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Summary: Thank you Al
Review: Thank you Al for speaking for the vast majority of Americans. Thank you for exposing Bush, Coulter, Limbaugh, Cheney and all the rest of the liars for who they really are. Thank you for educating the public on how the right wants to keep the poor out of the gated communities, and make the rich even richer. Who would Jesus bomb? If Bush is a Christian has he not read the ten commandments? The world has not seen this sort of Nationalistic propoganda from the right since the days of Hitler. Thank you Al for giving us hope.
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Summary: lluminating!
Review: Thank you Al Franken! At last, a liberal who uses his natural wit and intelligence to illuminate the dark duplicitous rantings of the vast right wing. Too bad Al doesn't have his own tv hour-- we could use a regular dose of reality-speak to counter the "fair and balanced" barrage of garbage spewed at us 24 - 7!
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Summary: A nice helping of "truth" about the "right"
Review: THANK YOU Mr. Franken and TeamFranken for a stupendous job on this book!!!! It exposes the conservatives for what they are manipulators, liars, and self-serving. All young people, in particular Young Democrats, should have a copy of this book. Job well done Mr. Franken!!! Keep up the good work, and with all the lies out there you'll have much material for years to come!!!!
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Summary: Work on the Haymaker, Al
Review: Thank you Mr. Franken for refuting the scurrilous, anti-democratic cant of the oh-so-many assorted tools of the rich and powerful, the murderous mouthpieces Coulter, O'Reilly and Hannity, et. al. Murdoch's Molechs have gotten away their vicious innuendo, distortions, and lies for far too long. With "Liars," Mr. Franken, you, with the help of your Harvard-trained research staff, have put the lie to the hoohah of this hydra-headed beast.But really, Al, I wonder, do you really think reason and point-by-point refutation, no matter how accurately executed, will have the slightest effect on the beast and its minions? It's a shame that it's gotten this bad, but the bought-and-paid-for rhetoric of the hydra has so polarized America, so marginalized, circumscribed, and even criminalized any other point of view that one wonders if there really is any hope for book like yours actually changing anyone's mind. Yes, it's a shame the so-called liberal media has been missing in action like in the old McCarthy days, and your valiant attempt to throw a monkey wrench into the well-oiled attack machine is laudable, but, really, maybe you should consider doing what so many Americans have already done: relax into the warm bath of slander and take the draught of diminished hope. Think about it, Al. Maybe it's time to get your heart into the right place, if you know what I mean. Harden it. Stop the bleeding. As we have been told so many times by the Coulter O'Reilly Hannity hydra, there are only two kinds of people in the world: the deserving people who own and run everything because they deserve to, and the undeserving people who are lazy and will never have anything and therefore don't deserve to. You're successul. You deserve your fame and money. You worked hard for it. Luck had nothing to do with it. Not your family either. It was all you, you Rugged Individualist. So why not gratefully abandon yourself to delicious knee-jerk patriotism and flag reverence of the Fox Network? Remember that war is the health of the state. Punch your fist in the air as the Fox tools toadie to the cynical oligarchy which has swallowed up the once-honorable Republican party. Shout huzzahs to the perfection of the cabalistic policies of George Jr., Cheney, Perle, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer and the corporatist state. It'll feel great. Really, Al. And you deserve it, Al. You're proof that the American system works, aren't you? Whew! Boy that feels good, that "us" and "them" stuff. The deserving and the undeserving thing. You can almost see how the Coulter's and Hannity's get carried away with that stuff. Kind of gets you all puffed up, don't it? But anyway, seriously, Al, by engaging in this dogfight, this parsing of truth and untruth, you're in mortal danger of becoming a pawn in their game of one-upmanship. This is a hard game to win. I'm not saying you shouldn't have done it, or shouldn't continue to, but consider this, too: the best parts of your book are not the sections where you talk how the conservatives have shredded the social safety net and made off with the family silver, or the parts where you show how Americans have been sold down the trickle-down river, but rather those humane and decent parts of the book where you, for instance, talk about your long and abiding friendship with Paul Wellstone, or talk about the inspiration you find in the American government programs of the New Deal when social justice and equality were embodied in the social safety net, the one that was there for your wife's family when her