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Summary: Modern Day Emile Zola
Review: This book is a modern day J'Accuse. If Franken's work is defamatory why hasn't he been sued for defamation? Fox had no problem suing him for trademark infringement---only to get tossed out of court to peals of laughter (literally) when a federal judge ruled that "Fair and Balanced" was not a concept that Fox could trademark. It seems that a defamation suit should be just as easy to file if the accusations made in this book are inaccurate. Please, SOMEBODY sue Al Franken for defamation. That was the only way that the Dreyfus affair could be cleared up once and for all. A defamation suit by O'Reilly, Coulter, Limbaugh, or even Rove could be the trial that exposes the Republican party for what it is---an organization no different than the conspirators who framed Alfred Dreyfus for treason, when they themselves where the guilty culprits.
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Summary: The Truth Shall Set You Free
Review: This book is a must read for anyone interested in gaining insight about the hypocrisy and lies that feed the right wing propoganda machine. The chapter on "Operation Ignore" is especially shocking given the fact that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and especially Condi Rice had ample information provided to them by the Clinton administration concerning ways to thwart Al Quada. They also received and ignored substantive information that a catastrophic attack would occur in 2001. That neglegence alone should be justification for the impeachment of Bush and the incarceration of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and Ashcroft. Of course, they all blamed Clinton for 9/11. What a surprise.
Read and be enlightened.
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Summary: A Must Read
Review: This book is a must read for every American to understand how the right wing shows are taking American in the wrong direction by distorting the facts, hyporcrisy and complete disregard for the rest of the world. Majority of the countries in the world now consider the USA to be more dangerous than Iraq/Sadam. This is all due to the lies and neo-conservative agenda which these fanatics are spreading acorss the country with their distasteful broadcasts.
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Summary: What's a conservative to do?
Review: This book is a tough one for conservatives. Read the reviews here and you'll get a good sampling of why. They all accuse him of slander and lies, though not one is able to furnish a verifiable example. Where as Franken has spent time and effort proving his statements in the book, the layman conservative spends time only listening to liars. The book has rock-solid proof that many leading conservative pundits are liars, while the reviewers here, and most lay conservatives, have only baseless insults. Some of the arguments against this book include:1) "Al Franken is Not Funny" This is not a fact, it is subjective. I think he is very funny, as do many of the other hundreds of tousands of people who helped to send this book to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List. 2) "Al Franken is Ugly" What difference does this make? Attacking based on his appearence is the clearest indicator that you could not find any solid evidence to defame him. Why don't you just say he has cooties, too, while you're at it? Your arguments aren't likely to get any more substanitive than that anyway. 3) "Al Franken is a Bad Writer" Again, an argument that has nothing at all to do with the veracity of his statements. Also, subjective (see #1). 4) "Al Franken is Not a Serious Intellectual" Duh. The names of his book clearly indicate to anyone with at least a double-digit IQ that he is not TRYING to be a serious intellectual. He is a comedian, therefore making his statements with COMEDY. This argument is like saying Mozart's music is unlistenable because he was a terrible cook. 5) "Al Franken is a Liar" This argument show up quite a bit, but never with any examples given. People here (and on talk radio) accuse Franken of this all the time, but are perpetually unable to furnish any evidence to back it up. On the other hand, Franken has provided MOUNTAINS of hard evidence to support his statements about the lying right. The fact that Franken has conservatives squirming like a bug stuck on the end of a pin is a clear endorsement of this book's effectiveness. He has skewered the popular conservative media movement with indisputable evidence of their blatant, intentional dishonesty. It's also laugh-out-loud funny, unless, of course, you're the one being laughed at.
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Summary: Truly Awful Tripe
Review: This book is a waste of paper. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: I liked the book and guess what? I read it too!!
Review: This book is absolutely hilarious. And it's not always humor at the expense of the right. Sometimes it's just dumb humor. This book is NOT the one to use to research your dissertion on liberal bias in the media! It's got some facts in there sure, but it's mostly just humorous stories (well, stories made funny once Franken tells them).
It's really a great book to teach us to not let the "liars" make you angry, just laugh at them. Because they really are quite pitiful (as well as mentally deranged... as Franken frequently points out).
And if you're an independent or an open-minded republican (is there such a thing?), you're safe with this book. Franken just pokes fun at the right wing journalists, not those that follow them.
And please, all you that keep reviewers that just insult this book by its title (and maybe one excerpt you found somewhere) without ever bothering to read it, please understand, the book is meant to be *funny* Don't take it so seriously.
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Summary: What a joke!
Review: This book is absolutely horrible! I though I was getting a "fair and balanced" view of the true liberal side and all I read was wicked nasty horrible one-sided fanatic nonsense from someone who cannot write. I was going to take this book to Goodwill, but I decided no one else needed to read this garbage. So I tore out the pages and burned it in my barbecue grill. What a joke!
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Summary: Very entertaining.
Review: This book is an 'easy' read and very funny. However, the further I got into it, the more angry I became. I am familiar with how the right wing manipulates the government and the media through its vast wealth, but Franken uses a multitude of facts to clearly show how this is perpetrated. From the environment, to civil liberties, to tax breaks for the rich, we (the lower 90%) are getting screwed.
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Summary: A "fair and balanced" read
Review: This book is an excellent and humorous look at many of the social issues facing our country today. Al and TeamFranken set out to debunk many of the lies being spoon fed to the American people by mass media and I felt they did an exceptional job. This book will make you laugh and it will make you cry, but most of all it will make you think - as it should. The issues in this book have been *thoroughly researched* and should be read by liberals and conservatives alike, even conservatives may be surprised by what they find between the covers. Bill O'Reilly Loyalists should especially pick up this book before they let their blind faith in Bill guide their opinion. Don't be afraid of a little bit of truth, it never hurt anyone.
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Summary: Al Franken, new voice of freedom
Review: This book is an eye-opener. I'm glad he's writing to the general public, who are often spoon fed the news and have not much choice in believing what they see. I give him 5 stars for standing up to the bullies in the media.
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