friends in the press who think being droll and satirical is an indication of superior intelligence. Hell, Howard Stern's book had more substance. Not much difference between the two.
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Summary: typical Frankenbable
Review: Really a bad book. It wasn't even funny. I was so disappointed.
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Summary: This book is funny, but it will make you angry!
Review: Recently, Dubyah make a video where he goes around the White House looking for WMD. "Under here? Nope! Over there there? Nope!" He should take a comedy lesson from Al. Over 500 US soilders and countless others have lost their lives in Iraq, and he thinks it's funny. My theory is that he thought it was funny before the war even started. He is a child, a moron who had no business running for the presidency. Hopefully, this book and others like it will encourage people to get rid of this guy,and his cronies in the media! Thanks, Al!
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Summary: C'mon Neocons!!
Review: Refute Al with facts! Do it. We're all anxiously waiting your response to the facts in this book. Coulter couldn't do it, O'Reilly couldn't do it. Who's going to refute the facts in here. Let's go! (sound of tumbleweeds blowing..crickets in the distance) All you guys yell about in your horribly written responses to Al is "he's full of hate." A. he's clearly not
B. clearly you haven't read the book but prefer your info from ditto-esque sources
C. PROVE HIM WRONG!!!!
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