Franken, Al. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. New York, New York: Penguin Group Inc. 2003
With the recent presidential debates going through pretty much all of media, I got interested to the whole "conspiracy, biased media" thing and I picked up this book and i'm glad that I read through it. Al Franken's consistent reference to ACTUAL evidence, helped me see the politics in the media in a new light.
As for character, the people mentioned in this story being the majority of them republicans, has shown me that during the bush administraion, most of the lying republicans, have no sense of guilt for their lies toward the american people.
Throughout most of the book, Al Franken goes through a somewhat systematic way of going through all the republicans that lie on the face of television. It taught me that what everyone said about Fox news being biased is true. Al Franken had given concrete evidence to back up his statements about the crooked people in the Republican party, and how America has gone EXTREMELY down hill as Bush took office and the republican bias on fox news has infected many minds in america. How with the combination of Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, through the Fox News Network essentially lies on a daily basis that affects the majority of America. I know that there are bad democrats as well, but the fact that there is such a strong oppositional force coming from them, and the fact that if you think about it in retrospect, it is so obvious makes me kind of upset that they are jepoardizing America's future.
Al Franken was originally a comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live in the mid-late 70's and he grew up a democrat with is father. He has now written various books one in particularly wrote in a similar fashion, "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations," was given good reviews.
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