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Summary: I wish this book never ended!
Review: Franken is brilliant. This book amused me greatly while angering me at the same time. As Franken illustrated so many of the ways that this administration has lied to, cheated and misused its power and the people of the USA, I laughed at the satire while becoming increasingly disgusted with those currently in power as well as the media, who spin it and twist it in order to continually deceive the American people. Everyone should read this book and try to absorb what Franken is saying here. I eagerly await his next book and his upcoming radio show!
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Summary: This is true comedy, not political satire
Review: Franken is flat out hilarious in this novel. Even if you are a Republican, you can't help but laugh at most of the hilarious ideas that Franken uses in this book. This isn't a political movement, this isn't a book to advance political ideologies like most other novels are nowadays... it is simply a book about being honest in the media. I will definitely bring up this book in my upcoming college class 'Media and Politics'. I don't think there is a soul out there that can disprove any of what Franken is saying because he lays such a solid foundation upon what he writes. This book is definitely a new weapon for liberal thinkers to advance their idea of neutral media bias.
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Summary: Book Left Out Biggest All Time Liar
Review: Franken is funny, but this book crosses into political bashing. I like good comedy like Franken, Carlin, Hendrie but if you are going to write a book about liars, what about Bill Clinton? Franken picks on Coulter, Limbaugh, Bush and many conservatives. The cover of this book should have Bill Clinton, not Al Franken. The media lies, more of my opinion can be found at remotecontrolwars.com, but this book is too slanted, not all encompassing. The biggest liars of the past were Martha Stewart, Bill and Hillary, and a host of liberals, left out of this book.
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Summary: Pants-Wettingly Funny, Yet Sad
Review: Franken is in top form, sparing neither myths (Liberal Media!) nor people (Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter). The book is a catalog of right-wing truisms, each carefully taken apart by Franken's irreverent wit and--better still--his team of fact checkers.Franken does not go light on the ad hominem attacks, but I felt no qualm-- his targets richly deserve it. A must read. The book is ultimately depressing, however, because it will change few minds; it will only briefly anesthetize us from life in Ashcroft's America.
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Summary: A well researched book that keeps you laughing.
Review: Franken is on target. Did those reviewers signed anonymous even read the book? Thank you Mr. O'Rielly for bring that stupid law suit or I would probably never have heard of this book.
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Summary: Who Moved My Job Offshore?
Review: Franken is right. The right talks about growth but is not doing anything as large corporations are systematically migrating jobs offshore. The Bush Administration does not even have a plan for dealing with this offshore onslaught on the American Worker. After reading Franken, I read this new book titled: Offshore Outsourcing by Marcia Robinson and Ravi Kalakota.
I was amazed to learn that over 70% of Fortune 500 corporations are adopting this practice and moving very high quality jobs overseas. And the strategy they are using is not outsourcing but building their own captive centers in places like India and the Phillipines. The captive center, basically their own subsidiary, gives them a platform as well as significant tax advantages. There was a detailed case study on GE that was illuminating. According to this book GE has over 20,000 employees in India performing back-office activities for all the different business units. Another case study on American Express illustrates a similar captive center model. This is an alarming trend. Assuming that India, China and the Philippines and Russia grow by 2M jobs every year, that means that U.S and Europe where the bulk of offshore outsourcing is happening are going to suffer 2M job losses. That scenario means an increase in unemployment of .75 to 1% per year in the U.S alone in the next three to five years. This will be catastrophic to the standard of living if this scenario plays out. I am only scratching the surface of what this book talks about. I suggest this book [offshore outsourcing by Robinson and Kalakota] for everyone who wants a better understanding of what's taking place. Fair and Balanced policies against offshore outsourcing. That's what we need.
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Summary: Very Funny
Review: Franken is very entertaining and, unbelievably, factual. Spend 10 minutes of your life to operate google to check if his facts are correct and lo' and behold, they are. And then check his claims that Coulter or Reilly are lying and hey, he's stil right. Why did Franken use name-calling, by the way? Obviously so many people lost the message here: those "nutcases" that he name-called are serial name-callers themselves, so let's see if we turn it the other way around. Of course, the name-calling comes after he bitch-slapped them first with hypocrisies, lies, distortions, etc. Unfortunately, this book so-bashes the right wing that it will only find readers among the believers, and the conservatives will be turned off even before opening the book (but still put up a 'review' without opening a page). Maybe this book would be helpful for the undecided.
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Summary: A Call to Arms
Review: Franken laid out a powerful case. While I would not expect this book to change the minds of dyed-in-the-wool conservatives (even those who admit to reading past the first chapter), I hope that this book convinces others, as it has me, to take an active part in the next presidential campaign. Bush and his administration have got to go.
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Summary: Wish I didn't have to give any stars! Terrible!
Review: Franken makes the same mistakes in this book he points out in Ann Coulter's book. He particularly is incensed by Ann's mentioning Friedman's equating all religious extremists with Muslim extremists. He doesn't understand Friedman's original remark, so he doesn't understand how it could be criticized. The Naked Airline he said (paraphrasing) would solve the flight safety problem (presumably from hijacking in this case) because no religious extremist of any stripe would fly naked. Perhaps Friedman was trying to be politically correct by not "profiling" Middle Easterners; when in fact no "religious extremists" of any other stripe is doing hijacking in the name of their religion. Friedman should have said no Mulism religious extremist. It was disgusting that Franken calls this a lie on Ann's part, when he didn't understand the whole issue. Al Franken may be funny..certainly he sometimes is... but he is not one we should go to for logically thinking or for political advice. Enjoy his comedy; but this book is not worth the money.
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Summary: How the mighty are terrified of this book....
Review: Franken performs a valuable service by simply and calmly spelling out the rights consistant distortions of the truth. Amazing how no one on the right has had the courage to counter Franken's arguments. I sense that they are terified of Franken, and that if this does get any significant main-stream coverage, all exposed in this book will lose a great deal of credibility.
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