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Summary: Fantastic, Thank you Al Franken
Review: Buy this book!! I have had it for 24 hours, and am almost finished. You cannot put it down. Finally, what we have all suspected is being factually confirmed. This book will give you hope again!!!
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Summary: The antidote for the deceptions of O'Reilly & Coulter
Review: Buy this book!!! With great humor and aplomb, Al Franken explains some of the many lies told by right wingers such as bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, and the whole Faux News crowd. It even documents them with actual footnotes!Yeah, I know what you're gonna say -- Anne Coulter averages over 800 footnotes per book. Bzzzt, wrong! Coulter uses endnotes. What's the difference? Franken shows how it's easier to lie with endnotes, and documents the six ways Coulter lies with them. For example, Coulter spends a paragraph discussing a New York Times editorial about Clarence Thomas called "The Youngest, Cruelest Justice." In the paragraph, Coulter says 'Thomas is not engaged on the substance of his judicial philosophy. He is called ... "chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom,"[39] ... "Benedict Arnold"[40] and "Judas Iscariot."[41]' The bracketed numbers are Coulter's endnote numbers. Here's Franken's commentary: Okay. What percentage of Coulter's readers do you suppose read this and thought, "My God! The New York Times called Clarence Thomas a 'chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom'! I knew the Times was bad, but I never dreamed it was this bad!"? High nineties? And what percentage do you think ever bothered to go to the back of her book and wade through the endnotes to discover that the quote came from a playboy interview with former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders and from a black leader at a meeting of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference wh was quoted in the New Yorker. In spite of all these facts, the book is riotously funny! Here's how chapter 19 (of 43 chapters), titled 'Who Created the Tone' begins: "Scumbag," "sociopath," "perpetual preener," "rapist," "unserious," "craven miscreant."(1) Sound like anyone you know? I mean, besides Steven Seagal?(2) Actually, it was the forty-second president of the United States, Bill Clinton, who was called all of these things. In my day, we never used such language to describe the President, unless he was a real a$%#ole like Nixon.
(1) [in a footnote at the bottom of the page, Franken give the citations for all these quotes; all were in Washington Post or Times.]
(2) Just kidding. I have never heard of Steven Seagal being referred to as a "rapist," or a "sociopath." Or "unserious." Chapter 29, 'Operation Chickenhawk' makes great fun of the excuses given by various Bush administration biggies for avoiding the draft (e.g. Cheney: "had other priorities"). In chapters 33 and 34, (Abstinence Heroes I & II) Franken writes to a bunch of Bush admin biggies soliciting "personal stories of abstinance heroes for our nation's young people to emulate." Short, but extremely funny. I bought this book (from a local bookstore -- I wanted to be sure I had a first impression), and I've found it amusing, enlightening, and informative. But perhaps I'm biased. At least I'm willing to admit it!
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Summary: Another nail in you right wing nutcases coffins
Review: Buy this book, espically for those of you who have your heads buried deep in your colons(Christian Right) you know who you are.
I see alot of negative reviews about this book, my guess is they are all from Karl Rove,(P.O.S.)or the illerate, which we all know the Bush camp loves the moronic and the easily led, after all, nobody seems to question how he got elected, and those who have, are probably arrested and beaten on some violation of the Patriot Act. Bush is a "'ex' drunk" I think he still drinks, how else is he so stupid, he is an "'ex' coke head" I am so sure that is a easy habit to kick, espically when you have excess millions of dollars from raping the public. Wake up morons!! get Bush the hell out of the White House, and remove your heads from your colons. Or you can do us all a favor and peacefully expire.
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Summary: A great work of fiction...
Review: By all means ,purchase this book, read it and enjoy a glimpse into the inner workings of a truly demented mind!This guy shouldn't have left his day job....
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Summary: Must read this book!
Review: By far the most entertaining political book ever written. Whether your left or right, you will get a real charge from this book. Other than his hilarity, the thing that sets Franken apart from the other books in this genre is that he actually documents what he says and shows the truth about the people and policies he criticizes. He takes Bill O'Reilly apart in a way O'Reilly simply cannot defend. He unmasks a lot of rightwing screamers like Coulter and exposes them for exactly what the title promises -- liars. For any but the most rabid rightwingers who don't care about truth, this book is a powerful and convincing read. If you're intellectually honest, you will love this book, no matter what your politics.
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Summary: TOTAL .......!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: By far the worst book i have ever read. I have never read a book full of more lies than this one, it often amazes me just how ignorant of the fact's Liberals are. According to Al's version of the truth, i guess the sky is not blue and the grass is not green and Communism is not responsible for over 100 million murders. I honestly cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would pay for this book, the only reason i read it is because it is my job. I guess the labor unions have plenty of union dues to waste on this left wing ...., i heard from a very reliable source that the union's bought over 800,000 copies of Hillary's book , they are trying to hand them out to members but they dont want them, i'm sure that the same is true about this piece of .... also.
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Summary: What a Joke
Review: C'mon Al. Get a clue. Write a book about something you are familiar with.
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Summary: I wanted to like this book... and I did
Review: C'mon folks, you can't help but laugh throughout this book, or at least chuckle, unless, of course, you're Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, or George Bush (wait... does he read?). Like any typical episode of Saturday Night Live during its "Golden Age," some of these chapters soar; others barely get off the ground. But overall, the book is a damn good (fun?) read. Just at the point at which Franken seems slightly full of himself, he is able to pull back in a very self-deprecating way; e.g. the chapter in which he flagellates himself regarding his initially over-the-top support of the war could easily have been omitted, but Franken is willing to tweak himself as well as the radical right.
One can't help but feel a slightly guilty pleasure in seeing Franken call these radicals on their lies and false innuendos. According to Franken, the tone that has been set by Messrs. Rove and Bush is frightening. The lengths they will go to manipulate the population to the benefit of their cronies is more than frightening -- it's borderline felonious. Being able to laugh at it is actually cathartic, and for that reason, Franken has actually done us a service. Franken's conclusion, however, is that once we're done talking and laughing about the current administration's crimes, it will be time to get serious -- and vote.
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Summary: Al Franken: More of an idiot than I ever could've imagined!
Review: Calling All Americans to stand up to this left-wing hypocrisy thats infiltrated our young minds!!! We shouldn't be outraged that this former SNL comic has been allowed to transcend from the ever-so intellectual and thought provoking entertainment world to the political world and hide behind his satirical shield as a means of openly affronting public figures but let us ponder this thought for a moment:
AL Franken was financed for this right-wing attack project by the prestigous Harvard Kennedy School of Law and he incorporated the help of over a dozen Harvard undergraduates and graduate students to reach this insightful, intellectual and ingenious conclusion on behalf of the political guru Bill O'Reilley: ARE U READY FOR THIS??????????????????? Bill O'Reilley lied about his hometown and once laid claim that his fromer program Inside Edition, won a prestigous Peabody award instead of another (less prestigous) award, Bill had since corrected this mistake long before Franken assembled his intellectual troops at Harvard to unmask it. THANK GOD ( OR NOTHING) FOR FRANKEN'S INSIGHTFULNESS NOW WE CAN ALL SLEEP BETTER.
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Summary: Al Franken...
Review: Can i call him a Musolini worshipper? Because that's his moniker all right. Whoops i guess I just called him that.
Oh well.
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