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Summary: The Left's Only Viable Choice
Review: It seems that in today's world the Left has only two choices:
Humor and Anger. Radical Liberals choose to express their dissatisfaction with the media and politics with anger. They can not believe where the country stands and are angered by its leaderships decisions and direction. Anger is not appealing to a moderate electorate. Even if a situation in politics or the media is painful and distasteful getting angry at this only means to prod the wound as if to remind oneself that it is still present. Franken chooses a different approach for his memoir on the current state of the media and politics. Dabbing into anger only when absolutely necessary, only when Franken's chosen medium isn't enough.. Franken's medium is Humor. Not to say humor doesn't achieve the same ends. Robert Heinlein in his novel _A Stranger in a Strange Land_ once put humor as being a human development to cope with pain. When something becomes so uncomfortable or distasteful or outright painful, you have to laugh at it. If you get angry you only breed more pain. Humor is the one way to cope with the lies, and discourse that the Right has so insidiously ingrained. When the fate of the Nation can be decided by people who are either Liberal or Conservative, when the very foundation can be changed by people on either side, you have to do something to alleviate the pain that this can cause. You have to laugh. Right now Liberals have to laugh because all they see is the painful truth. When the Right stops telling lies and start preaching the truth, it will be there turn to laugh. When that happens Franken may need to change careers, or change idealogies, much to my dismay.
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Summary: You'll laugh, you'll cry...
Review: It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud when I'm reading something, but Al's book does it all the time. Thanks, Al! It takes even more to make me cry, and while I didn't actually produce tears, the chapter on the Wellstone memorial really pulled at the ol' heart strings. How come there are no funny right-wingers? I guess it takes a certain level of intelligence for wit. Though I found the following excerpt from a One-star reviewer pretty damn funny:
"The Federal government, with a trillion dollar payroll, is way too big and the only party willing to reduce its size is the Republican Party. 3) Democrats acquire and keep power by keeping the government large by collecting gigantic sums and spending even larger sums." After Clinton and Gore reduced the size of the government bloated by Republican presidents (and erased the Republican-created deficits), the current Republican pResident is not only creating a massive government but is creating a deficit to match. (He has an awful lot of friends in high places to pay off). If this reviewer had managed to read the book he would have been able to read how other open-minded right-wingers are spoon-fed this drivel from Faux News and the fat liar in chief, Limbaugh. Folks. (Does that use of "folks" turn anybody else off? Don't "folk" with me.) Buy the book. Buy two copies--I did. Lend them out to people who can't afford to buy it. You'll be doing your part to deflate the gaseous windbags Satan has saddled us with. Yeah, it's hard to fight them, but so folking easy to laugh at them. Keep up the good work, Al!
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Summary: In Spite of the Cheap Shot Title
Review: It turns out that there are quite a few lies and distortions in this book. Unfortunately for Mr. Franken, nearly all are his. I imagine he'll sell quite a few of these books to bitter people who have been trained to feed off of the government or to ease their consciences by letting the government take their money and throw it at problems for which they have no other solution.
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Summary: Should have just been titled Lies
Review: It was a good read overall. The only point I have a problem with is using the same tools and methods described by Mr. Franken himself you could spin the facts he presents as well. As much as he slams Rush and Hannity for being on one side he approaches the opposite side with the same blind devotion. In their eyes Bush can do no wrong and the way Mr. Franken talks about Clinton you could almost picture Al following Bill around like a lost puppy. Both sides have issues and neither side is without a flaw, if anything I can thank both Rush and Mr. Franken for pushing me into seeking out a third party that is not simply a puppet with a different face.
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Summary: Funny and Intelligent
Review: It was a pleasure to read Al Franken's book about the lies of the far right pundits. The book is full of laughs and interesting observations. While it is funny to read about the obvious lies of idiots like Anne Coulter, it is also scary that the propaganda of the far right has taken hold of many Americans. Like many of the readers, my favorite part was "Supply-side Jesus" which lampoons the hypocrisy and self-righteousness of the religious right.
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Summary: Thank GOD - a hilarious, well written tome from the LEFT!
Review: It was a pure delight to read Franken blowing away the well-oiled, well-financed right-wing propaganda machine. Al takes on all comers, such as Ann Coulter (who was long overdue), Bill O'Reilly, the myth of the liberal media in the 2000 stolen election (which is backed up by a real study) and all the rest. No matter your political persuasion, give this book a look with an open mind and your laughing gun cocked. I would imagine if you are a conservative, you aren't interested, but if you are conservative, you may be surprised at the proof Franken offers up to debunk a lot of characters on the right. I don't want to give it all away, but Al leaves "O'Lie-lly," as he calls him, standing naked in public without a towel for the world to see. Exposing Bill's lie about his former show, Inside Edition, winning a Peabody, his voter registration record, and O'Reilly's tactics when someone confronts him with one of his own lies, Al gives Bill what's long been coming to him. Not only is this book a great counterattack to all of the radical schnooks on the right, it's also well documented and researched, unlike Coulter's blarney. I'm not only proud to own the hardcover edition of this book, which I occasionally open up for reading and laughter from time to time, but this book makes me proud to be a Democrat. It's a must have for anyone who is tired of the right wing's incessant lying and distortion of the facts under this current administration. Buy it buy it buy it! I'm waiting with bated breath what Al has to say about Rush's latest slip ups, the latest lies of the right, et al in his next book. I'll buy an advanced copy right now!
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Summary: I actually READ this book COVER to COVER
Review: It was boring. Very boring. It was about LIES. And the LYING LIARS who tell them. I hated it. Al Franken is NOT a funny man. In fact, he's a little sad man. (Another reviewer wrote that). Also, he's a STUPID MAN (he obviously didn't go to a very good school, as another reviewer points out). But worse than anything, he's BORING. He's BORING, and it was PAINFUL to read this book. Because everyone knows, that the TRUTH is sometimes BORING and PAINFUL. I HATED this book. Because the VAST MAJORITY of it is TRUE. Yes I HATED it. And you'll probably HATE it too.
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Summary: So Funny
Review: It was so funny I peed on my dog! Al Franken is the man, too bad he didnt go off on Dennis Miller.
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Summary: If there was a liar out there
Review: it would be this guy. I appreciated what he has done in the past but he really goes over the edge. His book brings down the level of discourse in this society and it is a real shame to see him embraced by so many. The loudest mouth gets the attention and this book is an example of that.
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Summary: Slander
Review: It's a free country. This book is full of hate and lies.
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