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Summary: Wake Up Call
Review: Hilarious and enlightening. This book was a wake up call for me. We are becoming way too complacent about the integrity of the media and our government. For the conservative (but fair and balanced) gentleman who didn't think Al's case against Bush was compelling enough, I agreed. Then I read Molly Ivin's "Bushwhacked". It is another must read for anyone concerned about this country's future. Thanks Al - I'm a political activist now....
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Summary: Laughs a-plenty!!
Review: Hilarious! After reading this well-researched book, I'll never trust another factoid I hear from "fair and balanced" right-wing commentators such as Coulter, Hannity, and O'Rielly. Despite the humor, though, the book can be depressing as one realizes how the right has hijacked honesty and decency, and cloaked their misrepresentations with the American flag. But have heart, lefties. Don't give up! Stop being nice guys - it's time you learned to viciously sling mud like the righties!
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Summary: Hilarious & Proof America Works
Review: Hilarious! Very funny! This silly book prooves what a great country America really is. You can make a lot of money if you're buffoonish, misleading, and offensive, but the jokes are on conservatives. Way to go, Al. You da Man! On a serious note, the book really makes me wonder if there's any writer who cares about people on both sides of the political spectrum? If so, the world needs him or her to step up to the plate, and write a book that's helps people come together, not rips them apart. People are people; we all need help; liberals and conservatives. Al's book doesn't do much here, but then again, that probably wasn't his goal.
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Summary: Boring book of half truths...
Review: His first book was funny and I hoped that this would follow suit. Franken is obsessed with giving the extreme left a voice to equal Limbaugh and Fox News for the right. What comes out is shrill and tired old liberal adages for conservative views. It's ironic that the title of the book leads you to believe that the conservatives only tell you half the story, the whole time Franken only tells you half the story. Present the other side next time Al....maybe you'll accomplish something. Get it at the library...it's worth a few laughs
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Summary: Doggone it, people think I'm funny!
Review: His funniest work on SNL was "Daily Affirmation" so I am having trouble thinking this book is worth reading. I didn't read it and I won't unless someone wants to buy it for me. If you're buying this book you probably don't like the current administration. If you don't like the president you probably aren't used to a moral, God-fearing human being in the White House, a man who believes in what he says.
-An American soldier who's tired of reading misguided tripe by Franken, Molly Ivins & the like.
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Summary: Franken is a "liberal"? I don't think so.
Review: His use of humor to disguise the weakness of his argument and lack of substantive facts has always bothered me. His unnecessary use of the racist slur, "Jap", on P.342 of this book has completely turned me off. This type of racist slur is unacceptable in any situation - and certainly in an attempt simply to appear funny. In my mind, Franken is neither a good "liberal" (as the label is used positively) nor a good American.
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Summary: "blotchy Bill O'Lielly"
Review: His writing is very conversational and easy to read and his story telling ability is brilliant. Franken is able to present the reader a good look at the outrageous lies perpetrated by the conservative media's leading "talking heads" and, at the same time, present it with enough humor to keep you laughing and wanting more.
This is a very, very funny book- although the subject matter is often infuriating and the truths he exposes are shocking. The "blotchy Bill O'Lielly" stories are worth the price of admission alone.
Buy this book for everyone you know- along with the great humor he shows you exactly how these liars lied! This should be required reading for American citizens!
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Summary: Uh oh, you made us cry
Review: Hmm wow, instead of reviewing the book, we got some reviews of reviews. Let's play. Good book, shows that the liberals really are "total savages" while on the other hand, the pristine holy Right, that uses phrases like "low-minded," "Osama-loving SOBs," and "Big Fat Idiot," is completely civilized. Come on liberals! It's easier to be wrong and close minded. Never admit it! You guys are so ferocious, that perfectly explains the domination of the radio by the Right, and the O'Reilly factor. We have to stretch the truth to compete! I'm not too sure why the Ivy-league faculties are dominated by the left though. I doubt it has anything to do with intelligence and truth. Blasted conspiracies! Again, good book, but I should warn the evil left: The Right doesn't read too much. To the radio waves! Nod your heads together!
