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Summary: Five stars for fair and balanced!
Review: That is, five stars to balance out all of the "1 star" sour grapes reviews. This is an excellent book, filled with wit and intelligence. Franken's voice and persona translate rather nicely to print. Throughout the work, he rightfully takes right-wing figures to task for their distortions. Franken wonders aloud why these people cannot honestly convey themselves: if their ideologies are so sound, why do they feel compelled to distort? For instance, he notes that some of the distortions made by Ann Coulter (to name one such "liar") are so egregiously misleading that they suggest that she doesn't trust her audience to weigh her presented evidence and come to the same conclusion. Rather, her actions often demonstrate contempt for her audience. Most important in all of this, Franken supplies data (including footnotes) to support his arguments. Unfortunately, this effort is lost on those who would actually take time to disparage Franken's book on Amazon.{com.} The amazing number of poor reviews displayed here are, predictably, from people who clearly have an agenda and want to harm sales. They offer little in substantive critique, and rather launch into ad hominem attacks on the author. They do this with great venom, and with all the wit and intelligence of a gym sock. While its understandable that people who feel threatened by ideas contrary to their own would lash out, it's unfortunate that these people cannot rise to the level of decent, informed political discourse. Or, at the very least, attack the work on its merits.
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Summary: S. Smalley: Don't Quit Your Day Job In The Land Of OBSCURITY
Review: That psychobbitch, the one with the audacity to write her title as "ignore the raving psychotics...the book isn't that bad", has incompetently and unwarily stumbled right into the trap of exposing leftists as dangerous lunatics. To think, with her utterly disorderly fanatical and lousily thought-out fanatics' propaganda that she spews, that psychobbitch has jeered herself as the hazardous menace to society; even more ridiculous still is when she, delusionally (but then again, how can liberals help themselves, their unfairly psychotic contradictions happen like seizures), affronts everyone giving Franken 1 star as a "psychotic". This one and only psychobbitch has committed 2 of the most grievous flaws in mentality, that impugn her incorrigibly as the only, all by herself, psycho who has surrendered to the radical and poorly theorized agenda of the leftist lunatics like Paul Begala and James Carville. This psychobbitch has the disrespectful gall to use baiting sensationalism, like the terrorists use, charging that conservatives want to divide the country into 1950s America. Objectionably strange though, THE ONLY FORCES THAT ARE DIVIDING AMERICA UP RIGHT NOW ARE THE DEMOCRAT IMBECILES WHO WANT TO PASSIVELY APPEASE TERRORISTS WHILE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO CRACK DOWN ON THEM! Also, Bush is Israel's best friend, and employs the MOST racially diverse cabinet in history, so, again, just what the hell is that psychobbitch babbling about, HUH? Moreover, that psychobbitch has really been brainwashed frighteningly by the psycho-left, for she spits the most classically regurgitated, abusively emotional paranoia that the wretchedly idiotic anti-war protestors spit too, which is charging that "we're going to fall like Rome did". Ok, psychobbitch, among lots of other things, IT'S TIME FOR YOUR HISTORY LESSON. Comparing America to Rome is damagingly vicious to your typically imbalanced, apprehensively emotional liberal propaganda, because Rome DID NOT FALL INSTANTLY OR IMMEDIATELY, you psychobbitch, NOR DID IT TECHNICALLY EVER FALL. You see, psychobbitch, Rome took A LONG TIME to fall, centuries in fact, because of its enormous size, and also because of stealthily creeping factors which don't affect change shockingly but rather impose change in eventual gradualness, like the migration of Barbarians into the Empire, its impossibility to stay united due to its vast borders, and the spread of Christianity. So, sorry to rain on your total idiot parade of liberal thought, but if you're planning to destine America to a fast and speedy end, via a bomb attack, perhaps, it won't happen based on your punishingly undereducated comparison to Rome, junkhead. Next, the Roman Empire turned into THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, again, you psychobbitch, meaning it didn't really fall, simpleton!
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Summary: It's about time
Review: that the conservatives were called on their mass of lies. Easy, funny and honest reading.
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Summary: No More Lies
Review: That the Republican party and it's media channels have been stoking right-wing indignation through a tightly woven net of duplicity, fabrication, and deception -- technically known as lies -- is no revelation. The real novelty in Franken's hilarious and meticulously researched book is that the political left can do the same -- generate indignation throughout it's own constituency -- by telling the truth. He might be on to something here. I can only hope it catches on.
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Summary: Al Franken is an ugly, cross-eyed geek
Review: That's satire people! Oh, and don't forget to buy your autographed copy from the DNC for 75 smackers.
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Summary: Excellent book, though not "Fair and Balanced"
Review: The "Fair and Balanced" in the title is a cynical jab back at the obviously "unFair and unBalanced" conservative shows on Fox. So don't expect even-handed analysis.
Just the same, this is a great book if you want to concretely understand the ways the Bush administration is screwing up the country, and get strong counter-arguments for the verbal vomit of blind conservative sheep. You can't get that from mainstream media.
Particularly, I love the way Franken disarms vehement advocates of radical conservatism like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. This book also helped me understand how Bush's domestic policies are as detrimental in the long run to the U.S. as his foreign policies are. I'd recommend it strongly, particularly as it's also good fun to read.
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Summary: Libs, try Harder to make believe that you're in control!!!!!
