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102 reviews for:
Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Al Franken
3.77 AVERAGE
102 reviews for:
Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Al Franken
3.77 AVERAGE
It's a bit dated in that Bush was in office when it was written, but unfortunately a lot of the folks whose lies he points out still have a microphone: Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Hannity, Rush, Karl Rove...
Funny how O'Reilly's splotchy face doesnt make it to the web page....
I love this man. And this book was published in the near enough and distant enough past that I didn’t want to vomit from reading it as I would with anything about politics now. The lies manufactured and spewed by Fox News talking heads that Al Franken debunks here are what built the media and political climate we are seeing now.
It was both sad and eye-opening to read this well-researched book. You can see how we have been building to this type of environment - it's not just Trump. If you read this book in 2003, you wouldn't be surprised at all to see where we are today. It was eerily familiar. My thought was that the only difference between then and now is that rather than the Karl Rove "character" being the advisor, he is now the president. Al Franken believed - at the time at least - that George W Bush was complicit, not just malleable.
After reflecting for a day on this, it certainly seems like the Republican party leaders, as well as the peripheral entities - Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, etc. - are just awful people. The "middle" players I'm sure are a mix. (I must say that the Democratic leadership seems incompetent in many ways - but at least not sinister and calculating. It made me ill reading some of this book.)
After reflecting for a day on this, it certainly seems like the Republican party leaders, as well as the peripheral entities - Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, etc. - are just awful people. The "middle" players I'm sure are a mix. (I must say that the Democratic leadership seems incompetent in many ways - but at least not sinister and calculating. It made me ill reading some of this book.)
Franken launches entertaining rockets at the right.
It's okay. I think that this is a tough topic to tackle for the length of a book, and though humorous, I don't know that my interest was carried through the whole thing. It's hard for me to want to read about politics, because it's so overwhelmingly depressing.
Some parts in this book rattled on, & most of it was a funny re-telling of that which I mostly already knew and agreed with. So I started skimming for the funny parts, then it was hard to figure out which parts would be funny, so I skimmed a lot, then I didn't really finish it. I got about 2/3-3/4 of the way done.
I loved the Bill O'Reilly's "his tongue was inside her, moving rapidly" quote!!! OMG. There's a little bit of laughter and a little bit of horror! It's pretty much seared onto my brain FOREVER.
Some parts in this book rattled on, & most of it was a funny re-telling of that which I mostly already knew and agreed with. So I started skimming for the funny parts, then it was hard to figure out which parts would be funny, so I skimmed a lot, then I didn't really finish it. I got about 2/3-3/4 of the way done.
I loved the Bill O'Reilly's "his tongue was inside her, moving rapidly" quote!!! OMG. There's a little bit of laughter and a little bit of horror! It's pretty much seared onto my brain FOREVER.