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Summary: What fun to see someone stand up to the Right
Review: Hello, fellow readers! I confess I am a liberal and have contributed to Emily's List for the past 6 years. I am a liberal because I am in the health care profession working with children and families, and I see first hand what comes of Republican policies. Therefore, Al Franken's book is right up my alley. I have not followed politics that closely in recent years, because it usually sickens me, but it was very interesting to read Mr. Franken's take on recent political tempests in teapots, such as the Paul Wellstone memorial. I particularly enjoyed the fact that Mr. Franken goes right to the source. He calls up the media or political figure that has lied about something, and confronts them with the lie, giving them the chance to respond appropriately. How sad that so few of them took responsibility for their lies once they were caught. I recommend this book to citizens of all belief systems: to conservatives, because they should think about getting their people to at least lie better and get some of their facts straight; to liberals, who hopefully will be galvanized into action surrounding upcoming elections and do what it takes to make America the compassionate leader it can and should be; and to the undecided, because it may help them decide and galvanize them to take more part in the political process themselves. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is a fast, thought-provoking, and funny, funny read. You go, Al!
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Summary: Hilarious, Smart, and Delicious Fun
Review: Here Franken directs his savage wit at some of the most deserving targets: Coulter, O'Reilly, Bush and cronies, and other members of the foaming-at-the-mouth right wing. As he demonstrates in careful and convincing detail, they ARE liars -- and it's such a delight to see them called on it and mocked so beautifully, with such intelligence.No one should dismiss this book as mere comedy or satire, though -- its purpose is deadly serious. The fact is, much of the media (and the goverment) has been hijacked by people with an incredibly tenuous grasp of the truth, and a willingness to bend/ignore/skewer it for their own purposes. Franken has done us a great good by writing this book -- and Fox has done an almost equal favor by trying to sue Franken, and pushing this book to the top of bestseller lists. It's pretty clear why the spurious lawsuit happened -- O'Reilly looks like an absolutely maniacal, bullying fool here, and not just because his face is splotchy on the cover.
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Summary: next time break the prozac in half.
Review: Here is a book that is based on the observations of a mental patient. As the title states, this book is based on lies of the left liberal socialists. Al should have got someone with cred to assist in the writing of this so called book. I gave it 1 star because it is good fiction, this book is not worth the paper its printed on, save your hard earned dollars and buy some real fiction.
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Summary: al franken and liberals are going to H-E-L-L in a handbasket
Review: Here is one of the most notorious and lucid exposes of Al Franken's lies. Just type in this handy little URL into your web address bar: townhall.com, forward slash, columnists, forward slash, michellemalkin, forward slash, mm20030822.shtml You should get the filthy dirt on Al Franken pretending to be the self-righteously moral "martyr", leading his fellow insane left-wingers out of the desert, by unscrupulously stigmatizing the right as being the worst liars. Yet this four-eyed, coke-bottle glasses, middle-aged NERD is such a soullessly shameless LIAR, that he ACTUALLY used deceptive tactics to generate material WHILE writing this book which he falsifies is solely about right-wing "dishonesty". To preview, a little, within that provided address, Franken resorts to about 4 sub-lies within his gigantically broad lie of using Shorenstein Center stationary (that's right, the same cancerously twisted, radical left-wing elitists who helped compose his "book") to dupe John Ashcroft into sharing his experiences with abstinence. Franken again lied that Ashcroft's personal story would be used in a book he was writing about abstinence programs in our public schools. Which are, AGAIN, more lies based on original L-I-E-S. This brings me full circle to the dissolutely unprincipled "testimonies" from all these liberal-wrecked reviewers. How in the HELL can these unconscientious creatures NOT ONLY keep blackening the right as "viciously distorting everything", but also keep praising their superficially veneered, hero-jacka$$ Franken as a rolemodel of virtue?!?! Especially when this blatantly obscene lecher used falsehood as the methods with which to compose a "book" that supposedly points the finger at everyone EXCEPT for him and his side???
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Summary: Save your money
Review: Here's a way tree-huggers can conserve the environment and save money from buying this book. 1)Go to the restroom and drop the biggest bomb you've ever seen. Don't eat it. Liberals are already full of enough of it. 2)Unroll the toilet paper and proceed to wipe. Hopefully, you liberals don't have any diseases transmitted in the area you wipe. This will take a couple of sheets of toilet paper as opposed to the the 368 pages of paper used to publish this book. 3)Stare at the toilet paper. You get the SAME MATERIAL AS THIS BOOK AT A FRACTION OF THE COST AND MIRACULOUSLY YOU GET THE SAME COVER! HELP SAVE THE TREES!
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Summary: Fair and Balanced? Give me a break.
Review: Here's the good- the book is pretty funny. Here's the bad- this a book devoted to personally attacking Bill O'Reilly, in effect leeching off the name recognition the newsman has built up for himself. I'm a liberal myself, but Franken's immature personal vendetta against O'Reilly is sleazy and uncalled for.
2/5
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Summary: Nothing new - info can be had for free.
Review: Here's the skinny: Eveything in this book can be known by inference, or for free by reading tabloids in the check-out line. Franken is a sensationalist writer, who's only tool is hyperbolic juxtaposition. If its popular, he hates it. If it's unpopular, he loves it, and he'll tell you why. Just read the table of contents, and you can figure out what he has to say. Which is, in the end, nothing at all. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Summary: I can tell why people on the right hate this book
Review: Here's the thing. Al Franken makes some very good points about the conservative media and the lack of any liberal media at all. If American's want to here what's actually going on in Iraq then we're better off listening to the BBC than watching CNN. While not full of the newest material, its very entertaining reading Al's take on it all and its a good read no matter what side of the political spectrum you fall on.
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Summary: Frankenlies, dot, com
Review: Here's what they say:
Is Al Franken so determined to defend President Clinton's record on terrorism that he has to make things up? What about those 14 Harvard researchers? On pages 109-110 of Lies, Franken writes,
"Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah are all currently behind bars ... They were involved in [further] plots to kill the Pope and blow up twelve U.S. jetliners simultaneously. But neither happened. ... Why? Because Clinton thwarted them. He thwarted them all."
The truth? The plot to kill the Pope was thwarted by Philippine officials in January 1995, less than one week before the pontiff's arrival in Manila! Abdul Murad was captured after he and Yousef accidentally started a fire in their apartment while trying to mix explosives. Upon interrogation, Murad confessed to the plot to kill the Pope.
Authorities also seized Yousef's laptop computer, which revealed a plan called Bojinka, the plot to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners.
When Murad was handed over to the F.B.I. months later, the work (and heroics) had already been done ... by Philippine law enforcement!
The truth is that Bill Clinton had as much to do with thwarting these plots as much as, well, as much as Al Franken did.
How many Harvard researchers was that again? Hey Franken, check your sources next time: Peter Lance, 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI, The Untold Story (New York: Regan Books, 2003), timeline pp. 14-15, pp. 266-269, p. 274. Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror (Regenery, 2003), pp. 80-81 and ... Gerald Posner, Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 (Random House, 2003), pp. 78-79.
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Summary: Thank you, Al!
Review: Hey Al, thank you for doing this. We need more people like you who speak up and speak out.
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