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Title: The Truth (with jokes)
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| The Truth (with jokes) by Dutton Adult wonderful! | Great book!!!!!!!!
Desperately waiting for his next upcoming expose of Republicans:
TAX CHEATING AND THE CHEATING CHEATERS WHO MAKE ALL THE REST OF US PAY MORE.
Go, Al, go!!!!!!!!
| | The Truth (with jokes) by Dutton Adult An Extremely Important Book! | Al Franken the Truth with Jokes
Although funny in spots, and often ironic!, this book may make you cry. It describes exactly how we were sold a phony war and a phony candidate in 2000 and 2004...and numerous other Republican and evil agenda goings-on behind the scenes to TWIST public opinion in a particular direction. This book is an extremely valuable must-read. --Wally
| | The Truth (with jokes) by Dutton Adult I'm Livid: It's True! | | Al Franken, whom I've loved since Saturday Night Live's Dailey Affirmation with Stuart Smalley, is brilliant in this book. I've been listening to the audio book, and I am consistently surprised and confirmed in where I stand politically...I am basically disgusted with politics and the false webs politicians weave. He tells lies about liars which I fully support. He tells truths about these liars, too, which, is not in his political interest. He also points out non-partisan view-points, which every Obama or McCain fan can appreciate. READ THIS BOOK! | | The Truth (with jokes) by Dutton Adult Pistols at Dawn | I read a book each by a conservative pundit and a liberal pundit. This is what I learned (ahhh, the magic of copy and paste):
Pundits are worthless. In fact, they are worse than worthless because they encourage people to do as little thinking and finding out as humanly possible. By polarizing public opinion, they force otherwise intelligent, capable people to choose sides. Instead of educating themselves and coming to their own conclusions about issues that really matter, fans of one or the other spend a tremendous amount of time and effort supporting or refuting their favorite or least favorite pundit. The goal of any pundit is to take the place of the issues and become the discussable topic.
Pundits speak to their choir and say things and say them in such a way no ordinary person would dream to. Thanks to pundits and the people who make them rich and famous, public discourse has become, effectively, an oxymoron. For a pundit to be unbiased would be for that pundit to commit employment suicide. The moment they sound reasonable, the moment they lack controversy, their audience loses interest & they become just another struggling entertainer.
Yeah, I read the book. Every page of it. I can't say that I agree or disagree with anything Franken writes because I don't for a moment pretend Franken has any interest in his own opinion, much less mine. The book is little more than a compendium of rants, insults, & made up and manipulated "facts" and generic simplistic liberal understandings of complex situations. I hear this glorified celebrity is running for Senate in Minnesota. Those poor people. First the weather, then the Vikings, then Jesse Ventura, now this.
Franken is, like all pundits, for himself first, last and always. He cheerfully serves as a mouthpiece for his followers and a lightening rod for his detractors because, for a celebrity, no attention is bad attention. All attention is cash and fame to to a pundit. Pundits are like astrologers: anything they say should come with the warning "for entertainment purposes only." In the end, it becomes a chicken vs. egg dilemma. Do pundits reflect public opinion or do pundits make public opinion or a little of both? | | The Truth (with jokes) by Dutton Adult Franken Brings Truth to Power | In this book, Franken tries to turn a corner from a remarkably humorous satirist who accompanies his satire with facts, to a political candidate who is emphasizing progressive change, and salting this candidacy with his intelligent wit.
This is a hard line to walk--and an admirable one. He clearly wants to make a difference, his mind and heart are in the right place, he is knowledgeable about policy, and he demonstrates in this book his ability to be a substantive candidate.
This is clearly not a "celebrity" candidacy ala those we have seen in the past. He is a clear-thinking progressive, who happens to have a great sense of humor.
Franken recognized that if he wrote a straight-out policy book, few but movement progressives would likely have read it. He creates a compelling hybrid here, and a bridge.
Like all of Frankens work--worth reading for the humor. More important, also worth reading for the policy and substance. Buy it. | | The Truth (with jokes) by Dutton Adult Product Description | | Al Franken is “the perfect guy to write a book attacking America’s nasty, mean, vicious right-wing pols, pundits and preachers,” wrote The Washington Post in its review of Lies. “But his book barely scratches the surface of the Bush administration’s well-documented mendacity... Looks like Franken will have plenty of material for a sequel.” The Republicans won the White House and Congress in November. In Fall 2005, Al Franken strikes back. His new book picks up where Lies and The Al Franken Show leave off. Armed with an arsenal of facts and research (and comedy!), Al is ready to take the fight to the Bush administration and their right-wing cronies. Intelligent, insightful, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny, Al’s hard-hitting work of political satire is poised to become the most talked about book of the year. Praise for Lies
“Brilliant... A serious and riotous retort ... searingly funny.”
—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
“Franken has something that his targets conspicuously lack—a sense of humor. This book is laugh-out-loud funny.”
—The Washington Post
“Lies gets big laughs... Amusing, true and cleverly put... Mr. Franken’s best work.”
—The Dallas Morning News
“Lies rings with the moral clarity of an angel’s trumpet... sharp analysis and humor.”
—Associated Press | | The Truth (with jokes) by Dutton Adult Amazon.com | | Nearly a year after the presidential election of 2004, Al Franken is still checking facts, exposing lies, and trying to clear the record as he sees it. Sneering at President Bush's declaration of a mandate after a two-and-a-half percent victory, he deconstructs Bush's 2004 platform of "fear, smear, and queers," and explains how the president has done some flip-flopping of his own. He offers comment on well-known stories, including the Terri Schiavo case, and some more obscure, such as reports of forced prostitution, indentured servitude, and squalid conditions at clothing factories in Saipan (which is part of the American Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Franken focuses on Tom DeLay's connection to the territory and his efforts to prevent bills from being passed that would have required Saipan to follow U.S. labor laws. Iraq, too, is discussed, from its planning stages to the huge sum of money currently unaccounted for, including $8.8 billion missing from the Coalition Provisional Authority's coffers. On the home front, Franken covers President Bush's attempt at Social Security reform, explaining how they came up with the projected shortfall figure of $11 trillion. For one thing, they adjusted life expectancy to 150 years, while leaving the retirement age at 67: "That's an eighty-three-year retirement. They're never gonna get to that without stem cell research." He also takes some wickedly funny swipes at Karl Rove, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pundits and hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Tim Russert, and Sean Hannity, and, of course, President Bush. The Truth succeeds in providing ammunition to liberals and others dissatisfied with the current power base in Washington, D.C.--only this time (with jokes). --Shawn Carkonen An Exclusive Video for The Truth (with jokes) from Al Franken  We try to keep things civil in our customer review section, but Al Franken, who apparently trained at the Saturday Night Live school of conflict mediation, didn't get the message in his exclusive video for his book The Truth (with Jokes): see high bandwidth and low bandwidth versions. |
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