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Summary: "blotchy Bill O'Lielly"
Review: His writing is very conversational and easy to read and his story telling ability is brilliant. Franken is able to present the reader a good look at the outrageous lies perpetrated by the conservative media's leading "talking heads" and, at the same time, present it with enough humor to keep you laughing and wanting more.
This is a very, very funny book- although the subject matter is often infuriating and the truths he exposes are shocking. The "blotchy Bill O'Lielly" stories are worth the price of admission alone.
Buy this book for everyone you know- along with the great humor he shows you exactly how these liars lied! This should be required reading for American citizens!
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Summary: Will the real Al Franken Please Stand Up
Review: Hmm Lying Liars... Could this be a book about Al Franken or Maybe Mr. I thought I did but maybe I didn't Kerry.
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Summary: Uh oh, you made us cry
Review: Hmm wow, instead of reviewing the book, we got some reviews of reviews. Let's play.Good book, shows that the liberals really are "total savages" while on the other hand, the pristine holy Right, that uses phrases like "low-minded," "Osama-loving SOBs," and "Big Fat Idiot," is completely civilized. Come on liberals! It's easier to be wrong and close minded. Never admit it! You guys are so ferocious, that perfectly explains the domination of the radio by the Right, and the O'Reilly factor. We have to stretch the truth to compete! I'm not too sure why the Ivy-league faculties are dominated by the left though. I doubt it has anything to do with intelligence and truth. Blasted conspiracies! Again, good book, but I should warn the evil left: The Right doesn't read too much. To the radio waves! Nod your heads together!
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Summary: Dear Al "the fibbing" Franken,
Review: Hmm, it seems that none of your criticisms are really doing anything to diminish O'Reilly's career (let alone Hannity's, Coulter's, or even Goldberg's). If anything, it's helping his career! You may have remembered the interview O'Reilly had with Terry Gross on "Fresh Air" where Jeffrey A. Dvorkin claimed the interview was totally biased and "unfair to O'Reilly." Isn't that great?! NPR a liberal station admitting its own liberal bias! Here's more from Dvorkin: "I believe the listeners were not well served by this interview. Unfortunately, the interview only served to confirm the belief, held by some, in NPR's liberal bias. By coming across as a pro-Franken partisan rather than a neutral and curious journalist, Gross did almost nothing that might have allowed the interview to develop. By the time the interview was about halfway through, it felt as though Terry Gross was indeed `carrying Al Franken's water,' as some listeners say. It was not about O'Reilly's ideas, or his attitudes or even about his book. It was about O'Reilly as political media phenomenon. That's a legitimate subject for discussion, but in this case, it was an interview that was, in the end, unfair to O'Reilly." O'Reilly told Gross off justifiably. Here's a partial transcript: "O'REILLY, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF WHO'S LOOKING OUT FOR YOU?: I came on to this program to talk about Who's Looking Out for You? And what you've done is thrown every kind of defamation you can in my face. Did you do this to Al Franken? Did you? Did you challenge him on what he said? GROSS, HOST, FRESH AIR: We had a different interview. O'REILLY: Yes. A different interview. Okay. Fine, fresh air? Is this what "fresh air" is? I'll get a transcript of this interview --you want me--of the Al Franken interview. You want me to do that, and compare the two? GROSS: You're welcome to. O'REILLY: And compared it, too? All right, why don't you tell your listeners right now? Were you as tough on Al Franken as you are on me? No. You weren't. GROSS: No, I wasn't. O'REILLY: Okay. Why? GROSS: Well, Al Franken had written a book of political satire. O'REILLY: Oh, he was satire now, was it? All right, calling people liars and distorting their faces on the book cover. That's satire now, is it? And my book, Who's Looking Out for You? is designed to help people to show them how they have to know how to read people in the society to succeed. Yet you're easy on Franken and you challenge me. This is NPR. Okay? I think we all know what this is. I think we all know where you're going with this. Don't we? GROSS: Well, you could say... O'REILLY: Yes, don't we? GROSS: You can think whatever you want to. O'REILLY: I am. I mean, I'm evaluating this interview very closely. Obviously you are. Now we've spent now, all right, 50 minutes of me being -- defending defamation against me in every possible way, while you gave Al Franken a complete pass on his defamatory book. And if you think that's fair, Terry, then you need to get in another business. I'll tell you that right now. And I'll tell your listeners, if you have the courage to put this on the air, this is basically an unfair interview designed to try to trap me into saying something that Harpers magazine can use. And you know it. And you should be ashamed of yourself. And that is the end of this interview." Yup, gotta love those liberal medias. Speaking of which, did you know that 45 percent of Americans believe the media is liberal, while only 14 percent think it's conservative. Don't believe me? Check it out: dubya, dubya, dubya, gallup, dot, com, forwardslash, poll, forwardslash, releases, forwardslash, pr031008, dot, asp. Yeah, I know, you covered all that stuff in chapter 7, but, practically, no one believes you, Al. Well, except all 14 percent of America. And, let's not forget the LA (Liberal as Always) Times smear campaign against Arnold, which had over a thousand people canceling their subscription. Anyway, Al, you can continue to brainwash all 14 percent of Americans to your blind ideology while 45 percent of us will continue our suspicion of the liberal elite. Good day, Coolguy PS Will you EVER respond to your lie in chapter 33 and 34?
