I think its funny that with their majority in the government and in the media, the cons seem to have nothing to do, nothing of real substance to be upset about. So the issue of outrage right now is… Al Franken. Michelle Malkin dissects a skit (along with her tag-team partner Brian “Talk Radio Isn’t Right Wing Enough” Maloney) promoting Franken’s book Zapruder style (you can just hear her mumbling “back… and to the left… back… and to the left”) and the gang over at MRC’s Newsbusters (when will they add Bill Murray to the cast?) is outraged that Franken would make a joke about treason being a crime punishable by death and the left wing enabler David Letterman just…. lets him do it! And now Drudge is exposing the entire thing on his homepage.
Where’s the outrage, America?
This is surely having an effect, as Franken’s book comes in at #8 on Amazon’s bestseller list.
Al Franken: The Truth (with jokes)
I like Franken and thought this joke was funny.
Heck he even said that we should never, ever, ever, execute a sitting president. So where’s the harm?
it’s called ‘phoney indignation caused by partisan hackery, raised to distract the masses, and rally the base,’ and it’s the only strategy these guys seem to know.
It only takes two words to say these guys are full of shit–Malkin and Coulter.
btw, I hope that Malkin’s own little Memogate scandal isn’t forgotten–her whole career is built on lies.
Hmmm.
Ann Coulter jokes about terrorists blowing up the New York Times.
The Left: “That’s outrageous!!!!!!”
John Bolton jokes about lopping off 10 floors of the United Nations.
The Left: “That’s outrageous!!!!!!!”
Al Franken jokes about assaulting conservatives merely for being conservative and about executing a sitting President.
The Left: “Hey, can’t you guys take a joke?”
In. Consistent.
Hey, Oliver. Do you know whether or not Al Franken explains his lies about Air American in his new book?
Like how he denied that he knew anything about the shady loan that the Gloria Wise Girls & Boys made to bail out the network, when his signature is on a settlement agreement between Air America’s holding company and it’s former president that clearly lists the loan of one of the network’s liabilities?
Sounds like just another lying liar to me.
Actually, Franken jokes about the fact that treason is a crime and the penalty is death when everyone knows that nobody in the Bush admin faces that fate. Coulter and Bolton both look at terrorist actions and say “hey, good idea”.
In. Consistent.
I assume you’re also going to excuse Franken’s thug tactics:
http://wm.amazon.usa.speedera.net/wm.amazon.usa/books/AMAZON_V6_crop_100k.wmv
(sorry for the amateur HTTP…last time I tried a link here it didn’t work)
More Malkin silliness which ignores the satiric nature of the video.
Satire is never funny to those who are the butt of the joke. It’s just like my silly fantasy post depicting the fictional alliance between P.E.T.A. and Greenpeace.
The same militancy is conjured in the imagination when Franken kicks a meathead in the balls, as when conservatives on a cruise ship run for their chickenhawk lives as bullets are sprayed across the deck of a cruise ship.
Please Malkin, can the faux outrage at the violence of this absurd human drama. It’s no more real than your phony concern for the welfare of the troops.
Gee, you wouldn’t know it by reading oliverwillis.com
I missed the part where I said anything about anyone facing the death penalty for treason.
Hey, Tuco:
Which page is this loan listed on. I’ve searched and searched and I can’t find the words “Gloria,” “Wise,” or “loan” anywhere in the whole document.
You’re not MSU, are you?
Maybe you should have your vision checked.
Try page 45, Schedule 15.2.4., “AAR Liabilities”
“$875,000 claimed by the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club….”
Maybe you should look into this a little deeper, so you can explain how Franken didn’t lie when he said he knew nothing about it.
Who (or what) is MSU?
Wikipedia:
Thank you, Tuco. The setlement agreement says there was a loan for $875,000. That’s all.
When Franken said, “I don’t know anything about the details of the loan, he was in the middle of talking about: the loan.
So what’s this “lie” you’re imagining?
Let’s go to the tape.
Al Franken, August 8, 2005:
Al Franken, New York Sun, September 7, 2005:
But he signed it on November 22, 2004.
If Al is supposed to be as smart as liberals seem to think he is, why did he sign a document and then claim he didn’t know what was in it?
Hold on a second. Those goalposts were right here a second ago….
Tuuuucooooooooo!! You got some ’splainin’ to do!
Now earlier, you were claiming that Franken said he didn’t know about the loan. But looking at the source, we see that Franken was busy telling his audience about the loan when he made the statement you cited as “evidence.”
I take it we’re done with that?
Now what do you think the term “involuntary investor” means? I’d take it to mean that Air America was rolling up a debt to Franken–they had stopped paying him and their accumulated obligation to him was the equivilent of a loan to the corporation.
As for your second quote from the New York Sun, you’ll have to explain to us what “this thing” is. The article in question is behind the subscriber firewall. Is it the settlement agreement? That would be silly, of course. Franken signed it in front of a notary. Of course he saw that. But is that what he’s talking about? Your cite doesn’t say.
Whatever.
There’s plenty of evidence that Evan Cohan misused his authority at Gloria Wise to divert money to Air America. That’s a story. The insistence by some on the right to drag Franken into it is wishful thinking.
Oh, wait.
You’re talking about the September 7, NY Sun article.
Did you see what they published the next day?
The New York Sun article–the uncorrected original–confused two different agreements. One is the settlement agreement that Franken signed. That agreement, as you pointed out, lists the $875,000 loan as a liability, but with no other details. It’s essentially a balance sheet.
There is also, apparently, an agreement between the owners of Air America, Gloria Wise, and the New York Department of Investigations for the repayment of that money.
These are two entirely separate things.
Has Al Franken seen the repayment agreement? Should he? Beats me. But the “evidence” you’ve been waving around doesn’t do anything to prove that he has.
Maybe you can explain what the following means, because I sure don’t get it:
Let’s see, Gloria Wise is owed $875,000, but we don’t know who owes it to them? Maybe Rush Limbaugh owes Gloria Wise the money, but someone just decided to put it into an Air America settlement agreement, doh!
By the way, how does this explain away the question at the end of my last post?
Tuco;
Stop pickin’ gnat shit out of flea crap. It is a diversionary tactic which resembles my adolescent son pointing out his brother’s more minor infractions, to avoid responsibility for his own misdeeds.
No, I mean this thread, but higher up. I have at two posts that are stuck waiting for moderation.
The thread above?
That’s “The Broken Record President,” and I don’t see anything about Franken in there.
In other words, I can’t find any substantive way to defend Franken, so I’ll make shit up.
Sorry, Tuco.
Replies abound in the thread above, but somehow I keep triggering the moderation mode.
There they are. See 11:49 and 2:38.
In other words, I can t find any substantive way to defend Franken, so I ll make shit up.
Wrong. I feel no need to defend the gnat shit you’re pursuin’ as you ‘whistle’
through the graveyard of Bushco ethics Inc.
Translation: While I’m waiting and hoping against hope that something will happen to acknowledge that my hatred for “Bushco ethics Inc.,” is justified, I refuse to discuss any other issue, particularly one that might show that one of my liberal touchstones is a lying liar.
Waiting for the “dead-Enders” to acknowledge Nixon ethics Inc found wanting 30 years after removal from office. Will continue to wait for conservatives to require the same ethics of themselves that they require of others.
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