The Truth (with jokes)
by Al Franken
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Author: Al FrankenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-25
ISBN: 0525949062
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Dutton Adult
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Book Review: Franken are you hiring? debunking frankenlies.com so you don't have to.
Summary: 5 Stars
I debunk the perpetual lie about how "decietful" the left is with an obscure reference book called a thesaurus. I got this book as a christmas present (Franken's the truth... with jokes, the thesaurus I already owned) and I love it. Pretty darn hilarious given the horrible truths of our current predicament.
Dear Frankenlies.com
I'm posting this on amazon since I don't think you'll post it on your own site. This is in refrence to your 6th point titled the Aircraft Carrier I hope you take the time to read this and follow the links.
Here are links to the speech given by President Bush on May 1st.
President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/iraq/20030501-15.html
heres a link showing how the titlte was changed at a later date to reflect include the word major
http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/iraq-combat/
here is a link to the state dept that still says
President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rm/20203.htm
heres the title, the first and second paragraph
President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended
President George W. Bush
USS Abraham Lincoln
At Sea Off the Coast of San Diego, California
May 1, 2003
Thank you all very much. Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.
In this battle, we have fought for the cause of liberty, and for the peace of the world. Our nation and our coalition are proud of this accomplishment -- yet, it is you, the members of the United States military, who achieved it. Your courage, your willingness to face danger for your country and for each other, made this day possible. Because of you, our nation is more secure. Because of you, the tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
"President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended" or
"President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended" depending on where you look
**My view
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed" major being the most and ended meaning over. than the "united states and our allies have prevailed" prevailed meaning won. so most of it had ended and we won. What did we win? Now the second pargraph "we have fought" than "proud of this accomplishment" "who acheived it" fought is the past tense of the verb to fight, accomplishment signifies a completion or an end of something. "the unites states military achieved it", the past tense of the verb to achieve. Past tense being in the past. or over
**now your view
"we have difficult work to do in iraq"
"The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time"
when I think of difficult work I think of sweating and muscle fatigue, maybe a strained muscle. Work isn't attacks and bombs or death. of course that is just how I define work. maybe you define work as bombs and attacks- which is fine. but maybe a more literal person sees a large difference between the two.
** now your point "Franken's line has become a common deceit from the left." #6 of your website the aircraft carrier
The quote from page 50 of Frankens The Truth with jokes "he (being the president) declared the war over. "
I guess your percieved deciet is that Franken uses a common synonym for combat being war.
heres a link to a thesaurus.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=combat
action, battle royal, brush, brush-off, conflict, contest, encounter, engagement, fight, flap, fray, jackpot, mix-up, run-in, service, shoot-out, skirmish, struggle, war, warfare
**work isn't in there. BUT war and warfare are.
than looking up work
http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=work
assignment, attempt, bullwork, chore, commission, daily grind, donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, effort, elbow grease, endeavor, exertion, functioning, grind, grindstone, industry, job, moil, muscle, obligation, pains, performance, production, push, rally, rat race, salt mines, scutwork, servitude, slavery, slogging, stint, stress, striving, struggle, sweat, task, toil, travail, trial, trouble, undertaking.
**combat isn't in there either.
Maybe to be fair Franken should have said the president declared combat over.
or maybe he should have said the president declared major combat over.
But the point is that whether the president used the word major or not.
or whether he defines work as bombs and attacks - the hard part with the most cassualties was yet to come, while the president was signifying that it had already past.
Of course Franken didn't say the president said that the work was over because that would be a deceitful lie.
But if we were being fair than you would have included the title of the speech and the first paragraph along with your analysis.
I hope you take the time to consider my points as I have considered yours. Perhaps at best we will just have to part ways with a difference of opinion or a different understanding of the english language but that hardly constitutes a "deceitful lie from the left". Please contact me I would love to debate this further.
Donyele
Summary of The Truth (with jokes)
Al Franken is ?the perfect guy to write a book attacking America?s nasty, mean, vicious right-wing pols, pundits and preachers,? wrote The Washington Post in its review of Lies. ?But his book barely scratches the surface of the Bush administration?s well-documented mendacity... Looks like Franken will have plenty of material for a sequel.?The Republicans won the White House and Congress in November. In Fall 2005, Al Franken strikes back. His new book picks up where Lies and The Al Franken Show leave off. Armed with an arsenal of facts and research (and comedy!), Al is ready to take the fight to the Bush administration and their right-wing cronies. Intelligent, insightful, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny, Al?s hard-hitting work of political satire is poised to become the most talked about book of the year.
Praise for Lies
?Brilliant... A serious and riotous retort ... searingly funny.?
?Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
?Franken has something that his targets conspicuously lack?a sense of humor. This book is laugh-out-loud funny.?
?The Washington Post
?Lies gets big laughs... Amusing, true and cleverly put... Mr. Franken?s best work.?
?The Dallas Morning News
?Lies rings with the moral clarity of an angel?s trumpet... sharp analysis and humor.?
?Associated Press
Nearly a year after the presidential election of 2004, Al Franken is still checking facts, exposing lies, and trying to clear the record as he sees it. Sneering at President Bush's declaration of a mandate after a two-and-a-half percent victory, he deconstructs Bush's 2004 platform of "fear, smear, and queers," and explains how the president has done some flip-flopping of his own. He offers comment on well-known stories, including the Terri Schiavo case, and some more obscure, such as reports of forced prostitution, indentured servitude, and squalid conditions at clothing factories in Saipan (which is part of the American Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Franken focuses on Tom DeLay's connection to the territory and his efforts to prevent bills from being passed that would have required Saipan to follow U.S. labor laws. Iraq, too, is discussed, from its planning stages to the huge sum of money currently unaccounted for, including $8.8 billion missing from the Coalition Provisional Authority's coffers.
On the home front, Franken covers President Bush's attempt at Social Security reform, explaining how they came up with the projected shortfall figure of $11 trillion. For one thing, they adjusted life expectancy to 150 years, while leaving the retirement age at 67: "That's an eighty-three-year retirement. They're never gonna get to that without stem cell research." He also takes some wickedly funny swipes at Karl Rove, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pundits and hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Tim Russert, and Sean Hannity, and, of course, President Bush. The Truth succeeds in providing ammunition to liberals and others dissatisfied with the current power base in Washington, D.C.--only this time (with jokes). --Shawn Carkonen
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