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Summary: OK, Conservies I've read your reviews ...
Review: ...and I haven't seen any refutations on your part just attacks and comments on Al's career. I don't just consume these books I also do my own research. I am about 1/2 way through the book and Al(or should I say TeamFranken) is batting 1000. Let's see some of you conseratives attack the facts. You won't because you can't. Check them. I dare you!The book sparkles with intelligence and wit. Now don't take Al at his word. I think this is what he is really talking about. Check the "facts". That's what an informed citizen does. Don't be spoon fed. Let this book be a springboard. Cheers
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Summary: Fair, Balanced, Franken comes out swinging...
Review: ...and never really lets up. Unlike the right-wing media plastered on the TV screens in the background, Franken (along with the aptly named "Team Franken") did his research, meticulously plotting the weak spots in the arguments of Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, and Sean Hannity (to name a few) and then strategically striking the weak spots, causing the rightist arguments to crumble on their faulty reasoning. Politics aside--well, actually, you can't put the politics aside for this book. Bottom line, if you're on the left you'll definitely like it, if you're on the right you'll burn it, and if you're on the fence you'll be, at best, ambivalent. The truth is, Franken is one of America's greatest satirists, blending fact with humor, bias with verbosity. While the book could have been called "Bill O'Reilly is a Splotchy, Contradictory, Slightly-overweight Hypocrite" it is not; the title merely reflects what you will find between the covers: an exposure of right-wing fallacies. Like I said, your politics will determine the purchase; however, if you can set aside prejudices, read the book. It is an interesting look at how Fox News and other Right-leaning news organizations color the facts for their own gain--which is not to say that liberals are any less guilty of the crime, though evidence of this is nonexistent in "Lies..."--and how the distortion can make or break a person's public image.
That, and he really sticks it to O'Reilly. That alone is worth the cover price.
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Summary: Notice how the average rating is four stars?
Review: ...Despite the fact that so many right-wingers are giving it one star? That's because most people, like me, are giving it five stars. These people who hate the book are judging it purely for ideological reasons. It doesn't matter what the book has to say -- it's written by a liberal, so they hate it. But the thing is that none of them can refute the facts that Franken uses as he tears apart Coulter, Hannity and O'Reilly. The best they've got is that he "lied" in a sarcastic letter that he sent to John Ashcroft and others (read the book for a full explanation). If you're a conservative, don't read it; you'll ignore all the truth in it. If you've got an open mind, it's a must-read.
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Summary: Feels Soooooo Good...
Review: ...giving it back to the right! Franken offers some first-rate take-downs of Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and other conservative targets. Cheap, easy shots, but don't they just make you wanna cheer? ...
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Summary: Was enjoying it, until..
Review: ...I got to the "playing basketball with a retard" line. A cheap non-laugh that makes Limbaugh look like Albert Schweitzer, Coulter like Mother Theresa, etc. And Franken's supposed to be a liberal? He did come from SNL though. Al, attend a few writing workshops at Second City and try again.
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Summary: FIVE (count'em 5) BIG, FAT S-T-A-R-S...
Review: ...i'd rate this brilliant book higher, if only i could. sigh... ...gosh i enjoyed jumping into bed with al franken every night, cozying up to his gentle comic caresses, giggling at his gift for grinding down on those gratin' gun totin' conservatives, chuckling as he carefully clipped away at a select group of caustic, cheesy, greasy, gag-mongering fartheads (rush? bilbo'reilly? sean? ann? dubya?), and laughing and laughing and laughing as he peeled away layer upon layer of lies in order to expose the aforementioned fartheads for what we always suspected they were: stupid LYING fartheads. encounters made all the more satisfying because al franken (along with teamFranken) nicely managed to back up each and every point with his more-than-impressive mountain of facts. (i highly recommend this entire experience, as it is a genuine good-time!) al franken is smart. al franken is funny. and, al franken is clearly pissed off at a lot of folks for some pretty darn good reasons...and he's not afraid to tell his readers why. i've seen a variety of charges (heard bill o'whiney sniping about how al franken "makes up stuff about people he doesn't like." this on the same radio interview where he asserted his power over the people with regards to politics "...anyone one who expects to do well in the next election is just plain stupid for turning down the opportunity to come on my show." yeesh) al franken has footnotes (ann coulter could learn a few things with regards to these...) and back notes (which are equally entertaining...!) al franken wrote a good book and everyone who fears for the future of this country under the current administration, anybody who shakes his/her head in wonderment when rush/sean/ bilbo'reilly opens his mouth, any individual who yearns for the good-old-days (when bill clinton rode up on his 'slightly soiled' white horse and rescued America from the depths of despair known as the reagan/bush years) should read it (al franken's book. a good book. a funny book. an IMPRESSIVE book.) truly, this is one of the best books i've had the pleasure to read in a very long time. and i owe it all to: al franken.
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Summary: The only way some can digest the truth about the right....
