The Truth (with jokes)
by Al Franken
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Author: Al FrankenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-26
ISBN: 0452287677
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Plume
Book Reviews of The Truth (with jokes)
Book Review: Michael Savage's alter ego on the Left --Extreme fringe contextually misleading divisiveness
Summary: 1 Stars
This book is all about selectively attacking conservative at the expense of the truth.
Rabid and hate filled ideologues like Savage, Coulter, Moore, and Franken are dividing this nation by praying on uninformed and generally decent American people, It is time we called out these haters for what they are:
Lying liars!
These ideologues divide America and support their "findings" in a ridiculously unscientific contextually flawed manner designed solely to promote their hardwired ideology at the expense of truth. Considering the title, ironic isn't it.
For example, Franken spends a opening chapter attacking the Bush administration for hyping the terrorist threat after 9/11 with continual alerts. Hypocritically, Franken then criticizes the Bush administration for not hyping the terrorist threat prior to 9/11.
So in Franken's bizarro world, if you are a conservative, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
In later chapters,he spends considerable ink condemning corruption in government --- and yeah you guessed it -- all of them conservatives.
Ideologues like divisive Franken are dangerous since they limit our gaze on corruption -- note that in the wake of this anti-prophetic rant the following progressive politicians have been exposed (I guarantee Franken won't be writing a sequel about these dishonest pols)
Jefferson, Edwards, Spitzer, Blagojevich, Reznick, Siegelman, to name a few.
Contradictions abound, for example, Franken rails against Bush's charge that future social security obligations must be met with "increased taxes and reduced benefits" yet....
On virtually the same page, Franken presents his solution to future solvency problems by, you guessed it --- increased taxes and withholding benefits to older retirees.
In an earlier chapter, Franken rails against conservative support for "sweat shops" in a Pacific Island protectorate, yet on virtually the same page condemns management for forcing a worker to choose between having a baby or quit?!
Now if the sweat shop was so heinous, why would Franken want to defend the right of someone to work there???
In addition, since the women presumably had an abortion in order to retain her job "in a sweat shop hell" by using Franken's bizarre "logic" since Congressman Delay supports business in this island enclave, he is a supporter of abortion too?!
I wonder what Franken would say about Nancy Pelosi's minimum wage plan that extended to everyone except a small island in the Pacific that was home to a fish processing plant run as a "sweat shop" that coincidently happened to be a big contributor to her campaign --- yeah you guessed it -- you won't hear a peep from this divisive partisan liar.
This is an example of the incredible liberties Franken takes with logic. In his bizarro world, you are guilty by association if your in the same room with someone years removed from a supposed indiscretion.
In summary, it is time AMericans rid the political landscape of Liars like Franken on both sides of the political spectrum and return political discourse to civility, objectivity, and science.
Summary of The Truth (with jokes)
Al Franken?s landmark bestseller, Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was praised as a ?bitterly funny assault? (zThe New York Times) that rang ?with the moral clarity of an angel?s trumpet? (The Associated Press). Now, this master of political humor strikes again with a powerful and provocative message for all of us.
In these pages, Al reveals the alarming story of how:
- Bush (barely) beat Kerry with his campaign of ?fear, smear, and queers,? and then claimed a nonexistent mandate.
- ?Casino Jack? Abramoff, the Republicans? nearest and dearest friend, made millions of dollars off of the unspeakable misery of the poor and the powerless. And, also, Native Americans.
- The administration successfully implemented its strategy to destroy America?s credibility and goodwill around the world.
Complete with new material for this paperback edition, The Truth (with jokes) is more than just entertaining, intelligent, and insightful. It is at once prescient in its analysis of right-wing mendacity and incompetence, and inspiring in its vision of a better tomorrow for all Americans (except Jack Abramoff).
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
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