father was killed in the war. It is the language of compassion, of community and love that best refutes the devil-take-the-hindmost ethos of Supply Side Jesus. (By the way I suspect that's one of the reasons you like Clinton so much -- he knew how to strike the chord of compassion in most decent Americans, whether Democrat or Republican. This was the gift that drove his enemies wild with hatred: the common touch conservatives claim to have, but don't). So what if Hannity doesn't have the number one show on television as he claims? Or that O'Reilly never won those two Peabody he claims he did? Until someone with similar bandwidth can get up and slap down that hydra, head by head with the human language of real compassion -- and short-circuit the sound-bite, tough-love, focus-group language of compassionate conservatism -- we're going to be forever treated to Murdoch's Manichean world of good and evil: it simply plays so much better on television. You're right, someone has to put the lie to the liars, and this is a good start, and we appreciate it. But the other, and, perhaps the more powerful weapon you have at your disposal is your decency and humanity, especially your gift for admitting your own zealousness might sometimes have led you astray. This weapon is powerful because, as you point out, Americans prefer moral persons to scoundrels and liars. And Americans very much want to act morally toward their neighbors, their communities, their country and the world. They are beginning to awaken to the deceptions of these venal and vituperative hacks and their political puppet masters. The weapons of humility, decency and humanity are powerful too because those who have arrayed themselves against the best interests of America are people who are sorely lacking in these estimable traits. You and TeamFranken have the good left jab; use it to keep the bums off-balance while you work on the haymaker.
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Summary: Thanks Al
Review: Thank you Mr. Franken for writing this intelligent and thoughtful book. You've taught me to check the footnotes and endnotes.
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Summary: Thank you Al!
Review: Thank you so much Al. This book really opened my eyes. Everyone should read this book. My only complaint is that I would get so mad after reading some chapters I could not get to sleep.
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Summary: Way to go
Review: Thank you TeamFranken for doing the research and Al for getting it into print. I think I've been waiting for this book and hope many, many people read it. The exposure of the media bias in the campaign itself is worth the read. Meanwhile, notice how the one-star reviews on this site resort to name-calling and invective with no substantial critique?
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Summary: Loving America the Al Franken Way
Review: Thank you, Al Franken! Thanks for proving that truth can prevail and we can raise above the mindless name-calling and taunting and deliver a book that is both funny and insightful (and, perhaps inciteful as well). Operation Ignore made me angry and Supply Side Jesus was brilliant. Now I can watch Fox News and laugh my butt off!
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Summary: BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Thank you, Al Franken, for putting the truth to the lies that have been spewed relentlessly from the rightwing for over a decade. If only there were more of you willing (and able) to debunk the propagandistic lies of the rightwingers and the bushies. I have to admit, I'm only up to chapter 21, but felt the need to come on here to amazon.com and review what I've read. I imagine that Ann Coulter (if she really knows how to read and understand) is belting down a few stiff ones before cranking up her old 'puter to rebut the "vicious, liberal lies" [my words, and probably not as hateful as the words she will use] that YOU spew. Hahaha... Thank you for providing FOOTNOTES that actually have FACTS in them (as opposed to Coulter's endnotes that her followers obviously didn't read and/or comprehend). I especially liked your Chapter 13 entitled "Bill O'Reilly: Lying, Splotchy Bully." I'm glad you kept the splotches on the cover (smile), and included his absolutely hilarious meltdown on Booknotes. That Booknotes, with my other favorite author, Molly Ivins, made my day, I can tell yah! And I have to agree with your wife...I also thought he was about to ram that pen he was holding right into your eyeball. Keep up the great work! I'm taking my partisan rearend back to the couch where I can continue reading your book, AND THE FOOTNOTES. :) (Further review on the content of your excellent book will follow once I've completed it. After all, I should be fair and balanced. Oops...hope I don't get sued...) You're the best.
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Summary: Very convincing
Review: Thank you, Al Franken, for standing up to these bullies. You've given me just a glimmer of hope for our country.
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