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Summary: Great Great Book!
Review: Very funny, my kind of sarcastic humor. He does what his title says, he points out the lies and the liars that tell them. A great read!
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Summary: Great book - worth every penny and more
Review: Very good book, wish everyone would read it. Lots of facts to disprove the "liberal media" story. I enjoyed the book so much, I rushed out and bought all of his other books.
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Summary: just saw dave -jan 23
Review: very sorry to hear about your recent family loss. my sympathy.
I'm enjoying your book.
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Summary: A MUST read
Review: Very thought provoking. I'll never be able to watch "The O'Reilly Factor" or "Hannity & Colmes" without thinking about what was said in this book.
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Summary: fabulous analysis of the distortions of the far right
Review: Very well researched, in depth look at how the right slants and distorts information to mislead and lie to Americans. This book is not hysterically funny like the Rush Limbaugh book; it is more serious and I found it very frightening to confirm just how vile the people in charge of this country really are. In fact, Franken is a great investigative reporter and I love the way he goes right to the source when he has a question about something or wants to prove a point. I wish he would dedicate himself full-time to achieving his stated goal of unseating the president. This guy is brilliant. We need you, AL, more than SNL does!!
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Summary: great book!! loved it!!
Review: Very well written and puts many of the most annoying people on the far right in their place. the bit on ann coltare is worth the price of the book alone. franken puts into words what many people (including me) have long thought - that the woman has some serious emotional issues to overcome. and oh man, the chapter on Bill O'Reilly has to be one of the funniest bits I've ever read.Buy it and laugh yourself silly!!
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Summary: What liberal media?
Review: Wake up, America! Reclaim your country from Fox News. In much more eloquent language, this is the message of Al Franken's hilarious yet disturbing book. The right is lying to you, and you're falling for it. (Hence, the disturbing statistic that 34% of Americans believe that we have already found WMD in Iraq.) Franken takes on everything in this book: the crazies at Fox News and their associates (Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, etc.); Bob Jones University; the distortions and outright lies told by both Bush and Cheney; the sick Conservative spin on Paul Wellstone's "overly partisan" memorial service. Even Barbara Bush is not safe from his exposes. I don't usually respond to other reviewer's comments, but I found one too good to let slide. A reviewer wrote that Franken didn't back up his allegations--all that he could find bad to say about Ann Coulter is that what she calls "endnotes" are actually "footnotes". Yes, Franken does point this out. But this reviewer must not have been reading the part where Ann Franken wrote that the New York Times was too elitist to run a story on the death of Dale Earnhardt until three days after his death, and then only in the back pages. Did you miss the part where Franken included the front page of the New York Times from the day after the accident, and there was a story about the crash? What about the part where she said she was "friendly with" Franken after meeting him only once for a few seconds? How about where she wrote "Even during the media's nightly flogging of Iran-Contra, Reagan's approval ratings fell only five percentage points", when they actually fell from 63 to 47%? To people like this reviewer, the hope of instilling them with any insight as a result of reading this book is a lost cause. They don't want to know the truth, and they have imitated the right's trick of distortion, ommission and lies. To everyone who actually wants to know what is going on with your president and the press, this book is an eye-opener. Al Franken for president!
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Summary: What do you do when you can not get paid as a comedian?
Review: Warning: This Book has many direct lies it it which is quite ironic when you look at the title.
Most notable are the lies about Ann Coulter which she has, point by point, discounted in detail.
Fraken obviously does little if any real research.
Trying to make lies funny does not make them true.
Does calling someone a liar or an idiot make them one?
Obviously Fraken has high hopes that it does.
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Summary: Manditory reading
Review: Was a dissenting GOPer for years, and now a Democrat. This should be mandatory reading for every adult in the nation. Funny, pointed, truthful and dead-on target. The shrill sounds of dissembling and ad hominem from the Fright-Wingers, and those crying foul while posting 1 star on this site are the complicate victims and enablers of the far-right's lies and demagoguery. Well done Al, you expose the lies, empty language, and politics of fear behind the radical-right and are a true patriot in the best sense of the word.
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Summary: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced
Review: Was this book written by an adult? I watch a lot of news for a 12 year old and I know I could have done a better job than the author of this book. There are no facts, just a lot of whining. I think the author needs to find another type of job. Maybe working in a circus. It might cheer him up and give the rest of us a good laugh. I definitely do not recommend this book to anyone. Child or adult.
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