Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

"Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.” ― Al Franken, Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right 4.5 stars. I guess one's enjoyment of this depends on how much they like Al Franken. This was......more

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......more

I would recommend this book to intellectual conservatives so that they simply have more ammo to disassociate themselves from the neo-cons. I actually respect true conservative thought and this administration was not it. At all. And Franken gives a funny, sometimes enraging, flogging of the neo-con m......more

Why I love this book: 1) Definitely one of the funniest book titles I've ever seen 2) Remember when, for years after 9/11, so many media and entertainment figures held themselves back from criticizing Bush administration? Al broke the silence quite a bit with this book, which was basically a "bullshi......more

I actually listened to Al Franken read this on Audio CD, and I loved it. The advantage here is that Al plays all the quotes by the people he's bashing (with a little more context) and he himself is just very funny how he reads. I know the subtitle's supposed to be a joke, but this book is WAY MORE fa......more