Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them

A fair, balanced, even-handed (and slightly left-of-centre) look at the greedy, evil, warmongering bigots and scumbags of the American Right … Al Franken’s storming bestseller has already had America up in arms over its exposure of lying right-wing politicians and pundits. Now you can find out why. Join Al as he trashes the untruthful, mauls the mendacious and bitch-slaps the Bush misinformation machine. Here he sticks it to the most right-wing administration in history, proving once and for all that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield and their oil-rich cronies have twisted the truth over the 2000 election, over policies that shaft the poor and screw the environment – and of course over those ever-elusive weapons of mass destruction. He also reveals how a ‘neutral’ American media is bullied into spinning those lies, with the Death Star-like empire of Fox News and hysterical right-wing hacks attacking all liberal thought. They’re all liars. Lying, lying liars. Basically … they make stuff up. And Al shoots them down by doing what they’re incapable of: getting his facts straight. Power to the truth …