"O'Franken Factor" is nonexistent in land of Dittoheads

STLtoday.com ^ | 4-19-04 | Elizabethe Holland

[FairWitness]

Listening to comedian, best-selling author and, as of last month, radio talk-show host Al Franken describe a comedy skit has to be nearly as funny as listening to the real thing.

The skit, produced for one of the outspoken liberal's shows last week, was based on a hunting trip involving Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia that critics maintain was a conflict of interest. According to Franken, the bit went something like this: Cheney and Scalia are together in a duck blind awaiting their prey. Every once in a while, a few ducks happen by, prompting extended bursts of automatic gunfire. When the noise subsides, there's a pause before one of the two mutters, "Crud."

[CyberCowboy777]

Bill O'Reilly - conservative? LOL!

[PA Engineer]

Hand and hand with dead Democratic voters. ;-)

[abner]

I heard the Cheney/Scalia skit today.

It wasn't funny.

[TexasCajun]

So this is how Liberal Talk Radio works.
Broadcast over your mammoth 5-station network, then tell everyone over the Internet and in print just how funny it is.

"...trust me, it's funny And a big success!!"

[Semper Paratus]

I can assume you did not find Franken's lines hilarious either?

Right. And what humor was there would have been pissed away with Franken's delivery.

[50sDad]

Hank reminds me of Flanders on the Simpsons. When King of the Hill came out, I was prepared for the central character to be presented as an absolute idiot, made fun of and ridiculed. Over the years, I have really respected the way they portray him...Hank is sensible, and right most of the time. The show touches Texas in a loving way, pretty much as Prarie Home used to be.

This past week, they had Hank & Co. get suckered into building the set for what they learned to be a revisionist version of "The Alamo" as a stageplay. They touched so nicely on how History has changed. (My dad gave me a history book he had in high school, 1944 or so. It is incredible what we were free to say back then. God is on most pages, and of course Western Civilization is superior to that nonsense they have in the backwater countries!)

[Joe 6-pack]

"I've had nothing to apologize for yet," Franken said..."

Indeed. Franken has clearly shifted the entirety of this burden to his parents....

[SquirrelKing]

I can get him here. I just tune the radio in to static and pretend.
The only problem is, the static is funnier.

[hellinahandcart]

We've got Rush, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly - conservatives all. You'd think that in a large city, we'd mix it up some.

What meanum "we", paleface? You think you own the radio stations?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

If it is a money maker, stations all over the country would be standing in line to get the show on the air.

Not only is this show not a money maker, Air America is paying the stations to air it.

Basically, this liberal talk radio is a way to skirt CFR, nothing more.

[Sloth]

We've got Rush, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly - conservatives all.

Anyone who deems Bill O'Reilly a conservative has already disqualified themselves from discussing the topic intelligently.

[Exeter]

Saw that episode last night. Especially liked Hank's comment when he angrily cornered the revisionist director, "I'm gonna kick your ass, and then have a re-enactment of kicking your ass!"

[<1/1,000,000th%]

You don't necessarily have to be a card-carrying member of the ACLU or a hater of mega-conservative Rush Limbaugh to welcome the idea of liberal radio.

Any anti-American group will do.

[syriacus]

"O'Franken Factor" is nonexistent in land of Dittoheads

Did the author also write a piece about success of the "O'Reilly Factor"?

Or is the O'Reilly Factor "nonexistent" among the titles of her columns?

[blackie]

Right-on ~ O'Reilly hates guns, SUV's and wants more government control ~ he's far from be ing a conservative ~ all he is, is pithy. :)

[rod1]

Well they have to call anyone that (a conservative) who has Franken IDed correctly as an sheer unadulterated idiot.

[rod1]

Wow Franken has 10 whole shows under his belt--what an accomplishment. Guess he has that down pat--now time to move on.

However, he must be getting just a little bit antsy since he he is stuck behind a desk and has not physically assaulted any voters lately (as per his "show the little people respect" tackle move in New Hampshire).

[Stirner]

"If that figure is anywhere close to the facts, which I doubt, a million of those were right here at FR."

I tried it, but Air America, which I don't like and don't want to download again (it was hard enough to get rid of the last time).

[MosesKnows]

few months back that Franken was trying to bring liberal radio to the airwaves to counter the plethora of conservative programs

It is my fondest wish that liberal radio thrives because it would expose the liberal logic. Liberal positions seem to fly in the face of reality and it has been nearly impossible to have the foundations of the liberal positions explained. If many were to listen to a liberal radio show the show would, by necessity, be forced to explain those positions.

This should also go far in proving my theory that a liberal is a person who lacks the gene required to process reality.

[Aquinasfan]

...Hank is sensible, and right most of the time. The show touches Texas in a loving way, pretty much as Prarie Home used to be.

That's it. I like the way they skewer PC and feminist stuff with Bobby and Peg too.

This past week, they had Hank & Co. get suckered into building the set for what they learned to be a revisionist version of "The Alamo" as a stageplay. They touched so nicely on how History has changed.

Maybe I'll catch that in reruns.

(My dad gave me a history book he had in high school, 1944 or so. It is incredible what we were free to say back then. God is on most pages, and of course Western Civilization is superior to that nonsense they have in the backwater countries!)

All references to God were gone by the time I got to elementary school in the '60s, and cultural relativism was just beginning.