Review: ...is to read political satire. So Al Franken comes to the rescue. This book is spot on. It's well researched and the even though there are not 700+ "footnotes" (he makes some pretty good points about the Coulter footnote issue in the book) the "sources and notes" are complete. He even backs up some of his arguments w/ actual pictures of his proof (i.e., the NYT front page and Bill O'Reilly's voter registration). And it's FUNNY. And no, not mildly funny--HYSTERICALLY FUNNY! Sure, some of the stuff is over the top: the prank about the abstinence book, "Operation Chickenhawk", but it's the little jabs he gets in while making his points that make the book. (Especially when he uses Bill O'Reilly's book "Those Who Trespass" in a fictional portrayal of Katherine Harris!!!) He's a comedic genius, plain and simple. It's obvious that most of those panning this book w/ one-star ratings did not read it.
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Summary: The start of the title suggests it's an autobiography...
Review: ...or an expose on Michael Moore's crockumentaries...but it's just another rant from an irrelevant, pompous fathead.
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Summary: Hey there, all you Freepers, Coulterites, Ditto Heads!
Review: ...P>Al Franken makes an excellent observation in this equally excellent book: Conservatives who tend to shriek the loudest tend to decry the very things they themselves are guilty of. After observing aggressive conservatives over the years through the media, in print and on internet mediums such as this I realize just how dead-on Franken is. For example: Coulter regularly states that "liberals" hate themselves, hate people of color, hate honest working-class people, and unfairly judge women based upon their looks. Coulter also states that Middle Easterners "smell", that black people are "lazy", that the working-class should be called the "non-working class" and that her blonde hair and mini-skirts were the keys to her success. She also thinks that women should be denied the vote. Close friends of Coulter have stated that she is incredibly unhappy and jealous of women who can manage to have successful relationships and marriages, unlike herself. This strange sort of contradiction is echoed many times over within your extremist brand of conservativism. You say you are more "moral" than so-called liberals, yet you are so full of hate for anyone who is different from you that you probably live a pretty non-moral lifestyle. Didn't Jesus say to love your neighbor? Didn't Jesus say to turn the other cheek? You honk on about Clinton's scandal, yet you support a drug addict/alcoholic as pResident - a person who lied to get us into a war and who is responsible for every American soldier who dies on his watch. So you're a bunch of hypocrites - a pack of lying liars, if you will, and I think that's really the issue. You are so filled with shame and rage when someone like Moore or Franken calls you out and exposes you and your heroes for the frauds you are that you retaliate in the only way you know - to spout more lies and equivocal, personal attacks as loudly as you can. In this case, to claim you've read the book and say that it's a "joke" or "horrible" or "not worth reading" because that's what your brainwashers have told you to do. Didn't God say, "Thou Shalt Not Lie"? What does God do to liars, anyway? I guess you'll find out, one of these days. I don't hate you because you have a political opinion that differs from mine. I am sad for a lot of you because you so obviously cannot think for yourselves. You blindly and willingly believe anything that you are told as long as it fits into your very narrow world-view. You think that this Earth was created for you and you alone; that there is no room for different opinions or lifestyles. You are undoubtedly very unhappy in many aspects of your life, and it's a shame that the NeoConservative heroes you look up to capitalize on that unhappiness to make themselves richer. Very soon now George Bush will be voted out of office because, fortunately, most Americans love this country enough to want what is in this country's best interest. The Radical Right, after years of bellyaching, finally got their chance at running this country and have run it into the ground instead. And after George Bush looses the election you will no doubt join in with your fellow non-thinkers and decry "evil" liberals for taking away the good ol' days of record deficits, military un-intelligence and sky-high unemployment from you. Each time you post somewhere... each time you "review" a book on Amazon or elsewhere... each time you fill yourself with hate and venom toward people trying to make a positive difference in this country... you are actually doing us a favor. You're letting the world know just how ridiculous and misinformed you really are. You aren't taken seriously, and the most anyone feels for you is sorry that you've allowed yourself to become so tunnel-blind and CONTROLLED. So keep on posting your one-star reviews. Good liberals such as myself take joy in the fact that you've chosen to expose how ignorant you really are to the rest of the thinking world. You are walking advertisements for why people need to read authors like Franken, Vidal, Alterman and Moore. Despite what your pResident would like to see happen in this great country of ours, WE still believe in our Constitution. WE will die protecting the very thing that makes us strong - the freedoms that fascists like you would take away from other Americans through your blind ignorance. Try as you might, WE will keep speaking the truth and protecting this country from the REAL threat to our national security - YOU! Thanks again for apparently being devoid of any intelligence whatsoever. It makes it SO much easier to prove just how misguided you all are!
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Summary: Hello, you sad little troll. Do you...
Review: ...people ever get tired of hearing this little troll's sad little screeds? This man has been a proven liar for months now, and you still post you pathetic little reviews of his book with qoutes like "the truth about the right". Get a clue.
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