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Summary: Dear Al "the fibbing" Franken,
Review: Hmm, it seems that none of your criticisms are really doing anything to diminish O'Reilly's career (let alone Hannity's, Coulter's, or even Goldberg's). If anything, it's helping his career! You may have remembered the interview O'Reilly had with Terry Gross on "Fresh Air" where Jeffrey A. Dvorkin claimed the interview was totally biased and "unfair to O'Reilly." Isn't that great?! NPR a liberal station admitting its own liberal bias! Here's more from Dvorkin: "I believe the listeners were not well served by this interview. Unfortunately, the interview only served to confirm the belief, held by some, in NPR's liberal bias. By coming across as a pro-Franken partisan rather than a neutral and curious journalist, Gross did almost nothing that might have allowed the interview to develop. By the time the interview was about halfway through, it felt as though Terry Gross was indeed `carrying Al Franken's water,' as some listeners say. It was not about O'Reilly's ideas, or his attitudes or even about his book. It was about O'Reilly as political media phenomenon. That's a legitimate subject for discussion, but in this case, it was an interview that was, in the end, unfair to O'Reilly." O'Reilly told Gross off justifiably. Here's a partial transcript: "O'REILLY, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF WHO'S LOOKING OUT FOR YOU?: I came on to this program to talk about Who's Looking Out for You? And what you've done is thrown every kind of defamation you can in my face. Did you do this to Al Franken? Did you? Did you challenge him on what he said? GROSS, HOST, FRESH AIR: We had a different interview. O'REILLY: Yes. A different interview. Okay. Fine, fresh air? Is this what "fresh air" is? I'll get a transcript of this interview --you want me--of the Al Franken interview. You want me to do that, and compare the two? GROSS: You're welcome to. O'REILLY: And compared it, too? All right, why don't you tell your listeners right now? Were you as tough on Al Franken as you are on me? No. You weren't. GROSS: No, I wasn't. O'REILLY: Okay. Why? GROSS: Well, Al Franken had written a book of political satire. O'REILLY: Oh, he was satire now, was it? All right, calling people liars and distorting their faces on the book cover. That's satire now, is it? And my book, Who's Looking Out for You? is designed to help people to show them how they have to know how to read people in the society to succeed. Yet you're easy on Franken and you challenge me. This is NPR. Okay? I think we all know what this is. I think we all know where you're going with this. Don't we? GROSS: Well, you could say... O'REILLY: Yes, don't we? GROSS: You can think whatever you want to. O'REILLY: I am. I mean, I'm evaluating this interview very closely. Obviously you are. Now we've spent now, all right, 50 minutes of me being -- defending defamation against me in every possible way, while you gave Al Franken a complete pass on his defamatory book. And if you think that's fair, Terry, then you need to get in another business. I'll tell you that right now. And I'll tell your listeners, if you have the courage to put this on the air, this is basically an unfair interview designed to try to trap me into saying something that Harpers magazine can use. And you know it. And you should be ashamed of yourself. And that is the end of this interview." Yup, gotta love those liberal medias. Speaking of which, did you know that 45 percent of Americans believe the media is liberal, while only 14 percent think it's conservative. Don't believe me? Check it out: dubya, dubya, dubya, gallup, dot, com, forwardslash, poll, forwardslash, releases, forwardslash, pr031008, dot, asp. Yeah, I know, you covered all that stuff in chapter 7, but, practically, no one believes you, Al. Well, except all 14 percent of America. And, let's not forget the LA (Liberal as Always) Times smear campaign against Arnold, which had over a thousand people canceling their subscription. Anyway, Al, you can continue to brainwash all 14 percent of Americans to your blind ideology while 45 percent of us will continue our suspicion of the liberal elite. Good day, Coolguy PS Will you EVER respond to your lie in chapter 33 and 34?
PPS By the way, chapter 7 has a grammatical error (page 44): "How many times do you have be [there it is] misquoted before you learn not to ever say anything to anyone that could possibly be taken out of context and changed to make you look bad?" Just a reminder for your paperback.
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Summary: Reading the Book is a Prerequisite to Writing a Review...
Review: Holy corny homophobic O'Reilly worshipers, Batman! All those negative reviews with no mention of anything that was in the book is to be expected from a host of people that voted for a coke head alcoholic trust fund baby whose life is a testament to the notion that anything is possible in America--when your father is a wealthy ex-president. Not admiring the author is no basis for slamming his book chock full of hard facts shinning a bright light into all the holes of the nonsense fed to you buy the Axis of Evil (Bush Jr., Sr. and Dick "Haliburton" Cheney) and Fox News.
Wait till George II writes his memoirs after he's voted out of office. It will be in the children's section of Amazon under the subject "Books with lots of pictures, age appropriate: 5-9 yrs". I am ashamed to know that so many of my countrymen have been reduced to accepting such complete mediocrity for leadership and for believing in all the Tax Cut lies. Dig deeper, fools...things could be much better in this country if freedom were legalized.
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