Rating: 
Summary: Finally !!!!
Review: Tired of being run-over by the incessant rightwing myth machine ? Read this book.Tired of bearing witness to fanatical rightwing politicians ram through their fringe agenda...while a cowering mainstream press sits idly by, afraid of being accused of being 'liberally-biased' just by being skeptical ? Read this book. Tired of watching your progressive point of view shouted down by draft-dodging rightwingers in the media who've illegitimately wrapped themselves in your flag and are attempting to commandeer your constitution & your country from you? Read this book. Ready to reclaim your country's agenda from the hyperactive hysterics of Coulter, O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, and the vast array of other disingenuous rightwing chickenhawks ? Read this book. Anyway, to get to the point, Al Franken finally & completely deflates the lying and libelous rightwing windbags in this book...by using well-researched evidence to demonstrate the enormity of their myth-making, intentional distortions, & outright lies....and while systematically dismembering this vast array of self-serving media monsters, Al Franken will make you laugh at their hypocrisy. The book is longer than I thought it would be when I ordered it, at over 350 pages, but is a well-crafted text and enjoyable read. I plowed through it the first evening I received it....and wanted the book to keep on going. If you're an honest, hard-working American who loves your country, I really recommend this book. God bless America, the country we love.
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Summary: Lying Liars Get Theirs
Review: Tired of bullies? Of "news" as color
commentary for professional wrestling? Of
smug lying TV evangelists? Here is the
perfect antidote.
Delicious, hilarious, dead on, at times nasty
worded and mean--and that's the best part,
because meanness can go two ways, and
when it's filled with true wit and facts,
when it's lacerating and wounding, and has
a point to it, it is American satire at its
sharpest.
Franken rains on "nutcase" Ann Coulter's
parade; he monsoons on her--especially her creative use of Internet search engines. He
exposes "Bill O'Lielly" and nettles him bone
deep about, among other things, his
Peabody "wins." Also that novel "O'Lielly"
wrote some years ago that might be
interesting to his fans.
W is called and shown to be a liar. Franken
explains how W used Sept. 11, which he
might have been able to do something
about, but he had to be off to
TX. to watch his dog chase animals, to
wrap himself in the flag and make any
criticism of him seem like a slam to all the
people who died that sad day.
There is a comic book that is giddy. Guess
who plays Judas?
"Operation: Chickenhawk" is unbearably
funny.
A neat history of Fox news too.
Seriousness also. One chapter is heart
wrenching.
Recently, Fox newsfairandbalanced brought
out the Big Gun to nail Franken. Some
witless radio talk show host, name of
Mooncow. Wow. Al, run for cover. Or
better yet, put him in your next book.
Mooncow? Oh come on.
Rating:
Summary: Frightening, funny and exhaustively researched
Review: Tired of hearing that the news is crafted by a left-wing cabal? Franken provides hundreds of well-researched counter arguments and elucidates the "fair and balanced" approach at Fox News that leads O'Reilly, Hannity, and the like to exaggerate, bluster, and just plain make stuff up. Ann Coulter and the talking heads of the right are also given attention, including exposing her flat-out lies in the ironically titled "Slander." Far from creating a He said She said dilemma for the reader to sort through, he provides visual proof in the form of reproductions of newspaper pages, public documents, and other impossible to refute (but try they will)sources that leave no doubt about the veracity of the "No Spin" crowd. And speaking of No Spin, O'Reilly might just spin his head right off his (splotchy) neck in anger and frustration at being caught in his own web of deceit. But then again, he and his compadres might just go back to making up stories about Al Franken, because who needs to take a psychopath seriously... The Prevaricator in Charge,George Bush, is taken to task as well, along with many of this cronies. Hooray to TeamFranken for the terrific work. I am grateful for the insight, intelligence, and humor Al Franken brings to the table.
Rating: 
Summary: Childish
Review: To all those reviewers who suggested Al Franken's book.... honestly, Bill Oreilly is a little out of league of that childish slanderer. Where as Bill talks about issues, Al Franken makes a big issue out of Bill naming Peabody a polk ? Geeez.. gimme a break. Don't you guys think we have a little more "Adult" level issues to talk about. Al Franken sounds really childish when he comments on Rush Limbaugh as big fat idiot. What's that ? since when are we commenting on people's physical appearance ? In that case I have to comment on Al Franken as a "really short greasy looking four-eyed idiot with a really short thing between his legs". Al Franken is still a child and he's not looking out for us.
