Franken covered two subjects while I was listening this morning, and lied about both of them. According to Franken, the Newsweek story about US soldiers flushing the entire Koran down a Gitmo toilet was absolutely true. It was previously “reported” other places, and Newsweek only retracted it because of pressure from Bush. An on-line poll at Air America shows 88% of their people agreeing with this spin. Even Eric Alterman says the real story is how thinly-sourced the news is these days, but Al is having none of that.
Al’s working hard on his campaign for Norm Coleman’s seat in the US Senate. He played a long piece of George Galloway’s testimony before the Senate oil-for-food investigative committee on the situation in Iraq today, which in Galloway’s words is a “disaster”. Galloway, as you recall, is the British MP who was caught red-handed taking bribes from Saddam to prop up his government, expelled from the Labour Party, and elected to the Parliament by running a racist campaign against black Jewish woman Oona King in a district with a large Islamic fundamentalist registration.
Galloway’s most flagrant lie is that the British and American troops have stolen $8.8 billion from the Iraqi people since liberation, a claim that Franken endorsed.
Franken claimed that Galloway’s ravings were directed against Coleman, presumably on the basis of his being the committee chair. The FEC should look into Air America’s contributions to the Franken campaign at some point. I don’t know if jail time is in order, but this whole campaigning-by-talk-show deal stinks.
Tell that to Rush and all your other wingnut demagogues on the radio.
Thanks for the suggestion, if I ever meet Rush, I’ll be sure and pass it on. What office is Rush running for? Oh, I see, none.
Nevermind.
Don’t worry. Frankin has NO chance of election in Minnesota. As a resident of the state-where-nothing-is-allowed and taxed to death….Frankin’s schtick plays well to his ultra-liberal moonbat friends, but it DOESN’T play well to the suburbs and farmers. He comes off mad and mean. I’m not the biggest Coleman fan, but he does show flashes of leadership and guts.
After two elections, one stolen by the supreme clowns and one tainted with extreme cheating, you’ve got the gall to whine about unfair radio? You’re a sniveling little turd! Shut up and count the body bags of our misguided soldiers and be proud of your idiot president.
OK, Steve, it is quite clear from every source that a Florida recount in 2000 would have resulted in a Bush win. There is no evidence of cheating in 2004, other than Kerry’s stealing of Washington and Wisconsin and attempt to steal Ohio by fraudulent registrations. Get over it, Bush was elected twice. Unless the Democrats get past that and come up with some ideas, they will be out of office for a long, long time.
Oh, and by the way, our “idiot” president did better on armed forces intelligence tests than John Kerry and did better academically than Al Gore. What does that say for the Democratic party?
Matt: You are absolutely correct. Every….single….recount in Florida left Bush as the winner. I particularly enjoyed how Gore and liberals like Steve worked to make sure the military votes in Florida did NOT get counted in 2000. More evidence of the hatred they have for anything military.
And Steve’s memory seems a bit faulty. In 2000, lower courts in Florida ruled that the EXISTING election laws prevented the endless recounts of the recounts of the recounts. As well as the ever-changing recount methods and the cherry-picking of counties to count. Then, a heavily partison Florida Supreme court overturned the lower courts….using their power to attempt to reverse the course of a federal election.
Using Steve’s thought patterns, how about we call all the Democrats a bunch of racists for fighting against Judge Brown’s nomination? Or sexists….as she is a female.