Posted on 09/10/2005 10:41:46 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Al Franken, explain this one
Published September 11, 2005
Al Franken appears to be caught in a fib -- a "lying lie," he might call it -- about Air America's loans-from-children scandal.
To his employers' credit, Air America is seeking to put the scandal behind it: On Thursday, the network wired the remaining $825,000 it "borrowed" from the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club in the Bronx to the club's lawyers. Air America's parent company, Piquant LLC, had initially denied responsibility for the total of $875,000 in questionable transfers, claiming a previous owner was liable. But the negative publicity from nearly wrecking a taxpayer-subsidized center for children and the elderly appears to have shamed it into paying the money back.
A month ago Al Franken claimed ignorance of the transfers. "I didn't know anything about this until late last week," he told Air America listeners on Aug. 8. The network's brass echoed this: Air America CEO Danny Goldberg told the New York Sun this week that the "on-air talent" has "never had any responsibility for this loan." This seemed plausible at the time, since no one expects the talent to be arranging finances, so in our Aug. 3 editorial on the subject we gave Mr. Franken a pass.
Regrettably, it appears we shouldn't have. In light of documents that surfaced last week, it looks to be the case that as of November 2004, and possibly earlier, Mr. Franken knew the amount of money, the money's origins and the dates the transfers occurred. This came to light after a settlement agreement between former and current owners of Air America -- a document which details the Gloria Wise transfers -- was leaked to Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney, who promptly posted the document on their Web sites...
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What a goof ball. And a "big fat liar".
yup , I can just imagine Stuart Smalley in front of a Grand Jury , breaking down into a blubbering mess
Liberal = Fraud
no surprise here
I see two foolish blunders here.
First and foremost, believing ANYTHING a dyed-in-the-wool liberal says, and second, of course, referring to Al Franken as "talent".
This explains it all. A DEEPLY disturbed individual.
I love it when these A**holes that cry "hyprocrite" whenever they are losing an argument turn out to be one themselves.
"Al, explain this one..."
"Easy! It's all Bill O'Reilly's campaign to destroy me!"
Democrats are craven liars.
The democrat objective of government-rules-everything is the one thing sensible people willingly die to prevent.
prosecute to the fullest extent!
LOL! I can't say it would be fun to watch,but I'd love to read about it! ;)
Al Franken: He just mean enough and low enough to scam kids and old folks.
For the love of G-d, please tell me that's a photoshop.
Shame on Al Franken.... stealing from children and the elderly.
I demand that Franken resign.
Never could understand how this guy earns a living ... Bad comedian, bad writer, bad talk show host ...
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