Rating:  Summary: see what happens Review: Listen up, right wingers.What happens when you use the rules of evidence? What happens when you base facts on the application of the scientific method? You get a book like Mr. Franken's. Another thing: Franken: Amazon.com Sales Rank: 3 Krugman: Amazon.com Sales Rank: 51 Clinton: Amazon.com Sales Rank: 69 Coulter: Amazon.com Sales Rank: 196 I also am heartened by the fact the Mr. Franken's, Mr. Krugman's, and Ms. Clinton's books are outselling Coulter's, even though she has billionaire right-wing sugar daddies inflating her sales. Franken's kicking O'Reilly too. It shows that most Americans are decent and moral human beings, and not haters, and they pick Al, Paul, and Hillary over the right wing.
Rating:  Summary: Lies and the Lying Liars Who tell the: (AKA Al Franken) Review: Little boy Al Franken is the A-Hole lying liar who tells all the lies....
Rating:  Summary: Funny and Researched Review: Look, Liberals like me love him and Conservatives should too -- and here's why: He is doing you a favor by rooting out the Right wing liars from those who tell the truth. Problem is, so many prominent right wingers these days have either 1) become enamoured with the trut-impaired types of Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly or 2) don't care and like their dogmatic red meat any way that it is served up. But, if you are a conservative, you probably ought if only becasue it is the truth, not the party line (everyone say "da" now) that will set you free. And in the case of Franken's book, it will make you laugh even if you disagree (well, perhaps). (And, yes, there are conservatives I respect and love. For example, the late Barry Goldwater, George Will, my father, Robert "Prince of Darkness" Novak, etc. In each case, I may disagree with them, but they aren't pathologizal liars.) The nice thing and Franken is that this book not only makes you laugh out loud, but he makes a sound case for how much crap passes as conservative fact. And, as you know, crap by any other name is... well, let's just say it smells. I haven't had this much laugh-out-loud fun in a long time.
Rating:  Summary: And the truth shall set you free... Review: Looking back on all the events in politics we personally witnessed for the past four years, we sometimes wondered to ourselves who was telling the truth, who was bending the truth, and who was outright lying. Finally, we can know the truth. Nothing pleases me more than witnessing a liar called out for lying, and this book does just that. It's up to the reader to decide if he or she wants to believe the truth, and hopefully at least enjoy Franken's witty and factual presentation of those political years, and more.
Rating:  Summary: The one star crowd Review: Looking throught the reviews you see a number of people giving only one star ratings for this book and saying he is a liar / moron / useless, etc... I really have to wonder if these people have even tried reading this book? I mean it is fairly well researched stuff... basically he is attacking some radical right-wingers for telling lies. I strikes me as odd that the one star fanatics here accuse the left of slander, treason, idiocy, lying, and controlling the media when they don't apply the same scrutinizing eye to their own group. One of Frankens main themes in the book is the myth of liberal controlled media. He is completely correct, somehow the conservative controlled corporations that control most of the media have managed to fool it's followers into thinking the left is actually in control. How sneaky is that?! And the right-wingers all fall for it! Amazing! The media is only as "left" as the right-wing corporations that own it allow it to be.
Rating:  Summary: Faux News and the right crying foul? Whaaah! Review: Looks like these 'so-called' fair and balanced vampires can dish it out but their lies and deceit can't stand the harsh light of day. Kudos to Team Franken.
Rating:  Summary: I still hurt from laughing Review: Lord help me, I still hurt from all the laughing I did from reading this book. Ann Coulter, can you ever show your fierce-eyed face in public again? (What IS that look in your eyes? Are you trying to kill something?) The only thing funnier than some of the lines in this book is Bill O'Lie-lly's public apoplexy over being flustered by Stuart Smalley! Al Franken, please don't stop!
Rating:  Summary: Hysterical Review: Lost in the hype on this book is the fact that Franken is hysterically funny. The chapter discussing ways to manipulate footnotes in the fashion of Ann Coulter still has me laughing. A good read, cover to cover, particularly if you have the capacity for complex thought.
Rating:  Summary: Excellent read, the truth FINALLY!!!!!! Review: Loved this book and he had alot of support for what he wrote, not the lies like in Treason or O'Reilly. loved this book and highly recommend it!
Rating:  Summary: Timely and Entertaining Review: Loved this book--Franken is one of the funniest writers ever. His arguments, however, are dead serious in pointing out the hypocrisy and deception of the right wing. I tried to get into see Al in Pasadena the other night, but the crowd was overflowing--I think he's started a revolution! God bless him.
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