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Summary: Franken ad nauseum
Review: Environmentalists (including those ELF folks who torched our lab at UW) should decry the sad and pathetic waste of good trees that took place to publish this disgusting missive from one of the many Democrat political bottom feeders. Franken's continual use of hateful rhetoric and misleading invective leaves little room for serious political thought, much less any kind of coherent message oh his part. He belongs to an exclusive gang of small men with small ideas, men who play a large part in degrading the political discourse of our nation.Rather than put forth a positive agenda for America, Franken continues the standard radical Democrat modus operandi of engaging the politics of personal destruction, rather than that of the cerebellum. Bottom Line: Even serious liberals and socialists can garner no more than cheap laughs from a man with cheap morals. By the way...One star is a generous rating.
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Summary: Just more liberal propoganda
Review: Essentially what Franken does with this book is attempt to capitalize on the current wave of anti-right wing sentiment erupting from all over North America, as a dedicated republican I found it hard to find any value in this book. Franken's comedic approach only made me shake my head in disgust as he poked fun at many prominent right wing politicians and TV personalities. In my opinion Franken's approach is what is wrong with politics recently, preferring to criticize and pick apart policies as well as personalities. If you're a liberal supporter you will probably find this book entertaining but most conservatives won't find it worth their while.
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Summary: Franken may not be everyone's cup of tea....
Review: Even if Al Franken is abrasive or annoying at times, he still kicks butt with this book. Refuting wild accusations by Coulter, Hannity, Limbaugh and others automatically makes it a wonderful read! I agree with Franken that we've taken a bad turn in the last 3 years; I just can't believe that most Americans are seemingly "going quietly" down this scary road of freedom infringement, preemptive war, "Hate America as a Global Pasttime," crankily intolerant, conservative pundits, a gargantuan deficit, classism and looming corporate oligarchy...well, you get the picture. Anyhow, Franken's wonderful book speaks to a lot of these issues. I would have liked the book a little better if it had a few less made-up, tongue-in-cheek scenarios (always used to make a point) and more illustrations of how Americans are being duped by our current administration. Yet I still love it. It is highly readable, well-researched, enlightening, and sorely needed at this less-than-rosy time in our history.
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Summary: lyingliar.com The Official Homepage of Al Franken!
Review: Even if I was out of tp, I wouldn't use these pages because I wouldn't want to taint the *$%t still sticking to my @ss. Al Franken would have made a real nice abortion.
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Summary: Lies... The Real Root of All Evil.
Review: Even if you are a conservative, this book should be amusing. Franken gives no breaks to monsterous liars like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly, but they don't deserve any breaks. Most conservatives I know do not feel that these people represent them. It's sad that they get so much attention. Franken does a great job of pointing how the mainstream media has basically become lazy and largely unreliable. Coming from a family of journalists and having worked in television myself for a few years, I have personally been very distressed at the blatant lack of journalistic ethics in most media outlets. It was nice to hear someone who feels the same way, but could approach it with humour.
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Summary: SNL meets NPR...
Review: Even though the book attempts to be a political thesis, it comes out more like a comedy sketch. Mr. Franken can't shake the "if it's funny, it'll work" philosophy of SNL. Besides, none of his perceived enemies have been assaulting liberal pundits; what say, Al? Read it for the laughs, not for the "insight".
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Summary: Gives one hope for America's future
Review: Ever get the feeling that the right-wing media is just a bunch of blow-hard liars that will say anything to further their "cause"? Well, this book pretty much confirms it. With actual facts instead of just inflammatory partisan screeching, Franken illustrates with gleeful precision just how ignorant and self-righteous the loudmouth conservatives can be. Chapters on the splotchy Bill O'Reilly, skeletal Ann Coulter and the just plain repulsive Sean Hannity are worth the cover price alone. Reading this after an evening of Fox New's "Fair and Balanced" reporting is akin to taking a bath after falling into a river of raw sewage. Hilarious, insightful, heart-warming and essential.
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Summary: Intelligent &Hysterically Funny -GO TEAM FRANKEN!
Review: Ever have that nightmare where you are scared, try to scream but can't make a sound? everyone around you seems oblivious? You wake with a start feeling panicked and agitated...
Since the Selection of George Jr., this similar feeling of frustration and panicked incredulousness continue --- and sometimes it appears as if no one cares. To question, disagree or protest is dismissed as (gasp!) LIBERALISM or being unpatriotic.
This book does an excellent job clearly, intelligently (and humorously) illustrating the doublespeak and bullying commentary of lying liars Coulter, O'Reilly, et al.
Witty and informative. Laugh out loud funny but it'll piss you off, too and you will find yourself logging on and doing your own Lexus/Nexus research just to confirm what you have read.
Wish I got a cut of the sales profits as I have been caught laughing so hard while reading this book on the train, several people have just had to know what I was reading.
Read this. Buy it for others.
PS: Where can I sign up for the Team? Would gladly "Hannitiz" Mr. Franken's personal coffee cup.
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Summary: Proof that the right has no creativity
Review: Ever notice how witty republicans arent? Ever notice how no one on the right is into music or art or film? Why is that? Ever notice how those on the left, aka, not thinking inside the box 24-7, have the ability to create and entertain at the same time? Franken rules here, bar none. This is a reactive book, reacting to all the idiocy perpetuated by the right and their supposed literary soldiers, hannity, coulter, et al. And its funny, and informative, everything that the previously mentioned blowhards have none of. Does Barbara Bush have a fat ass?
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Summary: It Gives them what they deserve
Review: Ever since 9/11 I had been getting sick and tired of these beligerent fatheads wrapping themselves in the American flag like that. It was all a crock they thought they could truly hide their hypocrisy through those endless calls of treason or unamericanism that it would actually stick in people's heads and they would believe it.
Al Franken took all those comments with a grain of salt and then tore them to shreds. He attacked them for their simple lies in an attempt to push their agenda. Their hypocrisy in their attacks on Clinton for Kosovo then going and saying that people like the dixie chicks were out of line over their statements. Then he also did something that I was actually quite proud of. He shed new light on Clinton and Gore and showed that they are not the people the conservative pundits have painted them as. Clinton did many great things in the element of building national defense and fighting terror. And it was Bush that dropped the ball his fist eight months. "Operation Ignore" he (Franken) called the bush doctrine on terror prior to 9/11.
He also made sure to show that those pro-war pundits were dreadfully inconsistant because Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Delay, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft and many more, spent a total of 0 years in the military.
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