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review by Lorraine Pace

     There are numerous chapters detailing supposed lies and it would be exhausting to respond to every one, but to give you an idea of the writer’s manipulation of facts, here are a few comments centered on author and constitutional lawyer Ann Coulter.

     Firstly, he claims she claims to be friendly with him. She says this is untrue and she has been, at the very least, misquoted. Both agree they have barely met. Had he been fair and balanced, he would have mentioned her refuttal. But then he wouldn’t have had anything to write about.

     Next, he debunks Coulter’s claim that Evan Thomas’s father was Norman Thomas, the socialist party presidential candidate. Franken, however, fails to state that Norman Thomas was actually Evan Thomas’s grandfather. There is a close familial relationship, which was the essence of Coulter’s point.

     In short, Franken is misleading. One could even call it a lie. In one of her bestselling books, Coulter claimed Dale Earnhardt’s death was not mentioned in the New York Times the day after his death. Coulter corrected this error soon after publication of the book in which it was printed. Franken fails to mention this, also. And so forth and so on.

      The book reads like a rant and the half-truths, omissions and lies that pepper the pages could be because Al Franken is, himself, a famous liar. He may still be smarting from the incident in which he was forced to apologise for falsely using Harvard in a ploy to try to obtain information about the sex lives of Condi Rice and Donald Rumsfield.

     Once you realise this book is a sham, it’s an enjoyable laugh. Overall, though, I am glad I did not buy the book. It’s not worth my money.