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Franken Unaware Of Ex-Colleague's Alleged Loans (Err America $$$ Scandal)
New York Sun ^ | August 2, 2005 | DAVID LOMBINO

Posted on 08/02/2005 4:24:12 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

The comedian Al Franken, Air America Radio's most prominent host, said yesterday that he did not know whether the hundreds of thousands of dollars apparently lent to the radio network by a Bronx social-service organization had indeed been relayed to Air America by Evan Montvel Cohen. Mr. Cohen simultaneously served as director of the liberal network and development director of the nonprofit Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News
KEYWORDS: airamerica; airscamerica; alfranken; erramerica; liberaltalkradio
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To: MarkL

One standard for them and another standard for the rest of us.


21 posted on 08/02/2005 4:50:56 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: PJ-Comix

If it werent for Free Republic, I wouldnt have heard a peep about this scandal.


22 posted on 08/02/2005 4:54:13 AM PDT by texianyankee
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To: PJ-Comix

Is Franken on the Air America Board of Directors?

If so, Ignorance is no excuse, under the law.


23 posted on 08/02/2005 4:54:41 AM PDT by G Larry (Honor the fallen and the heroes of 9/11 at the Memorial Site.)
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To: AlexW

Yeah, I can say MORON!!!!!!!!!!

Be nice if I could read.

Let's see now A, B, D, G, C, F,that's right isn't it?

My bad (I hate that phrase...Hip Hop I ain't).


24 posted on 08/02/2005 4:56:59 AM PDT by WillMalven (It don't matter where you are when "the bomb" goes off, as long as you can say "What was that?")
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To: PJ-Comix

Pull the plug, if their lack of ratings hasn't done so already.


25 posted on 08/02/2005 4:57:40 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: PJ-Comix

I apologize PJ. Not only that I'm sorry...DUH


26 posted on 08/02/2005 4:58:24 AM PDT by WillMalven (It don't matter where you are when "the bomb" goes off, as long as you can say "What was that?")
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To: WillMalven
"Yeah, I can say MORON!!!!!!!!!! "


Errr...It was not me that said "moron".
Maybe you just got up on the wrong side of the bed ;)
27 posted on 08/02/2005 5:01:31 AM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava)
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To: AlexW

Just replying in general, should have made it to all...sorry


28 posted on 08/02/2005 5:03:50 AM PDT by WillMalven (It don't matter where you are when "the bomb" goes off, as long as you can say "What was that?")
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To: PJ-Comix

Now, if they had just said, "Franken Unaware," that would have been indisputable.

Not news, but indisputable.


29 posted on 08/02/2005 5:10:24 AM PDT by dsc
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To: PJ-Comix

Now, if they had just said, "Franken Unaware," that would have been indisputable.

Not news, but indisputable.


30 posted on 08/02/2005 5:10:49 AM PDT by dsc
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To: WillMalven

Will, don't feel bad...I am sure that every Freeper has made
mistakes at one time or another with posting. I know I have.

If you knew PJ, you would know why so many jumped on you.
It is OK...I am sure everyone got a laugh at your generous expense :)))


31 posted on 08/02/2005 5:19:13 AM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava)
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To: PJ-Comix
Coverup of another liberal crook's mal and misfeasance..

The Klinktons have been practicing misappropriation of funds their entire crooked, marxist, hillbilly lives.

32 posted on 08/02/2005 5:31:05 AM PDT by ElCapusto (For ENGLISH, press one.)
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To: PJ-Comix

LIBERAL "USEFUL IDIOT"

33 posted on 08/02/2005 5:47:10 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: PJ-Comix

Yeah! And he is also unaware that the sun is shining at 12:00 noon.


34 posted on 08/02/2005 5:50:15 AM PDT by sport
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I'd be a little concerned about where this "repayment" is going. The money was stolen from the taxpayers of New York. The Gloria Wise outfit has lost their contracts and has a track record of mishandling money, it would seem. Why give them the money unless there is a mechanism in place for them to immediately pay back the grantors? The money needs to go back to the city so it can either be returned to the general fund or be directed toward reputable agencies now tasked to carry out the original mission. I say the city (and state and federal governments if they originated some of the grants in question) should put a lien on Err America's and Gloria Wise's assets until this is all sorted out.
35 posted on 08/02/2005 6:20:40 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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To: PJ-Comix
This Cohen IS Guy Cabellero - the SCTV owner who always sat in a wheelchair - not because he couldn't walk, but "for the respect".

For example, Mr. Franken said, he'd complain to Mr. Cohen that studio equipment wasn't working, "and he'd say, 'You know, I have brain cancer.'"

36 posted on 08/02/2005 6:24:43 AM PDT by DManA
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To: PJ-Comix
Al Franken, Air America Radio's most prominent host,

Is this the same as saying, "Quasimodo, Notre Dame's most prominent Hunchback"?

37 posted on 08/02/2005 6:27:02 AM PDT by scouse
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To: PJ-Comix

it's the seriousness of the charge


38 posted on 08/02/2005 6:28:07 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, "To Serve Man", it's... it's a cookbook!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Anyone heard Eliot Spitzer weigh in on this? Haven't seen hide nor hair of the guy. Maybe we should put Eliot's mug on a milk carton.


39 posted on 08/02/2005 6:29:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: WillMalven

Are you calling PJ a troll? You're stepping way out of line.


40 posted on 08/02/2005 6:34:04 AM PDT by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you will have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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