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Summary: A book that NEEDS to be read
Review: Apparently wagnerins is an employee of Fox News, or is just an ignorant conservative that chooses to keep his head in the sand and not educate himself.Al Franken expertly eviscerates the so-called "Fair & Balanced" right with swift strokes and a deft touch. The humor is often dry but always spot on. What's beautiful poetic justice to me is that the horrific lapse in judgement by Fox News in filing the lawsauit against this book did nothing more than light a fire underneath it and rocket it directly to the top of the bestseller charts. This is oh so typical conservative mentality, which more often than not backfires right into their face. Franken is laughing all the way up the NY Times list.
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Summary: Hypocrite with a capital H
Review: Apparently, Al Franken thinks that it is ridiculous for anyone else to "mud-sling" or focus on the negatives rather than the positives, except for himself. Every fact in his book comes from a biased source or no source at all. I bought this book as a wavering independent eager to hear about the so called "right-wing conspiracy." All that I learned by reading it was that whoever gave Al Franken an occupation where he could rant about his pompous liberal views lacks some very necessary intelligence. This novel is simply two hundred pages for Franken to complain about people who do much less to belittle our country's justice system than he.
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Summary: A liberal who doesn't adore it
Review: Apparently, I am the only Al Franken fan and Lefty in American who thinks "Lying Liars" is pretty mediocre. I'm sorry, I don't find the minute details of the lies of Republican crackpots very interesting. What sane person would take them seriously in the first place? And who cares if one of them doesn't know the difference between footnotes and endnotes? This is a book about the honesty of conservative loud mouths, not their intelligence. (He already established that Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot; now we are talking about his veracity.) Although I think Cheney is probably the Antichrist, I don't think it's exactly a hanging offense to call gravestones, crosses (row on row). I'd say he was extremely insensitive to religions other than his own, but I wouldn't put it in the Horrible Lie category. I don't really care about the clever way Franken, the Harvard graduate and fellow, one-ups a nameless moron who sent him nasty email. I would care more about an investigation of Governor Bush's questionable National Guard record and his spin on it. And why there were so many more major stories on Clinton's "draft dodging" than Bush's AWOL/desertion period. I think I would like the book more if Franken had stuck to his subject and given me more. It isn't a very thick book to begin with and a lot of it is filler (funny, but filler).
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Summary: Needs more editing
Review: Appreciate the strong effort to be factual, and also 90% fo the humor. The chickenhawk chapter (about rightist draft dodgers) should be dropped from the paperback edition. It detracts from an otherwise fine book. It's a little overboard to maintain that Clinton: (1) is a liberal. Wrong, he's a centrist and not really a very good civil libertarian. (2) Did more to fight terrorists than any other Pres. He certainly did more than Bush 43. Can't agree that B Goldberg is in the same category with Coulter, Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly. He's a couple of cuts above that crew. Although the obscenity wasn't overdone, some of it could be left out.
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Summary: Stupid.
Review: Are you sure this goes in the "nonfiction" section? The title of this book "A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" is hardly fair and balanced. Bruce Goldberg isn't even a republican but because Mr. Franken disagrees with him, he throws him into that category. Looking at this book and his other one "Rush Limbaugh is a..." and ask yourself, can this guy sell books without name dropping or controversy? No.
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Summary: Lying Liars?
Review: Aren't "lying liars" really telling the truth? Even Franken's title doesn't make sense, never mind the book! How come this wasn't caught by one of the 14 "brilliant" Havard graduates that helped "research" this book? After all, as one positive reviewer glowed, "despite their politics, at least you have to admit they've got to be pretty smart to be there". Of course, George Bush attended Yale, but alas, as justified by the liberal mindset, he is still "dumb".
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Summary: Good book, good facts
Review: Armed with "TeamFranken", a cohort of 15 Harvard students, Al Franken goes about debunking the concept of the "liberal" media. I enjoyed this book tremendously - especially Al's personal description of the Paul Wellstone memorial, and the ensuing spin that that right placed on it. Keep up the good work, Al! :-)
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Summary: Funny Read-from a conservative
Review: As a conservative who has read and loved each of Fraken's book (ok, Stuart Smalley was a little tough) this is more of the same laughs and generally a very funny book that will make you think a little about the positions he discusses, similar to 'Fat Idiot'. If you are looking for political comedy/satire you have found it, if you are looking for an intellectual debate of political positions you're wasting your time.
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Summary: True Conservatives would do well to read this book
Review: As a conservative, I am embarrassed by the antics of the people at Fox, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Rielly, etc. Why, because we don't have to lie, we don't have to cheat, we don't have to be intellectual failures to present our side of the story. Unfortunately Fraken is right, we have managed to kill all civilized discourse and we, and I mean conservatives, have allowed the fringe crazies to speak out for the majority of us. I take no pleasure in the antics of a Coulter, and the dang truth is that Franken has nailed us. We should be up in arms and get rid of these idiots who claim to represent True Conservatives.
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Summary: The Brutal Truth with a sense of humor
Review: As a die-hard Republican, even I've had my doubts about there being a so-called 'liberal media'. I found Franken's book to be a lot more intellectual and fact filled than I had expected. I may have voted for Bush, but I can also have a sense of humor about some of the failings and contradictions of this GOP Administration. Franken is skilled at bringing all viewpoints together with our shared interest in humor.
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