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Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right - Al Franken
Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
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Listen to Al Franken as interviewed by Dan Susskind of Another Perspective on VoiceAmerica.com! Get the free Real Player Al Franken, one of our “savviest satirists” (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of “slander,” “bias,” and even “treason.”... show more
Listen to Al Franken as interviewed by Dan Susskind of Another Perspective on VoiceAmerica.com! Get the free Real Player Al Franken, one of our “savviest satirists” (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of “slander,” “bias,” and even “treason.” He has examined the Bush administration’s policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He’s even watched Fox News. A lot. And, in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely and candidly exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying liars. Al destroys the liberal media bias myth by doing what his targets seem incapable of: getting his facts straight. Using the Right’s own words against them, he takes on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues, in the most talked about book of the year. Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always funny, Lies sticks it to the most right-wing administration in memory, and to the right-wing media hacks who do its bidding.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780452285217 (0452285216)
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 421
Edition language: English
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Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
4.0 Lies and the Lying Liars Al Franken
It seems the only way to be a liberal partisan is as a humorist. I'd like to think that every book he sold brought Franken closer to the senate. Hey, maybe that means Jon Stewart will run for senate? Library copy
TheBecks
TheBecks rated it
I don't know if I would necessarily call this "fair and balanced" but I get the pun. I will say that this was interesting and I jotted down quite a few things to look into more on my own. I may lean more toward Franken's side of the debate, and I think that he did a heck of a lot more research than,...
EricCWelch
EricCWelch rated it
This very funny but extremely serious book goes after the deliberate falsehoods perpetrated by the right-wing on "liberals."As you may know, the Fox Network went after Franken for trademark infringement because he used the phrase "fair and balanced." The judge threw out the suit as completely ludicr...
wealhtheow
wealhtheow rated it
I agree with Franken's points, but he doesn't make them very well. I'm not sure we need more vitrolic rhetoric in today's political debate.
The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it
4.0 Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Even though this book is very satirical and funny, there's also a lot of good information here---things I didn't know about certain conservative morons. Also, unlike his less-intelligent detractors, Franken also provides documentation for his claims.
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