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Summary: Factual repudiation of the far right in this country
Review: Al Frankin takes on the most prominent conservatives, i.e., Hannity, O'Reilly and Coulter and generally looks at right-wingers and how they frame their arguments. The first half of the book is excellent as it clearly establishes the right wing to be intellectually dishonest and more interested in empty rhetoric than a serious discussion of the issues. Frankin tears apart recent books and public statements by Hannity et al to show that their factual arguments and charts are one-sided and prepared by ideologues. In a moving chapter, Frankin also shows how the conservatives launched an attack against liberals by arguing (without any basis) that the public memorial for the late Sen. Wellstone was nothing but a political rally. Conservatives repeatedly made this argument even though many of them admittedly did not witness the memorial. But they passed along that lie as if it were true, possibly causing the Republican senatorial candidate from Minnesota to win the 2002 election. Much of the book is funny and will make you angry at the sorry state of political discourse in this country, but the Wellstone chapter will enrage you in light of the callousness of the modern conservative movement. Docked a star for Frankin's loyalty to Clinton/Gore.
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Summary: Failure
Review: Al Frankin was a failure as a comedian on SNL, now he fails to tell the truth in his one and ONLY book. Buying this book is like buying expensive toilet paper!
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Summary: I'D LIKE TO SEE FRANKLIN FIGHT AGAINST HANNITY
Review: Al franklin (liberal idiot liar) should try to beat up Sean Hannity (TRUE AMERICAN) beacuse Franklin would get his stupid buck teeth smashed into his face!!! Franklin says PRESIDEENT BUSH (HERO) isnt' a real American. GUESS WHAT AL STUPID?? HE is the president and his killing all your terrorist friends and the liberals liars are going nuts. The liberals should be put in a jail with SADDAM since they love him and BIN LADEN. I HATE ANYONE WHO IS TRYING TO KILL AMERICANS. AL FRANKLIN BOOKS IS FOR COMPLETE STUPID IDIOTS.
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Summary: just a great book
Review: Al Franklin really gets to the point in this novel written for the schmucks at Fox News , those people are not "fair and balanced" they should be called, Unfair and Unbalanced, because they dont give a crap about what their guest commentators have to say, such as Gretta Van Susstren, Bill Oreilly, Britt Hume,Sean Hannity, Linda Vester, Heraldo , and Rita Cosby. these people are a bunch of cowards and they need to be in their own market for television. they should leave the media and never return, maybe in about 15 years, make a comeback and maybe then they will get more publicity
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Summary: GOP hate this book - The Truth Hurts
Review: Al has done what so many GOP types should strive to do... CITE SOURCES rather than blather baseless and unfounded accusations.
A GREAT book for anyone curious about why things seem to have gone down hill since the bush admin took over our country.
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Summary: Very Fair and Balanced
Review: Al has gone to great lengths to bring the fight back to the right. Many times I felt my jaw drop in amazement at the lies displayed within the text. But Al just doesn't expose the lie and leave it at that, he actually checks and double checks sources and stories telling you how he did it along the way. No matter which political party you belong to, I think you'll appreciate Al's commitment to giving us a "Fair And Balanced" account of the lies and distortions from the right, not to mention a few laughs along the way. The footnotes alone are worth the price of admission.
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Summary: Take that you con-artists!
Review: Al has simply reviewed the published works of the con-artist clan. Al and his team of researchers check up on all those footnotes in the bestsellers from Hannity, O'reily, coulter, and ginsberg. They found that these works use the often described liberally biased media as a source. Remember, just because you read something in the newspaper doesn't mean it's true. Even if you read it a hundred times. Team Frankin exposes many media myths about Al 'I invented the internet' Gore and Bill 'soft on terrorists' Clinton. The chapter on the Paul Wellstone memorial is disturbing in how it exposes the attemps from con-artists to describe the memorial as a 'political rally'. It turns out that this was incredibly dishonest and the media just ran with it. Many talking heads just repeated the story. They never even saw the memorial and admit this in conversations with Al when he confronts them. Turns out they just heard something somewhere so it must be true and worth repeating. Franken is able to set the record straight on this one because he was there. Turns out that Al Gore did create the internet but hte media never covered that story. They went with the alternative story, the gross misquote, "I invented the internet". But critics of the book will call it all lies and go right on being spoon fed there news from the incredibly biased corporate media with a far right wing agenda.
Best line in the book: "Bush lied all through the 2000 campaign, and unlike Al Gore, his lies weren't even true.
Also read, 'Big Lies'.
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Summary: Brave man
Review: Al is brave. All politics aside, Al speaks the truth about lies being told.
If you want to know who is lying and what they are lying about, read the book or listen to the audio.
If you want to bury your head and cowar, don't read it, or read it and then write a bad review because you're changing the issue to politics, not just lies.
I hope Al continues with the few others that stand up and call a liar a liar. Don't be upset with Al just because he apposes you politically..lies are lies.
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Summary: Al Franken is enjoyable to read
Review: Al is fun to read and his points come across loud and clear. I love this and all his books...they put a witty edge to valid political points. We have blow-hard right-wing windbags spouting this and that everyday. We on the left need more writers and commentators like Franken to balance it out.
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Summary: A great read
Review: Al is funny and honest what more can one say. He makes his point with humor rather than with hatred a refreshing change in partisan politics.
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