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Summary: The Best political commentary of the 21-st century!!!
Review: This is a hillarious look at the neo-cons! Mr. Franken does an awesome job pointing out the hipocricy, inconsistencies, and all-out lies of the president, his staff, and most of the self-ascribed "fair and honest" right wing commentators/columnists. The author's incredible determination to ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH is especially mind-boggling in this age of "anything-to-win" mentality.
If you want to know the TRUTH, you must read this book!!!
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Summary: Do not read if you don't like thinking!!
Review: This is a horrible horrible book if you prefer to be spoonfed information. Don't read it!! In fact, don't read it and then write a review about it!! (moron)Franken has done a very fine job reviewing a number of books by far right-wing personalities ("conservatives" is not the proper term for those he reviews in this book; conservatives aren't crazy, these people are). Franken investigates their argument structures and points out, well, lies. I'm sorry, but if you cook numbers to support your argument (Sean Hannity, Franken pgs. 95-101), lie about your (not) dirt poor upbringing (Bill O'Reilly, Franken pgs. 73-74), or misquote news sources to support your opinion (Ann Coulter, Franken pgs. 13-15) you are a liar. As thinking people know, and Franken underscores, when you lie about the little things you insult your audience and undercut your own credibility. Additionally, his statements are backed up with incredible amounts of research, he explains his research techniques (so you can re-run the searches if you don't think he's being upfront about the results), and honors his incredible research team, TeamFranken. I'm hoping there is a *good* conservative response to this book with similarly thoughtful, well argued and ethical writing. If you like to laugh and hate stupid people, regardless of your political affiliation, you'll love this book. If you're a moron, pass.
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Summary: Engaging Satire long overdue!
Review: This is a magnificent foray by a self-avowed liberal into the right-wing dominated world of political invective. Franken scores big hits debate-wise over his victims because he actually documents his assertions--unlike Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter who merely spill bile whether its in print or on television. The chapters on FOX Broadcasting are worth the price of the book alone. An aside: A reviewer with Ann Coulter's testosterone reviewed this book with the not-so-clever witticism that "Lying liars" is incoherent--if not an oxymoron. Not true, of course. A "lying liar" is as intelligible and easly understood as--say-- an "honest truthteller." Franken was merely being obnoxiously, creatively redundant with the title of his book. Morons and oxymorons as fair game for the book are another thing altogether.
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Summary: Finally The Truth Exposed!
Review: This is a must read book! I certainly chucked at the moronic statements and activities of Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Karl Rove and of course George W., but I also was outright angry as I realized that in the last election I was one of the ones that was duped by the Right Wing Media. I bought into their stories that Gore was a dolt and didn't have the backbone to steer the ship and that Bush was capable of doing the job. I suspected that there was a fair amount of "stretching the truth" in politics but have been astounded by the blatant lies of the right which is analogous with this administration. I actually used to listen to Rush many years ago when he talked about whiners, before he became one and turned into a drug addict. He actually used to talk about some interesting issues. But that too was when he could pronounce "issues." And Sean Hannity? Chronic liar. Certainly books by bozos like Hannity and O'Reilly should be listed as works of fiction until proven otherwise. Franken's book is filled with rigorous fact checking (and proving) and should be required reading by seniors in our country's high schools. If that were the case, we might not ever have to deal with another administration like this one. One final note about this William Fevers the III (third or turd?) text that he calls a review. This isn't a review, it's another Right Winger bragging about being a showoff bully in High School. Based on what he says, he still is a dillrod and I put him in the Sean Hannity category (circular file).
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Summary: With a book this brilliant, you'd think Al went to Harvard
Review: This is a must read for all enlightened people. The Faux news crowd will not be into this one bit. Franken tells it like it is as he makes hamburger out of Faux News' sacred cows. This is not a slanderous book, each accusation is thouroughly fact checked. Like him or not, Franken is an honest and thoughtful human being who doesn't like what is being done to our country. His book is a call to arms, a call to action. Check it out!!!
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Summary: A Must Read
Review: This is a must read for all US voters before the 2004 elections. I laughed at Franken's sophisticated humor, but more importantly, I was made very, very angry at the shameless behavior of the Right in the American media as exposed by this well-researched book. Go Al!!!
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Summary: He checks his facts better than the others do
Review: This is a really good book. While I do not agree with everything he states I do like the fact that his people have checked their facts and sources better than the people he attacks in the book. I like where he goes back and gets articles, quotes and dates to prove his point. Example when Ann Coulter claims that the NY times didn't write about the death of Dale Earnheart, Al Franken proved her wrong by presenting the front page of the NY times to prove her wrong. What I also like is that he gives you dteail in his sources, he tells you what pages in Ann's book to look at and what date the NY times article. For a book that is supposed to be comedic, he sure goes into a lot of detail which I like.
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Summary: Funny and Informative
Review: This is a revealing and frequently hilarious look at the right wing media's growing propensity for deliberately spreading lies and misinformation to the public. Acclaimed satirist Al Franken presents his facts about truly odious rabble rousers like Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and many others in a remarkably well documented fashion, complete with irrefutable sources and copious end notes. The despicable and often defamatory falsehoods spewed forth by conservative pundits are fully detailed with Franken's patented comedic zest which, while undoubtedly entertaining, does little to alleviate the actual horror of what such repellent and irresponsible behavior has done to hurt our country. If you have an open mind, you owe it yourself to read this extraordinarily funny and eye opening book.
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Summary: There is so much better...
Review: This is a simple pass. It was a general waste of time, rehashing the same material. There are other new works far better, with less rhetoric. Pass.
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Summary: Read It!
Review: This is a truly well written, insightful and humorous book. It's sad that people "review" a book without even reading it -- how helpful; thanks for your opinion. If you read Al's book, there's a couple chapters on people like you. If the "one-star, one liners" had read the book, and have the equivilent of of 12th grade education, they would see that Franken is a very good writer. Hell, I'll admit that Bill Kristol is a good writer, although I don't agree with his veiws. I'm not going to go rip Ann Coulter's book that I haven't read just because she's annoying and looks like a cross between a parakeet and a pony. I'm not going to attack Hannity's "Let Freedom Ring", from watching his show, it's clear he's a moron, but I ACTUALLY HAVEN'T READ IT.
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