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Summary: Save your money
Review: Here's a way tree-huggers can conserve the environment and save money from buying this book.1)Go to the restroom and drop the biggest bomb you've ever seen. Don't eat it. Liberals are already full of enough of it. 2)Unroll the toilet paper and proceed to wipe. Hopefully, you liberals don't have any diseases transmitted in the area you wipe. This will take a couple of sheets of toilet paper as opposed to the the 368 pages of paper used to publish this book. 3)Stare at the toilet paper. You get the SAME MATERIAL AS THIS BOOK AT A FRACTION OF THE COST AND MIRACULOUSLY YOU GET THE SAME COVER! HELP SAVE THE TREES!
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Summary: Fair and Balanced? Give me a break.
Review: Here's the good- the book is pretty funny. Here's the bad- this a book devoted to personally attacking Bill O'Reilly, in effect leeching off the name recognition the newsman has built up for himself. I'm a liberal myself, but Franken's immature personal vendetta against O'Reilly is sleazy and uncalled for.
2/5
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Summary: Nothing new - info can be had for free.
Review: Here's the skinny: Eveything in this book can be known by inference, or for free by reading tabloids in the check-out line. Franken is a sensationalist writer, who's only tool is hyperbolic juxtaposition. If its popular, he hates it. If it's unpopular, he loves it, and he'll tell you why. Just read the table of contents, and you can figure out what he has to say. Which is, in the end, nothing at all. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Summary: I can tell why people on the right hate this book
Review: Here's the thing. Al Franken makes some very good points about the conservative media and the lack of any liberal media at all. If American's want to here what's actually going on in Iraq then we're better off listening to the BBC than watching CNN. While not full of the newest material, its very entertaining reading Al's take on it all and its a good read no matter what side of the political spectrum you fall on.
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Summary: Frankenlies, dot, com
Review: Here's what they say:
Is Al Franken so determined to defend President Clinton's record on terrorism that he has to make things up? What about those 14 Harvard researchers? On pages 109-110 of Lies, Franken writes,
"Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah are all currently behind bars ... They were involved in [further] plots to kill the Pope and blow up twelve U.S. jetliners simultaneously. But neither happened. ... Why? Because Clinton thwarted them. He thwarted them all."
The truth? The plot to kill the Pope was thwarted by Philippine officials in January 1995, less than one week before the pontiff's arrival in Manila! Abdul Murad was captured after he and Yousef accidentally started a fire in their apartment while trying to mix explosives. Upon interrogation, Murad confessed to the plot to kill the Pope.
Authorities also seized Yousef's laptop computer, which revealed a plan called Bojinka, the plot to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners.
When Murad was handed over to the F.B.I. months later, the work (and heroics) had already been done ... by Philippine law enforcement!
The truth is that Bill Clinton had as much to do with thwarting these plots as much as, well, as much as Al Franken did.
How many Harvard researchers was that again? Hey Franken, check your sources next time: Peter Lance, 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI, The Untold Story (New York: Regan Books, 2003), timeline pp. 14-15, pp. 266-269, p. 274. Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror (Regenery, 2003), pp. 80-81 and ... Gerald Posner, Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 (Random House, 2003), pp. 78-79.
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Summary: Thank you, Al!
Review: Hey Al, thank you for doing this. We need more people like you who speak up and speak out.
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Summary: True and funny!!
Review: Hey mr. 'Al franken hates America reviewer'. Give me a break! Mr.franken is the first too admit he loves america, he is just using his amendment rights! You are so blinded by all this patriotic stuff that you CHOOSE not to see the awfull state our country is in. Patriotism is the thing that made this country, and yet it is also the thing that will destroy it. DONT VOTE FOR A MAN THAT WANTS UNNESECARY WAR!(just write in AL Franken!)Anyway Al franken makes some great points about Anne Coulter and what a lyer she, is in two chapters. I think it would be great if a conservative read this book, because they would never go back to that 'side' again!
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Summary: Finally Somebody Said It
Review: Hey, I am no big liberal type and I admit I miss the days of Barry Goldwater because he was so damn honest and I respected him even though I didn't always agree with him. Now, what do we have representing the Conservative Right? A bunch of fearbased whores preaching scare tactics and blaming Clinton for everything. Not one ounce of intellect or prose has been presented to us(well, I like William F. Buckley so he is excused) by these nutbags like Savage, Coulter, Hannity and the rest of the slack jawed troglodytes(thanks to mr. burns) who are peddling their fear with dollar signs in their eyes. Yes, Liberals do the same thing! So without further digressing.... Al Franken's book is funny. Whether you are on the right or the so-called left you should a get a laugh out of it. If you aren't laughing, then its obvious you live in Tunnelville, OK. He makes some strong points regarding Ann Coulter and yes folks I believe this woman is a complete psycho in my opinion. I shudder to think anyone with half a brain would take anything she says as truth, much less entertainment. I digress again. The book is well written and is quite funny. The book does not slow at any point and you will find yourself not wanting to put it down. The liberal media chapter is probably my favorite because I have always pointed out that no biased is proven, and Al Franken gives us some fine examples to understand what is going on. Of course what is going on is fear, fear sells in this country and Conservatives(not all!) manipulate fear to gain votes and sell books. Buy this book whether you agree or not. It is fun and a joy to read. If it pisses you off and gets you all wound up whether you are on the right or left then you are a complete loser. The fact is, reading a simple book like this should not enrage you. It should entertain you with some great points regarding just how stupid we are here in America. If you want to be enraged, just look at Bush's tax plan and what it does to veterans, that should enrage you.
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Summary: worth reading
Review: Highlights of this book are the chapters on Hannity and Colmes, Ann Coulter, and Bill O'Reilly. Another important part of the book is the chapter on the 2000 election. Right-wing TV and newspaper pundits lie about democratic politicians alot. Franken exposes them in this book and teaches you to be sceptical of what they say. Hopefully independent minded people will read this, not just people who are already in the democratic camp. It includes a comic called Supply Side Jesus which was truly funny and clever. This book isn't perfect. Some parts people might find boring. As long as you don't have too high of expectations you will find reading this book was a worthwile endeavor. A poster keeps posting a website of supposed Franken lies. Go ahead and look at it. That is the best they can come up with. According to the website Franken's practical joke is the same thing as a lie. Ann Coulter's Slander was so much worse when it comes to accuracy.
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Summary: funny, thought-provoking
Review: Highly recommend. Although this is really partisan, Franken and TeamFranken do a terrific job of methodically uncovering the deliberate lies and spinning undertaken by Bush and his minions.
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