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Summary: A funny/scary book
Review: This book was a little different than I expected -- less humor, more research. It's amazing the amount of dirt Franken has dug up on the present administration. The "liberal" media is a joke in more ways than one. The over-arching principle of the Bush administration and its supporters seems to be that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. We saw this at Bush's press conference the other night. He said the same things over and over ("consoling the families of the fallen soldiers, who are fighting for our country's freedom..." "...stay the course.." etc.) while not really answering most of the questions posed him. So Bush et al chant their mantra of let freedom ring, while systematically taking away those freedoms, national integrity goes down the tubes, and the liar is king! It's enough the chill the blood of the staunchest patriot.
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Summary: Awesome! Hard-Hitting! Finally!
Review: This book was an absolutely amazing read. I have long felt that much that comes from the right wing media is filth and it was wonderful to finally see someone with some sense putting those hate mongering and fluff spewing dolts over at FNC put in there place. Al Franken for President in 2004! WooHoo!
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Summary: Great book, funny read, well-researched
Review: This book was as well-researched as it was funny. Very entertaining. Just the foil for the obnoxious, pious right wing media. Al takes them on with wit and humor and honesty. He's at his wicked funniest when he confronts his protagonists head on, such as in phone calls or in face to face encounters that he usually, of course, initiates (e.g. Paul Wolfowitz, Barbara Bush). He exposes some of these folks for what they are, esp. the political commentators and self-described journalists, who come across as lazy liars. Basically, he shoves right back but is simply more clever and funny than his counterparts on the Right.
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Summary: When to Laugh When to Cry
Review: This book was at times very amusing. If it wasn't for 9-11 I suppose it would have been funnier. It's just the image of those poor people falling to their death and the non-visible ones crushed and/or burned under the World Trade Center collapse that keeps coming in my mind when I read political discourse like this. Making light of "wacky" liberal hijinks would be funny if the end result didn't end up hurting so many many people. Mr Franken needs to distinguish between entertainment and governance.
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Summary: Terrible book
Review: This book was awful. I bought it at Costco because it has already been discounted and it was really bad. Another cry baby without vision who has only one idea and that is to bash everyone who does not agree with him. It was not even entertaining!
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Summary: Magnifico!
Review: This book was everything I expected. A great factual satirical work. Franken explains how Ann Coulter lies using footnotes and how she doesn't think much of the intellegance of her readers(can't blame her on that one though). He points out how Bill O'Reilly is a blatant lyer and also a blowhard by pointing out some of his most egregious lies. For example he told one journalist "you don't come any lower than I did on an economic scale" which was later contridicted from an infromed source (his mother)who told the Washington Post that the family vacationed in Florida regularly and that he went to private school. He brings into light some of the most egregious tactics of Bush's (Karl Rove's) campaign such as calling people in South Carolina during the Repubican primaries and telling them that John McCain has an illigitimate Black child. He also manages to do this while still remaing funny and that really helps to lighten up the tone even though the raw material itself is depresssing. All in all he, and Team Franken, did an eccellente job with this well researched book.
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Summary: Funny. Now go on to Remick
Review: This book was funny. There. All my thoughts in four words. Now I suggest you go on to read Bennett's "Book of Virtues", or better yet, Remick's "West Point: Character Leadership" to remind us of the way it is supposed to be in our Country. No joke.
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Summary: To the right winged people who dont like this book
Review: This book was great, And I REALLY enjoyed reading every word. I am a liberal, but This has not influenced my opinion. Many people have insulted him saying that he is making up these facts, and is commiting the same crime that the conservative authors are. But see, Al franken has ACTUAL FACTS, ACTUAL SOURCES, and these attackers dont. Its sad that we believe everything that everyone says, even if they dont have proof. THe difference between him and the fat guy is that he can show proof, with stuff that HE has reasearched(well, him and teamFranken)
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Summary: From a Swedish point of wiew.
Review: This book was great. For me, as a universitystudent from Sweden, i have seen how the usa are represented in two ways. In one way, USA is the land of popular culture, alternative lifstyles and freedom. In another way, USA is the country that is ruled by right-wing warlovers that's only concerned about making money, often paid by thousands of innocents lives, and spreading right-wing christianity much like the old english crusades. "The Lies..." got me worried. I have always wanted to live in the USA. I'm not sure that I want that anymore. If theese lying liars countinues to represent this country, usa will soon have no friends left (and everybody is happier with friends) But Al Franken also makes me hopfull about the future. Maybe one day the power is taken away from the right-wing ultra conservatives and given to the liberal peaceloving people. If so the USA can be the country that the whole world (or at least Sweden) wants to love. A great book by Al Franken! And by the way, go kerry!
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Summary: The truth exposed
Review: This book was highly entertaining, it had some good points about how the right-wing distorts the truth. I thought the second chapter when he talks about Ann Coulter was funny. If you are looking for a book that exposes the right-wing then to an extent this is the book you want. Theres more humor than facts and it keeps you wanting to read it.
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