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Summary: Right On Al!
Review: Thank you, Al, for writing this book! We need people who will "out" the lies told by right-wing ideologues and bullies like Bill O'Reilly--and do so with with wit and satire. They have been getting away with their twisted, dishonest rants for too long, while moderate and liberal fact-finders refute them with too much domesticated civility, and even temerity. Never, in this book, even when you ridicule them mercilessly (which they deserve)do you stoop to the low levels they display (that is, you don't lie).The fact that your book, as I write this, has 1689 customer reviews (good and bad) means that you are being read, that you are getting the message out. And that is critically important. Once again, Thanks.
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Summary: Hooray for Team Franken
Review: Thank you, thank you, thank you Mr. Franken. This book is a wonderful antidote to the barrage of BS we have been subjected to by Faux News, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and of course our Liar In Chief. The "Operation Chickenhawk" chapter is so funny it brought tears to my eyes. The right-wing finally gets its comeuppance in this book. I hope it sells millions!
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Summary: Truth Teller
Review: Thankfully, the rest of us, meaning the majority of Americans, have found some voice for our outrage in Franken's new book. While the extremist right can have a campaign to load these reviews with one star attacks, anyone who actually takes the time to read it and learn about the truly sociopathic level of lies being presented to the the public, will appreciate Mr. Franken's courage in taking these people on and exposing their deceit. I only hope he will inspire more like-thinking authors.
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Summary: Exciting Read
Review: Thanks Al! I'm not usually classified a "Liberal" in fact I share a lot of Conservative tendencies on things like taxes. However, unlike a true conservative I've got enough sense to see crap for what it is... and what is spewed by the right wing press and the Bush Administration is that in spades! Franken's new book caught my interest mainly because Fox tried to quash it. Anytime a major network or corporation goes after a book and tries to have it withdrawn or censored it signals to me that there's something there that is VERY important. So, when I found it I bought it... and am I glad I did. Al takes a the scalpel of logic and the chainsaw of truth to America's own Al-Jazeera network - Fox News. In the process he shows us Anne Coulter's hidden contempt for her own readers - she thinks they're idiots (and maybe she's right). He shows us how the Bush Administration could have prevented 9/11 if they hadn't been so busy inventing fake stories about White House vandalism. He shows us the hypocrisy and downright psychotic behavior of Fox pundits like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. Finally, he shows how the Bush Tax Plan was a total joke... not with stories of "families" but with - gasp - numbers! This is a great book, fun to read, but more than that... important to read. The next time someone starts quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial (notoriously inaccurate) at you... you'll have some ammunition. Al's done what most of wish we had time to do... fact check Fox and show them and their bosses in the Bush Administration as the liars we all know they are. Oh, and Clarence Thomas is handkerchief head for throwing the presidency to his wife's boss. Just kidding... but kidding on the square!
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Summary: A book that should be required reading in every high school
Review: Thanks Al, for telling it like it REALLY is. Using humor (sorely lacking from the anger, hate filled right), and facts (also in short supply from the Republican side), Mr. Franken exposes the lies and the liars that abound in our country, starting with the Chief Liar himself, Bush. Who knew that Clinton gave "greater priority to terrorism than any president before him", and that the Republicans fought him every step of the way? We do now! Hopefully this book will inspire and educate enough people out there to throw out the illegitimate president we have now come November.
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Summary: Biatch Slap
Review: Thanks Al. Thank you for b_i_t_c_h slapping Bush, Cheney, Rove, Coulter, Goldberg, O'Reilly (splotchy bully), Gigot, Falwell, Hannity... I am glad you took the time to thoroughly research this book and expose the liars. This book is first and formost FUNNY. Next, it is witty and makes you question the "facts" reported by your favorite right wing talking heads. Read this book it will p_i_s_s you off get you off your a_s_s. United Americans Sit.
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Summary: Thanks to Al Franken! I KNEW THEY WERE LYING!!!
Review: Thanks go out to Al Franken, who has the nerve (and the student TeamFranken) to find the truth about the lying liars! Applause!!!!
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Summary: Truth in Advertising
Review: Thanks Mr. Franken ! After years of non-stop pelting from the right it is refreshing to see things exposed to the light of truth. Al Franken is funny, provocative, unapologetically liberal, and most of all, right on the money when it comes to discussing the political climate and attitudes today. For anybody not afraid of a point of view that is not endorsed by the Republican Party and interested in many laughs interspersed with thought provoking commentary on the right , the left, and the ambidextrous, this book is worth its weight in gold.
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Summary: Just what we need in these hard times.
Review: Thanks to Al Franken and his researchers the sun may shine again in america. Using humor and reason this book puts the paper tigers of the right in their place. Read it and enjoy being an American again!
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Summary: A very funny, unabashedly partisan political satire
Review: Thanks to the Fox lawsuit against Franken's use of "Fair and Balanced" in the subtitle (a lawsuit that clearly disturbed the judge who dismissed it, who chided Fox as a news organization for bringing a suit attempting to abridge someone else's speech, pointing out that a new supposed news organization ought to be at the forefront of protecting speech), the publication date of this book was accelerated by a month. Let me put this in very simple terms: anyone who is conservative will hate this book, anyone who is a moderate, independent, or leftist will likely love it. As in RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT, Franken has written a political satire in which he combines a variety of techniques to make fun of the Right in the United States. Sometimes this means using the same negative tactics mastered by the Right. Frequently this involves adding a few facts some Right wing pundit conveniently left out. Constantly this involves humor. For a humorous satire, the book contains a great deal of factual content, and should serve a valuable service in getting many American's to question many of the assertions of the Right, whose record in handling facts has been pretty dismal for quite some time (many on the Right complain that those on the Left keep calling them dumb and stupid, but they never seem to grasp that one of the major reasons for this is their persistent inability to "get the facts straight"-yes, facts do matter, and failing to get them right will result in others thinking you less than brilliant). Franken wrote this book in the context of teaching a course at Harvard, and he is very clear that he used the fourteen student members of his seminar as research assistants and fact checkers. In other words, Franken's book will not be guilty of the hundreds (literally) of factual errors of Ann Coulter's books, for instance. Many who have followed closely political events of the past decade will not be surprised by many of the things in the book, but his presentation is always fresh and full of insight. This is a funny, funny book, though I'm sure fans of his targets won't agree. Franken has long been one of the funniest men in America. It certainly wasn't an accident that during all the good years of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, Franken was crucially involved as writer. Not every part of the book succeeds equally for me. I'm sure some will enjoy the fictional account "Operation Chickenhawk," in which the host of high profile Right wingers who never served in the military embark on a military mission, but I'm afraid I did not (the similar chapter in RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT was my least favorite in that book). As a Christian, however, I really, really loved the cartoon chapter "The Gospel According to Supply Side Jesus." As someone who has been horrified at the gigantic gap between the teachings and example of Jesus in the Gospels (and especially in Luke-Acts), it was great to see a vivid depiction of the kind of Jesus implied by the politics of the Right. Not all parts are funny, nor were meant to be. Al Franken knew and obviously loved Paul Wellstone, and he is obviously angry for the bizarre way that the Right Wing pundits distorted what actually happened at the now infamous Wellstone memorial, which Franken attended. This is not the best book available on the struggles the Right has with the truth. That title would go to Eric Alterman's WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? or Joe Conason's new BIG LIES. But Franken's book is definitely the funniest political book of recent years. It makes both a fun and informative read.
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