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Summary: Read it for the laughs, remember it for the facts...
Review: Honestly, the biggest reason to read "Lying Liars" is to laugh. Like Franken's previous "Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot" and Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men," this book adds something that is more or less completely absent from 95% of the other political and social commentaries that are released every month from both the left and the right--humor. Though you probably need to be at least somewhat familiar with people like Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity in order to get some of the jokes, in general it's a pretty damn funny read (unless of course, you're a big fan of one of them). In fact, I would actually have preferred he stayed on the wisecracks rather than go into more serious topics like Paul Wellstone's funeral and the surrounding brouhaha, although most other people count that chapter as one of the best, so I guess it's a matter of taste.Overall, it's a solid new entry for Franken, especially the bit about the incursion into Bob Jones University. Great stuff.
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Summary: Vote Democrat, it's easier than getting a job.
Review: Honestly. All I have to say is read this book yourselves so you can laugh at how Al Franken makes a fool of himself. And as for the media being so "right winged", take a short visit to www.hollywoodhalfwits.com and on the left hand side(liberals just hold up your hands and choose the one that makes the L) there is a list of all of the left winged media halfwits. Click on any one of the many names and read a little about what they've said on the air. After doing so, think again about the media being so "right winged" .
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Summary: the skeptic times reviewer
Review: Honestly: If you are a liberal this is going to make you laugh like crazy, for conservatives it will boil your blood. The book is no doubt humorous, even some conservatives admit to laughing in a few places. The problem I found with this book is that not everything is true (I am not sure if that was intended as a pun on the title or a mistake). He criticizes Ann Coulter on her 780 references claiming she lied. As in my Ann Coulter review I pointed out, that she did her research very well and I know because it was for a project we had to check her research (it's called Journalism). The next problem I find with this book is the chapter "I'm a Bad Liar" (ironically named). The President of BJU denies that Al Franken ever visited their university. I don't know whether to believe a university of high morals or an author who can't stop using the F-word. Although many people will find this book funny, and no doubt it is, there has to be some questions as to why the author felt the need to make stuff up.
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: Horrible... The usual gibberish from the left. How can you ever trust what they say? There are no facts to back up his claims.
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Summary: Limousine liberal
Review: How can anyone take Al Franken seriously? It's not his politics that I disagree with but his attitude. He's mean, petty, and lacks the compassion that liberals claim to possess but, sadly, almost never do. It's because of this mean-spiritedness that I find so typical in those who profess to care about the common man that I am reluctant to identify myself as a liberal, even though that's where I stand politically. Besides, Franken is a limousine liberal, a hypocrite who makes money from the very system he professes to find so unfair.
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Summary: Franken admitted on CNN he lied in this book
Review: How can you take this book seriously? Al Franken was on CNN being interviewed by Paula Zahn and he admitted he made stuff up in the book and lied in the book. He told Zahn that the book was supposed to be "satire". How hilarious is it that left wing liberal morons in this country actually take this book serious?
He "documents" his "facts" in the book with a whopping 5 pages of notes. Most serious political books have between 60 and 100 pages of notes backing up their facts. Check out www.frankenlies.com to see a long list of factual inaccuracies in this joke of a book.
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Summary: Ignorance!!!!!!
Review: How does Al Franken know that there aren't any wmd's in Iraq? Truth is, he doesn't. Franken lacks logical and rational thought. He is also an anti-moderate extremist. Because liberals are so extreme, moderates will one day take them over. Just look at California for example.
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Summary: How many Lies?
Review: How many lies could the right wing tell if the right wing could tell lies? Well, if Franken has done his homework, and it appears that he has, then the right wing could tell a whole lot of lies and Franken has proof. Sometimes of course they don't tell outright lies, they just use the part of the truth that suits them and forget the rest. Sometimes they even tell the truth, then lie about that. Now don't get me wrong, there are a lot of very honest and well-meaning people on the political right. Unfortunately many of their leaders are neither well meaning nor honest. Want some examples? Al has plenty. One of his favorite targets is Bill O'Reilly who Franken has caught just making up facts and figures as he goes along. Of course if one is on O'Reilly's show and one happens to know the correct figures one can't correct Mr. Factor because he will start yelling at you to shut up and will turn your microphone off. I have seen him do that myself so I know Franken is not making it up. O'Reilly is of course not the only mouthpiece of the far right that Franken has caught in bald face lies. He also catches Ann Coulter, Bernie Goldberg, Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney, and of course good old George W., among others. This book is a very easy read but you have to pay attention for some of Franken's humor is very subtle. The facts are here, these guys and gals have lied and for that matter have lied early and often. The chapter on Barbara Bush especially intrigued me; I would never have guessed it. I also love Operation Chickenhawk, Operation Ignore, and the chapter entitled, "This was not a memorial to Paul Wellstone" was particularly informing. Of course, those of you on the right are not going to like this book at all. In fact, you probably won't read it but I figure you will trash this review. Still, this is a funny and informative book that deserves high marks. It would have been an easy five stars but Al goes after the Confederacy in a rather harsh manner and in that one instance he has no statistics to back him up. Still, anybody who can actually come up with a story in which Rush Limbaugh is involved in combat instead of trying to send other people into combat deserves five stars, even if he did trash my ancestors.
