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Summary: STINK FIST Al Franken NOW! He Deserves It!
Review: Where the hell do left-wing leftards get off on demeaning the right as not legitimately challenging Franken with evidence......
Yet all one has to do is look at the crippling majority of leftarded reviews where they don't even cite the points with which they claim to be endorsing Frankenazi with. That's because leftards are SHAMELESS--they blast everyone else for not refuting Frankenazi in a substantive way, yet the leftards are the worst Politically Correct sheep by themselves, who simply bow to every last B.S. that their false god Frankenazi writes, without even questioning its veracity. Leftards are the most criminally biased sheep--like a bunch of pathological racists.
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Summary: Dont waste the money - even if your liberal
Review: Where to begin? The book fails of its promise, which I took to be an objective de-bunking of some of the conservative populist media. The style borders on being nauseating - I mean, how many times do we have to be reminded about his "popular" corporate speaking business? Most of the criticism he levels against others applies to his own conduct as well, including rather childish name-calling and patently obvious fact distortions. I mean come on; anyone with an IQ over 80 is not going to find much here that is either new, of interest, or compelling. There are a few (and I mean a very few) funny bits, but you need to be into "holier-than-thou" humor. If he could have left his ego out of the book, it would have been much shorter, but also much more readable.This is a story that needs to be told, how misinformation is being paraded on major networks as truth. If you hear a falsehood often enough, it become "true" in popular belief - how many times have you heard that the Great Wall of China is visible from space? I just heard that long standing Chinese propaganda from the early 70s on CNBC again recently. If people can repeat what "they heard", then they don't need to think about what it is that they are saying. A book needs to be written exploring the conservative movement's use of this tactic, but sadly it's not this book.
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Summary: Great
Review: Whether or not Al's comments on politics are accurate I haven't a clue. But if he is, then the people like Coulter, Hannity, and O'Reilly are clearly not accurate. Still, that is a side issue - the book is entirely hysterical. Honestly, I would read a funny book written by a funny republican; just so happens none exist - but when they are created, I will read their book too and laugh. Until then, if you want to read a really funny book that is both interesting and immature (kind of like me), then I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Hysterically Funny!
Review: Whether or not you are liberal or conservative, you will laugh until you cry reading this hysterically funny book. Franken's humor still zings, and it zings politicians and journalists of all political stripes. Buying this book for a friend who needs a lift or a political / news junkie is a must. Good satire is always a joy, but satire that elicits guffaws and side-hurting laughter is the result of incredible comic genius. Combining humor with fact while sending up some of our favorite (and least-favorite) public personalities, Franken wins the prize with this one.
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Summary: irreverently hilarious
Review: Whether you're a right wing EIB mugholder or you can't wait to vote for Hillary, Franken will make you LOL (laugh out loud.) For those of us with thousands of real time hours with Fox News, Bill O'reilly and Sean Hannity, we will never listen the same again after this read. And no one, whatever their social persuasion is, should feel the book isn't worth the price. Franken and his Harvard team have created a masterpiece of pithy humor.
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Summary: Read this book
Review: Which is really get under the skin of the right. I'm not that into politics. There's nothing better than Al getting under the skin of O'Reilly. It is far too amusing. This book is a quick, good read. Most of the negative reviews come from people who appear to have not read the book, which is really unfortunate since they should read it. It's good. Al catches a number of people in a number of lies. Not just spinning things, but flat out lies. Some smaller than others, but all blatant lies. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Dishin' It Out
Review: Which is what the conservatives do so well but as their reviews show they sure can't take it! Great book with serious documentation. Democrats owe this guy a large debt of gratitude. A note to the unfavorable (conservative) reviewers who feel Al is so mean spirited: Are you aware that Al is friendly with many conservatives as evidenced by their (Jerry Falwell, G. Gordon Liddy, William F. Buckley) appearences on his since-cancelled show "Lateline"? Did you even read the part of the book where he speaks so nicely of Gary Bauer?
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Summary: Major Disappointment
Review: While Al Franken tries to be serious and objective, his work is a sad commentary on his anger and distortions of nearly everyone he attempts to vilify.
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Summary: Thank God Franken Cares Enough Write this Book
Review: While I am neither a "conservative" nor a "liberal" I laughed my ass off and got really, really mad. I have seen some of the folk Franken eviserates with their on lies to be bombastic bullies, and now we have the facts to prove that is the case on the table. Take a read, have a laugh and make a "conservative" read this one. There is no better decision and a fully informed decision. Franken helps you get there.
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Summary: Entertaining AND informative
Review: While I did find Franken's text very funny, I was, frankly, surprised at how much I learned from it! Al started the book broken into chapters each of them focusing on a specific right wing "commentator" starting with perhaps the worst of them, Ann Coulter (who's really acidic!) I'd always wondered about Bernie Goldberg's screed on the media's liberal bias, which anyone not dead and buried knows is utter claptrap. Franken points out that Goldberg had a personal bone to pick with some of the producers, got fired or demoted or something. Ah, so there's a personal motive there translated dubiously into a political diatribe. (That's something conveniently not mentioned in Goldberg's book, by the way.) There's lots said about O'Reilly, that evangelist of pre-adolescent morality tales, and Sean Hannity (and his diminutive "liberal" co-host, who turns out to be more of a whipping boy) whose rhetoric I've never even had the displeasure of hearing, fortunately. He might have added some details of Matt Drudge, that functionally illiterate gossip monger who invades us through the web, but I guess he couldn't cover everything. Anyway, he documents evidence that much of what the righty commentators say is not just editorializing but utterly false. So they really are lies, and that's not just a comical title to get our attention. Early in the book too, Franken describes some of the hyperbole used to degrade Gore in the 2000 campaign. Gore didn't claim he'd invented the Internet, but said something true that the "liberally biased" media used to make Gore seem like a self-indulgent braggart. Franken uses that as a means of decrying the myth of "liberal bias," and, again, it's something I learned from. There's also a lot of useful history in the book. For example, Bill Clinton is still used as the scapegoat for much of the 9/11 disaster. (Look through Amazon.com. There's volumes written by guests on O'Reilly's show, for example, who blame 9/11 on the Clinton administration's weakening the po', po', military and other historical contrivances.) Indeed, Bush meticulously avoided policies that may have helped us against 9/11. Of course that's not covered by the liberally biased press... Oh, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page, long known as a bastion of right wing fanaticism, doesn't avoid Franken?s wrath. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't as thrilled by Franken's play and comic book as some of the reviewers were. I didn't object to them but I guess I prefer documentation of the lies of the pundits who feel their immune to truth because of their media position (or, from the words of some of the one-star critics, because of their ostensibly superior education!) I now need to explain why I only gave Al four, intead of five, stars. I did so, almost apologetically, because of a few items of his with which I disagree. First, he has offered a little more support to "our troops" than I think he should. If what they're doing is wrong, such entertainment helps to support it. Second, because he's "of a Jewish background," he supports Israel in many ways I don't think are justifiable. Finally, he admitted early support for the Iraq war. While admitting later to "whoring" for Bush, it took him a little too long to see through it. Aside from that, believe it or not, I recommend the book to a lot of people to use in their arsenal to fight the right which seems to have a grip on the mainstream media these days, despite their claim to the contrary. Really. And you'll enjoy reading it too. By the way, I must thank those geniuses over at Fox TV. I might not have heard of this book except that they sued Franken over the "fair and balanced," an inappropriate logo for Fox if there ever was one. The suit was mentioned in the Washington Post so I went out to get the book. Did you know, Al, that aside from being an informed comic, you were also a marketing genius?
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