Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
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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, Lies sticks it to the most right-wing administration in memory, and to the right-wing media hacks who do its bidding. The New York Times Note to Bill O'Reilly, the de facto publicist for Lies thanks to Fox News's hapless efforts to block its publication: Never say "Never said it" or "You can't find a transcript where I said it" when a man with 14 researchers is on your trail. In a book that baits its targets with varying degrees of success, Mr. Franken makes a bull's-eye out of Mr. O'Reilly. First the prize: he shows how Mr. O'Reilly's erroneous claim that he won a Peabody Award evolved into even bigger fibs once it was challenged. — Janet Maslin
A Note from the AuthorIntroduction1Hummus12Ann Coulter: Nutcase53You Know Who I Don't Like? Ann Coulter174Liberals Who Hate America215Loving America the Al Franken Way246I Bitch-Slap Bernie Goldberg287The 2000 Presidential Election: How It Disproved the Hypothetical Liberal Media Paradigm Matrix378Conclusion: A Lesson Learned519Five Get-Rich-Quick Tips the Wall Street Fat Cats Don't Want You to Know5210Chapter for American Book by Kharap Juta5611I'm Funnier than Kharap Juta5712The Chapter on Fox5813Bill O'Reilly: Lying, Splotchy Bully6514Hannity and Colmes8315The Blame-America's-Ex-President-First Crowd10416Operation Ignore11517Our National Dialogue on Terrorism12318Humor in Uniform12419Who Created the Tone?13220Did the Tone Change?14221Why Did Anyone Think It Would Change?14322I Grow Discouraged About the Tone15223I'm Prudenized16524Paul Gigot Is Unable to Defend an Incredibly Stupid Wall Street Journal Editorial17025"This Was Not a Memorial to Paul Wellstone": A Case Study in Right-Wing Lies17726I Attend the White House Correspondents Dinner and Annoy Karl Rove, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and the Entire Fox News Team20627The Lying Years21728Bush Can't Lose With Clinton's Military22029Operation Chickenhawk: Episode One22630Fun with Racism25231I'm a Bad Liar26132Thank God for Jerry Falwell27733Abstinence Heroes28334Abstinence Heroes II28735"By Far the Vast Majority of My Tax Cuts Go to Those at the Bottom"28836The Waitress and the Lawyer: A One-Act Play30437The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus31338I Challenge Rich Lowry to a Fight32439Vast Lagoons of Pig Feces: The Bush Environmental Record32840I Meet Former First Lady Barbara Bush and It Doesn't Go Well33641My Personal Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction34242The No Child Left Behind Standardized Test34943What Is a Lie?352Sources and Notes355Meet TeamFranken369Acknowledgments373Endnotes379
