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Summary: See, you should have read it!
Review: Since you didn't bother to read this book, you didn't realize that every fact is clearly laid out in footnotes at the end of each page (not 700 endnotes like Coulter)The book has made me laugh time and time and time again. The subject matter could not have been more appropriate. Keep it up Al
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Summary: Thank God He Cleared that up...
Review: So according to Al, all conservatives are liars and all liberals are not. What rubbish. Franken should stick to being Stuart Smally. Oh, but I forgot, there is much more money writing left wing political diatribes than making more bad movies. Franken certainly doesn't improve the quality of the current politcal discourse. A thinking person should pass on this dreck.
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Summary: Franken annoys me
Review: So do all the liberals in the humor section.
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Summary: The cover alone deserves 5 stars
Review: So does the lawsuit/free publicity provided by the dupes at fox
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Summary: The Right's reaction is typical
Review: So far, I've read a VERY large amount of reviews that are happy to have some of this information out in the light of day, and a very small amount of reviews from conservatives that can't do anything but spout the typical garbage cliches we've been hearing from conservative talk radio for years. I have a question. Where are the sites dedicated to debunking this book? There are many websites dedicated to pointing out the lies by Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and the rest. C'mon guys, get off your butts! If this book is, as the conservatives are trying to say, lies from beginning to end, with quotes like "This book is little more than leftist disinformation and drivel, and poorly written and unentertaining at that", then it should be easy, right? I'll be surprised if there are ANY substantive factual inaccuracies in this book. (and no, mis-naming a newspaper is not a substantive factual inaccuracy) If you can find them, post them on the web. If not, then quit spouting garbage and see that your leaders are lying to you. Put up or shut up.
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Summary: I hold O'Reilly and Coulter near and dear...
Review: so I had to read this book. I am a loyal Fox news fan and enjoy the passionate rhetoric of my favorite commentators. But I like Fox because it ISN'T fair and balanced, it crooks to the right like me. Bush-bashing irritates me. Clinton irritates me more. But I wanted to see things from the perspective of those leaning to the left, and since Franken took a few pages to direct aim at O'Reilly and Coulter, his book it was. I think this one's a must read for any conservative who finds him/herself riled up by Hannity and O'Reilly or in reading any of Coulter's columns or books. It's funny, and you don't have to agree with Franken's every opinion to enjoy the ride. I'm far more cynical about our government and shoddy excuse for a media having read this book. I'm still watching my favorite commentators, but I'm watching with a more critical eye. I finished this in a weekend, so it's a fast, fun read. But I'm only giving it three stars because I don't agree with what Franken calls lies (given I'm not sure every "lie" he details is intentional or even all that relevant to the character of the person telling them). His sources are well cited but his personal attacks on O'Reilly and Coulter seemed like a waste of space. Who cares how old Coulter is? I want to know more about the cutthroat spin employed by political parties to win elections and public favor. His self-effacing humor and laid back writing style appealed to me, which is pretty big considering I'm a fan of the screaming, passionate flag-wavers. I'm forcing my conservative minded friends to read it too. The only shot any of us have of getting informed is to read all sides of those issues important to us and make our own decisions. We clearly can't depend on our political figures or news sources to give us fair and balanced anything.
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Summary: WEAK
Review: So I see "liberals" are consulting failed comedians for their political dogma and regurgitated non-ideas about how the world works. I think Im going to follow suit and read up on Daffy Ducks works on chemical engineering! Get a life SUCKERS PS- great job with that Dean campaign, Franken. Guess his appeal only applied to borderline sociopaths like yourself!!!
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Summary: a great book about circus clowns
Review: so i've always been something of a passive radical. but then i grow up - and i end up working around a lot of conservatives after college due to this odd mistress o' mine, science. and i realize that many of these people aren't so bad, that many actually lead these earnest lives of quiet reserve. and so i learn to be somewhat forgiving. Then, when i hear colin powell on national television going on about clandestine nuclear programs designed to destroy all human life, i really believe that he might mean what he saying for half a second. i tell my dad (an ex-military man) this observation... and he tells me that I'm completely crazy. "there is no threat in iraq, iraq is a country of goats and dirt." And that if there had ever been any legitimate nuclear threat in iraq, the Israeli's would have taken them out long ago. And now I'm just stunned because he was so right - these guys that are in office right now are completely self-serving, political aristocrats that are leaning dangerously close to human rights violations in respect to their treatment of the muslim world (I look at pictures of muslim leaders and think they look mean - but hell yeah, they're mean - we're trying to systematically take them out). Anywho, Two morals to this story, actually. The first - there are some conservatives that are utterly sincere and intelligent people. The second, thank god for people like al Franken that are going out on a limb to keep people's attention on the guys at the top that aren't.
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Summary: Clinton loved this book...
Review: So if the head liar loves it, the hateful liberals will adore it. Let us not forget that Frankens idol, Clinton was a do-nothing lying, and impeached fool.....and Franken proves himself a worthy student, sans impeachement. Are we sure that Franken isn't Rosey O. in drag?
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Summary: To Shelly from OR
Review: So is it appropriate for the author of this conservative trashing book to call Rush Limbaugh 'a big fat idiot'?? Is it approriate to wish him ill-fate after he gets out of rehab??
If you wanna be 'PC' let's not pick and choose to whom you can apply that to.
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