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Summary: Masterful Marketing, Empty Book
Review: The Fox-Franken imbroglio that accompanied the launch of this book puts the lie to Mr. Franken's thesis. It's obvious that he manufacturered this promotional opportunity with the subtitle "A Fair and Balanced Lood at the Right." It was a brilliant marketing move.
The book reviewer's opening sentance is inaccurate, in that Franken has never proven any inaccuracies by parties opposed to his views. This tome continues in that tradition. If you're already a "true-believer" Deaniac/Nader type you'll love this, because it tells you what you want to hear. If you're a questioning or critical thinker, you'll be sorely disappointed, as Mr. Franken description of the world does not come close to reality, and his arguments are worse.
Buyer Beware.
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Summary: Would rate zero stars, if available...
Review: The funniest thing about this book .. is its price.. notice that is is already down from 25 bucks to under 15... I think I will wait until I can get it at the thrift store for $1 or less...shouldnt be too long...
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Summary: Lying Liberals are Sore Losers
Review: The funniest thing on the planet is a liberal who is completely powerless and inconsequential. Well known is Franken's fiasco with making up lies to promote this book. This is the type of drivel that exposes liberals for the pathetic losers that they are. Now that liberal Democrats are reduced to sniveling unpatriotic cowards, their primary concern seems to be with doing anything to get back the power, even tearing down their own country!
Their mantra seems to be "If we can't have it then nobody will." Hopefully the vast majority of Americans will see right through this smokescreen, but I'm sure there are still plenty of ...liberals who'll eat this up like a dog returning to his vomit.
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Summary: Franken's best book yet
Review: The guy is a comic genius, and with Team Franken working for him he comes across as a research genius too. I just love the unpredictability of his humor and his ability to hit you out of the blue with wonderful uncensored raunch. But the book devastates the right. By reading the odd vapid review posted here by right-wingers (who clearly haven't even read it) one would think they are dumbstruck. Why no substantive rebuttal's to any points made? I would love to see some substance instead of the blather.
I will be buying several copies to distribute to friends. I offered to buy a copy for an acquaintance that likes Bush and is an O'Reilly fan, but he declined by pretending that he wouldn't want to look to "a comedian" for his information. To bad. The real reason is he "doesn't like to read books" and his testes retract when he thinks about having to turn FOX (and other sources) off long enough to read a substantive response to his right wing faith. But he did inform me that I should remember that Bush is a "compasionate[sic] conservitve[sic]." Oh my.
I thought Franken's Chicken Hawk story was the weakest part humor-wise but his main point here is a good one. A surprising number of hawks on Team Bush took a pass when it came time possibly face war themselves. I loved the Supply Side Jesus cartoon. The "Waitress and the Lawyer" play was excellent. The 15 or so pages showing how Bush dropped the ball on terrorism before 9/11 are probably the most disturbing. I already knew most of it from an article in TIME mag., but Al and his team put it together in a very powerful and concise way. Not nearly enough is said about how the incredible incompetence of Bush's team left America open to the 9/11 attack. I think we don't hear much about this because people think it might appear as unpatriotic and Americans just don't want to contemplate that they might have a president that in this important area, was this incompetent. And of course, sadly, there is nothing we can do about it now. Rather depressing really but it needs to be said, and Franken knocks it out of the park. If you are going to be disgusted with the facts, you might as have a little humor along with the medicine.
And that's what this book is, medicine for a nation drunk on endless streams of blatant distortion, lies and effluent put forward by the likes of Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter and Team Bush. The humor is the sugar that helps it go down. But the right-wing faithful are still going to gag, should they read it. And with good reason. Franken takes their "geysers of liquefied pig feces" and shoves it back down their throat, and no amount of sugar can make that stuff taste good.
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Summary: It's astonishing what makes it onto the best sellers list.
Review: The humor seemed really forced. Politically un-sophisticated. If teeth-grinding, anti-conservative humor is your thing, I highly recomend Bill Hicks over this book.
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Summary: Lies and Distortions and Ad Hominem Attacks, Oh My!
Review: The Instigator has done it again. Another ad hominem book with no substance. He consistently distorts the truth and lies in order to push his point. If you want a "fair and balanced" look, don't go to a partisan such as Al Franken, just as you wouldn't go to anyone else who's only trying to raise the ire of those whom he hates. You don't go to a drug pusher for accounting help, and you don't go to a "humorist" like Al Franken for unbiased information and education.
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Summary: Hoisted on your own petard?
Review: The irony is rich. Al Frankin is caught sending out letters on Harvard University stationary requesting personal information from the likes of John Ashcroft, claiming that he is writing a book on sexual abstinence. While actually planing to use the information for his next book. Who is the lying liar now?
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Summary: The Right continues its lies...proving Franken correct!
Review: The last three reviewers continue the tradition established by the previous reviewers here who have slagged Franken's book...their nonsensical comments betray thorough ignorance of the substance of Franken's book, revealing that they have NOT read the book they pretend to be reviewing. More lies from lying liars! And they're too ignorant to realize how pitiful this makes them appear. Grow up, dittoheads.
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Summary: Finally, a liberal bias in a medium
Review: The latest incarnation of Al Franken's genius comes in a delightfully wrapped package of truth and honesty. "The truth hurts" has never been more true than to the objects of Franken's ire. This book will leave the jaw drooping for long periods of time, making the reader wish he or she had the ability to articulate his or her anger at the current media hegemony of the right so well.
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Summary: Infantrile tantrum
Review: The Left can't bear the fact there's a news channel or commentator they can't control, or who doesn't accept their revisions of reality and mythologising as some sort of revealed truth. This book is an infantile tantrum, and one feels the author would benefit by a change of diapers and the application of a pacifier. Poor little thing! This book made me feel a lot more warmly about Bill O'Reilly, although as a trade union lawyer I didn't think of him as a natural soul-mate before. Attaboy, Bill! The adults are on your side!
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