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==Controversial Statements==
 
==Controversial Statements==
 
On Franken's website there is the admonition ''"Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule"''<ref>http://lyingliar.com/index.htm</ref>.  Throughout his books he has held himself to "impossibly high standards" to tell the truth about those he has written about.  Author Alan Skorski researched two of Franken's books (''Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot'' and ''Lies and and the Lying Liars who Tell Them'') and found an extensive pattern of lies, misstatements, factual inaccuracies, among them:
 
On Franken's website there is the admonition ''"Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule"''<ref>http://lyingliar.com/index.htm</ref>.  Throughout his books he has held himself to "impossibly high standards" to tell the truth about those he has written about.  Author Alan Skorski researched two of Franken's books (''Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot'' and ''Lies and and the Lying Liars who Tell Them'') and found an extensive pattern of lies, misstatements, factual inaccuracies, among them:
WERE NO STRANGERS TO LOVE
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YOU KNOW THE RULES
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AND SO DO I
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A FULL COMMITMENT'S WHAT IM THINKING OF
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YOU WOULD NOT GET THIS FROM ANY OTHER GUY
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I JUST WANNA TELL YOU WHAT IM FEELING
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GOTTA MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND
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NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
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NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN
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NEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND HURT YOU
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NEVER GONNA MAKE YOU CRY
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NEVER GONNA SAY GOODBYE
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NEVER GONNA TELL A LIE OR
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DESERT YOU
   
*Accusing Ann Coulter of "lying with footnotes" by "citing a source and misrepresenting what it says"; throughout his book Skorski states that Franken has done exactly that on numerous occasions (Skorski, pg. xiii)
 
*Accusing Ann Coulter of "lying with footnotes" by "citing a source and misrepresenting what it says"; throughout his book Skorski states that Franken has done exactly that on numerous occasions (Skorski, pg. xiii)
 
*Accusing President George W. Bush of treason
 
*Accusing President George W. Bush of treason
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