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Summary: Depends on your point of view
Review: You will either love or loathe this book depending on your political tendencies. I swing toward the left - way toward the left, so I find it insightful, well-researched, true and accurate. Someone who swings the other direction will not find insights, but they'd be hard-pressed to deny the research, and the truth in the facts. GWB is a detriment to our country. O'Reilly needs to put a sock in it and just stop telling lies. You get the gist of it. Now, the people reading this review will either find it helpful (if they are to the left) or not so helpful (if more conservative.) Bottom line is this - whatever political views we hold as true, we can usually find some basis in fact to support us. The problem comes when those facts get twisted and we use them without understanding they have been manipulated. I work hard to throw out liberal chatter and stay true to liberal ideals. So should conservatives. Don't believe all the stuff GWB and Cheney are telling you. Think for yourselves. Stay conservative, but don't turn away from the truth.
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Summary: Fantastic! Funny! Franken!
Review: You wouldn't expect a book of satire to be so meticulously researched, but Franken informs as much as he entertains. Come to think of it, you wouldn't expect polemics such as Coulter's "Treason" or Goldberg's "Bias" to have so many mistakes. So, if the liberal Franken has anything in common with the right-wing Coulter, perhaps it's that they both exceed expectations. Read this book and then find a more serious overview of Franken's points in books by Eric Alterman or Joe Conason. Franken just makes the facts easier to digest, helping them go down with a spoonful of humor and sarcasm.
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Summary: Watch the CSPAN book tour spat that started it all!
Review: You'll have to go about halfway through the program to get to the Bil O'Reilly breakdown and shouting match with Franken, it's absolutely hilarious, and obviously the catalyst for the Fox News lawsuit that tried to stop this book from getting published. Here's the page...
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Rating: 
Summary: Zero Stars
Review: Zero stars are not an option.
This book is worthy of no more than that. The title alone "Lying Liars" should give anyone who hopes to obtain anything they can trust some pause.
It is well known Franken used some rather dubious methods and he himself committed a series of lies to gather quotes for this misereable piece of fluff.
Save your money and buy a good fiction. This may be fiction but it is FAR from good. If you want a good laugh, try Seinfeld.
He's a good comedian.
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Summary: The Madness
Review: ~Hi,
I'm surprised by how some reviewers get so upset!! they can't review the book without resorting to insults. Nobody has to agree with what he is saying, and no one should take his arguments as facts without doing their own research. Anyone can tell the truth. Anyone can lie. The president too.
I've heard Franken on NPR and he's not doing anything that the right doesn't do. Rush Limbaugh rips apart liberals. Liberals can rip apart conservatives. It's one big war between the left and~~ right, and the madness of bias and prejudice pathetically takes over many's rational dissection of the issues. I'm as liberal as can be, and to be honest, it's not so much because democratic politicians have convinced me, but because the vast majority of republicans have turned me off over and over again with their pandering to the rich. Democrats who pander to the rich turn me off just as much. I don't want the rich to own me (they have more than enough as it is), and I'm not so sure why so~~ many people like to have their political views owned by the rich who control the media. I'm working hard to make sure Bush loses the next election, because he is the worst leader for this world, let alone for my country. I think Al Franken agrees with that. That's why I like him and his sense of humor.~
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