PPS By the way, chapter 7 has a grammatical error (page 44): "How many times do you have be [there it is] misquoted before you learn not to ever say anything to anyone that could possibly be taken out of context and changed to make you look bad?" Just a reminder for your paperback.
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Summary: Reading the Book is a Prerequisite to Writing a Review...
Review: Holy corny homophobic O'Reilly worshipers, Batman! All those negative reviews with no mention of anything that was in the book is to be expected from a host of people that voted for a coke head alcoholic trust fund baby whose life is a testament to the notion that anything is possible in America--when your father is a wealthy ex-president. Not admiring the author is no basis for slamming his book chock full of hard facts shinning a bright light into all the holes of the nonsense fed to you buy the Axis of Evil (Bush Jr., Sr. and Dick "Haliburton" Cheney) and Fox News.
Wait till George II writes his memoirs after he's voted out of office. It will be in the children's section of Amazon under the subject "Books with lots of pictures, age appropriate: 5-9 yrs". I am ashamed to know that so many of my countrymen have been reduced to accepting such complete mediocrity for leadership and for believing in all the Tax Cut lies. Dig deeper, fools...things could be much better in this country if freedom were legalized.
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Summary: Read it for the laughs, remember it for the facts...
Review: Honestly, the biggest reason to read "Lying Liars" is to laugh. Like Franken's previous "Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot" and Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men," this book adds something that is more or less completely absent from 95% of the other political and social commentaries that are released every month from both the left and the right--humor. Though you probably need to be at least somewhat familiar with people like Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity in order to get some of the jokes, in general it's a pretty damn funny read (unless of course, you're a big fan of one of them). In fact, I would actually have preferred he stayed on the wisecracks rather than go into more serious topics like Paul Wellstone's funeral and the surrounding brouhaha, although most other people count that chapter as one of the best, so I guess it's a matter of taste. Overall, it's a solid new entry for Franken, especially the bit about the incursion into Bob Jones University. Great stuff.
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Summary: Vote Democrat, it's easier than getting a job.
Review: Honestly. All I have to say is read this book yourselves so you can laugh at how Al Franken makes a fool of himself. And as for the media being so "right winged", take a short visit to www.hollywoodhalfwits.com and on the left hand side(liberals just hold up your hands and choose the one that makes the L) there is a list of all of the left winged media halfwits. Click on any one of the many names and read a little about what they've said on the air. After doing so, think again about the media being so "right winged" .
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Summary: the skeptic times reviewer
Review: Honestly: If you are a liberal this is going to make you laugh like crazy, for conservatives it will boil your blood. The book is no doubt humorous, even some conservatives admit to laughing in a few places. The problem I found with this book is that not everything is true (I am not sure if that was intended as a pun on the title or a mistake). He criticizes Ann Coulter on her 780 references claiming she lied. As in my Ann Coulter review I pointed out, that she did her research very well and I know because it was for a project we had to check her research (it's called Journalism). The next problem I find with this book is the chapter "I'm a Bad Liar" (ironically named). The President of BJU denies that Al Franken ever visited their university. I don't know whether to believe a university of high morals or an author who can't stop using the F-word. Although many people will find this book funny, and no doubt it is, there has to be some questions as to why the author felt the need to make stuff up.
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: Horrible... The usual gibberish from the left. How can you ever trust what they say? There are no facts to back up his claims.
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Summary: Limousine liberal
Review: How can anyone take Al Franken seriously? It's not his politics that I disagree with but his attitude. He's mean, petty, and lacks the compassion that liberals claim to possess but, sadly, almost never do. It's because of this mean-spiritedness that I find so typical in those who profess to care about the common man that I am reluctant to identify myself as a liberal, even though that's where I stand politically. Besides, Franken is a limousine liberal, a hypocrite who makes money from the very system he professes to find so unfair.
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