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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Written by Al Franken
Narrated by Al Franken
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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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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a quick and entertaining read. He does point out many inconsistencies present in many conservatives’ arguments. Franken is a comedian, so the book reads a little fluffy. He talks a lot but repeats many points.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I never liked this book quite as much as Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, but the bonus chapter about the lawsuit over this book is alone worth the price.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Well researched response to the ring-wing media and political hacks. Interesting and entertaining read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wonderfully witty barbs thrown with a seasoned flair. This is a definitive rout of the so-called "fair and balanced" news network. Keep up the good work, Al!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A tongue and cheek look at the hypocrisy of the conservative movement in American politics.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Franken brilliantly takes what should be making us cry and manages to have us laughing about it. Provided you agree with Al Franken's politics, which, If you're reading the book, you probably do. Or you're some sort of masochist.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A decent book. I like any book that takes down the blowhards that are on the Fox News Channel.Some of his stuff seems a bit like grandstanding. Especially his trip to Bob Jones University. What was the point of that?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not as funny as Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, but still an entertaining read. I loved "Supply Side Jesus."
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As with all of Franken's books, the humor in this one is spotty, and in a few places unintentional. Overall, he does have some good points to make, but he demonstrates a certain naivete and gullibility in selecting the data he chooses to include. Driven by a relentless centrism, he seems to be saying, in the end, can't we all just get along? Whether for good or bad, the answer to that appears to be no.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Something of a letdown from Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot. Franken forgets he's a comedian in some of these pieces. Maybe he felt that, considering his pending run for the Senate, he needed to sober up a little. In God's name, why? At least he'd be one senator who got paid money to make people laugh. His little sketch of Barbara Bush is pretty good, though.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Political matter tends to be depressing, but Franken managed to breathe life and laughter onto a dreary-looking political landscape. His research is undeniably sound. My only gripe has been addressed in another review --- the not-so-spectacular finish of the work.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great book, a little draggy and preachy in parts. Brilliant humor. Anyone with even a slight right wing leaning will hate this.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Funny yet well researched.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Listening to Al Franken read this book is the only way to hear it. It's his book and he does an excellent job of telling his story.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Like Al's radio show, the information is a lot better than the humor. Al's a funny guy when the flow is natural, but he tries way too hard at times. Still, there's a lot of great information in here.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I picked this book up as I think it was mentioned in Michael Moore's - Dude! Where's My Country? And since I enjoyed that it follows that this might be a good follow on book. While I wasn't disappointed, I think I was a bit out of depth as the material covered in this book was a lot more people specific and since I don't live in America I wasn't always sure of the context or history of the person being discussed. This wasn't a bad thing though as the author's style was very humorous which carried through to even a non-American like myself. The book also manages to pack 43 chapters into 379 pages so a lot of different topics are covered many of which interrelate. One interesting observation is that the Author (a male) almost always defaults to using women of female pronouns when illustrating something not involving real people - not something you come across every day. I enjoyed this book!From the back cover - A fair, balanced, even-handed (and slightly left-of-centre) look at the greedy, evil, warmongering bigots and scumbags of the American right ...Al Franken's storming bestseller has already had America up in arms over the exposure of lying right wing politicians and pundits, now you can find out why.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was a fan of al franken’s work on SNL and I found this book absolutely hilarious. The audio book is read by the author which makes the delivery perfect as well.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. A book you should get on tape to hear Franken read it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the best progressive book
I've read--comedic and coherent. Al Franken is a latter day Will Rogers. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A hilarious book. I actually did laugh out loud while reading this book. It's hard not to laugh at his Ann Coulter comments.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Loved this book! Great to listen to Franken!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It's preaching to the choir--I mean who else is going to read it? but I loved every scathing word of it. Franken delivers facts with incredibly fine humor and tidy scholarship.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/503/01/2004 Ok whereas Michael Moore in my mind goes over the top, Al manages to do it and make you laugh. This book is just too funny and sadly enough cuts close to the bone. I've recommended and lent this book out to several people but if you give it to a conservative you will end up with a Michael Savage book in return - a poor exchange.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lies is probably my favorite of Franken’s books. Funny yet informative, Lies takes on the big names in conservative media and politics while remaining funny the entire time. Franken uses the right-wing tactics used to bash liberals against them. Franken balances the humor and the information perfectly in Lies. A great read for anyone who enjoys a little conservative bashing, political humor, or even just a couple of ironic and funny stories of Al Franken’s life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In a hilarious book about the lies that the Conservative media and Republican politicians put out is fantastic. Although, occasionally it's hard to distinguish between what's fact and what's just Franken exaggerating, the book contains many good points, and you'd have to be a Conservative (or Ann Coulter) to not like this book.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Believe it or not I really did enjoy reading this book. The premise of it, in my opinion, is that Al Franken and his Harvard-financed rag-tag team of hand-picked Republican haters (hereafter called TeamFranken) set out to show that any popular political pundit who criticizes Democrats has lied, and because of this we should never believe anything they say. His main targets are Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, the Bush administration, and Bill O'Reilly. Along the way he smacks around Bernard Goldberg and Fox News. For the most part he does point out some pretty suspect behavior.Since Franken was a writer for Saturday Night Live, the book was funny, in a satirical way. Toward the end of the book though, TeamFranken breaks from their theme and starts in on why the GOP stole the election, why Clinton was the greatest President, and why all things liberal are way better than all things conservative. For me this was where he lost his credibility. While I didn't feel like fact-checking every piece of information in the book, there were some items (the election and Iraq come to mind) that have been hashed and re-hashed so much that even I could see that TeamFranken were the ones lying and misleading. Also Bernard Goldberg does a much better job of pointing out problems with the MAINSTREAM media being liberally slanted in his book than TeamFranken could even begin to refute. Franken spent much of their time bashing the Washington Post, FoxNews, and the Wall Street Journal.It was entertaining to see his attack on Bob Jones University backfire. He basically lied to them about being interested in enrolling his nephew there. He does say they were very friendly and not too threatening with their ideals. But that doesn't stop him from trying to tie the University's founder to Nazi Germany by way of some valuable campus art. Of course the reason he tells the Bob Jones story is to point out that to be a good liar you must be really mean and have no ethics or morals. He therefore is not a good liar. He is a liberal, and liberals are good.A lot of the rest of the topics included Barbara Bush, the Wellstone memorial, the tone in Washington, the environment, racism, education, and weapons of mass destruction. Franken's issues with these topics may have some truth behind them, but in my opinion, his complaints all boil down to politics. Both sides are going to massage statistics and subtly mislead people to get votes. I didn't put much stock in these rants. As Franken himself says (twice), "statistics don't lie". But you CAN interpret them to suit your argument.At the end of the day, though, this was a Republican bashing book in much the same vein as a Hannity or Coulter book. Read this book if you're a member of the choir.