Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

by Franken, Al

• ISBN13: 9780452285217
• ISBN10: 0452285216
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-27
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

Al Franken, one of our savviest satirists” (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of slander,” bias,” and even treason.” He has examined the Bush administration’s policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He’s even watched Fox News. A lot.And, in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely and candidly exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying liars. Al destroys the liberal media bias myth by doing what his targets seem incapable of: getting his facts straight. Using the Right’s own words against them, he takes on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues, in the most talked about book of the year.Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always funny, Liessticks it to the most right-wing administration in memory, and to the right-wing media hacks who do its bidding.

Author Biography

Al Franken is the #1 bestselling author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations; Why Not Me?; Oh, the Things I Know!; and I-'m Good Enough, I-'m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me! In 2003, he served as a Fellow with Harvard-'s Kennedy School of Government at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.

Table of Contents

A Note from the Author	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Hummus	p. 1
Ann Coulter: Nutcase	p. 5
You Know Who I Donit Like? Ann Coulter	p. 17
Liberals Who Hate America	p. 21
Loving America the Al Franken Way	p. 24
I Bitch-Slap Bernie Goldberg	p. 28
The 2000 Presidential Election: How It Disproved the Hypothetical Liberal Media Paradigm Matrix	p. 37
Conclusion: A Lesson Learned	p. 51
Five Get-Rich-Quick Tips the Wall Street Fat Cats Donit Want You to Know	p. 52
Chapter for American Book by Kharap Juta	p. 56
Iim Funnier than Kharap Juta	p. 57
The Chapter on Fox	p. 58
Bill OiReilly: Lying, Splotchy Bully	p. 65
Hannity and Colmes	p. 83
The Blame-Americais-Ex-President-First Crowd	p. 104
Operation Ignore	p. 115
Our National Dialogue on Terrorism	p. 123
Humor in Uniform	p. 124
Who Created the Tone?	p. 132
Did the Tone Change?	p. 142
Why Did Anyone Think It Would Change?	p. 143
I Grow Discouraged About the Tone	p. 152
Iim Prudenized	p. 165
Paul Gigot Is Unable to Defend an Incredibly Stupid Wall Street Journal Editorial	p. 170
This Was Not a Memorial to Paul Wellstonei: A Case Study in Right-Wing Lies	p. 177
I Attend the White House Correspondents Dinner and Annoy Karl Rove, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and the Entire Fox News Team	p. 206
The Lying Years	p. 217
Bush Canit Lose With Clintonis Military	p. 220
Operation Chickenhawk: Episode One	p. 226
Fun with Racism	p. 252
Iim a Bad Liar	p. 261
Thank God for Jerry Falwell	p. 277
Abstinence Heroes	p. 283
Abstinence Heroes II	p. 287
By Far the Vast Majority of My Tax Cuts Go to Those at the Bottomi	p. 288
The Waitress and the Lawyer: A One-Act Play	p. 304
The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus	p. 313
I Challenge Rich Lowry to a Fight	p. 324
Vast Lagoons of Pig Feces: The Bush Environmental Record	p. 328
I Meet Former First Lady Barbara Bush and It Doesnit Go Well	p. 336
My Personal Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction	p. 342
The No Child Left Behind Standardized Test	p. 349
What Is a Lie?	p. 352
Sources and Notes	p. 355
Meet TeamFranken	p. 369
Acknowledgments	p. 373
Endnotes	p. 379
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