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Summary: Great book (if you're a liberal)
Review: This is a great book for all of those people who can't think for themselves and need someone smarter than them to tell them what to think. I recommend it to every weak-minded person out there.
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Summary: An intelligent and entertaining read
Review: This is a great book for those that want to hear about politics from a different angle than the Ann Coulter and Fox News garbage that has become so prevalent. Franken does a great job with most of the book, and is pretty factually sound on what his statements are. In fact, I've researched a lot of the information that I thought was not true, and was able to find out that the bare truth is even more shocking than what Franken wrote about.There were a few boring parts of the book, but overall I liked it. I'd reccomend it to anyone with an open mind and a desire for more information.
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Summary: Great Book, Al
Review: This is a great book, for liberals and (gasp)conservatives. Al does an excellent job of presenting the FACTs, as opposed to some of the people he writes about. This book was really hard to put down.
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Summary: Right-wingers must not like the TRUTH
Review: This is a great book, full of TRUE statements that uncover and refute--with FACTS--the LIES spewed by hatemongers like Bigot O'Reilly. I guess the right-wingers who listen to and gobble up the garbage coming out of the mouths of the aforementioned hatemongers can't tolerate something that actually consists of truthfulness! Therefore, their only recourse is to condemn. How sad. Perhaps if they spent more time reading this book and ABSORBING its message (i.e., that they're being LIED to) than listening to their hate-filled idols, their opinions might change. But if you're too narrow-minded to even consider that someone other than a right-wing, extremist, bigot might have something worth hearing...well, you're missing out on a lot. Listen up, right-wingers: Sit down and actually READ this book--with an open mind (if that's possible)--and then ask your hatemonger talk show hosts to refute ANYTHING Franken has said, with the condition that they provide ACTUAL--not THEIR skewed version of--facts. Guess what? They can't!
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Summary: Many call Franken a liar. Give us some evidence!
Review: This is a great book, meticulously researched and backed up by facts that you, yourself, the reader, can check. Anyone with an open mind, who is willing to read both conservative and liberal books and pick the truth out of the lies on both sides, will be happy with this book. All of you who call Franken a liar, please point out exactly what you mean. He took the time to cite his sources, to explain contexts (rather than take things out of context for political gain), and to document everything he did. So where, exactly, is he making things up? His entire point is that the conservatives he writes about (not all conservatives) distort what their sources say and/or simply do not give accurate examples of what they are talking about. Those of you calling him a liar are doing exactly what he argues against--you're not giving any specifics about where he is wrong. Although I could do without the Chickenhawk stories, this book is funny, well written, and just plain excellent.
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Summary: Suggested reading for anyone who still thinks....
Review: This is a great book. True conservatives will agree that the corporate-owned media facade bombards us with distortions and lies propagated by the Straussian-influenced neo-liberals (neocons) . The media used to be like a fourth branch of government; a check and balance, a call for accountability and accuracy of information. Now, with little exception, it is just a propaganda mechanism of questionably elected or appointed shills. Do yourself a favor and flip off Fox News.
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Summary: Very Funny, Very Smart, A Great Book
Review: This is a great book. It's very funny and entertaining, but also backed up with plenty of documented facts. Read it and you'll see why Fox tried to keep this off the market. Franken has the goods them and the rest of the Right.
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Summary: The truth hurts, and makes you laugh...
Review: This is a great eye-opener for those who actually believe the lies being marketed by the right, but unfortunately they won't read it (thier leader doesn't even like to read). And this is a better book for those who want to laugh at the right, and gain some useful ammo when those mixed up right-wingers start spinning. Frankin debunks the myth of the liberal media, pointing out some of the glaring truths of corporate-owned media. Unless you really, truly believe that Bush was telling the truth when he said "By far a vast majority of my tax cuts help the bottom half" (lol) then you should buy this book. The Bill O'Really and Ann Coulter section are great, proving with their own words what lying liars they are. Frankin does have a boring section that I mostly skipped through. He points out how NONE of the current war-hawks in the administration, with the exception of Powell, ever served in the military (sorry Bush, putting on a flight suit after going AWOL in the National Guard doesn't count)and then makes up a hypothetical scenario with them all in battle. Its not that funny or entertaining, so I recommend skipping it. Frankin doesn't cover the "mushroom cloud" of lies that led up to the war, or how Bush manupulated the public into thinking that Iraq supported 9-11 or had ties to Al-Queda, because many of those lies are just now coming to light. But he does detail how the Clinton administration stressed the Al-Queda threat (remember, Clinton bombed Afganistan in 1998)and how the Bush administration slept on it. If I recall correctly, before Sept 11th, Bush was taking a month-long vacation down at the ranch. Frankin doesn't cover some of the bigger lies of Bush, instead he focuses on some of the right-wings minions. He gives short treatment to Bush's horrible education, environmental and foriegn policy record. Bush's religious hypocracy for example (I don't think Jesus was a reverse-Robin Hood, giving to the rich donors at the expense of working Americans) isn't mentioned. In fact, the right complains so much about this book, which really is harmless, it seems like they are rather...sensitive. I mean no one claims treason when Bush personally denies due process rights guaranteed under the Constitution, but the right loves to use that word all the time. It is true that the Nuremburg trials highest charge was waging a war of aggression, which is exactly what Bush did, but Frankin never hits any hard points like this as Noam Chomsky would. Its a great book anyway.
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Summary: Funny Despite the Tragedy
Review: This is a great read. Lying Liars is the first book I have read by Al Franken because he comes across as being so silly. It's hard to believe that his writing would have a lot of content. But Franken's humor is a catalyst for a much greater message in this book. A lot of the insights here should be at the forefront of public discussion. Although Franken is pretty brutal to the likes of Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and Bernard Goldberg, everything he says about these so called journalists seems like fair criticism. The critiques of The political right wing are also right on target.
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Summary: Long overdue
Review: This is a great, long overdue piece of work. It's solid, funny, and well researched. It's about bloody time someone started to push back on these neo-conservative hypocrite jerks, like Gingrich, and screaming illogical apologists, like Coulter. The truth of this book should make the current administration very uncomfortable. Thank God for Al Franken and the beginning of the end of G.W. Bush and his money-grubbing cronies...
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