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Summary: Buy 2 copies of this book so you don't have to share.
Review: This book is hilarious. It's funny enough to appeal to liberals and conservatives alike. It will help to have a passing familiarity with some of the well known right wing 'talking heads', but most of the targets of Franken's humor are all too familiar. It is funny, very funny, and a lot of us need to exercise our laugh muscles right now. The humor is in the typical dead-pan, no holds barred, Al Franken style; and it's sharp as a scalpel. The analogy in which the Fox entertainment show 'HANNITY (and colmes)' is compared with a Harlem Globetrotters game justifies the purchase of the entire book. Next to that, the long awaited segment on Bill O'Reilly is simply icing on the cake.
Well done, Al Franken. I hope you make a bundle! I know I'll be giving this book as a gift to both my left, AND right, wing friends.
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Summary: A Humorous Look
Review: This book is hillarious to the core, making fun of (not just poking fun) the conservative right. I highly recommend it to any fan of comedy, liberal, green, democrat, or republican.
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Summary: Fantastic read
Review: This book is incredibly funny but best of all, it's totally on the money. Of course, we didn't need a book to tell us that Hannity, O-Lielly, Coulter, Bush, Rove and Cheney were lying liars but it's sure nice to see it in print!!! If this book irritates just one right wing idiot, you've done your job well, Al. Thanks for a great read.
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Summary: I'd give this book more than 5 stars if Amazon let me!
Review: This book is like candy! If you adore Coulter, Hannity, and O'Reilly, you may not like this book... but everyone else will be laughing out loud. Funny and full of well checked facts, this book is a humorist's approach to countering the anti-liberal, pro-Bush rhetoric. And believe me, Supply-Side Jesus really brings his points home!
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Summary: Slapped Together, Not Too Good, Al Baby!
Review: This book is mediocre at best. It was slapped together for publication so it could cash in on all the controversy of Fox News (or more to the point Fox employee Bill O'Reilly) sueing Franken for copyright infringement of the term "fair and balanced". Which Franken is, coincidentally, not.The book looks slapped together. It feels and even looks way to long for a humor book. The presentation of the book doesn't even look polished like you would expect from a big time publisher. Don't waste your money on this book, Franken can be funny but this book is not very funny at all. He usually takes ONE idiotic and insignificant thing that some conservative said YEARS ago and blows it up to Wagnerian proportions and is to say HA! See! You lied! I found this one dumb little thing you did years ago and I've blown it all out proportion and blah, blah, blah. He does this with a ridiculous bit on Bill O'Reilly where O'Reilly misspoke and said his TV show Inside Edition won a Peabody award when it really won a Polk. Wow, Al. I am SO not overwhelmed. That's the best this so called comedy genius can come up with? Well, that and a few more ridiculous things. Al does the same with Bias author Bernie Goldberg. Al is reaching, BIG TIME. Al comes out looking like a major league jackass and you're left wondering how many comedy ghostwriters helped him write this so called book. Don't waste your money, glance through it at the bookstore and then walk away. Anything else would be pointless, babe. C'est dig? Dig.
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Summary: Al Franken has tunnel vision
Review: This book is not fact based but rather opinionated. I would not call that fair and balanced just utterly bias.
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Summary: Simply Wretched
Review: This book is obviously lying about it's own supposed "liars". Not worth the money.
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Summary: Only the Facts
Review: This book is outstanding. Al Franken uses the facts to build his case against the conservative media. In example and example, he exposes lie after lie. This book is an easy read, and if you are open minded, whether or not you agree with Franken's politics, you will see how the right wing manipulates the media to serve its purposes. Al Franken is a true patriot.
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Summary: Finally, the voice of reason
Review: This book is partisan. It's slanted, it's populist, it's downright leftist. It's also the truth. I just saw the video on CSPAN of the Book Expo lunch at which Al Franken and Bill O'Reilly tore into each other. The scene is accurately described in the book, along with lots of frightening and disturbing examples of blatant deception in the right-wing media. But somehow it stays funny. Really funny! Franken makes it clear in several places that he doesn't hate all conservatives (He even claims Gary Bauer isn't a nutcase, though he acknowledges that he is in fact small.) He seems to have great respect for diversity of ideas and civil discourse. But when the right lies, Franken takes them to task. And he does it brilliantly. If you believe everything Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly says, you will hate this book. But if you feel like the political center of this country has been yanked toward the right, and you have been wondering when someone would cry foul, this book is for you.
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Summary: WHat a bunch of cr*p.
Review: This book is really sad. It's amazing how much attention this piece of garbage has gotten from the liberal media establishment. If you are looking for some revisionist history, or maybe you are missing the Clintons in the big house - then you may like this @#$%.
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