Posted on 08/03/2005 1:24:00 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
For a change, Al Franken sounded serious and didn't want a fistfight. He didn't seem to know much about Air America Radio's loan scandal speaking to the New York Sun Monday, and said he had just learned the details last week. In sum, he sounded a lot like the politicians he plays "gotcha" with. Maybe Mr. Franken's ambitions for Norm Coleman's seat in the Senate are sobering him up a bit. He didn't know whether former Air America director and nonprofit executive Evan Cohen had transferred inner-city childrens' money to Air America, nor whether the money had been used for Air America's operations. Mr. Franken did know this: Air America had known about the problem before New York's Department of Investigation began studying it. But a city spokesman says Air America "neglected to tell anyone at DOI or in the city about it." Add another unanswered question to Air America's tally. Up to this point, Mr. Franken gets a pass: He is the talent, not the management. But now that he is apprised, Mr. Franken should get to the bottom of the scandal. Here's what is known thus far. On Friday, Air America confirmed that last year it did in fact take money from a city-funded nonprofit that runs progams in the Bronx for children and Alzheimer's sufferers, and that it plans to pay the money back. It also revealed that it refuses to accept responsibility: First it blamed the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club, the nonprofit, calling the club's alleged behavior "absolutely disgraceful"; then it blamed Progress Media, a now-defunct Air America parent company, and said it had no obligation to pay the money back. But Air America announced it would pay the money back because it is "very disturbed that Air America Radio's good name could be
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Driveby Mega ping!
I can't remember any of the Alzheimer's sufferers complaining.
Wow, I guess they didn't watch enough episodes of The Sopranos before they attempted this.
please.
What did Franken know and when did he know it?
He'll get to the bottom of it-right after he helps OJ find the real killers.
He'll get to the bottom of it-right after he helps OJ find the real killers.
This is pretty huge.
Of course, it's nowhere to be found in the Legacy Media.
That's why they are legacy.
10 posts already and nobody has suggested...
Or even blamed the evil, machivellian genius Karl RoveTM...
I just love reading about DimOcrats imploding in the morning.
What major, major scumbags these people are.
Doesn't the poor and their money belong to liberals?
Say, your're right...
Somehow, it's Boosh's fault.BTW, I, too, was struck by the Clinton-era-like discrepancies in the amounts of money cited- funny how the figures keep escalating, isn't it?
Bump
Well, it's an Air America scoop!
"Listeners, we are just $10.00 away from being able to write a check to the Boys and Girls Club. Send your donation in now!"
Can't cut it in the free market so they take from defenseless children and old people BTTT. Can't wait to get to work and drive the libs nuts with this.
But they stole the money for from the chillllldrun...
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