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Summary: Funny!
Review: This book is funny. I found it enjoyable and a quick read. If you are unhappy with the current leadership in this country then read this book. If you like the current leadership read this book. Always good to know what your enemy is saying. You must read this book with an open mind and understand what views he is coming into it with. Also be sure to actually do some research on your own. Don't just believe or disbelieve what he is saying. Google is available for free. I myself would be labeled a liberal (a bad word in this country). Now you know where I'm coming from. All in all I found it fair and biased. The incidents in the book are not enough to bury the people they are about. Just wacthing or lisening to their shows will do it well enough. Enjoy the book.
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Summary: Use common sense
Review: This book is funny. It's hillariously funny and it had me laughing out loud in the airport when I should have been furious about my continually delayed flights. But for real, if you already know that you are 'right' - don't read it! You know it's just going to make you mad and you're just going to write up a review of it that's brimming with spite and desperation. This book is best suited for people who already know about the lies and want to laugh about it instead of festering. Also, don't read this book in the airport because it will make old white men from Texas try to talk to you about what a joke the book is - which is amusing in it's irony, but annoying just the same.
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Summary: Who's the liar?
Review: This book is funny. What I find funny about this book is that he says he tells the truth, yet when he's caught in his lying he says that it's satire. It's funny that the left wingers here claim it to be the total truth yet condemn those who actually tell the truth. It's funny that his support of Dean actually was one of the causes for Dean's demise. What's funny is how he can joke about the pain of others yet when people poke fun at him or his mother he whines about people hurting him. What's funny is how the Democratic Party has been hurt and tainted by the hateful taint of the far left. What is funny is how the left writing reviews here say that the right is bad for giving it 1 star yet go around and do the same thing by giving it 5. It's funny that the left says its bad for the right to have a political agenda yet the left do the same. It is funny how the left says they are the ones who are intellectual and informed yet spew out this hateful, untruthful garbage. It's funny that the 5 star voters say that the others need to back up their statements that he doesn't tell the truth yet are afraid to go out and seek the truth for themsleves. That when they get the truth that they twist it into yet one more piece of untruth. The funniest of all is how clueless he and his cause is and yet how much he stands behind his cluelessness as if it is righteous and worth fighting for. What is not funny is his humor, his hate and his "facts".
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Summary: Al Franken is a big fat idiot!
Review: This book is going to elect John Kerry President?!!! Ha Ha Ha! Osama bin Laden and his cronies would love it!
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Summary: Al Franken Rocks!
Review: This book is GREAT!
So is Al!
If he were single I'd marry him!
And I'm HOT!
But that aside, Al tells the truth in this book and anyone who denies this is not paying attention.
But then,you could run an idiot on the Republican ticket and Republicans would STILL vote for him. (But we know that already.)
As for Ann Coulter,I've always said she was either completely evil or really stupid.
I don't think she's stupid.
I'd also like you to note where I hail from.
That's right, Cape Girardeau ,Mo.,Limbaugh Land!
(God,help me!)
So, you see, I know Rush and my hatred is well-founded!
I don't hate by reputation alone but from along history of loathing,up close and personel.
(Dare I say 'Fair & Balanced?)
Love ya,Al!
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Summary: Pure genius
Review: This book is great. Better than great. It is funny, well researched, and smart. A MUST READ for everyone.
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Summary: WHERE ARE ALL THE REVIEWS
Review: This book is great. I read every word in 3 days! I hope people listen to his message to Democrats and others about how we need to call these insane people on their distortions and mean-spirited, irrational approach to politics. And of course the book is funny! Al Franken is vicious to people who deserve it, and he is kind (well, retroactively in a couple of cases) to those who aren't actually bad folks, but with whom he disagrees. He's also willing to admit when he jumped to a hasty conclusion, and he apologizes. I couldn't believe some bozo from Slate said in an interview that people don't really read this book. The Right said the same thing about Hillary's book. Anything they can do to try to disarm us. They can't stand that the free market is showing where the majority of people really stand in the USA.
