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Do you think TV comedy writer and talk radio host Al Franken is a credible candidate for U.S. senator in Minnesota?

Talk about your sources of clean energy: Al Franken has been letting the gas out of pompous politicians and the silver-tongued sycophants who suck up to them since Gerald Ford stumbled into the presidency. If you were wondering whether "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big, Fat Idiot," the title of Franken's 1996 best-seller left little doubt where Al stands on the matter. His 2003 political field day, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," and his 2005 President Bush-whacking followup, "The Truth (With Jokes)," gained him serious attention as an astute liberal watchdog whose wonky team of researchers, TeamFranken, gets...

Liberal yakker Al Franken blasted the man who founded his Air America radio network as "a crook" on Monday - even as he laughed off the financial scandal that continues to dog his broadcast. After weeks of on-air silence about an $875,000 loan that Air America finagled from a Bronx community group that serves poor kids and Alzheimers patients, Franken was finally forced to discuss the scandal when a caller asked him to explain. "Here's the deal," the Air America host said. "The first guy who was chairman of the board of Air America - Evan Cohen - was a...

<p>NEW YORK - No professional comedian has ever been elected to the U.S. Senate, according to Capitol Hill historians, but Al Franken is seriously thinking about trying to become the first.</p> <p>By the end of next year, Franken said he expects to decide whether to move from New York City to his native Minnesota to take on Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in 2008. If he runs, he would seek to reclaim the seat of his hero and friend, the late Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone.</p>

PAPER: 'AIR AMERICA' MISSES PAYROLL; MORE TURBULENCE AT LIB TALK NET Thu May 06 2004 23:59:55 ET In yet another sign of trouble for Air America Radio, the liberal talk network entering its fifth chaotic week on the air, co-founder and chairman Evan Cohen resigned Thursday, as did vice-chairman and investor Rex Sorensen. The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is planning to report in fresh editions: The company also failed to make its scheduled payroll, leaving its staff roughly 100 radio personalities, writers, and producers unpaid until Thursday. The departures of Cohen, a former political operative from Guam who was among the network's...

As Al Franken considers challenging Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., for re-election in 2008, the comedian and liberal radio host is looking to his hometown senator for advice: Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites). "I asked Hillary, 'Can you give me some suggestions about running for Senate in a state you haven't lived for in a while, or in your case, ever?' " Franken recalled, laughing heartily. "And she said, 'This will be a long conversation,' so we agreed to have a long conversation about it." Clinton, D-N.Y., moved from Washington to New York to run for the Senate. Franken...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) — They haven't got a name or a launch date yet, but the entrepreneurs who dream of launching a liberal radio network have just landed themselves a lead man: Comedian and best-selling author Al Franken. Progress Media and Franken told The Associated Press Tuesday they have reached an agreement for Franken to host a live, three-hour daily broadcast that would form the anchor of the programming schedule.</p>

Al Franken is literally breathless. He's talking a mile a minute and sounding like a kid who's just arrived home victorious after a schoolyard brawl. And in a way, he has. Franken's just learned that his book, the controversial, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, has unseated Bill O'Reilly's tome atop the best-seller list of The New York Times. "We're very, very happy here today. I was No. 1 for the first five weeks and then he had it last week - for that one bright, shining moment of Camelot,"...

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Good words – especially, at the moment, for Al Franken. If he tries to take advantage of Rush Limbaugh’s current predicament, he may need to be reminded of an October1991 interview he did for The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. During the interview, Franken was questioned about Stuart Smalley, a character he created for Saturday Night Live. The probing questions about Stuart’s origins seemed to have touched a nerve, as Franken is reported to have said, “There's sort of a personal story behind this that I actually don't want to talk...

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Franken was shilling his latest book (about a subject he knows well as a Hillary-loving-liberal: Lies!) and came out with a typically absurb employment "statistic" the liberals like to tell and re-tell. But never check. Franken claimed that under Bush I and Bush II, there was no gain of employment: specifically, that there was no growth in jobs except under Clinton between 1992 and 2000. Then he further exaggerated and claimed that if Bush I + Bush II were in charge since teh Revloutionary War, there would have been no jobs at all right now. ---...--- Looked at Google real...

Event: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 7:00 PM AL FRANKEN discusses and signs Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them Location: Caltech's Beckman Auditorium Co-sponsored by Caltech For the first time since his own classic Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, Franken trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene. Now, the "master of political humor" (Washington Times) destroys the myth of liberal bias in the media, and exposes how the Right shamelessly tries to deceive. This event is co-sponsored by Caltech and will be held at Beckman Auditorium where seating is free and...

This was very entertaining when it played this afternoon. Al Franken is just a total d*ck, even by liberal liberal standards. BOR was getting pretty irritated, shaking his head and eventually yelling at Franken, with Franken's back-of-the-room chihuahua nonsense. And Pat Schroeder was trying to keep the peace, that was pretty funy. Oh, and Molly Ivins was on the panel as well, bragging how she makes a million dollars a year. I think something must have happened between BOR and Franken in the past, I do recall seeing Franken on BOR's show and he was just as annoying as he...