Franken: Lib Network will Take Bush Out

Newsmax ^ | 3-11-04 | Carl Limbacher

[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."

[Agnes Heep]

It won't do much good if no one hears it.

[Bismarck]

Hasn't Frankenstein realized that MOST of the media is liberal anyway? His radiostation is going to be just another feather on the vulture.

[RedWhiteBlue]

I love it when they waste their money.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Are these guys unassociated "IE America" radio? IE America has people like Jim Hightower and Mike Malloy on regularly. Sort of the outboard engine of the left wing.

[Mike Darancette]

KBLA

1230/Radio (AM) Variety

Providing news and relevant talk shows for the Korean community in Los Angeles, California

Must really have a reach

[highpockets]

Just like post #7 said, they will get anit-bush speak on the news.

Want to bet they do not sound bite Rush when he talks about the same things they will?

[VRWCmember]

We're going to be baiting him as much as we can."
But he refuses to debate him. Franken is a coward!

That's right. Franken is just a master baiter, not a master debater.

[Kaslin]

*Note to Al*

Keep on dreaming.

[Nita Nupress]

This guys has an anger management problem.

[highlander_UW]

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.

LOL...well, that'll insure the failure of the lib radio network in no time flat. He's got no concept of business sense, clearly. Appealing to the wacko 5% or so on the extreme left is to exclude the 95% to the right of them. I sure hope Soros and the Heinz foundation are dumping money into this black hole! It would spare us from them spending it in effective ways.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Rat mouthpieces like Franken will never be taken for anything other than party shills because he will NEVER EVER criticize ANYTHING done by ANY RAT. Even the most outrageous lies and false charges will be repeated faithfully instead of questioning the content and sources.

When conservative listeners continually destroy Franken's thin arguments day after day by challenging HIM to criticize even ONE lie by MacCauliff and listening to Franken avoid doing so, it won't take long to destroy any semblence of sanity or reasonablness or objectivity that the Rats have.

Conservatism REQUIRES people to think and Liberalism depends on people NOT thinking.

[Fighter@heart]

"But he refuses to debate him. Franken is a coward!" I dis-agree, in a way he is smart NOT to debate. It is not wise for him to show up for a "battle of wits" when he is OBVIOUSLY completely UN-ARMED!! LOL!!

[Salvey]

Unlike most of the conservative radio talk show hosts, who are truly entertaining and have a broad appeal, these jerks will be preaching to the choir. What a waste of Soros' money.

[CGASMIA68]

Randi Rhodes

60 seconds of the d-bag will cause any one to puke

[highlander_UW]

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 group probably already are the ones that vote "extra" through deceased relatives and the like. It was the democrats who screamed when dead people were removed from the voting rolls.

[andy58-in-nh]

Al Franken is the whiny creep in 4th grade who used to gain favor with Teacher by ratting out his classmates with that same smug self-satisfied look he now wears perpetually.

[OldFriend]

LOLOL......the EFFIN FACTOR......

[fsorbello]

Chuck D is from the rap band "Public Enemy"

Randi Rhodes is a female talk show host.

[Blood of Tyrants]

90? I'll take 5 days in the "How long before Franken starts repeating himself" pool, please.