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Lies : and the lying liars who tell them : a fair and balanced look at the Right
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Offers a whimsical critique of the Right, exposing their deceptive practices, challenging conceptions about the media's liberal bias, and identifying inconsistencies in the Bush administration.
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- Creator
- Al Franken
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Dutton, ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0525947647, 9780525947646, 0713997907, 9780713997903
- OCLC
- ocm52909354, ocm53143432
- Includes bibliographical references.
- A note from the author -- Introduction -- 1. Hummus -- 2. Ann Coulter : nutcase -- 3. You know who I don't like? Ann Coulter -- 4. Liberals who hate America -- 5. Loving America the Al Franken way -- 6. I bitch-slap Bernie Goldberg -- 7. The 2000 Presidential Election : how it disproved the hypothetical liberal media paradigm matrix -- 8. Conclusion : a lesson learned -- 9. Five get-rich-quick tips the Wall Street fat cats don't want you to know -- 10. Chapter for american book / by Kharap Juta -- 11. I'm funnier than Kharap Juta -- 12. The chapter on Fox -- 13. Bill O'Reilly : lying, splotchy bully -- 14. Hannity and Colmes -- 15. The Blame-America's-Ex-President-First Crowd -- 16. Operation ignore -- 17. Our national dialogue on terrorism -- 18. Humor in uniform -- 19. Who created the tone? -- 20. Did the tone change? -- 21. Why did anyone think it would change? -- 22. I grow discouraged about the tone -- 23. I'm prudenized -- 24. Paul Gigot is unable to defend an incredibly stupid Wall Street Journal editorial -- 25. "This was not a memorial to Paul Wellstone" : a case study in right-wing lies -- 26. I attend the White House correspondents dinner and annoy Karl Rove, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and the entire Fox News team -- 27. The lying years -- 28. Bush can't lose with Clinton's military -- 29. Operation Chickenhawk : episode one -- 30. Fun with racism -- 31. I'm a bad liar -- 32. Thank God for Jerry Falwell -- 33. Abstinence heroes -- 34. Abstinence heroes II -- 35. "By far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to those on the bottom" -- 36. The waitress and the lawyer : a one-act play -- 37. The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus -- 38. I challenge Rich Lowry to a fight -- 39. Vast lagoons of pig feces : the Bush environmental record -- 40. I meet former First lady Barbara Bush and it doesn't go well -- 41. My personal search for weapons of mass destruction -- 42. The No Child Left Behind standardized test -- 43. What is a lie? -- Sources and notes -- Meet TeamFranken -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes
Subjects
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Humor.
- Conservatism -- United States -- Humor.
- Right and left (Political science) -- Humor.
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Political aspects -- United States -- Humor.
- Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- Humor.
- Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- Humor.
- Political culture -- United States -- Humor.
- Political satire, American.