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Summary: Eye Opening and Side Splitting...
Review: What can be said...? If civic class was this entertaining, there'd be more poli-sci majors.
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Summary: Liberal, liveral, leaveral
Review: What can I say? Don't waste your time with this one.
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Summary: Reality check...
Review: What color is the sky in Franken's world? I read as much as I can from both sides of the political spectrum and find some real gems that are both entertaining and well researched... Then I come across books packed with weak arguments that can only be presented with rhetoric and half-truths. Franken's book is the latter. To give you an example of rhetoric and half-truths that I often see from the left are the personal attacks on conservatives' intelligence. With the exception of Newt Gingrich (and perhaps Dick the V.P.), I can't recall one major figure that has not been accused of being incredibly stupid. What is never shown is a head to head comparison of degrees attained, schools attended, GPAs, and idiotic declarations. When Bush is compared to Gore, Gore comes out, hands-down, looking like the underachieving frat-boy.It's always personal attacks and nit picking for something that may not be 100% correct that makes up the "Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" from the left. On the other hand, the right's look at the left from goes right to the heart of the matter. Policies are examined, appointments to high-level posts are scrutinized, etc. If you want to see the epitome of my argument, read this book, then read "How to Beat the Democrats" by Horowitz. The first 48 pages will make you cry over the deathly serious and substantial mistakes that have been made by the left that 1. Have hurt this country more than you could imagine possible, and 2. Are not even seen as mistakes by the left. BTW, don't let the title of "How to..." scare you off; it is substantive and impeccably articulated.
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Summary: Funny and Informative
Review: What does it mean when a comedian does a better job investigating the politics and tatics of the right than does the media? I'll let you decide, but that's what Franken has done and its both funny and a good read.
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Summary: lies from a liar himself
Review: what else can i say he lied to john ashcroft to try to get info about his sex life. He paid other people to write his book for him and he has made his political career out of name calling and making ann coulter look like a saint. He is probaly the most dishonest biggest liars in modern media today (i am also including michael moore and ann coulter), now he wants to tell us about how other people are liars....that is rich....
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Summary: Al Franken is a big fat liar: And other observations.
Review: What Franken is, is a stranger to the truth. What he is not, is funny. He is dull and witless unless you are so angry that anyone who says something nasty about someone you don't like releases such a flood of emotion you confuse it with being funny. Other wise, this pretender to the likes of H.L. Mencken, is a third rate hack. I gave it one star because -5 wasn't available.
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Summary: nice try, though
Review: What happens when a member of the liberal TV brat pack takes himself too seriously? He writes a book that really demonstrates that he takes himself too seriously. This man is in need of serious help. This book is so full of hate speech it is absolutely shocking that it was published.
His first book was a failure both in the number of books sold and because it engendered absolutely no reaction or attention from Rush Limbaugh, who still, no doubt, considers Franken a kook.
But Franken is not to be denied; he, like many other liberals, don't think it is fair that they can't get a liberal talk show that has the audience of a Rush or a Hannity or O'Reilly. But the fact is that people don't want to listen to a whinely liberal like Franken because he is not entertaining.
It is really sad that the best and the brightest, which in some sense at least Franken imitates, is willing to stoop to this level of opinion and hate mixed into what is supposed to resemble non-fiction.
Save your money and check this book at a library or skim it before you purchase - unless you would like a refresher course on how easy it is for a bright liberal to have his own pity party. In that case, enjoy!
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Summary: An excellent study of today's socio-economic issues
Review: What I enjoyed about this book was that, like its title suggested, it was fair and balanced. It gave the conservatives all the props they deserved, and gave the facts equal weight to both sides. The fact that liberalism ultimately "won" out is fairly unavoidable, since liberals make decisions based upon fact and evidence, whereas conservatives use emotionalism and panic-driven fear to base their conclusions. This book is a godsend for anyone wishing a dispassionate, reasoned approach to evaluating current events.
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Summary: A scholar in comic's clothing
Review: What I expected from Franken was a light-hearted ribbing of the radical right, with a few choice facts thrown in for spice. What I found is something entirely different: A well-researched, even scholarly review of how right-wing Republicans have systematically lied and cheated their way into power, and of how they maintain that power by employing the corrupt and dishonest right-wing press. Even though Franken's delivery is, for the most part, light-hearted, one can't help but become a little depressed at the extent to which the political system has been subverted through the use of blatent dishonesty and corruption. I'm not sure how even a self-respecting Republican could read this book and not be disgusted with the likes of Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, O'Reilly, Hannity, and a host of others. The facts are simply too well-researched and too overwhelming.
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Summary: Must Read for the Fair and Balanced.
Review: What I expected was a vitriolic diatribe assailing some of the leading propagandists of the right. Instead Al Franken has written a heartfelt book which is much more funny and insightful than I expected. Most surprising to me was how callous the rightists were in creating their lies and how fearful they were of people discovering that those lies were mostly fabricated on purpose. If this book is any indication of the true motives of those seeking to create a new Nazi party here in America, I already know they will supply Al with more than enough material for a sequel "More Lies from the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." Thank you Al (and Team) for a great rollicking read.
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