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Summary: Political Talk, Democrat and Republican, is just that: Talk
Review: Talk, its all talk. For further enlightenment, listen to Adrian
Belew's "Elephant Talk". Enough said.
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Summary: Both Funny and Frightening...A Must Read!
Review: Thank God for Al Franken. This is a thoroughly researched compilation of personal experiences and public events that illustrate how Fox News and other wacky idealogues use fear, scape-goating and misinformation to put down meaningful debate in this country, and to advance their own pro-corporate, big-money agenda. I read this book on a cross-country flight and then stayed up in my hotel room to finish it. It's in turn hilarious, riviting, and ultimately terrifying. Highly recommended, especially for voters in the 2004 Presidential election!
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Summary: Lies and the Lying Liers who Tell Them
Review: Thank God someone is uncovering the madness of the far right and the lies and propaganda that gained them popularity. Oh, and it's hilarious at the same time that it is extremely informative and well documented.
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Summary: I laughed so I wouldn't cry...
Review: Thank goodness Al Franken made this book humorous enough to keep me from crying over the way our country is being run. The book was delivered to me two days ago and I haven't been able to put it down. I know that partisanship is here to stay, and that you shouldn't believe everything you hear or read, but he backs up every allegation with proof. It's an easy read. More importantly, though, it's a necessary read for anyone who loves this country and wants to see it prosper.
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Summary: Truth about the Lying Liars
Review: Thank you Al for having to courage and intelligence to have written this book. Deep down most Americans know that this Administration has, and continues to "shape the facts" to advance it's numerous right wing agendas. Is calling the President a liar unpatriotic if he has proven to be one over and over again? I don't think so. Except for the occasional editiorial here and there I don't see many others in the media willing to point out the many discrepancies between the truth and the propaganda that the public is spoon feed by the corporate owned media. This book made me laugh and also gave me hope that there might be more like minded liberals out there than I knew about. Toward the end you say "Truth to power, baby", and that's what this book really turns out to be.
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Summary: Thank you Al
Review: Thank you Al for speaking for the vast majority of Americans. Thank you for exposing Bush, Coulter, Limbaugh, Cheney and all the rest of the liars for who they really are. Thank you for educating the public on how the right wants to keep the poor out of the gated communities, and make the rich even richer. Who would Jesus bomb? If Bush is a Christian has he not read the ten commandments? The world has not seen this sort of Nationalistic propoganda from the right since the days of Hitler. Thank you Al for giving us hope.
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Summary: lluminating!
Review: Thank you Al Franken! At last, a liberal who uses his natural wit and intelligence to illuminate the dark duplicitous rantings of the vast right wing. Too bad Al doesn't have his own tv hour-- we could use a regular dose of reality-speak to counter the "fair and balanced" barrage of garbage spewed at us 24 - 7!
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Summary: A nice helping of "truth" about the "right"
Review: THANK YOU Mr. Franken and TeamFranken for a stupendous job on this book!!!! It exposes the conservatives for what they are manipulators, liars, and self-serving. All young people, in particular Young Democrats, should have a copy of this book. Job well done Mr. Franken!!! Keep up the good work, and with all the lies out there you'll have much material for years to come!!!!