Review: The "reviewer from Connecticut"'s comments (code for unilateral libel against Bush) incurred righteous anger in my practical-minded soul. In it, he masks his closet-liberal tendencies, by shamelessly posing as a "conservative". Yet all his views precisely succumb to the evil scourge that liberalism is, more so than if he was its poster-boy. He derides Bush as "having hijacked the Republican Party, with his "necon buddies", and used it to pursue a completely vicious and destructive extremist agenda, having subverted true conservative principles of protecting civil liberties and practicing fiscal discipline." In light of this uncontrollable extremism on HIS part, WILLFULLY devoid of ANY logical reasoning attributes, I'm now forced to educate him, so to curb the extremism that is all his own, in the way he leaps to conclusion. First of all, neoconservatism isn't a dirty, four-letter word. It seeks to spread American influence the world over, especially on the most barbaric places of the world (the ones the liberals rave over), and is diligent when it comes to putting words into action, by pursuing military actions against countries that won't comply with international mandates, and/or harbor terrorism. Segueing into the Iraq situation, most of the country's peaceful and stable, with the only resistance coming out of the moderately small Sunni Triangle, which is OF COURSE all that one gets force fed, through the liberal media that desperately wants American failure in Iraq, so they can continue to attack Bush for everything short of how the weather's doing. Further, the war was/is OBVIOUSLY legal, do to resolution 1441, years of UN violations on Hussein's part, and the UN's own mandate allowing for preemptive self-defense! Bush's foreign policy is neither vicious OR extremist, seeing as how rationale abides by the fact that action where the terrorists are avoids hundreds of 9/11's, tenfold! Since Syria, Iran and countless other Arab countries are sending their "freedom fighters" to "liberate" Iraq from the "Great Satan", that alone establishes terrorism ties to Iraq. Before any dummy lib resorts to attacking me, I'm not making a connection between Hussein and 9/11, only terminally braindead libs believe that Bush has ever made that connection. Further, "Connecticut reviewer"'s also slanderous relating to civil liberties. If not for the Patriot Act, 9/11's would be achievable at the will of terrorists-but....I guess that he'd rather like the government NOT to invade his privacy A LITTLE, if that means he can continue to send e-mails to other workers defaming his boss while on the job!!!!!!! Again, the war on terrorism FORCES rulebreaking when it comes to fiscal discipline; as 9/11, corporate scandal, fake jobs in internet companies, recession AND the stock market BUBBLE bursting all contributed to the current debt, which all happened under Clinton's stewardship. BTW, I AM A LIBERAL, and sick AND tired of my party's idiocies!!!!!
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Summary: al franken and liberals are going to disappear from earth...
Review: The "reviewer from Connecticut's comments (code for unilateral libel against Bush) incurred righteous anger in my practical-minded soul. In it, he masks his closet-liberal tendencies, by shamelessly posing as a "conservative". Yet all his views precisely succumb to the evil scourge that liberalism is, more so than if he was its poster-boy. He derides Bush as "having hijacked the Republican Party, with his "necon buddies", and used it to pursue a completely vicious and destructive extremist agenda, having subverted true conservative principles of protecting civil liberties and practicing fiscal discipline." In light of this uncontrollable extremism on HIS part, WILLFULLY devoid of ANY logical reasoning attributes, I'm now forced to educate him, so to curb the extremism that is all his own, in the way he leaps to conclusion. First of all, neoconservatism isn't a dirty, four-letter word. It seeks to spread American influence the world over, especially on the most barbaric places of the world (the ones the liberals rave over), and is diligent when it comes to putting words into action, by pursuing military actions against countries that won't comply with international mandates, and/or harbor terrorism. Segueing into the Iraq situation, most of the country's peaceful and stable, with the only resistance coming out of the moderately small Sunni Triangle, which is OF COURSE all that one gets force fed, through the liberal media that desperately wants American failure in Iraq, so they can continue to attack Bush for everything short of how the weather's doing. Further, the war was/is OBVIOUSLY legal, do to resolution 1441, years of UN violations on Hussein's part, and the UN's own mandate allowing for preemptive self-defense! Bush's foreign policy is neither vicious OR extremist, seeing as how rationale abides by the fact that action where the terrorists are avoids hundreds of 9/11's, tenfold! Since Syria, Iran and countless other Arab countries are sending their "freedom fighters" to "liberate" Iraq from the "Great Satan", that alone establishes terrorism ties to Iraq. Before any dummy lib resorts to attacking me, I'm not making a connection between Hussein and 9/11, only terminally braindead libs believe that Bush has ever made that connection. Further, "Connecticut reviewer"'s also slanderous relating to civil liberties. If not for the Patriot Act, 9/11's would be achievable at the will of terrorists-but....I guess that he'd rather like the government NOT to invade his privacy A LITTLE, if that means he can continue to send e-mails to other workers defaming his boss while on the job!!!!!!! Again, the war on terrorism FORCES rulebreaking when it comes to fiscal discipline; as 9/11, corporate scandal, fake jobs in internet companies, recession AND the stock market BUBBLE bursting all contributed to the current debt, which all happened under Clinton's stewardship. BTW, I AM A LIBERAL, and sick AND tired of my party's idiocies!!!!!
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Summary: What a Moron!
Review: The above rating is way too good for this piece of excrement!
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Summary: More Lies (or Stupidity) from the Right
Review: The anonymous reviewer who titled his "review" LIBERAL BIAS demonstrates the truth of Al Franken's book: the right lies. The mischaracterization of Franken's book offered by this person betrays that he or she has NOT read the book: none of the assertions made by this alleged reader are even remotely accurate with regard to Franken's book or Franken's stated opinions. (That the "reader" chooses anonymity reveals as well that he lacks the courage of his convictions, as seems to be the case with many of the reviewers with negative opinions. I guess it must be tough to stand behind one's review of a book when one hasn't actually read it.) If, in fact, this person has read the book, this "review" constitutes a willful misrepresentation of its contents and viewpoint: another lie. The only slightly charitable interpretation one can make is that the person actually read the book and believes his stated opinion to be accurate, which simply reveals an utter lack of reading comprehension, (another possible explanation for the right's distortions, unexplored by Mr. Franken).
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