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Summary: The Endnote Joke - Fantastic!
Review: I just started the book but I am enjoying it so far. Very funny, and it takes on all of the bad guys - especially Ms. Coulter - who infuriate me on a regular basis.I did notice that many of the 1 star reviews were from folks who either never read the book or put it down after reading a few pages. Afraid you might find some bit of truth about your heroes you won't like? Of course, I am posting my review before finishing the book, so yeah, to an extent, I'm the pot calling the kettle black. But after reading tropical alex's post and wondering, "Could Al really have screwed up like that?", I finally checked out the last printed page of the book and got the joke. Comic genius....and it's genius that most of the critics of this book will miss (and maybe even some fans...I missed it at first). Because of this genius, I'm giving the book an early 5 star review. Touches on many of the same points as Alterman, but adds Al's humorous touch. Kudos to him and TeamFranken for a job well done. You made me laugh..which is important to do when I'm reading stuff that infuriates me as much as the right's antics that are outlined in this book. P.S. - Does anybody know if Ann said Evan Thomas was Norman's "son" or "grandson"? Never read "Slander"...her weekly column, which I read religiously, is about all I can stomach from her. Either way, Al's point is made...and it's damned funny.
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Summary: Time for "O'Lie-lly" and his partners-in-lying to fess up
Review: I knew next to nothing about politics before reading "Dude, Where's My Country," by the brilliant Michael Moore. However, after reading the aforementioned, I couldn't wait to get my hands on another intelligent, lie-busting liberal book. I couldn't believe all the lies Bush and the conservative media have spewed. Franken, while just as informative as Moore, is a lot funnier. The "Operation Chickenhawk: Episode ONe" chapter is hilarious, as is the recounting of his journey into BJU and his near-stalking of Barbera Bush at a dinner and flight. It's not exactly vital to me, as a teen, to know all this political ballyhoo, but it's fun! Now my parents can't shut me up about it, all because of my trusty copy of "Lies".
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Summary: Full of FACTS!
Review: I knew the main-stream media and it's newscasters were full of right-winged propaganda, but this book clearly shows the outright LIES they spew day after day. This book is clear and full of facts to back up these claims. It's a real eye-opener. Franken's wit interwoven throughout catches you by surprise sometimes, but makes for an enjoyable read. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Please give this book a chance.
Review: I knoew you all have been proagandized by Rush Limbaw and The Twentieth "Centrury Fox NEws Channel, but we need to give this book a chance.t hear Al Franken out. THis book is well reasearched, sicen he write it while he was a fellow at HArvard John F. Kennedy Government school, and had 14 reseacher working for him. We all know the power of Lexis-Nexus, so the information is accurate. People get in denial, and this book opened my mind. Buy book for republican firneds, and maybe they can get a second opinion.
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Summary: Had no idea!
Review: I know both the righties and lefties are liars and that LIBERAL MEDIA is an oxymoron...but MAN. Now I actually feel bad for Al Gore. Who knew? I guess the lying liars did... You'll laugh, you'll cry...you'll be pissed off! Hopefully you'll actually want to take your country back!
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Summary: Thank You, Al Franken!
Review: I know if you're a conservative, you'll think this is just another liberal's comment. But I am personally sick of right-wing lies that are getting spewed in the media like so many 4-year olds' tantrums called "we want our own way!" Franken busts them one by one. It's refreshing in this suffocating political climate of lies, fear, hate and death. In these serious times, it's nice to have a little humor along with the real facts to lighten things up. I just sent ten of these books to my friend as a gift to pass out to his friends.
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Summary: Finally . . .
Review: I know it sounds absurd, but this is arguably the most important book of the 21st Century and every Democrat in Washington should read it. Instead of moping around like some poor sad sack, Franken has decided to combat the excesses of the right by exposing them as frauds, hypocrites and, yes, liars. Having had a team of 14 Harvard students to help him track down the truth, his assault is substantively devestating. Best of all, he does it in a way that is so funny that Ann "nutcase" Coulter, Bill O'Lie'lly and the other inhabitants of the right's parallel universe will be made to seem even more shrill and unhinged if they choose to engage Franken.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: I know some people don't appreciate truth, but I'm not one of them. The book is simultaneously shocking and hilarious. All in all, I found this to be a highly entertaining read. With endnotes.
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Summary: Very enteraining sermon to the choir
Review: I laughed a lot while listening to this at work. Franken read's his work very well. This book is not intended to convert the fans of Franken's "liars". Its designed to make fun of them and amuse people who already have a pretty negative opinion of O'Reilly & company. And it really succeeds. If O'Reilly makes you mad and Ann Coulter freaks you out, you will find this book very amusing. Otherwise, well, I'd skip it because its going to annoy you.
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Summary: Funny and thought-provoking, but more than a little creepy
Review: I laughed all the way through this book while enjoying what is all too often a rarely heard point of view on the short-comings of the American right. Franken knows how to raise issues, deflect criticism and make thought-provoking points. Unfortunately, I was also left with the impression that the only thing bigger than the Bush Administration's string of failures is Franken's creepy ego. He writes without a trace of humility or, frequently, humanity. His relentless efforts to embarrass, harass or intimidate his political opponents serve only one purpose - to demonstrate (as if we needed another demonstration) that as a "star," Franken is not subject to normal standards of decency. This is, of course, the right's chief indictment of Bill Clinton - that as a man who considered himself a rare talent, smarter and better than all the rest, he was simply above the ordinary laws of human interaction. So it is disturbing for someone like me, who wants more people to consider Franken's point of view, to see him follow the same deadly alienating path. My advice: enjoy the book, but hope that Franken learns something from his son, who (as described in the Bob Jones University chapter) seems far less self-centered and ego-bloated, and, therefore, more able to connect with the non-stars among us.
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