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Old 06-30-2009, 09:09 PM
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Senator Al Franken.

from the same state that gave us governor Jesse (the Body) Ventura - Minnesota, you need to raise your standards just a tad.
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Old 07-01-2009, 03:11 AM
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I heard that the MN Supreme Court gave him the victory. NOW we have proof that Franken stole that election, and won it illegally.
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Old 07-01-2009, 07:29 AM
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Stuart Smalley makes good. Yikes
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Old 07-01-2009, 08:51 AM
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Did anyone stop to ask what a comedian might know about politics? OY!!!!
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Old 07-01-2009, 09:18 AM
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from the same state that gave us governor Jesse (the Body) Ventura - Minnesota, you need to raise your standards just a tad.
Democrats surely do love crooks and people with bad reps.
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Old 07-01-2009, 10:01 AM
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Not too surprisingly, as a Brit I don't really know about Franken .. other than that he had a show on the pro-Leftie station 'Air America'.

But I've just checked out the Conservapedia entry. Interesting to see the 'calibre' of contender the likes of Obama would be glad to see batting for his side ...

Al Franken - Conservapedia

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On Franken's website there is the admonition "Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule". Throughout his books he has held himself to "impossibly high standards" to tell the truth about those he has written about. Author Alan Skorski researched two of Franken's books (Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Lies and and the Lying Liars who Tell Them) and found an extensive pattern of lies, misstatements, factual inaccuracies, among them:

Accusing Ann Coulter of "lying with footnotes" by "citing a source and misrepresenting what it says"; throughout his book Skorski states that Franken has done exactly that on numerous occasions (Skorski, pg. xiii)

Accusing President George W. Bush of treason

The collision between Bush foreign policy advisor Richard Armitage and news reporter Helen Thomas, which Franken had claimed broke both her hip and jaw (Lying Liars, pg 218), but which Thomas herself said never happened (Skorski, pg 208). After this came to light, Franken later added a footnote in the paperback version of the book saying, "The Helen Thomas thing is a joke."

Franken stated he is "often compared to Rush Limbaugh" when on the air, despite the fact that by the time he left his Air America show to run for the U.S. Senate, his radio network was reduced to just over 40 market stations as a result of severely-low ratings and ultimately bankruptcy. Limbaugh, by comparison, plays on more than 600 stations with an average daily listening audience of 22 million (Skorski, pg 303).

Franken claimed on his radio show (June 1, 2005) that Rush Limbaugh made up a quotation supposedly said by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which claimed Ginsburg said "replacing 'Mother's Day' and 'Father's Day' with a 'Parent's Day' should be considered...". Skorski did a Google check on Ginsburg and discovered a May 20, 2005 column from the National Review titled "Bench Warmers, Putting Judicial Nominees in Perspective, Part III"; this column cited a September, 1974 article written by Ginsburg which advocated for the creation of a "Parent's Day" to replace both Mother's and Father's Days.

During his 2008 campaign, it was discovered that Franken had not paid state taxes in 17 states he earned money over the last four years. Franken blamed it on his accountant saying "This all really comes from one mistake, which is him not understanding that I was supposed to pay state taxes in these other states." Franken says he will pay those states now, plus interest and penalties for a total of $70,000. As of March, 2009, Franken had failed to supply proof that the arrears in taxes had been paid.
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Old 07-01-2009, 12:17 PM
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And they harped on the fact that Reagan was an actor?
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Just as I would suspect, a liar in the Senate. Add on to the many more in the Senate now.
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Al Franken. What a dim bulb.
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