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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.

Wrong. I feel no need to defend the gnat shit you’re pursuin’ as you ‘whistle’
through the graveyard of Bushco ethics Inc.

Replies abound in the thread above, but somehow I keep triggering the moderation mode.

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.

In other words, I can’t find any substantive way to defend Franken, so I’ll make shit up.

Replies abound in the thread above….

The thread above?

That’s “The Broken Record President,” and I don’t see anything about Franken in there.

The thread above?

No, I mean this thread, but higher up. I have at two posts that are stuck waiting for moderation.

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.

…but did not commit any party to the claims.

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?

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.

You’re talking about the September 7, NY Sun article.

Did you see what they published the next day?

Correction from September 8, 2005
A settlement agreement signed by Al Franken, Evan Montvel Cohen, and other parties acknowledged that the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club had claims totaling $875,000 against the Air America radio network, but did not commit any party to the payment of those claims. A front-page story in yesterday’s New York Sun misstated the terms of the agreement. The name of Mr. Franken’s radio program is “The Al Franken Show.” Yesterday’s story incorrectly cited a previous name for his program.

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.

So what s this  lie you re imagining?

Let’s go to the tape.

Al Franken, August 8, 2005:

And about three weeks into the life of Air America, I became an involuntary investor. I stopped being paid.

So now, we started to make arrangements, and I didn’t know anything about this until late last week…

Al Franken, New York Sun, September 7, 2005:

“I am not an investor, and I didn’t see this thing,” Mr. Franken, the comedian and best-selling author who hosts Air America’s daily show “The O’Franken Factor,” said.

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?

Try page 45, Schedule 15.2.4.,  AAR Liabilities

 $875,000 claimed by the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club& .

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?

On August 12, 2005, the New York Times [11] reported that Al Franken commented on the case during his show earlier that week. Franken characterized Evan Cohen as “a crook” and said “I don’t know why they did it, and I don’t know where the money went. I don’t know if it was used for operations, which I imagine it was. I think he was robbing Peter to pay Paul.” Franken had also stated that he knew nothing of the details of the loan between Gloria Wise and Progress Media. Franken is a signatory to the agreement settlement between Piquant LLC and Cohen. [12][13]

[3 items removed, unrelated to Franken--Q in a B]

On September 8, 2005, the New York Sun and the New York Post reported that Danny Goldberg, CEO of Air America, announced that the board of directors of the network’s owner had accelerated its payment schedule and deposited the full $875,000 into the escrow account to settle the loan from the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club. Goldberg stated that Al Franken’s signature on the agreement between Piquant LLC and Evan Cohen “was simply to waive his own claims in order to facilitate the transaction and allow the network to survive under new ownership.” Mr. Goldberg said the portion of the agreement that listed the Gloria Wise claim of $875,000 did not apply to Mr. Franken, who was not an investor. “Al Franken does not have and never had any responsibility for this loan,” Mr. Goldberg said in a written statement. “His role at Air America was then and remains today as on-air talent.” [18][19] [20]

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.

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?

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

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?