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Do Democrats really have more fun?
Maybe that's why a team from ReDefeatBush.com, an online political action committee, was passing out free condoms at Tuesday night's launch party for Air America, the liberal talk-radio network headlined by Al Franken.
Among the partygoers at the Maritime Hotel who accepted matchbooks containing a Trojan or a LifeStyles condom (and graced with the slogan: "Don't Get Screwed Again!") were Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins, former New York Public Advocate Mark Green, REM singer Michael Stipe and actor Paul Judd.
ReDefeatBush.com founder David Lytel, a former technology staffer in President Clinton's White House, told me yesterday that 500 of the latex marvels were distributed at the crowded celebration.
Lytel, who said Air America CEO Mark Walsh invited ReDefeatBush to the party to pass out political buttons and other paraphernalia, insisted that he's not worried that Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing radio jocks will use the condom giveaway to portray left-wingers as sex-crazed libertines.
"I think Rush Limbaugh has really ceased to be a meaningful commentator on America's social fabric," Lytel said. "But if Rush attacks us, that would make me very happy, and also help our fund-raising. I hope he does criticize us roundly, and enables us to reach a broader audience."
Air America's Walsh told me he was unaware, until I informed him, that his old friend Lytel was giving out condoms at the launch party. Apparently Walsh didn't want to touch the condom issue with a barge pole.
"What do you mean, 'condom issue'?" he told me. "This is really a sideshow to what was a very exciting launch party."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/179336p-155848c.htmlThe New Republic thinks "The O'Franken Factor" won't succeed because...are you ready for this?....Al Franken is too MODERATE!
LOL!
"While his prose tends to be fiery, his verbal style is not."
"Then there are Franken's politics. Just like talk radio favors extreme personalities, it also favors extreme politics. ... Consider yesterday's show, for instance, when a caller gave voice to a couple of conspiracy theories that hold that the Bush administration had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. Bob Kerrey, who was on the show at that point, convincingly batted down the conspiracy theories, and that seemed that. But Franken circled back to the caller's theories to reiterate that he thought they were bunk. ...Most talk radio shows actively promote conspiracy theories; Franken's seeks to quash them. [Translation: Rush only succeeds because he feeds his listeners conspriracy theories!]
It's really wierd watching this large segment of the donkey party become what the "militia" and "KKK" were to Republican politics in the 80's and 90's.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=zengerle040104