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Summary: Raptorous
Review: I loved this book. Being a liberal I had no money of my own to buy it, so I checked it out of the library and after a month and a half got a copy of it. I swear I read over half of it on a Sunday. I couldn't set it down. Al Franken was like a raptor in Jurassic Park dripping acid. He may just be the Pat Paulson of this generation, although John Kerry looks the part more. My only problem, if there is one, is how to backtrack the evidence, like this Ibriham Mansoor (sp) in a tale twice told by idiots. I don't think he was defending President Clinton, but was instead correcting the record. Just a suggestion Al, for the paperback copy see if you can get Coulter, O'Reilly, Hannity, and Limbaugh to review the book, and put them on the cover.
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Summary: Through With Bush
Review: I loved this book. It was hilarious and insightful.
I was greatly amused by Franken's encounter with Barbara Bush. (Read the book to find out what happened.) Franken goes on to discuss the dirty tricks of the last Presidential election and his amusing take on Bob Jones University aka BJU. Actually I respect that school's devotion to its values; no hypocrisy there. We all know Fox News' take on things well this book provides a fair and balanced view from the left.
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Summary: Typical Conservatives
Review: I may be over generalizing here but these reviews are so typical of conservatives! They claim he lies but they show no support to their leudicras mind numbing drabble! By the way Mr Pro War Where the hell were you when your number was called probably running to mommy like your Hero Bush Did!!!
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Summary: Laughed Out Loud
Review: I must admit, I am occasionally ashamed that I cannot control my laughter at Franken's brand of wit, but I can't. His humor is honestly a bit juvenile on occasion, but ... it is funny. It is no wonder that (some people)get all splotchy in the face when Franken's name comes up. They work so hard to be taken seriously, and are so devistated by Franken's wit (as well as his facts). Buy this book but don't read it in public. People will think you have lost your marbles as you chuckle, guffaw, and lauch out loud.
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Summary: I laughed, I cried, I said, "Whoah, this can't be true!"
Review: I must admit, I tend to stay away from political books, especially those that taunt self-benefiting opinions. For this reason, I don't know why I sought out and purchased this book. Perhaps it was the shock of the title. I dunno. But I can say what kept me interested in the book, interested enough to actually finish it. Al Franken, in a most readable fashion, methodically points out not just "inaccuracies" (using a photocopy of the front pages of the New York Times to discredit an Ann Coulter claim, for example), but provides insight into what he believes is the overall tone that summarizes and perhaps dictates the right-wing discourse on America's enemies and priorities. The true heart of this book's message is not a manifestation of Al Franken's ideologic agenda, but rather a product of quoting individuals and generally calling a spade a spade. I found myself chuckling outloud at least every other page. The rest of the time, I just thought to myself, "Whoah, this can't be true!"
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Summary: Best of them all
Review: I must admit... I'm a bit guilty of the very thing Mr. Franken shuns early on: reading people with whom you already agree. This book, like many of his efforts, gives a great voice to things that we liberals often feel when challenged by the right. However, he goes well beyond pandering to this audience. He is clearly passionate about challenging views and holding people and parties accountable to their claims. He and TeamFranken devote themselves to the ideal democractic debate and make the reader feel ready to stand up and be counted. He puts a light towards the better nature we should encourage in ourselves, others and our nation, and then begins speaking to that part in a clear - not condescending - voice.The facts are impressive, the legwork extensive and the underlying message invaluable. This is by far his most entertaining and his most valuable contribution to the political landscape.
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Summary: Simply Marvelous!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I must say that Al Franken is on to something. His idea that we must attack the right wing knuckle draggers not by lying,as they do, but by being "funny and attractive" is right on point. Franken masterfully makes this book readable through the use of hysterical antics. The substance of the book,however, is not lost in all the humor. He takes to task people like Bill O'liely, Ann "she-devil" Coulter and the current, selected occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In all seriousness, this is not an attack on the political ideology of those on the right. Instead, it is a careful dissection of the half-truths the right wingers steadily feed to the masses everyday. Through tireless research he exposes these people for what they are: BIG FAT LIARS!
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Summary: O my god this is a great book!
