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Summary: Read this book before you VOTE
Review: A reader rated this book 1 star and had the nerve to admit he never read it. That's what's been going on in this country. People make decisions based on their opinions & other people opinions. Not facts. Not the truth. It shouldn't matter if your on the left or right or somewhere in the middle. You should read this book before you vote. Then make your mind up for yourself. You owe it to yourself as a citizen If you don't have time to read this book, buy/rent the CD's. It should be in your local library. On 2/6/04 "Bush Named a Commission on Pre-War Intelligence.
President Bush should appoint Franken & his Harvard researchers to this special Commission. Add Rush & Bill O'Reilly to the mix. What a great book that'll make. But we know that'll never happen. ...why do you think that will never happen, George?
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Summary: The Truth Feels Good
Review: a refreshingly intelligent and well-researched analysis of the Ridiculous Right Wing.Franken writes with wit and broad understanding, hereby proving that a comedian (admittedly receiving help from a team of people) can deliver us more cogent arguments than the typical politician or "pundit." An entertaining and educational work.
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Summary: Funny except ...
Review: A remarkable concentration of evidence against the evangelists of right. If only true in small fraction, this book has enormous implications for the America democracy. I hope he is not correct as those implications are anything but funny. Some proof of Franken's case is provided by the Amazon reviews of his book, in which not a single one of the first 50 negative reviews contradicts a single "fact" cited by Franken. It is all ad hominem.
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Summary: Great Stuff!
Review: A scathing examination of the right wing's current reign of terror, Mr. Franken ruthlessly exposes the insidious and deceitful "conservative" agenda while inviting us to join him in laughing in their faces. Great stuff! Still, I would like to have heard more of Mr. Franken's views on the precise motivation for the CONSERVATIVE media bias he so carefully chronicles. Is it as simple as selling your journalistic soul? Personally, I have just enough faith in the cantankerous nature of the American people to convince me that the misguided Right will never achieve their heart's fondest desire...to turn our dynamic and evolving nation into a plutocratic police state.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: A serious and very informative book sprinkled with his sharp wit. Franken ought to have a weekly TV show where he dissects and exposes the mistruths spoken during the week. Maybe the right would start to express themselves in an intelligent manner.
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Summary: Almost Fair and Balanced
Review: A superb expose of the Right Wing Lying Machine for the sinister, power-crazed force that it is. Al Franken tells it likes it is: no lies, no embellishments, no insane claims - the very oppostite strategy, infact, employed by the American Right. One small thing, however, in which I was personally disappointed was Al's rather narrow-minded and sometimes disparaging view of Islam. Otherwise, a great read. Funny, disturbing, and certainly 'unputdownable'. I ordered the book from the USA, as its not yet available in England. Already, all my friends are bugging me for a read. You''ll laugh out loud at some of Al's one-liners!
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Summary: Fair and Balanced
Review: A terrific book that tears apart every right wing lie Franken can find. No one has been able to find significant factual errors in this book, not Spinsanity, not National Review. NR's review sunk to the level of saying all the members of TeamFranken are white. You really zinged him there! Some may not like Franken's humor, but his facts are undeniable. Do yourself a favor and buy this book.
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Summary: Laugh Harder, Feel Smarter, Give Your Integrity An Uplift.
Review: A thoroughly enjoyable read. Do not overlook Franken's note to the reader, and intro (as I, in my haste, have done on occasion).Here the books veracity is established. Franken's handpicked team of Harvard researchers provide a startlingly diverse plethora of deceit from which our satirist molded an outrageously funny stand-up routine. This is how the book read, with Franken's voice coming through loud and clear.
The book's fun and informative. I'm hoping that the next printing will include a post-script which will address Limbaugh,Thurman,Bush, and all the others who have lived up to satiricle expectations-essentially writing the next chapter by their own actions.
For a good laugh that makes you feel a little bit smarter, read
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, by Al Franken.
It will make clear the importance of integrity.
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Summary: Funny, very funny, but that is about it
Review: A typical, but humorous assault on process rather than a real look at the issue of the "hystrical right" and Media Bias. Written as a counter to books like "Bias" and "Slander" I think the humorus jabs at process rather then real argument on the claims reinforces the arguments of Goldberg and Coulter rather than debunks. Franken takes issue with Mrs. Coulters footnotes actually being endnotes, rather than engaging her arguments. Which is a shame, becasue I agreed with his premise, but he doesn't follow through. Mrs. Coulter does represent the hysterical right, but it is clear Franken represents the content free,but far more amusing left. I give it three stars becasue it is funny. Other recomendation on Media Bias I would suggest "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman. Postman puts forth no arguments on Bias, rather describes a battle for our attention spans that drives the media.
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Summary: lies and the lying liars who tell them
Review: A very funny read! Al Franken hit the nail on the head bigtime and he must be right because i dont hear any rightwing media pointing out errors. Good for Al and good for us.
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