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Summary: Work on the Haymaker, Al
Review: Thank you Mr. Franken for refuting the scurrilous, anti-democratic cant of the oh-so-many assorted tools of the rich and powerful, the murderous mouthpieces Coulter, O'Reilly and Hannity, et. al. Murdoch's Molechs have gotten away their vicious innuendo, distortions, and lies for far too long. With "Liars," Mr. Franken, you, with the help of your Harvard-trained research staff, have put the lie to the hoohah of this hydra-headed beast. But really, Al, I wonder, do you really think reason and point-by-point refutation, no matter how accurately executed, will have the slightest effect on the beast and its minions? It's a shame that it's gotten this bad, but the bought-and-paid-for rhetoric of the hydra has so polarized America, so marginalized, circumscribed, and even criminalized any other point of view that one wonders if there really is any hope for book like yours actually changing anyone's mind. Yes, it's a shame the so-called liberal media has been missing in action like in the old McCarthy days, and your valiant attempt to throw a monkey wrench into the well-oiled attack machine is laudable, but, really, maybe you should consider doing what so many Americans have already done: relax into the warm bath of slander and take the draught of diminished hope. Think about it, Al. Maybe it's time to get your heart into the right place, if you know what I mean. Harden it. Stop the bleeding. As we have been told so many times by the Coulter O'Reilly Hannity hydra, there are only two kinds of people in the world: the deserving people who own and run everything because they deserve to, and the undeserving people who are lazy and will never have anything and therefore don't deserve to. You're successul. You deserve your fame and money. You worked hard for it. Luck had nothing to do with it. Not your family either. It was all you, you Rugged Individualist. So why not gratefully abandon yourself to delicious knee-jerk patriotism and flag reverence of the Fox Network? Remember that war is the health of the state. Punch your fist in the air as the Fox tools toadie to the cynical oligarchy which has swallowed up the once-honorable Republican party. Shout huzzahs to the perfection of the cabalistic policies of George Jr., Cheney, Perle, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer and the corporatist state. It'll feel great. Really, Al. And you deserve it, Al. You're proof that the American system works, aren't you? Whew! Boy that feels good, that "us" and "them" stuff. The deserving and the undeserving thing. You can almost see how the Coulter's and Hannity's get carried away with that stuff. Kind of gets you all puffed up, don't it? But anyway, seriously, Al, by engaging in this dogfight, this parsing of truth and untruth, you're in mortal danger of becoming a pawn in their game of one-upmanship. This is a hard game to win. I'm not saying you shouldn't have done it, or shouldn't continue to, but consider this, too: the best parts of your book are not the sections where you talk how the conservatives have shredded the social safety net and made off with the family silver, or the parts where you show how Americans have been sold down the trickle-down river, but rather those humane and decent parts of the book where you, for instance, talk about your long and abiding friendship with Paul Wellstone, or talk about the inspiration you find in the American government programs of the New Deal when social justice and equality were embodied in the social safety net, the one that was there for your wife's family when her father was killed in the war. It is the language of compassion, of community and love that best refutes the devil-take-the-hindmost ethos of Supply Side Jesus. (By the way I suspect that's one of the reasons you like Clinton so much -- he knew how to strike the chord of compassion in most decent Americans, whether Democrat or Republican. This was the gift that drove his enemies wild with hatred: the common touch conservatives claim to have, but don't). So what if Hannity doesn't have the number one show on television as he claims? Or that O'Reilly never won those two Peabody he claims he did? Until someone with similar bandwidth can get up and slap down that hydra, head by head with the human language of real compassion -- and short-circuit the sound-bite, tough-love, focus-group language of compassionate conservatism -- we're going to be forever treated to Murdoch's Manichean world of good and evil: it simply plays so much better on television. You're right, someone has to put the lie to the liars, and this is a good start, and we appreciate it. But the other, and, perhaps the more powerful weapon you have at your disposal is your decency and humanity, especially your gift for admitting your own zealousness might sometimes have led you astray. This weapon is powerful because, as you point out, Americans prefer moral persons to scoundrels and liars. And Americans very much want to act morally toward their neighbors, their communities, their country and the world. They are beginning to awaken to the deceptions of these venal and vituperative hacks and their political puppet masters. The weapons of humility, decency and humanity are powerful too because those who have arrayed themselves against the best interests of America are people who are sorely lacking in these estimable traits. You and TeamFranken have the good left jab; use it to keep the bums off-balance while you work on the haymaker.
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Summary: Thanks Al
Review: Thank you Mr. Franken for writing this intelligent and thoughtful book. You've taught me to check the footnotes and endnotes.
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