Rating:
Summary: Al Franken has not been sued by these liars, thieves & thugs
Review: To All Those Unable To Critically Think, I agree with most of the reviewers that the rightwingers which Franken holds up to the light, are definately liars. None of them have sued Franken for slander! Hum, I wonder why? Could it be that they wouldn't dare take him to court, because they would only lose, because in fact, they are liars! And to the brain dead person who said, well we got Saddam today. Yeah, and at what price? Let's see over 400 of our troops have died, over 7,000 wounded or ill, over 15,000 Iraqi's dead, and over $150 billion gone from the American people. And a big chunk of that wil be going to Halliburton, Bechtal and all the Presidents cronies. Do any of Bush's supporters ever wonder why it was necessary to destroy most of Iraq's infastructure?
Hum... Let me see, could it be, "perpetual war for perpetual war profits". Get a grip sheeple, we are being misled down one big dark hole. And let us not forget our history. Who in the hell propped up Saddam (while he was killing & torturing his own people) in the first place?
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Summary: stupid readers?
Review: to all you readers who are calling this book as liberal bias, your missing the point. of course there is bias in the book thats the point. the problem is with all you idiots that believe that fox is not completly swayed to the right. find me a news station that is that much swayed to the left. (hint...it does not exist yet). don't think for yourself, you may strain yourself! if you don't get it you are really stupid and should probably head to the childrens book section.
Rating:
Summary: sophomoric
Review: To compare Franken's work with anything beyond a sophomore's piece in his school newspaper would be dangerous. He assembles a group of willing Harvard students with his same agenda and seeks to ridicule everything and everyone with whom he disagrees. Childish and sophomoric. Read his piece on Bob Jones University. After our sophomore year in high school most of us learn to stop ridiculing and teasing people we don't understand. These Harvard students have not gotten that far and Franken apparently never will get there. Grow up..... Hopefully those students might, Franken never will.
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Summary: Al Reports, I Decide
Review: To enjoy this book, I think one needs to have one common trait. Have some common sense. The man researchs his points and I have yet to see one person refute ANYTHING other than the lame attempts by some "journalists" to make something of the letter to John Ashcroft. Come on people, it was a JOKE. Do you really think that Franken was trying to pass himself off as someone who was doing something called "Savin' It". lol I mean, really, do you know that the moon is really made of cheese?? The "right" has, predictably, come out with the diatribe about Franken's looks,mental stability, and calling him "unfunny". What I find "unfunny" is the fact that Franken actually provides PROOF of his statements along with the name calling, while the "right" just name calls. Great Book.
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Summary: This section is for REVIEWS!!!!!!!
Review: To everyone - It gets wildly frustrating when you look to the review section to get the opinion of someone who has read a particular book only to find "review" after "review" posted by people who haven't read it!!! If you haven't READ THE BOOK - DO NOT POST A REVIEW!!! Is that hard to understand?! It's just as bad on some movie sites i've seen. The "review" says - "I don't plan to see this movie. It looks stupid." What is stupid is the "reviewer".!! Why would you even bother to post a review of a book you haven't read!! How dull is your life?!!! OK- i'm done venting now. Not that it will do any good.
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Summary: Franken Fights Back
Review: To say that Franken's treatment of the right is not "fair and balanced" misses the whole point of this book. The media has always had bias but the big difference these days is that no one in the mass media is challenging the mythology generated by the best public relations that big money can buy. The tone of this book is sacastic and angry because Franken is just that and its about time that someone challenged these free market moonies who have mixed their beliefs of free enterprise,jesus and world domination together to create the 51st state of revolution, IRAQ. Question for Al . . when Jesus comes again . . will he have to be converted to Christianity before he can go back? If you loved his book about Rush, you'll love this one. If you are getting a little suspicious that god's chosen republicans may be coming to a local economy near you and nailing you to a cross (made in China!), read this book. Its especially good reading while standing in a bread line.
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