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Summary: LIES AND THE LYING LIARS WHO TELL THEM
Review: FRANKEN PROVES HIMSELF NOT ONLY IN HIS LIBELOUS WRITINGS, BUT ALSO IN HOW HE BEHAVES IN PUBLIC. THIS MAN IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF PROFESSIONAL HELP. HIS WHOLE AGENDA IS " DEMOCRATS RULE". WELL, FRANKEN DOESN'T !!!!P.S. "0" STARS-BUT THERE WASN'T THAT OPTION.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Franken provides a hilarious and positive answer to a trend of negative rhetoric towards a great deal of Americans who have "liberal" values. This is precisely why we need voices from both sides, for too long the media has been dominated by the conservative voice. People MUST stop the antagonization each other lest this country will tear itself apart. This book gives those of the extreme right who constantly antagonize the left a sample of their own medicine. It makes for amusing reading, and his research speaks for itself. If you're a conservative, it will still be funny, and may give you a broader and alternative perspective of the people you may trust in the media. Take the book for what its worth, a fair and balanced look at the right, with absolutely hilarious moments and an honest voice.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: Franken pulls off the difficult job of writing a book both funny and important. It's a very quick read, and never lets up its intensity -- a "rollicking rollercoaster ride," to use movie-critic verbiage. The book is mostly a critique of right-wing media, specifically the Fox News Channel. In this, it is similar to Franken's earlier book, "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot", although its aim is much broader. "Lies" reads better, in large part because Limbaugh, politics aside, is at least a skilled radio entertainer. Current right-wing media figures like Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity come across in "Lies" as being alternately clueless and transparently malicious, without being especially talented in their respective media. Franken wisely alternates withering analyses of the afore-mentioned personalities' statements with hilarious anecdotes from his own experience as a B-level celebrity who nonetheless often rubs shoulders with the rich and powerful in the political world. This keeps the book from having a monotonous feel to it and holds the reader's interest. You won't like this book if you're a political conservative who thinks that any attack on the current self-appointed conservative spokespeople is also an attack on you. And if you're liberal-leaning, then much of this will be preaching to the choir (even if it's a nice savory sort of preaching). For this reason I give "Lies" four out of five stars. Anyone else, however, from open-minded conservative to centrist to nominally apolitical, will get a big kick out of the book. Well worth reading!
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Summary: Franken Captures the Cannon...
Review: Franken scores again with a funny and informative take down on the right wing talking heads. Pointing out habitual tendencies to shade, distort, avoid and ignore the truth in the service of a lower calling-turning the rest of America over to the rich. Franken, long time comedy writer and satirist, may have topped himself. Those comments re his "career" indicate sour grapes. He especially blow holes in the airbag O'Reilly who is a crash waiting to happen. Coulter is an even easier target, since even conservatives admit that she distorts information. In spite of Franken's keen wit and biting satire, he is a gentleman compared to the screaming banshees of the Republican Media Militia.
Get it. Read it. Pass it on. It may turn out to be the first shot in a volley that takes down the Lying White House and the media charlatans who support it. And by the way, if you happen to find in WMD's lying around, please call the White House.
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Summary: Bull's Eye!!! But watch your back, Al.
Review: Franken scores another bull's eye! Once again he has targeted the collective soft underbelly of the Right Wing Wackos--their inability to tell the truth. Armed with little more than a razor-sharp wit, a LexisNexis account, and TeamFranken (his secret weapon), Franken exposes one RRW lie after another. He shows that Bill O'Reilly not only has trouble telling the truth, but goes postal when anyone dares to point out one of his lies; he makes a pretty good case for Ann Coulter being a genuine nutcase (but most people figured that out long ago anyway); he destroys many of the lies that RRWs have told for years about President Clinton and Vice President Gore; he exposes the cowardliness of the mainstream press for not calling the RRWs on their lies; and he does all of this using something RRWs have a bit of trouble with---FACTS. My one complaint is that Franken has made be question my view of the President-select. I've always thought that Shrub Jr. was more of a puppet than a leader. I sort of figured that all of the mean-spirited lies and other assorted BS that comes out of the Shrub Jr. Whitehouse was something condoned, but not necessarily instigated by that great Ace of the Texas Air National Guard. In fact I figued that Shrub Jr. was just pretty much just a paper mache-headed marionette, controlled by the RRW power-elite. However, Franken paints a picture of Shrub Jr. as more of a puppeteer---using the likes of Rumsfeld, Norton, and Rove to do all of the dirty-work of lying, distorting, etc., and then blaming them if things get sticky. Now I'm not sure if Shrub Jr. is more of lying liar (and a mean-spirited one at that), or a bumbling bozo. Just remember, Al, a lot of people died in Texas while Shrub Jr. was Governor, some under very mysterious circumstances. In fact, Shrub Jr. signed the of death warrants of more than a few of them. So watch you back. Oh, and if Shrub Jr. askes you to do an extended USO tour of Camp X-ray, tell him that you have other priorities.
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Summary: With Your Help, the Tide Will Turn
Review: Franken shoots a bullseye; then splits the arrow on the next shot. with a perfect combination of facts, statistics, appropriate targets and even more appropriate humor, this country's Satirist Laureate disects what the Right is all about; mean-spirited, selfish, and, of course, thoroughly dishonest. "Lies" will make you laugh, will make you cry, but hopefully will make you WAKE UP and see that our country is deliberately being stolen from us. After you read this book, you'll never again listen to Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the right wing liars the same way. Above all, this book is a call to arms. Read it, give it to your friends, live it! As Paul Wellstone said (and I paraphrase from the book, badly) it is not enough to have good ideas; you must carry them out as well. Thank you Al Franken and Teamfranken.
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Summary: B-O-R-I-N-G
Review: Franken should have stuck with Saturday Night Live. This book does not live up to the hype! No wonder it was #400 on the list before the court battle over Fox's tagline. It deserves to go back to #400 on the list. Zzzzzzzzz!
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Summary: John Stuart Mill and Al Franken Are Right
Review: Franken shows in this book that John Stuart Mill was right when he said that although not "all conservatives are stupid people . . . it is true that most stupid people are conservative." And they all seem to watch Fox News and lap it up. I am growing a long beard, waiting for anyone connected with Fox to counter just one of Franken's arguments in this book. I guess Fox is still fuming after the judge spanked them for that frivolous lawsuit. Hope Franken sells a gazillion books, and writes a gazillion more (a gazillion, by the way, is exactly what the deficit is now).
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Summary: Humor that will please any fourth grade student
Review: Franken shows that he has little to offer, most of his so called "facts" that he displays from the General Accounting Office could be interpreted in a variety of ways due to the fact that they are so vague and open to interpretation.
Anyone can take pot shots at leaders and debase their arguments by calling them pedantic childish names. It only reflects badly on the author. His humor fits a fourth grade classroom.
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Summary: irreverent, incisive, well-researched
Review: Franken skewers the holier-than-thou posturing of Fox News and Rupert Murdoch's right-wing media empire (yes, the "liberal media" is a myth) with eloquence, grace, and humor. I have not laughed this hard in a long time. What a wonderful book!
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