Rating:  Summary: No Lie Review: This book is hilarious and dead-on. Whether it is calling out the hypocrisy of Bill O'Reilly or the contempt some conservatives seem to have for their readers and listeners or the wimpiness of Alan Colmes, Franken will at least make you laugh if he doesn't change your mind. Finally a liberal willing to fight against the thousands of talking heads on the right.
Rating:  Summary: Fantastic Review: This book is hilarious and informative, but what makes this book stand out is the fact that it is very powerful. The dirty tricks of the far right blow my mind, and although I am very disturbed, I am glad I read the book. Some reviewers complain that this book is more about refuting lies than proposing any real solution. They say that this is just going to be reciprocated by another Coulter piece of junk, and Al should have taken a high road. But Al has something Coulter et. al don't have: the truth. Perhaps Al is more of an optimist than he is given credit for. Maybe he believes that if he has truth on his side, people will recognize it. Mabye we can make the country better by getting rid of some of these monsters in power. I certainly hope so.
Rating:  Summary: Hilarious Review: This book is hilarious! The chapter titles and inside cover alone are funny! Any reader, right or left, can enjoy this attack on the attackers, provided they do not take it too seriously. Every pundit on the right gets theirs, including Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Tucker Carlson, and Franken's old nemesis Rush Limbaugh. Not only humorous, the book also makes you think about the truth in the media driven world. Funny and factual, it's a great combination for Franken and I look forward to seeing more of him.
Rating:  Summary: Funny and Honest Review: This book is hilarious, very eye opening, and worth the time to read. It is interesting that people would write a review without reading the book. And it is VERY interesting that some of the people he exposed will not comment on what he wrote. They just refuse to comment...I wonder why. Thank You Mr. Franken for a job well done.
Rating:  Summary: Buy 2 copies of this book so you don't have to share. Review: This book is hilarious. It's funny enough to appeal to liberals and conservatives alike. It will help to have a passing familiarity with some of the well known right wing 'talking heads', but most of the targets of Franken's humor are all too familiar. It is funny, very funny, and a lot of us need to exercise our laugh muscles right now. The humor is in the typical dead-pan, no holds barred, Al Franken style; and it's sharp as a scalpel. The analogy in which the Fox entertainment show 'HANNITY (and colmes)' is compared with a Harlem Globetrotters game justifies the purchase of the entire book. Next to that, the long awaited segment on Bill O'Reilly is simply icing on the cake. Well done, Al Franken. I hope you make a bundle! I know I'll be giving this book as a gift to both my left, AND right, wing friends.
Rating:  Summary: A Humorous Look Review: This book is hillarious to the core, making fun of (not just poking fun) the conservative right. I highly recommend it to any fan of comedy, liberal, green, democrat, or republican.
Rating:  Summary: Fantastic read Review: This book is incredibly funny but best of all, it's totally on the money. Of course, we didn't need a book to tell us that Hannity, O-Lielly, Coulter, Bush, Rove and Cheney were lying liars but it's sure nice to see it in print!!! If this book irritates just one right wing idiot, you've done your job well, Al. Thanks for a great read.
Rating:  Summary: I'd give this book more than 5 stars if Amazon let me! Review: This book is like candy! If you adore Coulter, Hannity, and O'Reilly, you may not like this book... but everyone else will be laughing out loud. Funny and full of well checked facts, this book is a humorist's approach to countering the anti-liberal, pro-Bush rhetoric. And believe me, Supply-Side Jesus really brings his points home!
Rating:  Summary: Slapped Together, Not Too Good, Al Baby! Review: This book is mediocre at best. It was slapped together for publication so it could cash in on all the controversy of Fox News (or more to the point Fox employee Bill O'Reilly) sueing Franken for copyright infringement of the term "fair and balanced". Which Franken is, coincidentally, not. The book looks slapped together. It feels and even looks way to long for a humor book. The presentation of the book doesn't even look polished like you would expect from a big time publisher. Don't waste your money on this book, Franken can be funny but this book is not very funny at all. He usually takes ONE idiotic and insignificant thing that some conservative said YEARS ago and blows it up to Wagnerian proportions and is to say HA! See! You lied! I found this one dumb little thing you did years ago and I've blown it all out proportion and blah, blah, blah. He does this with a ridiculous bit on Bill O'Reilly where O'Reilly misspoke and said his TV show Inside Edition won a Peabody award when it really won a Polk. Wow, Al. I am SO not overwhelmed. That's the best this so called comedy genius can come up with? Well, that and a few more ridiculous things. Al does the same with Bias author Bernie Goldberg. Al is reaching, BIG TIME. Al comes out looking like a major league jackass and you're left wondering how many comedy ghostwriters helped him write this so called book. Don't waste your money, glance through it at the bookstore and then walk away. Anything else would be pointless, babe. C'est dig? Dig.
Rating:  Summary: Al Franken has tunnel vision Review: This book is not fact based but rather opinionated. I would not call that fair and balanced just utterly bias.
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