Rating: 
Summary: PEASE READ THIS BOOK!
Review: The previous reviewer from San Francisco is just like the other idiot-right-winger fools that Al Franken DESTROYS in this fabulously funny, insightfully accurate book. I enjoyed most how AL TAKES ANN COULTER APART and factually demonstrates what a complete liar she is in her books. Al, and his Harvard research team, "TeamFranken," does the research to demonstrate how her "facts" are fabrication. Please read this book if you want to know how FOX and all their crowd of manipulators have distorted what America sees as "NEWS."
Rating: 
Summary: Not Good
Review: The problem with this book is that it is simply a tactic. Of course everything that Franken talks about is debatable, but he really seems to fall where other liberals have fallen before him.
He is good in the fact that he is active and is willing to put alot of what he says on the line by confronting others in a bold way, but there is two main problems with that in itself. First of all, like Michael Moore, he always uses comedy as an excuse for factual inacuracies and second, is always talking about how other people are so wrong, without backing any of it up with anything positive to hold onto. He often tries to discredit people like Sean Hannity, Bill O' Reilly, and Bush who are already easy targets because they themselves are bold. If Franken really wanted to prove his case the he would challenge them more directly, not just insult them like a child.
Rating: 
Summary: Not Franken's Best
Review: The problem with this book seems simple to me. Franken seems to
want it to be both a potically humorous work, and a scathing
expose on lies told by prominent conservatives. Unfortunately, trying to be two things at once meant he
succeeded at neither. Not to say he doesn't reveal some blatant lies on the right;
he does, but there's nothing really stunning in it. And not to say that the book isn't funny; it is, but not
roll-on-the-floor hilarious. There are other flaws, too. One that springs to mind is
the large amount of space he devotes to debunking right-wing
claims about Democrats making Paul Wellstone's funeral
into a political rally. The chapter runs *long*. Perhaps
that is because, sad as I am to admit it, his arguments
there are weak. Franken has done better: most notably, the hilarious
satirical novel "Why Not Me?" But this one doesn't like
up to his earlier standards.
Rating:
Summary: Finally, honesty.
Review: The public needs a full time truth squad to monitor their every word. Until then, Al is the next best thing.
Rating:
Summary: NO
Review: The question is, Does Al Franken speak the Truth? Upon analysis and conclusion, the answer to this question is: No! STEVEN TRAVERS
Author of "Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman"
STWRITES@aol.com
Rating:
Summary: Another Bill O'Reilly lie
Review: The question isn't "Does Bill O'Reilly lie"? It's "Does he even know when he does it?". Fun Fact below: Bill O'Reilly and The Pepsi Boycott Bill claims that he never called for a boycott of Pepsi because of their use of the Hip Hop performer Ludacris in their advertisements. Bill: "I'm calling for all americans to say, hey, pepsi, i'm not drinking your stuff." Bill told an e-mailer that he did not call for a pepsi boycott, because he never used the word boycott. Here is the e-mail and the reply from O'Reilly, right from the transcript.
O' Reilly then receives an email (I believe on his program), and responds. The E-Mail: Lise Rousseau, Lafayette, Colorado, "Mr. O'Reilly, imagine my confusion as I watched you criticize the protester for organizing the Limbaugh boycott. Last August, I heard you tacitly call for a boycott against Pepsi for hiring Ludacris. There is a lack of consistency in your rhetoric." Bill: No, there isn't, Ms. Rousseau...I simply said I wasn't going to drink Pepsi while that guy was on their payroll. No boycott was ever mentioned by me. Does he actually believe that that is what he "simply" said? Or, perhaps, he was more accurately noting that what he said was...simple. (see http://slate.msn.com/id/2078577/ or http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/oreillypepsi.htm, from where I originally got this article.)
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Rating:
Summary: Weigh loss via aerobic laughter
Review: The range of emotions experienced while reading this book has gone from fury, outrage and disgust to laughing so hard and long I lost two pounds (really). The chapter on Ms. Coulter is so good you won't need to eat dessert. The painstaking fact-checking should create new standards for journalistic research. Thanks, Mr. Franken, for providing much needed rational and making it so entertaining by adding the dry spice of your wit.
Rating:
Summary: Wingnuts are upset by this book
Review: The rants and name calling in the "reviews" posted by the right wing wingnuts shows that Franken has effectively hit his target and damaged it. It is amusing to see these people foam at the mouth and go into convulsions. Clearly this book was not intended to be liked by them. This is an excellent book, both entertaining and enlightening, not only for liberals and moderate centrists, but also for open minded conservatives who are willing to look at the evidence fairly and objectively.
Rating:
Summary: Good Job!
Review: The reader is drawn to this conclusion by sound research and analysis of the facts that are freely and readily available to the public. Mr.Franken listened to what the self-described experts had to say on the various issues constantly hurled to the American public from the various media outlets, then
checked the facts behind the statements and pointed out some glaring lies spewed forth by Hannity, O'Reilly, and Coulter to name a few. This book is to-the-point and is an enjoyable read. I've laughed out loud at least once in each chapter. It is a valuable tool to those of us who have been alienated by the direction in which the country has been dragged.
Rating: 
Summary: Some Redeeming Entertainment Value
Review: The reason I gave the book 2 stars instead of one is because it does offer some entertainment value. Most of it came from laughing each time Franken's supposed evidence vs. Ann Coulter or some other conservative crumbled in the face of a little fact checking. Case in point: Franken is 100% wrong on the Even/Norman Thomas issue. Coulter said Norman Thomas was the GRANDfather of Evan and indeed he is. In fact all of the 'evidence' Franken, and his crack team of Harvard self-admitted activists, presented in his attack on Coulter's "Slander" was either dead wrong or just a product of his inability to take a joke or understand sarcasm, irony, and hyperbole. And Al Franken is a comedian? I suppose he is but only if you consider a Circus clown a comedian since I find myself laughing at them in much the same way.
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