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Summary: Funny. Now go on to Remick
Review: This book was funny. There. All my thoughts in four words. Now I suggest you go on to read Bennett's "Book of Virtues", or better yet, Remick's "West Point: Character Leadership" to remind us of the way it is supposed to be in our Country. No joke.
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Summary: To the right winged people who dont like this book
Review: This book was great, And I REALLY enjoyed reading every word. I am a liberal, but This has not influenced my opinion. Many people have insulted him saying that he is making up these facts, and is commiting the same crime that the conservative authors are. But see, Al franken has ACTUAL FACTS, ACTUAL SOURCES, and these attackers dont. Its sad that we believe everything that everyone says, even if they dont have proof. THe difference between him and the fat guy is that he can show proof, with stuff that HE has reasearched(well, him and teamFranken)
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Summary: From a Swedish point of wiew.
Review: This book was great. For me, as a universitystudent from Sweden, i have seen how the usa are represented in two ways. In one way, USA is the land of popular culture, alternative lifstyles and freedom. In another way, USA is the country that is ruled by right-wing warlovers that's only concerned about making money, often paid by thousands of innocents lives, and spreading right-wing christianity much like the old english crusades. "The Lies..." got me worried. I have always wanted to live in the USA. I'm not sure that I want that anymore. If theese lying liars countinues to represent this country, usa will soon have no friends left (and everybody is happier with friends) But Al Franken also makes me hopfull about the future. Maybe one day the power is taken away from the right-wing ultra conservatives and given to the liberal peaceloving people. If so the USA can be the country that the whole world (or at least Sweden) wants to love. A great book by Al Franken! And by the way, go kerry!
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Summary: The truth exposed
Review: This book was highly entertaining, it had some good points about how the right-wing distorts the truth. I thought the second chapter when he talks about Ann Coulter was funny. If you are looking for a book that exposes the right-wing then to an extent this is the book you want. Theres more humor than facts and it keeps you wanting to read it.
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Summary: Funny as hell!
Review: This book was not just funny, it was informative and cleared up some of the outrageous lies being told by the right-wing media...and our current administration. If only all journalism and journalists were as honest as Franken is, we as a country would be in much better shape. They lie, they lie about their lies and it makes me sick. Franken is telling it like it is.
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Summary: Just not that funny...
Review: This book was on par with some of Franken's earlier works- one sided and short sighted... He is no more honest than those that he accuses.
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Summary: Talk about LIARS
Review: This book was so full of unsubstatiated rhetoric,inconsistencies, outright lies and quotes taken out of context,it was outright laughable. How a "book" of page after page of vitriolic excrement could be published is beyond all comprehension.
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Summary: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced
Review: This book was the biggest waste of paper I have ever encountered. Al Franken is neither smart nor funny, he's just annoying. What a waste.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: This book will make you angry but laugh while you're simmering. It won't make any wingnuts angry because they won't read it (and haven't in spite of the reviews). Any free thinking American with half a peanut rattling around in their skull will be angry at the mendacious nature of what passes for debate on the far right. As Al points out, it is the far right that is the problem because they base their "arguments" on lies and simply keep repeating those lies. Anyone who disagrees with them is branded a traitor, treasonous, anti-American. However, Al writes truthfully that there is a healthy debate somewhere in the middle. Note to conservatives: Al is not attacking all of you, just the extreme fringe that seems to have hijacked the Republican party and insists on stifling debate by wrapping everything in the flag. All of us somewhere in the middle need to take the country back from the lying administration of W and his minions in the far right press. All the sensible conservatives need to take their movement back from these same people lest they be permanently branded as being in alliance with those seeking to destroy all that has made this country as strong as it is. All of you atavistic conservatives who want to take the country back to pre-Great Society, or pre-New Deal, days, go back and read a history book to see how good things were not. These social engineering programs, while not perfect, laid the foundation for what made America as strong as it was, and as much a guiding light as it was to people around the world, prior to W's presidency.Read this book but prepare to be angry at how the far right uses falsehoods to support its platforms. Read this book and prepare yourself to fight for something good that is greater than just the individual. A rising tide lifts all boats but if the people are in the water and not riding on top, the people aren't lifted and the boats can't go anywhere.
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Summary: Just the Facts, Anne
Review: This book wins both ways. First, it pillories the conservative punditocracy by explaining just where and how they misstate the truth. Second, it does so while being funnier, more honest, and more self-critical than those it criticizes. The fact that critics below are reduced to ad hominem slurs in response to Franken's substantive arguments tells it all.
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