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Summary: Serious thought and a serious laugh
Review: This book shows the lying and cynical manipulation of a people shocked into docile compliance by the recent tragedies in a hilarious, articulate and searing bright light. The result is both serious thought and a serious laugh.In the 5th grade, the best way to deal with a bully was to get the class laughing at them. This rule still holds with the 5th grade-style bullying of the political Right to which the stunned and glassy-eyed public has shamefully bowed. As such, this unlikely and funny book laughs the bullies down and aids in the rebirth of a lively national dialog. It is this type of right thinking and humor (think Paine's "Common Sense") that inspired the creation of our nation and has corrected its course through history.
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Summary: Stop being brainwashed by people
Review: This book shows you that believing everything that you see or read, without questioning it or investigating it makes you part of the problem. Most news and talk shows are boiled down snip-its which result in a pied-piper mentality. Let's blindly follow and repeat the sensationalism and not care about the true facts. Hell, the truth is boring. You are a sheep if you continue to have your views crafted by the news services. STOP, THINK for yourselves, and craft your own ideas and thoughts. This book is very good.
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Summary: A joke of a book from the joker himself
Review: This book smacks of your tiresome left wing talking points. It stays at #1 or #2 flip flopping with Michael Moore's angry anti-american book, because the DNC along with other left wing groups buy these up in bulk. I'm from Minnesota and we know Al here. We're glad he calls New York home now!b
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Summary: The truth hurts so the right sues
Review: This book so scares the GOP that their friends at Rupert Murdock's News Corp sued to get it out of publication. In a rare court event, the suit was literally laughed out of court. Unlike the various right wing 'authors', this book provides foot notes and quotes in context complete with the dates comments were given and who gave them. Tongue in cheek parts are clearly labeled as such. Conservative mouth pieces who are faced with their own statements are reduced to calling Franken a commie and traitor. This standard attempt to paint him as such merely proves that they cannot dispute the facts presented. Given the Bush A\administration's recent pitiful attempt to back peddle from their Saddam 9/11 linkage I suggest all those holier than thou conservative read this before they burn it.
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Summary: SCUM
Review: This book sucks. Time to deport al franken and the rest of his ilk.
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Summary: LIBERALS EVERYWHERE TAKE HEART
Review: This book takes on all of the lunatics of the far right and gives them the kick in the butt they deserve. Al doesn't mince words and he doesn't play favorites. All those idealogues in the republican cuckoos nest get a well deserved thrashing. How does he do it? With the TRUTH. Only a true patriot would dare to tell it like it is in this climate of conservative paranoia. Consider this a "fair and balanced" review.
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Summary: I Expected Nothing More
Review: This book to be blunt is as pointless as he is as bad an actor/comedian. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Indeed, A Fair & Balanced Look At The Right!
Review: This book uses fact and humor in a perfect mesh to systematically deconstruct the falsehoods holding up the Bush team. It helps that Al comes from what I call the Begala-Carville school of political strategy, in which the tepid response of a token like Alan Colmes is as open for derision as the most ludicrous right-winger. Al realizes that these battles are fought in the media, where conservatives use their network to shuffle concepts into the mainstream - it starts in the thinktanks, moves to talk radio and out onto cable news where it gains respectability among the masses - no matter how stupid it may be. And a lot of it is stupid. It's safe to say that this is the only book around that uses charts to show exactly how dishonest folks like Sean Hannity are. Not to mention Ann Coulter and her cavalcade of idiocy. One of the most important chapters is Franken's exhortation that no matter how much we may want to pass of this administration's fulminations as the work of lackeys, George Bush is the man behind it all. Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, and the rest all answer to one man - and it is he that must shoulder the blame. The last few months have seen some excellent work from the left come out on the printed page, but I have to say Lies And The Lying Liars (along with Joe Conason's Big Lies) are the ammo of choice in the upcoming domestic war. Read them, now.
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Summary: Let's Be Honest; Al's Humor is Hateful and Improper
Review: This book uses literary tools that shouldn't be used. Anyone who thought this book was funny would probably laugh at the improvised and handicapped. Just because Al takes pot shots at more powerful people doesn't make his hateful humor 'right' (no pun intended but Al you could use a similar pun; at least it is not hateful). Think about all the previous reviews who stated how humorous this book is. I thought we compassionate people agreed that fat jokes were hurtful. I thought we compassionate people agreed that jokes about people's looks and intelligence were hurtful. If so, why do you give Al a free ride with his comments? This guy spews hate and I don't like to associate or enrich those who act or write like this. Al hides behind his supposed 'humor' to insinuate whatever he wants. He takes what I think are some honest errors and uses them to ridicule others (Ann Coulter misstated a grandfather by saying father. Franken uses this as an example of an error but doesn't mention that Ann was off a generation). The left just does not have any original ideas. Even this book has no ideas. It is merely hatred and second-guessing at ideas posed by conservatives. The left counter punches only without offering any substance. Get an idea and a clue. True leaders make mistakes. There is a wise quote about those who don't make mistakes generally don't make much of anything. One last thought about taxes and tax cuts. Do we want to redistribute the wealth and destroy personal initiative and reward? I don't begrudge anyone food clothing or shelter but I do get steamed when people say I don't pay my fair share of taxes. To me, a fair share means I pay for what I use and I certainly pay for more than what I use. Those on welfare don't pay their fair share. Now, we can talk about ability to pay taxes and yes I do need to pay to help others. Just don't tell me I don't pay my fair share of taxes. I should get to keep some rewards for making the right decisions in life and exercising the self discipline to succeed. Then, I should be able to take my earned income and donate as I see fit.
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Summary: Please read this book and then give it to a friend
Review: This book was a godsend! Just when I thought that noone was watching the dismantling of a free and objective media, here comes Al Franken. Naturally, he made me laugh. Then, he made me mad, detailing the ongoing pattern of lies and distortions that is the nature of right wing media today. Finally, he made me cry with the heartbreaking story of the death of Paul Wellstone, the attempts by his family and friends to honor him, and the despicable manipulation and distortion of those events by the Republicans/media. At times, this book is almost too painful to read when you realize the breadth of dishonesty and hatred that has permeated national media. However, it is a must-read for all people who have given up hope that things might change. I just hope that those individuals most directly targeted by Franken - namely Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly - are held to some accountability and have to honestly answer some of his charges against them. Now that would be a book!
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