Review: I need to by a vowel because O my god this is a great book! It's as funny as Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot (which he is) and is very well researched. It's about time somebody called these unethical blowhards on their slanderous, hateful behavior. It's especially nice to have done in such a clever way. Al Franken is a comic genius. I just can't believe he slept with that horrible Ann Coulter. ;)
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Summary: Liberals Are Tragic For Thinking That Bush Knew About 9/11
Review: I need to clear the air of fabrications here, that immoderately MANY left-wing asylum-escapees have been boringly repeating in review after review, like they simply copy one another's "reviews" to kidnap Franken's book's rating higher. OBSERVATION #1: Most of the "5 star reviews" (besides being so unstable that they don't even warrant the discussion it takes for them to be recognized) are the same foaming-at-the-mouth, universal health care wanting, UN subserving, Kerouac-style "intellectual" libertines, who must be paid off by Howard "my teenage son's a burglar" Dean and the rest of the limitlessly immoral Demoratic candidates to rig the positivity of liberal books on Amazon. OBSERVATION #2: Liberals are total savages. Like Franken resorts to the basest excess of obscenities in his yellow journalism adventure, the reviewers who are so misguided to shamelessly identify themselves as libs, aren't representing their cause honorably. Most of the left-wing radicals' reviews here employ the same, mean, low-minded ridicule of the right that the left has a notoriously long history of doing. Lastly, I almost s**t my pants upon reading YET ANOTHER of the incurably many liberal "freedom" fighters' reviews--who are desperate to maintain their imposing stance of the many right-wing myths that they ferociously keep spewing--who continued to insist that the fact of a mostly liberal media is a lie. Further, the reviewer even did this sarcastically--by referring to the liberal media in an insincere way--which is simply more audacious, considering that all one has to do is look at the nightly newscasts to be stunned at how liberal the friggin media really is. Newscasts REGULARLY report stories with a costly dosage of Political Correctness, that is if they even touch those news stories that can't be treated with kid gloves, so as not to offend the thousands-upon-thousands of special interest groups that WILL have a protest regarding full disclosure in their newscasts. Further, most news stations like CNN and MSNBC constantly procure guests with infamously liberal ties to "comment" on segments--which is just to repeat the imposing of liberal viewpoints--like those Osama-loving ... at Newsweek, NYT--or handfuls of Demoratic commentators. In closing, if you, the reader, disputes EVEN ONE of these truths that are recognized as self-evident, then you're not just hypnotized, you're sunk into the tumorous mentality of a pathological liar, much akin to the liberal figurehead who attempted to, idiotically, re-define the meaning of the word "is".
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Summary: Liberals Are Tragic For Thinking That Bush Knew About 9/11
Review: I need to clear the air of fabrications here, that immoderately MANY left-wing asylum-escapees have been boringly repeating in review after review, like they simply copy one another's "reviews" to kidnap Franken's book's rating higher. OBSERVATION #1: Most of the "5 star reviews" (besides being so unstable that they don't even warrant the discussion it takes for them to be recognized) are the same foaming-at-the-mouth, universal health care wanting, UN subserving, Kerouac-style "intellectual" libertines, who must be paid off by Howard "my teenage son's a burglar" Dean and the rest of the limitlessly immoral Demoratic candidates to rig the positivity of liberal books on Amazon. OBSERVATION #2: Liberals are total savages. Like Franken resorts to the basest excess of obscenities in his yellow journalism adventure, the reviewers who are so misguided to shamelessly identify themselves as libs, aren't representing their cause honorably. Most of the left-wing radicals' reviews here employ the same, mean, low-minded ridicule of the right that the left has a notoriously long history of doing. Lastly, I almost s**t my pants upon reading YET ANOTHER of the incurably many liberal "freedom" fighters' reviews--who are desperate to maintain their imposing stance of the many right-wing myths that they ferociously keep spewing--who continued to insist that the fact of a mostly liberal media is a lie. Further, the reviewer even did this sarcastically--by referring to the liberal media in an insincere way--which is simply more audacious, considering that all one has to do is look at the nightly newscasts to be stunned at how liberal the friggin media really is. Newscasts REGULARLY report stories with a costly dosage of Political Correctness, that is if they even touch those news stories that can't be treated with kid gloves, so as not to offend the thousands-upon-thousands of special interest groups that WILL have a protest regarding full disclosure in their newscasts. Further, most news stations like CNN and MSNBC constantly procure guests with infamously liberal ties to "comment" on segments--which is just to repeat the imposing of liberal viewpoints--like those Osama-loving SOBs at Newsweek, NYT--or handfuls of Demoratic commentators. In closing, if you, the reader, disputes EVEN ONE of these truths that are recognized as self-evident, then you're not just hypnotized, you're sunk into the tumorous mentality of a pathological liar, much akin to the liberal figurehead who attempted to, idiotically, re-define the meaning of the word "is".
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