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Summary: The essential remedy against the lies of 2004
Review: We are going to be told a lot of lies in 2004. If you want to be inured to them and find out the truth, then you can do no better than to buy this wonderful, truthful, balanced book and then a copy for all your friends.
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Summary: Good Show!
Review: We finally have someone to counter all of the right-wing ultra conservatives. Although I can't say that the book is "a fair and balanced look at the right" it certainly is witty and informative. It has something lacking in all other political commentaries by the left and right: a sense of humor and an author that doesn't take himself too seriously.
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Summary: An Ocean of Cruelty
Review: We read through this book and wept when we were done. Does Franken really have so much hate inside of him? With its unabashed racism ("Irish ape-man",), distortions("funny bias") and savage personal attacks on people in the news and politics we've grown to love, despite their faults, the book really disturbs the reader's inner soul. It has totally bad vibes. I had to meditate for much time to calm the Great Spirit Within after reading. O.K., maybe not everything everybody has said in the news is true. But life's too short for it to really make a difference. Wake up, read a book, see a painting, take a walk in the park-just enjoy life. Things aren't as bleak as Franken makes them out to be. Can't we all just get along?
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Summary: Revealing lies with sharp wit!!
Review: We sense that there are tons of lies in news. But we donft have enough time to carry out analysis, which Team Franken conducted, and live in a doubtful world. This book (or Team Franken) did great job of google analysis, fact finding, and connecting missing information, and clarified how policymakers or media intentionally modified our views or views, which we faced everyday. Harsh (but witty) criticism in the book is based on the accumulation of analysis. After reading this book, considering intention behind news might become habit. It is good warning for us to reconsider news through media and good education to be wise citizens. At the same time, this book is the outcome of smart (Kennedy School and Harvard) studentsf rigorous after-school activities. Though you may feel some part is unconnected, it is stimulating reading.
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Summary: Conservatives are Sloppy on facts...
Review: Well I already knew how sloppy some of the facts were at some conservative radio shows. They consistantly accused liberals of being anti-american and blame the economy on Clinton. I will be the first to say that Clinton did well for our economy and remember him closing down wasted federal funds on both the Alameda Navel Base and the Monterey base. This and other cuts help fuel our economy. But consistantly this book points out how Fox News and the conservatives call liberals over spenders and the real news to be liberal bias. But the most interesting part about this book I loved was how Bill Oreily cuts people off on his show, but for once his in the spot light and cannot defend himself as well. Al Frankin calls him a bully, and in sort that's what Bill is. Although we need people like Bill to represent the ultra-conservatives. The other part of this book that made me giggle is the creative fonts Al uses for the Hannity and Colmes show. Colmes is so much smaller than the rest of the font, he attempts to show you that Colmes is only represented on the Fox News show only to be bashed by the ultra conservatives. Although if Colmes ran for office, I'd probably vote for him as a centralist. He's not really a left wing Democrat. All in all, most people agree that conservative radio, Fox News, and conservative print are nothing more than Republican propoganda to help support their cause. This is no different than the China Daily News, or CCTV. Maybe some would argue it can be considered state run media for the Republican party. I enjoyed the facts in this book very much. From the Polk awards for Inside Edition to the claims that Bill Oreily was a registered independant, when the book shows a copy of Bill's ballot papers showing him checking himself as a Republican. lol... Man, Bill must be mad about this one. I can't wait til there is a syndicated Al Frankin liberal radio talk show. Oh and for conservatives, you have everything now, California, all three branches of government, tax cuts, and a war. Please find something positive to say about your party, rather than continueing to blame liberals on your failures.
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Summary: About Time
Review: Well researched, exposes many of the half-truths being perpetuated in the right wing media (FOX,CNN,Wall Street Journal,etc.) with enough humor to keep a non-politico interested.
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Summary: Franken Strikes Again
Review: Well the courts have just reconfirmed the assininity of Fox's War Network in ruling to release this book, so let us read on! At no time has this nation more needed the courage of exposure of all the poseurs of democracy, those like the O'Reillys and Coulters and Horowitzes and Limbaughs and pretentious George Wills who make their overpriced bread being smart-... assassins at the expense of honest politicians trying to help the public, not dumb it down to up their own fat-cat antes. Franken, his titles alone indicating it, realizes that the thick sleeze hardly deserves serious analysis. They may fool a large segment just by their domination of the airwaves, but their day is coming and Franken, in his satirical and irreverent chunk by chunk treatment of all of the junk, will be a benchmark in the reversal. And a humorous, uproarious one in the process.
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Summary: A Fair and balanced opinion of this book.
Review: Well written, somewhat humorous (kidding on the square!) and it's about time the subjects of this book are exposed for what they are. Team Franken has done it's homework.
It's just too bad more Americans won't be reading it.
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Summary: You'll laugh, you'll cry...
Review: Well, he definitely delivers on exposing some fat, juicy lies of the extreme right. It's a scathing and well-documented indictment of Bush, Sean Hannity, Coulter, and that Fox News weenie whose name I can't remember. He also blows the lid off of some of people Bush has appointed: David Hager, a Kentucky OB/GYN doctor (who apparently refuses to provide contraceptive prescriptions to unmarried women) was Bush's pick for chairman of the FDA panel on Women's Health Policy. Oh, then there is Mark Rey, the timber lobbyist who oversees our national forests. Unsettling? Uh, yeah. Franken succeeds in illustrating just how nervous we should be about the Bush administration.
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Summary: This was supposed to be funny, right?
Review: Well, I guess "supposed to be" were the key words.
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