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Franken: Lib Network will Take Bush Out
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| 3-11-04
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 03/11/2004 8:02:03 AM PST by truthandlife
Republican-hating humorist Al Franken promised yesterday that he'll be bashing President Bush relentlessly when the liberal radio network he's headlining gets underway at the end of this month.
"We're going to put it to Bush," Franken told reporters on Wednesday. "Bush is going down in November."
After his radio network - bankrolled by Democratic Party fat cats - supposedly drives Bush from power, the frothing-at-the-mouth funnyman said he plans to "put it to the right-wing media."
In a dig at his nemesis Bill O'Reilly, Franken said he was calling his show "The O'Franken Factor" and promised, "We're going to be baiting him as much as we can."
The Democrat Party's official radio network will also feature Iraq war critic-comedienne Janeane Garofalo, who explained last year that she never protested any of President Clinton's military actions because "it wasn't hip."
Billing itself as "Air America," the network will begin airing the Democratic party line on March 31, hitting the airwaves on New York's WLIB, KBLA in Los Angeles and WNTD in Chicago.
But so far the effort doesn't exactly have radio conservatives quaking in their boots.
"They're hoping - they're praying - that they can take us out," number two national talker Sean Hannity told his audience yesterday, in quotes picked up by the New York Post's John Mainelli. "And [the liberal media] is going to do everything they can to help them."
But Hannity predicted that audiences would soon tire of radio broadcasts that sound too much like bought-and-paid-for party propaganda. "How could I be as intellectually honest as I am on this program -- criticizing Republicans when they're wrong -- if the Republicans funded my show?" he posited.
"Already it's not truth in advertising," GOP consultant Kellyanne Conway told Mainelli, adding, "I guess the name 'hot air radio' is already taken."
TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: bush; franken; liberals; liberaltalkradio; radio
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To: truthandlife
[giggle]
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:02:47 AM PST
by
Coop
("Hero" is the last four-letter word I'd use to describe John Kerry)
To: truthandlife
Bwaahaaaaha...
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:03:30 AM PST
by
demlosers
(Ann Coulter: Liberals simply can't grasp the problem Lexis-Nexis poses to their incessant lying.)
To: truthandlife
"We're going to be baiting him as much as we can."
But he refuses to debate him. Franken is a coward!
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:05:59 AM PST
by
CSM
(Vote Kerry! Boil the Frog! Speed up the 2nd Revolution!)
To: truthandlife
...Franken said he was calling his show "The O'Franken Factor"Do libs ever have an original thought?
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:06:44 AM PST
by
ladtx
( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
To: truthandlife
I do believe the Libs will keep this bankrolled until November, even though few will be listening. After that it will be toast, regardless of who wins.
Conservative talk radio succeeds, in part, because it offers a welcome contrast to the virtual Liberal stranglehood on the vast majority of the rest of the media.
To: truthandlife
Liberal Radio will be funded by George Soros. It won't be financially viable (i.e., won't turn a profit), but that's not its purpose.
It's sole purpose is to get around the CFR restrictions and get more anti-Bush, pro-Kerry propaganda on the air.
It will fold after the November election.
IMHO,
SCR
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:06:58 AM PST
by
So Cal Rocket
(If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
To: truthandlife
Who on God's green Earth will be able to stomach any more than 30 seconds of Al Franken's annoying homosexual voice?
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:07:00 AM PST
by
MJY1288
(There's no leaders on the path of least resistance, ask John Kerry, he's been paving it for 32 yrs.)
To: truthandlife
"We're going to put it to Bush," Franken told reporters on Wednesday. "Bush is going down in November." I guess every now and then he can tell a funny joke, after all!
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:07:02 AM PST
by
MizSterious
(First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
To: truthandlife
"Do you realize that the employment rate is exactly what it was in 1996 when Clinton was running for reelection? Did we have a rotten economy then?" - Rush
Ah yes, but Clinton wasn't an evil republican. I'm shocked, shocked, to find that there is such a liberal bias in the media, I tell you.
To: truthandlife
The people who are going to listen to this weren't planning on voting for Bush anyway.
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:07:31 AM PST
by
jtminton
To: truthandlife
Franken needs to share his drugs with the rest of us.
They may get a couple million liberals to listen to their stupid network, but so what? Are these people going to extra vote the same freaking way they were going to anyways?
This boy has some serious delusions of grandeur.
To: truthandlife
Franken's mouth is writing checks he will never cash.
To: truthandlife
"Air America" a CIA front organization.
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:08:45 AM PST
by
dts32041
( "Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments.")
To: truthandlife
"hitting the airwaves on New York's WLIB, KBLA in Los Angeles and WNTD in Chicago."
Oh yeah, that will really hurt us. Not.
To: jtminton
The people who are going to listen to this weren't planning on voting for Bush anyway. Ah... but Liberal Radio will be news , and the soundbites of the day from Franken, Garafalo and the other left-wing wackos will be broadcast daily by ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN.
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:09:49 AM PST
by
So Cal Rocket
(If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
To: truthandlife
Franken et al are not creative enough to do fresh material every day. In 90 days they will have run out of new things to say and then they will be the joke.
So9
To: truthandlife
My take on this is that it will fail for one simple reason:
Rush and Hannity (and other conservative hosts) have a lot of liberal listeners who tune in just to get themselves in a hackle or maybe they view it as spying or whatever.
I don't see many conservatives pouring over to Franken instead of Rush and the kool-aid crowd will soon tire of their own "pundits".
Plus, have you seen the line-up?
Franken
Randi Rhodes
Chuck D
Garafalo
A veritible who's who of barf-bags. I give a month before their incessant whining turns-off even the faithful.
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:10:06 AM PST
by
fsorbello
(Fonda Kerry? Osama Is!)
To: demlosers
So they will have three radio stations in the three liberal markets. Heh, I am shaking! Their screaming wooden Gore going to really be entertainig?
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