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Author Franken, Al.

Title Lies (and the lying liars who tell them) : a fair and balanced look at the right / Al Franken.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Dutton, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.9310207 F852l 2003    ---  Available
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  973.9310207 F852l 2003 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  320.52 Fra    ---  Available
Description xvii, 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-367).
Contents A note from the author -- Introduction -- Hummus -- Ann Coulter : nutcase -- You know who I don't like? Ann Coulter -- Liberals who hate America -- Loving America the Al Franken way -- I bitch-slap Bernie Goldberg -- The 2000 Presidential Election : how it disproved the hypothetical liberal media paradigm matrix -- Conclusion : a lesson learned -- Five get-rich-quick tips the Wall Street fat cats don't want you to know -- Chapter for American book by Kharap Juta -- I'm funnier than Kharap Juta -- The chapter on Fox -- Bill O'Reilly : lying, splotchy bully -- Hannity and Colmes -- The Blame-America's-Ex-President-First Crowd -- Operation ignore -- Our national dialogue on terrorism -- Humor in uniform -- Who created the tone? -- Did the tone change? -- Why did anyone think it would change? -- I grow discouraged about the tone -- I'm prudenized -- Paul Gigot is unable to defend an incredibly stupid Wall Street Journal editorial -- "This was not a memorial to Paul Wellstone" : a case study in right-wing lies -- I attend the White House correspondents dinner and annoy Karl Rove, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and the entire Fox News team -- The lying years -- Bush can't lose with Clinton's military -- Operation Chickenhawk : episode one -- Fun with racism -- I'm a bad liar -- Thank God for Jerry Falwell -- Abstinence heroes -- Abstinence heros 2 -- "By far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to those on the bottom" -- The waitress and the lawyer : a one-act play -- The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus -- I challenge Rich Lowry to a fight -- Vast lagoons of pig feces : the Bush environmental record -- I meet former First lady Barbara Bush and it doesn't go well -- My personal search for weapons of mass destruction -- The No Child Left Behind standardized test -- What is a lie? -- Sources and notes -- Meet TeamFranken -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes.
Subject Conservatism -- Humor.
United States -- Politics and government -- Humor.
Political satire, American.
ISBN 0525947647

 
    
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