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Summary: Moderate conservatives . . . read this book!!!
Review: Hysterically funny, backed up with solid facts, this book is a great WAKE UP CALL for moderate conservatives who should be SHOCKED and disappointed at the extreme nuts in charge of the right wing agenda, who supposedly speak for them. Those people are AFRAID of the truth. That should tell you something.Who was it who said (to paraphrase), "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it."? I think it might have been some obscure guy who used to lead Germany a few decades ago. Watch out for big liars people. They are scary. And they are in charge of the USA right now. We NEED books like this in this country. Good for you, Al Franken. Someone else said (to paraphrase), "Evil prevails when good people do nothing." Thank God SOMEBODY is speaking out.
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Summary: I Love You Al!
Review: I absolutely love this book! Yes, I lean to the left. More so since Bush began his "regime". I now have actual facts to support arguments with ignorant people (my brother in Texas) who watch FNC and think they are hearing actual news. Unfortunately these people can be very dense and the ones who need it most aren't likely to read it. I fear that the best help this book might give me is when I launch it squarely at my brothers head....
Al, you now mean so much more to me than just the fun guy hosting the game show at the Spam Museum in Austin, MN!
Now on to "Dude, Where's my Country"..........
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Summary: As a member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, I enjoyed it!
Review: I actually didn't mind this book so much - unlike "Treason" by Ann Coulter, Al Franken was less acidic and sharp-tongued...just somewhat less mean (enough already, Ann!). This is not to say that I agreed with many/most of Franken's assertions, it's just a stylistic note. I do like Franken's easy writing style - it makes for an entertaining read and a good gauge of what the "Angry Left" is feeling. Oh and you guys are very miffed! Truth and logic will do that to liberals...but I don't think average liberals "hate" America as angry Ann Coulter asserts they do - so I do agree with Franken on that point. Franken, however, failed to convince me on most other arguments. The media indeed has a leftist bias, he just needs to get a grip on that and realize that Fox News is just ONE network - one. I've seen too much bias on and in CNN, CNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, the NYT, the LA Times, Wash Post, etc. etc. to believe otherwise. Talk radio is mostly conservative but only because liberals have failed thus far in that medium. Did he convince me that the Bush admin is corrupt and dishonest? No. Making gaffes, blunders, yes, but corrupt, no. That he would ignore the Clintons' corruptness (not counting the sex scandals) in light of all his finger pointing at Bush is interesting. But he is a funny guy! So I enjoyed the book without blowing my ring-wing stack which should be a really big complement to Mr. Franken.
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Summary: Demented Former Comic
Review: I actually liked this clown when he was just doing comedy but his forays into politics are mind-bogglingly inane. I would review this book but I can't bring myself to buy or read this waste of a tree. However, I have heard enough of his frothing at the mouth to get the gist. I appreciate his right to speak his mind (?) but I also reserve my right not to be subjected to his lunatic spewings.
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Summary: Franken is "Kinda" funny but a little self absorbed
Review: I actually read this book un-like some of the others who just told you how bad it was etc. I actually stood in the isle at Costco and read it. I'm not going to pay for it because I don't want to encourage Al's childish antics by rewarding him with my money which I'm sure he gives to charity and the Democratic Party. Al Fraken is full of himself. In his own eyes he is smarter, more friendly, more benevolent, and less-evil than the Satanic Republicans and Fox News. He is also much more clever than Darth Ashcroft, Adolph Cheney, George W. Satan. and their imps at Fox-news He proves this by making fools out of them. Over and over he sets them up, knocks them down, and smiles a self satisfied smile at himself. Look at me! Al says, I'm smarter than these Powerful and Evil men. Why, look at my facts, my figures my charts? Aren't I a witty, intelligent, Harvard, kind of guy? In fact I'm very much like JFK or Bill Clinton my big heroes. I give him two stars because he does have a skill. He has a skill in making people he doesn't like look foolish. That's something he can be proud of. However, he doesn't understand anything about humor and politics. The reason Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Ronald Reagan, William Buckley, and that big fat idiot Rush Limbaugh are/were so succsessful is because they use humor to disarm or entertain their enemies while feeding them their point of view. Many people have been converted to what Al Franken would call "The Dark Side" by these men and their sense of humor. However, Al Fraken's book will convert no one. His humor does not disarm the conservative reader. It merely slaps you in the face over and over and over. Conservatives are stupid, evil, greedy and wrong about everything from Clinton to Communism. Al comes accross as mean. He is funny. I used to laugh when I was a kid in school when the local smart alec teased the fat kid or the ugly girl. I thought that was funny back then. I've grown up a little since then.
