{"id":3284,"date":"2005-05-17T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T18:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/17\/al-frankens-tuesday-lies\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T18:11:51","slug":"al-frankens-tuesday-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/al-frankens-tuesday-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken’s Tuesday lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tFranken covered two subjects while I was listening this morning, and lied about both of them. According to Franken,<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Al Franken’s Tuesday lies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-QY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}