"I love this book, Al Franken's Lying, Liars, And So On And So On And So On. I think it's deliberately a little long. I think he's imitating the style of the people he's criticizing, and the one that comes best quickly to mind is Anne Coulter's book. I was recently kicked off of Anne Coulter's web page for disrespecting Anne Coulter, so I have an axe to grind. But I went on Al Franken's web page and there's a whole board there about how Al Franken himself is a lying liar. To tell the truth, I admire him more because he allows himself to be disrespected.
Conservatives say that the whole media is liberal. One of the things that Al Franken does is to challenge that premise. For example, the 2000 election, you would expect if the media had a liberal bias that they would have backed the Democratic candidate, Al Gore. But in fact, there were more negative articles about Al Gore and more positive articles about George Bush.
The book goes through Anne Coulter, O'Reilly, Hannity of Hannity & Colmes, and there are several lesser mentions of people who have written various - or who have written or expressed on radio or television various conservative views.
I think that when you're the object of - when you are a member of a group that's constantly under attack, it feels good to have someone in that group speak back to the other side in the same terms that they're using. I think I would recommend it particularly to liberals who would like to see themselves affirmed and perhaps moved to action.
I would give it four stars. I would give it five, but I'd take off a star because he's a little mean spirited in the places and because I think he lets his humor get in the way of a joke - lets his humor get in the way of the truth sometimes."
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