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Summary: These reviews are getting a little ridiculous
Review: This is a funny book that delivers on its promise of exposing lies from leading figures on the right. What amazes me is the anger this has caused. A previous reviewer wrote:"This book is garbage. Al is the biggest liar of them all. It was not a fair book, nor was it balanced. The scales were banging on the left side in a most uneven fashion. I found his diatribes to be far less funny than his Saturday Night live skits. It was a total waste of time and money. I'll never buy anything written by him in the future." Did this reviewer think we would sympathize at the waste of time and money that resulted when they didn't get a "fair and balanced" analysis of the right? How could anyone miss the subtitle's sarcasm? It's not like Al Franken has made a big secret of his political beliefs. If you hate his liberal view point so much, what are you doing buying his book in the first place? That's like buying Ann Coulter's "Treason" and being upset that it is a right-wing zealot's historical revisionism. What else do you expect? Calm down people. There are people out there who disagree with your world view. Don't waste everyone's time complaining about that. Instead, add to the discourse by finding flaws in their actions and their beliefs. If you want to really help things along, make your points in a humorous manner like Mr. Franken.
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Summary: True Comedian
Review: This is a funny book, on the whole, but also a mean book. What happened to us trying to get along with everyone, loving everyone? Mr. Franken is a true comedian, to the point that he makes fun of our own values by viciously attacking those that don't agree--what happened to peaceful resolution? There were times I almost felt like crying--he has single-handedly turned us into a bunch of attack dogs, even against our own (e.g. printing "Colmes" in subscript). Shameful, Mr. Franken, that we eat our own!
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Summary: Great book
Review: This is a good book for anyone that's interested in the TRUTH.
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Summary: Fascinating
Review: This is a good read for those of us in political middle. Al Franken is a liberal and he is bashing the far right. The best parts are when he shows how the right lies. The worst parts are his reports on some confrontations because you know it was an ambush and they were unprepared. The story about how we believed that Al Gore said he invented the internet makes me feel gullible. (He said he helped create it -- by sponsoring the funding).
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Summary: Great book
Review: This is a great book and fun to read. It sets the record straight on many isuses that have been reported with a right wing bias from the ecomomy to the war on terrorism. Al, keep up the good work.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: This is a great book and well worth reading no matter what your ideological bias. For the right wingers, it shows that your favorite pundits have a lot to answer for. And if you still agree with them after reading Franken's book, at least you will know where their weak points are, and you will know where you will have to spin when you are running your own "No Spin Zone" at the water cooler. For the lefties, you will find that somebody else has been thinking your thoughts and doing the leg work to show that your instincts are not so far off. It will also keep you laughing yourself silly. For everybody, this will provide insight as to why Bill O'Reilly has become the poster child for the "Egocentric Bias" in his most recent "Talking points memos." You may have wondered why no matter whose problems Bill is whining over, Arnold, Pres. Bush, or even Joe Wilson, Bill always manages to get back to himself and the horrible thing Al Franken has done to him. And that thing (that Bill has no real understanding of) is that Al has told the truth about him. Sorry Bill.
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Summary: Great book (if you're a liberal)
Review: This is a great book for all of those people who can't think for themselves and need someone smarter than them to tell them what to think. I recommend it to every weak-minded person out there.
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Summary: An intelligent and entertaining read
Review: This is a great book for those that want to hear about politics from a different angle than the Ann Coulter and Fox News garbage that has become so prevalent. Franken does a great job with most of the book, and is pretty factually sound on what his statements are. In fact, I've researched a lot of the information that I thought was not true, and was able to find out that the bare truth is even more shocking than what Franken wrote about. There were a few boring parts of the book, but overall I liked it. I'd reccomend it to anyone with an open mind and a desire for more information.
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Summary: Great Book, Al
Review: This is a great book, for liberals and (gasp)conservatives. Al does an excellent job of presenting the FACTs, as opposed to some of the people he writes about. This book was really hard to put down.
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Summary: Right-wingers must not like the TRUTH
Review: This is a great book, full of TRUE statements that uncover and refute--with FACTS--the LIES spewed by hatemongers like Bigot O'Reilly. I guess the right-wingers who listen to and gobble up the garbage coming out of the mouths of the aforementioned hatemongers can't tolerate something that actually consists of truthfulness! Therefore, their only recourse is to condemn. How sad. Perhaps if they spent more time reading this book and ABSORBING its message (i.e., that they're being LIED to) than listening to their hate-filled idols, their opinions might change. But if you're too narrow-minded to even consider that someone other than a right-wing, extremist, bigot might have something worth hearing...well, you're missing out on a lot. Listen up, right-wingers: Sit down and actually READ this book--with an open mind (if that's possible)--and then ask your hatemonger talk show hosts to refute ANYTHING Franken has said, with the condition that they provide ACTUAL--not THEIR skewed version of--facts. Guess what? They can't!
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