Live, From the Left, It's... [Lying Liar Al Franken]

MSNBC/Newsweek ^ | 3/29/04 | Weston Kosova

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Lying Liar (and fat, bucktoothed moron) Al Franken, displaying a severe case of jumpsuit envy. :)

[syriacus]

"I tried to tell him yesterday he can't eat on the air."

One of the grossest things imaginable is listening on the phone to someone chewing food on the other end of the line.

[Rome2000]

Now this is funny Al

Al, I knew Mike Duakakis,

I served with Mike Duakakis,

Al,you're no Mike Dukakis

[Behind Liberal Lines]

This liberal radio network will have a brief burst of near-success, due to hype and curiousity, and then fade.

The reason? Their core audience already has NPR, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc., etc. They don't have any reason to switch to Franken and his group of fellow amateurs.

[prion]

The next, he might launch into one of his characters, like Liam the Loose- Boweled Leprechaun (don't ask), who is, depending on your stomach, either achingly funny or stunningly juvenile.

Hmmm. I'm guessing...the latter?

At a black-tie dinner in Washington last spring, Franken says, Karl Rove ribbed him for standing when the president entered the room. But Rove remembers it differently. Franken, he says, came over to him and said, "I'm Al Franken. I hate you and you hate me." Rove says he was taken aback. "I said, 'I haven't met you. You seem like a nice enough fellow, sorry to disappoint you but I don't hate you'."

Brrr. Self-important and creepy.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

But Franken is lost in his thoughts.

Understandably. It'd be virgin territory for him, after all.

He says, with total sincerity, that he is thinking about running for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota in 2008 [...] Hillary Clinton has agreed to give him pointers.

Yeah. "Don't end up making the same mistake that Vince Foster did, fat boy." :)

[syriacus]

"I'm Al Franken," he says, "and you're listening to 'The O'Franken Factor'

Franken can't even introduce his own show without alluding to one of the most popular TV shows.

Franken is much like Kerry.

All that they know how to do, is rebel against the adults in charge. They contribute little to important discussions other than criticism.

On 9/7/03 Prankin' Al Franken said to H. Kurtz---"My letter to Ashcroft was not a lie...it was a prank."

[Saundra Duffy]

LOL!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Just what the DFL needs. Another Wellstone Funeral.

[King Prout]

I look at Al Franken, at his face particularly, and am struck by the impression that he might be suffering from profound and untreated bipolar disorder.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

For some inexplicable reason: the words "Franken" and "funeral" mentioned in the same breath fill me with an ineffable sense of inner peace and contentment. :)

[Camel Joe]

Progressive Insurance is one of them, any of you with a policy from the "Socialist" insurer should cancel at once!!!! You are supporting those who would defeat GW and freedom itself!!!

[Drango]

The 3 of the 8 people listening to Al's show thought it was very good.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

As the Gipper once said when Sandinistas fired a rocket at a planeload of news reporters, "...there's a little good in everyone."

[Joe Bonforte]

...Limbaugh, is one of a handful of liberal celebs with shows on Air America. Comedian Lizz Winstead will host a program with rapper Chuck D. Comedian and actress Janeane Garofalo has her own three-hour slot in the evening.

And these nobodies pass for "liberal celebs"? I've never heard of any of them except for Garofalo, and that's only because of her pacifist, anti-war outbursts a year ago.

This has the potential to lose many millions. Sponsers are likely to be hard to come by, aside from socialist outliers like Birkenstock and..., well, I can only think of Ben and Jerry's, but they're part of some multi-national conglomerate now. And you know this will be kept going through the election, no matter how much money it's losing.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

This has the potential to lose many millions. [...] And you know this will be kept going through the election, no matter how much money it's losing.

Doesn't matter. I'm certain Soros has already agreed to quietly pick up the tab, if need be.

[elfman2]

" The reason? "

I think the reason is that leftist politics can’t survive the critical analysis and the spirited open dialogue promoted by talk radio.

NPR’s closed intellectual version has an audience, but it has to be both highbrow and closed to unedited listener comments. If it’s too emotionally charged, it’s unappealing. If it’s opened up for comments from people like you and me, it’s showed to be logically flawed. Al Franken can’t do anything more than energize the Democrat base for the election.

[In_25_words_or_less]

One of the grossest things imaginable is listening on the phone to someone chewing food on the other end of the line.

Not even close. Today's Parade magazine had this little treat highlighted with a food article:

Sheila's Tip
To Clean Soft-Shell Crabs:
Leave the legs and claws on. Lay the crab flat on its stomach. Make a cut just below the eyes and, using scissors, remove the face. Lift the shell to remove the spongy gills and innards. Turn the crab over and cut off the tail flap or "apron." What is left is edible. Rinse and pat dry. Proceed with recipe.

Yum, yum.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Al Franken is eating a sandwich—demolishing it, really—blissfully unaware of the barrage of wet, sticky mouth sounds he's sending into the microphone that hangs in front of his face.