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Summary: Try READING the book before you give your bad review...
Review: I actually read this book. I know that's a novel concept to those of you who gave it a one-star review after you "found it discarded at the airport" or "skimmed through it while your wife was shopping for Dr. Phil books", but you're only proving Al Franken's point about a lot of things in his book, where the right will jump on something without proof and then the rest of the media will run with it without checking into it. I've at least read books like "See I Told You So." and a few others to get the whole story of someone I didn't agree with. I suggest you do the same to avoid looking foolish in the future. Another guy made fun of Al's use of his Harvard staff as if it was a smoking gun to discredit the book. Hey, he proudly mentions it many times he had help with his research by his staff! I'll agree it's not nearly as funny as his others like "Why Not Me?" and the Rush book, but it's definitely worth the read if you want to see some facts mixed in with satire. Some of it will make you laugh and some of it will make you mad, but it's definitely one you should read if you are a moderate/liberal.
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Summary: You've got to admire this guy
Review: I admit it...I like Al Franken. He was one of the best writers SNL ever had, and his books make me laugh out loud. And he researches his books. The problem is that he is right on target with the big lies the Shrub administration is foisting on the public. I wonder what the current percentage of Americans who believe Saddam Hussein attacked the Twin Towers is. I know it was pretty high the last time I checked. Or the percentage of people who think we've found "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. It's sad, really, and not a laughing matter. But Franken can (and does) point out these sad facts and others in a manner that can make me laugh.
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Summary: At LAST! Sean Hannity Exposed!
Review: I admit it: I fell for the Limbaugh Hannity BS. Although Franken is just as biased, it's about time that we heard the 'other side'. If you are sick of Bill O'reilly's imaturity and bullying you'll love this book. An added bonus is the exposure of Alan Colmes as nothing more than a Fox Flunky. Always remember that the Republicans want to take your money and give it to the rich and the Democrats want to take it and give it to the 'poor'. Either way we are screwed.
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Summary: a moderate, female Midwesterner
Review: I adore research. I adore hard work. I adore Al Franken's newest book. I enjoyed reading the bilious reviews from people who did not read his book, people who cannot tell an adjective from an adverb or a complete sentence from a fragment, and especially from the person who intimated that there is a genetic basis for liberal political traits (though I'd imagine they believe homosexuality is always a choice). My extended family votes Republican with a very few exceptions, and I consider myself a moderate. As Franken points out with impressive documentation, fact-checking, and notation, many of the outspoken members of the right have just gone too crazy for me to risk supporting their party. Be outraged, all of you thousands of decent, intelligent, hard-working conservatives, that these few downright mean, callous, dishonest people are distorting your views, not to mention your party's image. Don't be furious with Franken for finding their lies; be angry with the liars for generating them. Be furious with the motivation behind them, and the fact that there were so many lies for a careful research team to find.
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Summary: FULL OF LIES BY A LYING LIAR
Review: I agree that "a fair and balanced" point of view requires one to study the philosophy and writing of the left, right and middle.
That's why I read and study everything written by the left, even though I am conservative. In my opinion there is nothing "fair and balanced" about this book. In fact I think a psychologist would find Mr. Franken's choice of the title very revealing and self-descriptive. This poorly written and poorly documented book is a (not very) thinly disguised attempt to increase his own fame by riding on the coat tails of those he criticises. The book is full of innuendo, half truths, wild accusations, and completely unsupported statements. Reading this book, and watching Mr. Franken rant on television, has convinced me that he is a stark raving lunatic. He doesn't seem to understand that his message gets lost in the vitriol he spouts. Leftists will enjoy this book, because it reinforces their distorted world-view. Note that the leftist New York Times Book Review called this book "Funny, angry, and intelligent" and the liberal Newsweek called it "Wickedly funny." Many conservatives will get some laughs out of reading this easily debunked attack on conservative icons.
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