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Summary: Funny as hell!
Review: This book was not just funny, it was informative and cleared up some of the outrageous lies being told by the right-wing media...and our current administration. If only all journalism and journalists were as honest as Franken is, we as a country would be in much better shape. They lie, they lie about their lies and it makes me sick. Franken is telling it like it is.
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Summary: Just not that funny...
Review: This book was on par with some of Franken's earlier works- one sided and short sighted... He is no more honest than those that he accuses.
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Summary: Talk about LIARS
Review: This book was so full of unsubstatiated rhetoric,inconsistencies, outright lies and quotes taken out of context,it was outright laughable. How a "book" of page after page of vitriolic excrement could be published is beyond all comprehension.
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Summary: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced
Review: This book was the biggest waste of paper I have ever encountered. Al Franken is neither smart nor funny, he's just annoying. What a waste.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: This book will make you angry but laugh while you're simmering. It won't make any wingnuts angry because they won't read it (and haven't in spite of the reviews). Any free thinking American with half a peanut rattling around in their skull will be angry at the mendacious nature of what passes for debate on the far right. As Al points out, it is the far right that is the problem because they base their "arguments" on lies and simply keep repeating those lies. Anyone who disagrees with them is branded a traitor, treasonous, anti-American. However, Al writes truthfully that there is a healthy debate somewhere in the middle. Note to conservatives: Al is not attacking all of you, just the extreme fringe that seems to have hijacked the Republican party and insists on stifling debate by wrapping everything in the flag. All of us somewhere in the middle need to take the country back from the lying administration of W and his minions in the far right press. All the sensible conservatives need to take their movement back from these same people lest they be permanently branded as being in alliance with those seeking to destroy all that has made this country as strong as it is. All of you atavistic conservatives who want to take the country back to pre-Great Society, or pre-New Deal, days, go back and read a history book to see how good things were not. These social engineering programs, while not perfect, laid the foundation for what made America as strong as it was, and as much a guiding light as it was to people around the world, prior to W's presidency.Read this book but prepare to be angry at how the far right uses falsehoods to support its platforms. Read this book and prepare yourself to fight for something good that is greater than just the individual. A rising tide lifts all boats but if the people are in the water and not riding on top, the people aren't lifted and the boats can't go anywhere.
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Summary: Just the Facts, Anne
Review: This book wins both ways. First, it pillories the conservative punditocracy by explaining just where and how they misstate the truth. Second, it does so while being funnier, more honest, and more self-critical than those it criticizes. The fact that critics below are reduced to ad hominem slurs in response to Franken's substantive arguments tells it all.
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Summary: Stop, you're killing me!
Review: This book works on so many levels. First, you'll laugh... Moreover you'll bust all your stitches, if you have any. I especially liked Franken's "Globetrotter's vs. Washington Generals" analogy to Fox's Hannity & Colmes. With a simple font change, he demonstrates the show's "balance," rendering Colmes inconsequential. This book is not for everyone...Get this book, and get it now.
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Summary: Good...
Review: This book would be a revelation to those Americans who slip in and out of Cable News,Time and Newsweek for a few minutes a week. It would be an eye-opener to those hardworking Americans who are too busy to see the external world, in this case the politico/news establishment, for what it is: a complex world of power, lies, print, videotape, colliding ideology, any means to an end. Furthermore, whether ignorant or informed, if one is a reasonable and liberal person then one will be thoroughly entertained by Franken's wit. He is the American counterpart to the highly educated, scintillatingly funny British comedians like Stephen Fry and Rowan Atkinson. By liberal, I mean simply: liberal. And by the way, If you do read the book Kharap Juta means bad shoes and Choto means small - I venture to guess that these names were suggested by Miss Chug.
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Summary: Funny Stuff
Review: This book would have been really entertaining - if it wasn't so scary. Regardless of what side of the political fence you are on, take a look at all of the countries the liberals would like us to be like - France, Germany, Britain, Canada...and realize that many of their tax rates are higher then 50%!! It is people like Franken who perpetrate the lies, not the right. Like I said, this book would be funny if there weren't so many people who believe every word of it like gospel. It's sad how it is totally fine for people to trash the president when he's a republican - but call Clinton a draft doger (which he was, no one disputes that) and you're called an america-hater. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Read something with better research - Either of Coulter's books (which provides evidence with every claim she makes), Savage's books, which do the same, or Laura Ingram's book (which is really entertaining as well as informational.) Steer clear of entertainers who think they know everything about politics. Not that they don't have the right to say it - they do. They just don't have the right to be believed. Thank god I borrowed this book and didn't buy it.
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Summary: Sad
Review: This book written by Franken, a Democratic activist, is sad, a smear campaign against those he disagrees with, particularly conervatives.
He calls many conservatives "liars," which is actually defamation.
If you don't belive me, read it, proof is in the reading.
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