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Summary: The left doesn't like opposing views
Review: The left has been upset with the erosion of their monopoly on the media. When an outlet does not impune conservative values, the call it a pupper of the "vast right wing conspiracy." Worst let, the washed up skit writers become political writers. Botton line, Limbaugh is not longer fat, but Franken is still an idiot.
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Summary: The lies of 2004 have begun - buy this book to stop them!
Review: The lies of the political right in the 2004 campaign have already begun - buy this book and then buy 10 copies to give all your friends, so that the American people can see the truth about the lies and more that are polluting the USA today. This is a great book and one that should be read by as many patriotic Americans as possible, so that the good guys can reclaim the country in 2004. Al Franken is a prophet of our times and this book proves it!
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Summary: The Humor helps get you through the Pain
Review: The moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the Right is beautifully exposed in Franken's alternantly hilarious and depressing book. Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity are high profile hate-mongers among the barely literate in this country and this requires that they be discredited at every opportunity. Franken does this well by showing that, in addition to being dishonest, Hannity and Coulter are incredibly incompetent (Coulter doesn't know how to perform a literature search well enough to find a front page article in the New York Times; Hannity is unable to understand basic arithmetic.) The Wellstone Chapter is excellent. Franken is dead-on in pinning Bush with responsibility for much of the right-wing poison being spread around. He doesn't let him off with the hook with the "he's too stupid to know what is going on" excuse. The NYT book reviewer is mostly right concerning "Supply Side Jesus" and the fictitious Vietnam War story. "Supply Side Jesus" is at least fairly short and to-the-point, the fictitious Vietnam War story just isn't funny and goes on far too long. One of the best things about the book is that when Franken uses facts, they are indeed FACTS. As I read the book, I took pleasure in the jokes, but also in knowing that it would drive the right-wing fanatics crazy trying to find errors.
Books about the Right's descent into corruption and viciousness are scary and disturbing, at least with Franken you get a good dose of genuinely funny material to keep you from getting too depressed.
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Summary: Entertaining and scary......horrifying really.
Review: The most amazing chapter of all is the one exposing how the Bush administration ignored the CIA, FBI, Counter-terrorism head Richard Clarke AND the Hart-Rudman report when they tried to warn of an imminent terrorist attack in early to mid 2001. Franken supplies a long list of details about this. It's pretty shocking.The Bushies dropped the ball in a major way, and have been trying to put the blame on Clinton ever since. If fact, as shown by Franken, Clinton had succesfully thwarted several major terrorist attacks, and was taking the Al Queda threat very seriously. It was Bush and his cronies who decided there was no threat (or even worse, who decided to let it happen for whatever self-serving reasons they might have had).
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Summary: Bush Ran Against Peace & Prosperity - and Won!
Review: The most amazing thing about George W. Bush, as Al Franken points out, is the free pass he and his apologists have been given by the media. With no critical questioning coming from the press, and an American public as eager to feed on reassuring big lies as it does Big Macs, it's up to rebels like Franken to expose the crackpot voices of the fanatical right. Look at W's record and it's one of Mission NOT Accomplished: No WMD found, the worst economy in 20 years, the highest unemployment, Iraq & Afghanistan are endless killing quagmires. And whenever W opens his mouth it's clear that he's tirelessly fighting to liberate our language from the cruel contraints of grammar and logic. Also recommended: "Speaking of Sex: Funny, Wicked & Joyful Remarks About Almost Everybody's Favorite Subject" by John-Paul Sousa. Kind of George W. Bush-isms meets Sex and the City.
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Summary: Great Fun For Political Junkies!
Review: The most entertaining political satire I have read in years. It's like being at a beltway cocktail party with a hilarious host.
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Summary: Bill O'Reilly is muy splotchy.
Review: The negative reviews on this page, like this book, are laugh-out-loud hilarious. Franken is an amazing writer - smart, intelligent and extremely funny. He hits Conservative's right where they're tender: the pompous, repetitive "If we say it loud enough and long enough, it must be true" bullsh*t that is the Right Ring's mantra. As dark as today's current socio-political climate is, I can't help but think it's mainly us Liberal's fault - we've been successfully cowed into not speaking up and not fighting back. I have true hopes that Franken will inspire all the "traitors" of the US to grow a pair. A must read. Al, if you read your Amazon reviews (and I know you do), feel free to contact me to thank me for this stellar write-up. I'd love to be a part of TeamFranken.
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Summary: conservative hysteria-hysterical
Review: the one star reviews by people too afraid to read the book lest they find the truth about their ditto masters are hilarious and quite telling. Refute AL! We dare you. This book served as both a wake up call and as a great source of amusement. It's important reading, for all you neocon morons who think peggy noonan is down to earth and sean hannity knows what he's talking about-ever! Al has you pegged. Liars, and he shows exactly how and when they lie. You'd think one right-wing nut would get mad at say, ann coulter, for lying to them. Nope, it's Al's fault and of course liberals. Somehow being liberal forces conservatives to become amoral liars. I should say some conservatives, because real conservatives don't appear on fox or vote for big gov't. only the conservatives in karl rove clothing do. get them al. Can't wait till he returns with more for the paperback version.
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Summary: Fantasy Writing
Review: The only lies here are in the book. Why do we continue to give no-talent, uneducated, brainless entertainment types a forum to voice really stupid opinons? If you buy this book you are only giving these people encouragement to do more. They already live in a fantasy world but know nothing about the average American! Repeating what you hear from anti-American socialist elitists doesn't make you an author!
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Summary: Absolutely brilliant!
Review: The only thing I'm not sure of is whether the lying liars are too afraid to really read it or just too damned stupid to get it. Wake up America! O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Coulter, that incrediible idiot, Sean Hannity and the rest are trying to sell you down the river. The sad thing is that they are all too successful. Read the book and just try to ignore the facts. The only truth you'll get out of the conservative media is the first 3 letters of their label... it's quite a CON job.
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