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Summary: Actually read the book
Review: How many people posting negative reviews have actually read the book? There is generally not a shred of evidence in many of these so-called "reviews" that go on to attack Al's religion, patriotism, looks, family, etc. Having read the book, I was pleasantly surprised. I am troubled by almost everything about the current administration, and can do little but wait until the next election. I was concerned that the book would enrage me even more. Al has a unique way of tempering the outrage with a touch of humanity and humor. Franken's discussions of Clinton's military, foreign policy, and terrorism policies were most enlightening- and these issues are almost never intelligently discussed in the media. The rest of the book largely preaches to the choir, and undoubtedly will go over the heads of any self-described neo-con. Why neo-cons are so opposed to critically viewing their own political beliefs is beyond me, and why they use Amazon book reviews to spew their garbage over something they have never read is even more strange. I hope Franken can find a voice in the wilderness of hate-filled right-wing talks shows (on talk radio, fox news, the op-ed pages). He is a true American... unlike, say, Rush or O'Reilly.
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Summary: Be Honest, it's very funny
Review: How many reviewers actually read this book? That's the problem with books like this biased "reviewers" will no doubt throw out "LIES" or "FRANKEN SHOULD BE IN JAIL", my personal favorite. I read the book, in fact finished it the day it arrived and let me tell you it was very good I laughed my @$$ off. The funniest line wasn't written by Franken himself, no it was his arch nemesis Bill O'Reilly Let me quote now from his book: Those who trespass "He gently teased her by licking around her most sensitive erogenous zone." That was so lame! It's something my Grandpa would write, it pops up two other times in the book and hits a home run. I haven't read that book so I have no Idea if the The 'Orgasm Factor' had been reached or if the fore play was 'Fair and Balanced'. It does refute the lies given by the right. I didn't vote for Gore but I defended him on the Internet fiasco and the Love Story misunderstanding but both of these are minor things compared to lets say going AWOL from your military post or removed thousands of black voters from voter files you knew were over 90% innaccuarte... but maybe that's just me? I found that Franken's son was very typical of most teenagers, you could imagine him saying "shut up dad" and him being embarrased by his dad's antics, namely Bob Jones university "interview" saying "They didn't do anything to you" and I think that gave us a glimpse of intergity from his son he should be proud. The chapter I was most agreeing with was the Hannity and colmes chapter, The "Centrist" (His Label) balances out Hannity or so they say, do yourself a favor and watch one show you will hear some whacked out, completely untrue statment come out of Sean's mouth and Alan will jump to commercial, If it were me I would slap him but I don't want to further his brain damage to the point of drooling I care about others well being. It's no wonder Republicans watch that show they get to see a SUV drivin, Country Music loving Republican walk all over a weak "Liberal". I wish he recorded Hannity saying he was upset that when he appered on Good Morning America he was labled a 'Conservative commentator' under his name during the broadcast..because as we all know he's really a world renowned Swedish Chef and this screw up needs to be corrected, how dare they call SEAN HANNITY of all people a Conservative commentator. I'm giving it 5 stars because it's written very well and I really enjoyed it. I understand that there is no Clinton bashing in the book but why would you think there was? Do you think In 'Treason or Let Freedom Ring' they bashed Regan or Bush for Iran-contra? Seriously it's a book about what liars the right wing are (not the ordinary people but guys like Karl Rove) it's like saying that the Communist Manifesto has a endnote that reads: "Warning: applying these methods will cause economic ruin!" But all in all this is a very funny book about some very serious things, mainly the lack of a free press...it may be "free" but it's very lazy and worst of all it's profit driven you're beholden to the people who pay your bills or how they dieify their leaders as moral pillars all of it worries me they lie and their is no repercussion. Just be Honest, it's very funny
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