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Summary: Far better than Franken's previous books
Review: This book is GREAT. It breaks new ground in many ways. However, I was very apprehensive about it when I first saw its cover and recalled the cheapshot tactics of its author. Al Franken's "style" involves constantly making absurd, not-to-be-taken-literally statements. As an academically-inclined liberal (with two university degrees in Computer Science), and an Orwellian obsession with behaving fairly, I've been disgusted with his previous efforts, such as the book titled, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and other observations", which is full of personal attacks. However, this book is a BIG change from that style. It still has flippant statements throughout, and a lot of ad hominem attacks, but around 80 percent less often. Much of this book (I would say around 70%) is serious, well-researched, cogently-argued writing, with frequent use of super-clear and valid reasoning. And I was VERY gratified to discover that Franken used a team of research assistants when fact-checking this book's hundreds of amazing claims. The group-photo of "TeamFranken" in the back is hilarious (a team of Harvard University students)...
I was extremely pleased to see the attention he gave to exposing the many lies of author Ann Coulter. Coulter's books are saturated with lies! I've been shocked by her gall. Franken thoroughy smashes a few of her worst ones. E.g., on one page he reproduces an image of a New York Times front page, enabling the reader to clearly see that the NYT ran a story about a famous race car driver's death the very next day after he died, and not two days later as Coulter falsely claimed to her readers in her book "Slander"...Franken's book will hopefully explode her deceptions like a torpedo against a pirate ship...
I also love Franken's nerve -- how he courageously puts his head into the mouth of the Coulter libel-lion. E.g. in his chapter about her he reproduces a long list of Coulter's claims about liberals supposedly hating America. Franken later shows a photo of himself arm-in-arm with John Glenn while entertaining US troops abroad. The caption jokingly describes the troop-support work as his way of expressing his "hate" for America! (Franken loves this nation passionately -- I think that should be obvious to everyone.)
The biggest defect of this book, for me, is the ambiguity of the intent of many of the false, "flippant" statements. At least 90 percent of these statements are obvious to me as being intended to be taken as mere-jokes...but there are so many of them that I've been helplessly puzzled about. "How does Franken intend me to take this statement?" has been the frequent nagging thought. It's been difficult for me to avoid feeling suspicious...feeling that some of these statements are lies by Franken that he will confess to *only* if exposed as false, thereby using "I was only kidding" as an escape route to avoid taking responsibility.
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Summary: Its about time someone spoke up!
Review: This book is great. It reveals the growing conservative media power and the lying rhetoric that neo-conservatives (Rush Limbaugh, Fox, Ann Coulter, O'Reilly etc) make money with. These demogauges have been going un-checked for far too long. Not only is the book hilareous, but he and his Harvard research team site every reference (with footnotes) made in the book. Something you certainly won't find in Neo-conservative publications. A must buy!
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Summary: The Truth is told!
Review: This book is great. You may not agree with everything he says, but you can't deny that this book is extremely well researched. I honestly can't understand how anyone can proudly call themselves Republican after reading this book. Don't get me wrong, I always had a notion that conservatives were crooked. But I never imagined the shame that they could bring upon the human race with some of the vile behavior they so proudly exude. In response to a previous reviewer who said: "Why do we continue to give no-talent, uneducated, brainless entertainment types a forum to voice really stupid opinons?(sic) " What? You mean like Rush Limbaugh? How typically conservative that is. Ad hominem attacks are all you boys have, isn't it? I mean, RESEARCH and DEBATE are something you have absolutely no interest in. We'd probably have to dumb down the discourse just to keep you from drooling all over yourselves if you were to agree to actually be held accountable for your policies. For a group that so quickly jumps to wrap themselves in the American flag, you sure embrace a lot of unethical and UN-American philosophies. Buy this book. It is Fair and Balanced. And it's HIL-ARIOUS! And a good day to you, sir!
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