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  The Truth (with jokes)

  by Al Franken

  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" ( The 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... (more)
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  Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

  A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

  by Al Franken

  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... (more)