Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
A #1 New York Times Bestseller 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 administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the...
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A #1 New York Times Bestseller 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 administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He's even watched Fox News. In this fair and balanced report, Al bravely and candidly destroys the liberal media bias myth by doing what his targets seem incapable of: getting his facts straight.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780786262090 (0786262095)
Publish date: March 2nd 2004
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 650
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Comedy,
History,
Literature,
American,
Adult,
Politics,
Political Science
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
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,...
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...
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.
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.
18 years ago
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