andrea's review
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
by Al Franken
not as topical as you'd probably like... but still pretty funny.
So far I've really enjoyed the chapters deconstructing Ann Coulter's book... and not just because of my extreme distaste for her politics. As a nerdy wanna-be librarian its fun to see the databases I constantly use in my papers against one of the most hateful, nauseating, misinformed neo-cons ever!
I'm a couple years late in reading this, so most of this is just reaffirming what I already new about the radical right.
andrea's review
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
andrea's review
rating:
bookshelves:
nonfiction,
politics,
read-in-2008
I have to ask myself: If my politics leaned to the Right would I have enjoyed this book? If I had the capacity to recognize Quality Satire that expressed an opposing an opinion, would I feel the same way? I'm not sure. It's almost impossible to be truly objective. That being said, as a liberal, I enjoyed this book. I was probably a little late in picking it up (it's 2008, I believe the book was published in 2004?), and it basically reaffirmed things that are currently common knowlege (as well as reaffirming my existing political leanings).
As an aspiring librarian, I have to say that I thought it was truly masterful to read about how Franken/TeamFranken (his research team) debunked the ridiculous claims voiced by neo-cons like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly with the use of the LexisNexus database. The chapter about Bob Jones University had me in stitches. Finally, I did consider it poetic justice to read about Fox's copyright infringement claims being "laughed" out o...more
As an aspiring librarian, I have to say that I thought it was truly masterful to read about how Franken/TeamFranken (his research team) debunked the ridiculous claims voiced by neo-cons like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly with the use of the LexisNexus database. The chapter about Bob Jones University had me in stitches. Finally, I did consider it poetic justice to read about Fox's copyright infringement claims being "laughed" out o...more
not as topical as you'd probably like... but still pretty funny.
So far I've really enjoyed the chapters deconstructing Ann Coulter's book... and not just because of my extreme distaste for her politics. As a nerdy wanna-be librarian its fun to see the databases I constantly use in my papers against one of the most hateful, nauseating, misinformed neo-cons ever!I'm a couple years late in reading this, so most of this is just reaffirming what I already new about the radical right.