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Summary: Simply Wretched
Review: This book is obviously lying about it's own supposed "liars". Not worth the money.
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Summary: Only the Facts
Review: This book is outstanding. Al Franken uses the facts to build his case against the conservative media. In example and example, he exposes lie after lie. This book is an easy read, and if you are open minded, whether or not you agree with Franken's politics, you will see how the right wing manipulates the media to serve its purposes. Al Franken is a true patriot.
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Summary: Finally, the voice of reason
Review: This book is partisan. It's slanted, it's populist, it's downright leftist. It's also the truth. I just saw the video on CSPAN of the Book Expo lunch at which Al Franken and Bill O'Reilly tore into each other. The scene is accurately described in the book, along with lots of frightening and disturbing examples of blatant deception in the right-wing media. But somehow it stays funny. Really funny! Franken makes it clear in several places that he doesn't hate all conservatives (He even claims Gary Bauer isn't a nutcase, though he acknowledges that he is in fact small.) He seems to have great respect for diversity of ideas and civil discourse. But when the right lies, Franken takes them to task. And he does it brilliantly. If you believe everything Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly says, you will hate this book. But if you feel like the political center of this country has been yanked toward the right, and you have been wondering when someone would cry foul, this book is for you.
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Summary: WHat a bunch of cr*p.
Review: This book is really sad. It's amazing how much attention this piece of garbage has gotten from the liberal media establishment. If you are looking for some revisionist history, or maybe you are missing the Clintons in the big house - then you may like this @#$%.
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Summary: Laugh-out-loud funny but little insight into the right
Review: This book is riotously funny in many places. Al Franken knows how to use swear words at just the right times in the same way he was writing comedy skits for Saturday Night Live a quarter century ago. If you liked him then, you'll like him now.The book isn't just about "the right" and their lies. He does a good job of poking fun at right-leaning coverage given by left-leaning news sources (NY Times, Washington Post) too. There's a couple paragraphs of real substantive stuff about the mainstream and left-leaning press organizations in this book. The overall attitude is that the right-wingers are really beyond comprehension or understanding. In reality the "lies" they tell have been used by both sides (which he admits in quite a few places). But the book is, most of all, about Al Franken. There's no avoiding that. He admits he sent deceiving letters to public officials, using Harvard letterhead. He takes Bob Jones University for a long ride and in the end feels bad about it - sort of. But not so bad that he didn't chronicle the whole escapade :-)
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Summary: more mud slinging
Review: This book is sad.
Then again, I think all books that take pot shots at their political opposites without looking for the root of the problems and how best to solve theses problems are equally sad.
There are lies and truths on both sides of the political fence.
A good idea is a good idea! I don't care who came up with the idea or who gets credit. Just act upon the good idea.
What little good there is about books like these is that they generate discussion and debate about the issues.
You have a brain, use it.
Focus on the issues and leave the mud to the trolls and the pigs like Franken AND Limbaugh.
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Summary: Al Franken is No Fool, But He Is a Liar
Review: This book is sad. When so many people in this country are making sacrifices and working hard to prevent another 9/11, Al is making a fortune poking fun at people who believe in this country's values. Amazon's review credits him for being a Harvard fellow....therein "lies" the problem. It is so easy to sit on the sidelines and poke fun at leaders. We all do it (I guess I'm doing it now), but a cheap shot is a cheap shot and Al Franken is a cheap shot.
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Summary: Simple Review
Review: This book is simply revisionist history. Even though he claims to have used LEXIS NEXIS searches to support his partisan conclusions recreating the same searches undercut his claims. Either his 15 Harvard research assistants only brought him the articles they thought he would have liked or he lost every computer printout that didn't fit into his pre-packaged boiler plate satire. It is a shame most people don't have the funds or the inclination to subscribe to LEXIS NEXIS in order add the information Mr. Franken didn't think fit into his tired routine that he attempts to pass off as witty comedy.
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Summary: brililant
Review: This book is simply the best thing I read last year. It was smart, insightful, honest and sometime amusing (all things that the people who are most talked about in this book or those who eitehr hate this book or simply don't get it will never be defined as -- Bush and his band of DC elite thugs especially included.) Most people who don't like this book won't like it because it leaves little to no room for error. It is well researched and goes to painstaking lengths to make sure that any and all readers who want to check the facts for themselves can do so easily. No distortion of facts, just facts -- as funny and often as hard to believe as they might be. I say this is must reading for anyone planning to vote in 2004. And also, you should pick up Ann Coulter's TREASON or Bill O'Reilley's books, just for a comparison of what it's like to be smart and make truthful and make good sense versus being a talking head puppet for a racist and elitist group who have taken over the entire Republican party. (And before you make the accusations that I am a lefty liberal, let me say, I would ahve been glad to see John McCain win and be our leader. I do not see in party colors, I see in truth. And the truth, ladies and gentlemen, is that Bush is good intentioned man doing bad things and being pushed by old cold warriors looking to make a fight in their 11th hour on this world stage.)
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Summary: Al and TeamFranken--makes the point in awesome fashion!
Review: This book is so intelligently written in every respect--research, wit, style, and insight. Franken demonstrates PRECISELY how certain right-wingers are able to pull the wool over the eyes of people who are too lazy to really find out the facts.
The most awesome example of this can be seen right here via a review by "tropical alex" who rails on Franken for misquoting Ann Coulter about Evan Thomas'es relation to Norman Thomas. Unbeknownst to "tropical alex" Franken does this INTENTIONALLY TO PROVE THE POINT THAT PEOPLE DON'T READ ENDNOTES. SEE PAGE 379, TROPICAL! Franken shows how Coulter can lie and distort the truth in the main text of her book, "Slander," by burying relevant notes in the back of the book--knowing that people like Tropical Alex will only look so far. IT IS EASY TO LIE TO LAZY PEOPLE. Is the point crystal now, Tropical? Don't feel too bad though, I'm sure there are many liberals that missed that one too.
Only astute people with a sense of humor should apply for readership of this book (witness the negative reviews of this book and wonder how far any of those readers got).
Kudos across the board for Al and TeamFranken!
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