[operation clinton cleanup]

Uncle Al is doing his AA show pro bono... I hope he runs for a Senate seat just to show what a big, fat, liberal idiot he is!

[mseltzer]

Where did you hear that Franken is working pro bono? I think you might be mistaken. Last I knew off, his salary was the major expense of the network and was so ridiculously out of line with the revenue he produced that it was one of the main drain on their resources. O'Reilly even did a segment on it and discussed the "rumor" that Franken was planning to borrow against his salary to finance his senate campaign.

[Popman]

As the network tried to repair the damage, it was also fighting with Mr. Franken over how his salary was paid. As the network's star, Mr. Franken had negotiated a pay package valued at more than $1 million a year, according to a copy of the contract viewed by The Wall Street Journal. On the evening of April 26, Mr. Goodfriend says he was asked by Mr. Cohen to show Mr. Franken a deposit slip that would prove he'd been paid a portion of his salary. Mr. Cohen says he only asked Mr. Goodfriend to negotiate with Mr. Franken.

The next day, Mr. Goodfriend went to Mr. Franken's Manhattan apartment to meet Mr. Franken's wife, who manages her husband's finances. Over the Frankens' kitchen table, the two tore open an envelope sent over by Mr. Cohen that they thought was going to contain proof of the payment. All they found was a stack of irrelevant documents.

Mr. Goodfriend, who had no access to the company's finances, says he had previously chalked up the network's snafus to growing pains. Now, he worried that Air America had less money than he thought. Mr. Goodfriend started investigating and called an emergency telephone board meeting to quiz Messrs. Cohen and Sorensen about Mr. Franken's salary and other financial issues. Mr. Goodfriend had an outside attorney listen in.

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