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Summary: Love or hate him, but dare to prove him wrong
Review: From the moment Al Franken lunges from the starting gate, he's off and running. This is a book that is both dead-accurate and riotously funny. For Franken, the words "fair and balanced" are more than a catchy phrase to be trademarked and sued over. If you can get past the first twenty pages and *still* believe that Ann Coulter is a respectable journalist - well, there's just no getting through to you. No sacred cow of the right is spared: Goldberg, Hannity, O'Reilly - well, maybe Limbaugh (but then again, Al has already covered him quite nicely in a previous book). Don't "misunderestimate" Franken, or dismiss him as less-than-capable of the formidable task of dismantling the disinformation machine of the right wing - this book is thoroughly and exhaustively researched, and it's also funny as hell. I'll take truthful and funny over mean-spirited and dubious anyday.But I wouldn't ask you to take my word for it. I've read a review from a conservative in Greensboro who says he "hates to admit it" but Franken is right about the poor research and misinformation coming from the pundits from his own party - and I've read a review from a conservative "Top 1000 Reviewer" in Colorado who denigrates the book as "inaccurate" and "unreadable". I have to wonder if he and I are reading the same book. But let's see...I could be right! After all, his music reviews are detailed and well-thought-out. So why such a generalised, poorly-worded "review" of this book? Seriously, Jan, I trust your taste in music and I respect the opinion of anyone who likes Captain Beefheart. Tell you what, if you're willing to go back and actually *read* this book, I'll be willing to swallow my bile and sit down and read Michael Savage (whom, unlike you, I've actually *heard* on the radio), and we can come back and compare notes. Deal?
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Summary: This Isn't Hubris Either
Review: From the mouth of Stuart Smalley to God's ear: "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me?" Yup, Snalley IS a likeable schmuck! And his alter ego Al Franken is a funny guy. But a "A Fair and Balanced Look."?????? As a wannabe political pundit, Franken is also a schmuck. Read the book for laughs. There are plenty of them in there. But can you REALLY take Stuart Smalley seriously?
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Summary: Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Review: Fukuyama was right about the "End of History," if nothing else. Malignant, unchecked capitalism and stage-managed, hypno-democracy have pooled together to create a tar pit in which the Dream of the Founders is gasping its last, drowned in the churning ichor of greed, self-interest and the snarling, atavistic Cthulu of Christian piety. As America expires to the cheers of the Coulters and O'Reillys, we need all the Menckens and Wylies we can muster. Franken is a much-needed imp of the perverse -- a brilliant strategist in an "asymmetrical" war against the entrenched powers of the Booboisie, me-first Right -- whose "shrill and unbalanced" assaults are delivered with the precision and force of an intellectual Bunker Buster. The text is a delight -- as delightful as any warning this dire can be -- and the incidental illustrations by Don Simpson (the unsung Dean of Subversive American Comic Art) are a wicked joy to behold.
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Summary: Delightfully Entertaining
Review: Full of truth, this book is pure pleasure. Franken handily exposes the myth of liberal bias in the media and shows that, in fact, there is a consistant conservative bias. The American people are being lied to and TeamFranken exposes those lies with ease. Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, most of the Republican sacred cows are shown to be frauds and out-and-out liars. Douglas Adams and Al Franken - the only two writers who've ever made me literally laugh out loud through the printed word.
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Summary: I'm Al Franken And your Squat...regaurding fox
Review: Funny funny book..
page 56 chapter (10) submitted by the banghladeshi boy Kharap Juta although a long read(wink wink) killed me along with chapter (11) I am funnier then Kharap Juta..
The book is excellent in pointing out the hypocrasy of the right wing disinfo Machine.A funny yet Scary look in to the mob mentality of the Bush fanatics.
Franken does something Hannity,coulter,And O'Liely don't do...Research...
Its a weird thing when it takes a comedian to actually report the truth with sources..The Banana republican media needed a kick in the genitals..And Al is wearing steale toed boots....get this book
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Summary: Should in the fiction section
Review: Funny stuff, but should be in the fiction section of your local bookstore, not non-fiction. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, Franken demonstrates all the fallacies and "lying" techniques that he complaints that conservatives do. Why does the left only attack the right by claim they aren't fit to govern instead of telling the American people what liberals would do? Why doesn't he Franken write a book about public policy issues so we can examine how he thinks the country should be run? The obvious answer is that he doesn't know anything about public policy, but he is positive that conservatives are all wrong. We get fascinating bits of "lying" such as, "How old is Ann Coulter?" Did she really register to vote before she was really 18? I'm sure liberals will enjoy the book since is doesn't have any substance to it.
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Summary: The truth will set us free
Review: Funny, engaging, pointed and - importantly - meticulously researched, Franken's book exposes the Bush Administration and its fringe-right-wing supporters in the media (Coulter, O'Reilly, Hannity and the whole gang at Fox News, the Washington Times and the WSJ Editorial staff) for the cycnical liars they are. While entertained, I was also frankly frightened by the clear threat to our civil liberties and our livelihood that Bush and his big-business cronies represent. Whether you are Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative or moderate... I believe it is our responsibility as Americans to read this book and learn the truth! Al Franken has made a valuable contribution to the protection of American democracy.
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Summary: The truth will win out
Review: Funny, honest, detailed research, true, but most of all scary as hell. Finally a much needed response to the slime writers from the right. If only a TV debate could be done for all to see them answer questions truthfully instead of lying, twisting the truth or accusing. How sad we will never get straight forward honest answers from the right thus making the need for books like these. Too bad.
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Summary: Brilliant Job
Review: Funny, intelligent, well-researched, virtually unassailable. A GREAT book and a most enjoyable read. I highly, highly recommend this book to any and all.
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Summary: Worth every penny
Review: Funny, interesting, smart and well researched.
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