Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken

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  • Pub. Date: August 2003
  • 377pp

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    • Pub. Date: August 2003
    • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
    • Format: Hardcover, 377pp

    Synopsis

    For the first time since his bestselling RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT, Franken trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene. Now, the "master of political humor" (Washington Post) destroys the myth of liberal bias in the media and exposes how the Right shamelessly tries to deceive the rest of us. No one is spared as Al uses the Right's own words against them: not Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes, the entire Fox network nor the Bush administration. This is the book Al Franken fans have been waiting for (and his foes have been dreading).

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    Note to Bill O'Reilly, the de facto publicist for Lies thanks to Fox News's hapless efforts to block its publication: Never say "Never said it" or "You can't find a transcript where I said it" when a man with 14 researchers is on your trail. In a book that baits its targets with varying degrees of success, Mr. Franken makes a bull's-eye out of Mr. O'Reilly. First the prize: he shows how Mr. O'Reilly's erroneous claim that he won a Peabody Award evolved into even bigger fibs once it was challenged. — Janet Maslin

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    Al Franken’s comedy is a unique blend of outright silliness and scathingly intelligent political satire. Often thriving on controversy, Franken began his stand-up career while in high school and has been entertaining fans from the television studio, the big screen, or the pages of his books ever since.

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    Truths, and the honest people who write themby Ankenman

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    January 23, 2009: I felt that this book was a great source of insight into the side of politics that most conservatives won't even look at. Al Franken has a terriffic blend of, what seems like, sardonic humor mixed with solid research. Having said that, I found myself at a loss sometimes in this book, not exactly knowing how to take a certain joke, as it seemed that it would have to have been said in person. Also, it isn't all to friendly to the people who don't really know much about Liberals or Conservatives, I'm one of them, so to those types of readers, I think it would be a challenge to try to understand what Franken is writing about in his book. I had to personally look up definitions of Liberals and Conservatives, which is a good thing seeing as how that meant I enjoyed the book immensely, but bad because it should have been laid out in the beginning. In all fairness though, I doubt anyone who didn't know anything about the two sides would try to muscle their way through the book. My favorite part was the story, "Operation Chickenhawk: Episode One". It blended such a wonderful sense of humor, poking fun at actual political battles that went on in America, but also at, most likely, personal dislikes of certain choice American representatives. In conclusion, Al Franken is a brilliant author, but luckily gives credit where it's due, so to TeamFranken, I congratulate you on a successful book, and I learned a lot from your research. Thank you.

    A Perfect Masterpieceby Anonymous

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    January 09, 2009: Lies
    By Al Franken

    The book Lies And the lying Liars Who Tell Them is a great political book to read for people that are at least fifteen years old. Not only because of its accuracy but how Al Franken. It is a mix of comidec responces, and also serious responses throughout the book. Another thing Al franken does is he shows how the Newspapers and publicity takes sides. For instance there is a graph in his book that shows violent crimes for Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. What he shows the same graph twice but one that Newspapers or Magazines can show with foul play. His untamperd graph shows little difference wich makes the violence levels almost the same. But the graph that uses foul play shows that Reagan has majorly reduced violence crimes. While Bush?s and Clintons bars seam like thir going to busrt off of the book.
    This book can?t be praised enough for how much work he put into it, three hundred and Seventy-seven pages of pure genious. But he sticks to his point. That?s point is the liars that leed our country. But in the beginning of the chapter the Lying years was a part of the book that really made me think. One thing he wrote was ?Bush lied while claiming that Clinton had undermined the readiness of the military.? Now on the same page, page 217; he wrote direct quotes from Carl Levin and Richard Armitage. Carl Levin says ?But I want to get back to the two divisions not being ready for duty, becase Mr. Amtiage has not answerd that. Are those divistions ready for duty, or arent they.? Armitage says ?I believe those two divsions, Senator, are ready for duty.
    As Levin answers, ?That?s not what Governor Bush said the other night, and that?s why I think an appology is apropiate.?
    On the next page Al Franken crituques this information and even tells that instead of apolagizing , he bolted from the hearing room, knocking over a veteran reporter, breaking her hip and jaw. All of this information just shows how much information Al Franken put into this book. Now if you want a book opening the truth in politicks, seeing cold hard facts, and finally laghing on how he alborates on these subjects. This will be a great book for you.


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