\t\t\t\tToday Al Franken is broadcasting from Sacramento, before an audience of noisy loons with the coffee-shop weekly grasp of politics. He made the mistake of interviewing Dan Walters, the dean of Sacramento journalists on the state of politics in California. Franken showed his igorance and desire to deceive several times:<\/p>\n
1. Called Walters a conservative when he’s clearly a centrist.
\n2. Blamed California’s education problems on Prop 13 exclusively.
\n3. Equated Schwarzenegger’s fundraising for inititiatives to Gray Davis’ personal fundraising.
\n4. Reduced the California ballot wars to a business vs. the People war.
\n5. Claimed Schwarzenegger tried to take pensions away from widows and orphans.<\/p>\n
People don’t take Franken seriously because he’s an alleged comedian, but a comprehensive scorecard would probably show that he’s the most deceptive host in talk radio, with the possible exception of Janeane Garofalo or Randi Rhodes.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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