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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Franken does to the Right wing's "media echo chamber" what Michael Moore does to greedy corporations, gun lovers, and corrupt politicians. He tears holes (or just rips open the existing ones) in books by Ann Coulter and Bernard Goldberg (no relation, thank God). Most of the humor stems not from Franken's wit (which is not to be discounted), but from the people whose lies he exposes. Only you don't want to laugh with them, you want to laugh at them, and at the public who eat up their rants (actually, it's not really funny at all that the Fox crew is poisoning the minds of readers across the country with their hate and lies...) The one thing missing from this book is the motivational stuff that Moore puts in his books to get people politically active. It's been fun reading this (and seeing its staying power as the #1 bestselling book on Amazon).
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Summary: Franken is concerned with the truth, not so much the spin
Review: Franken does, in this book, what many conservative pundits fail to do, to whit: he tells the truth, and demonstrates it with documentation.A funny book with a very serious message . . . Why not Al Franken for President?
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Summary: Right on and thru the target...
Review: Franken exposes right-wing talking heads for the liars they are. I especially liked the chapter "The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus." Franken is right on and thru the target with his satirical look at the Republican supply side Jesus economic policies. I highly recommend this book. Franken doesn't lie.
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Summary: Should be Re-titled "an unfair/unblanced look at the right"
Review: Franken focuses on extreme examples that do not represent the conservative right in America. I consider myself middle of the road politically - i tend not to support the far left or far right; but Franken's book is nothing more than Jesse Jackson like far left propoganda. I was hoping this book would truly be what it reprsented: " a fair and balanced look at the right" - it's not, it's simply an all out attack on the right with poor, extreme examples.
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Summary: The best book of 2003
Review: Franken gets it right on the money, again!! The finest and funniest book of the year would be even more hilarious if it wasn't so utterly frightening. The likes of Hannity, Bush, Cheney, Fox News, and particularly O'Reilly aren't intelligent enough to know what hit 'em, but then again, neither are the dolts that support these Emperors Without Clothes. "Lies" is an utter and complete triumph that deserves its number-one sales ranking. Could it finally be the Al Franken Decade? Two too late, but every bit as edifying!
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Summary: Great job putting O'Rielly (and others) in their place
Review: Franken gives hypocrits their due in this book. Among my favorite parts is how well he puts O'Rielly in his place. He does it by outlining a series of proven lies by O'Rielly and then even more preposterous cover ups of the lies and bully tactics he uses when confonted with them. Given the "no spin" positioning that O'Rielly uses, and his brutal tactics with guests who disagree with him, Franken should be praised for doing an admirable job on this. If O'Rielly's viewers could read, this book would have a very positive effect. Short of that, at least it will arm you with some specific ammunition when you need to make a more tangible and factual statement than "he's a jerk."
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Summary: Funny!
Review: Franken gives us a refreshingly funny, and yet still truthful, examination of the right wing media machine. He presents us with several issues (things that make the right look "bad") that the so-called "liberal dominated" media DO NOT cover. His sometimes scathing commentary of some of the right-wings darlings is spot on; he tears them to shreds by highlighting the unbelievable dishonesty in their "reporting", and he makes no attempt to hide the level of personal dislike he has for several of them.
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Summary: Outstanding work!
Review: Franken gives us a well researched, smart book exposing the lies, tricks, and dirty fighting that the right employ against the center and left, in an attempt to hijack the nation and attempt to roll the clock forward into a time in which America becomes a plutocracy and the Bill of Rights is a historical curiousity, not a living document. What's even more amazing are the one star reviews given by people who obviously haven't read the book (how many "six year olds" use Lexis-Nexis?), and have partisan axes to grind. Even more entertaining are the reviews suggesting that we liberals are sheep, following the shepard, Franken . . . who follows whom here? Who documents their work, and who doesn't? Who provides arguments instead of venomous mud-slinging and name calling? Finally, one would also note that the doctrinaire right wing types will suggest that liberals are ivy tower dwellers, and go so far as to suggest that perhaps liberals might be too smart for their own good . . . this county has a pretty long history of anti-intellectualism, clearly, but wouldn't you expect the smart people to also be the ones who are right? Just some food for thought . . . I hope that our friends can digest it . . .
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Summary: Excellent book...
Review: Franken had me in tears laughing through most of the book. His arguments were dead on, insightful, and the "Supply Side Jesus" bit was priceless. A note to the reader who was shocked at the authors lack of humility - keep in mind that Franken is fond of using sarcasm and irony. Another must-read from Al Franken.
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Summary: Accurate, funny and partisan.
Review: Franken has a liberal bias but at least he admits that up front. His book is funny but more importantly his facts check out. There are a few things which seem rather nit-picky (like Dick Cheney mentioning "crosses row after row" in describing his many vists to Arlington Cemetary. Arlington does not have crosses but simple rectangular stones)and sometimes he may extropolate more from a personal anecdote than the evidence would really warrant (such as his encounter with Barbara Bush which he details in the the book)but the book holds up quite well, and the sheer VOLUME of annotated and proven distortions, omissions and outright lies by the the conservative media takes on a weight of its own. He DOES prove that people like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly are liars (not to mention GWB) and he does it in a funny way. Conservatives will hate this book but they won't be able to find anything that isn't true.
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