Posted on 06/13/2005 7:21:37 AM PDT by Main Street
The audio for this should be priceless, if Laura Ingraham can get it!
sometimes this kind of thing will show up on C-SPAN. Maybe Franken may even air it on his show. And I hope that one or more of the talk show hosts there brought one of those little recordable Walkmen(cassette or mini-disc) and turned it on...and could offer samples of it on their shows!
It's always fun to watch these selfish POS's fight each other over their massive senses of entitlement.
Dean, Hillary, Bubba, et al would also fall under that diagnosis.
>>In Boston, WXKS-AM was a standards (Sinatra, Clooney, etc.)
station which got a 2.4 in the ratings.
By the way big corporate radio giant Clear Channel owns many of the stations that have started to run Air America. In Akron, OH, one of their low-rated stations (ran syndicated sports) decided to try AAR and called themselves "Radio Free
Ohio", imaging themselves as an alternative to Big Corporate Radio. They DIDN'T mention that they're OWNED by one of those big, bad corporations!
C.C. is figuring there's a fringe audience that listens to this crap and they might as well try to reach them...and when people accuse them of only putting conservative talk on they can say, "Oh, no, we run liberal talk on our AM
stations in Boston (etc.)" (And get low ratings, but their
FM stations make so much money that C.C. can afford to
waste AAR on their AM stations.)
No. It's not a joke. There is a video of him saying that which I've seen on FoxNews. Also this:
Referring to this same subject, the Oct. 5, 2002, Dallas Morning News quotes Franken as saying that when he was with "Saturday Night Live": "I only did cocaine to stay awake to make sure nobody else did too much cocaine. That was the only reason I did it. Heh-heh."
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/shcortage.htm
And this from a review of one of his books:
Franken goes on to discuss his years at Harvard as an anti-Vietnam activist and entrepreneur in the late '60s and early '70s, and then the early, drug-soaked days of "Saturday Night Live," where, by "Week Three, cocaine had spread like wildfire through the offices on the seventeenth floor.... For my part, I stayed on the sidelines, snorting only the occasional line, so that I could stay awake to make sure the others wouldn't do too much cocaine."
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0385334540
It's all very well documented.
Not to mention he really sucked as an SNL writer (and occasional performer) in the mid 70's and beyond.
I have never listened onair, but it is amazing to me that he is so bad that his prop people on Direct TV (sat tv) for those who don't have it, will replay his radio show every night, kind of late in the p.m. for those on the left coast. Thanks for the info.
http://www.debatepolitics.com/showthread.php?t=1379
Air America is an expensive hobby for Mr. Soros. Its ratings even declined last autumn.
But this isn't news. Just another liberal radio station slowly tanking `cause they don't get federal subsidies & no one wants to listen to them, other than lefty cranks.
As phony as a Clinton 3-dollar Bill.
What he just tries to do is impress S.O.B's on the Left...
Al Franken is a guy who did this according to a fan web site:
Al Franken began comedy at an early age. While a second grader, Franken watched in horror as a group of girl classmates performed a silly, second grade skit. Seizing the moment, Franken teamed with his boy classmates and wrote a skit mocking the girls. It left his female classmates in tears.
Al's going to honor the Iraq veterans by assuring that their efforts come to nothing. What a self-centered moron! I agree with the guests, Al, shut up and do your country a favor.
Keep up the good work, Al.
He was on Leno some time last week. I made my husband put the headphones on after about the 3rd outright lie he told. I don't have to listen to that crap and I won't.
Oy vey!
Sounds like he's joking. It's actually a pretty funny line, no pun intended.
"Even an idiot can receive an award from a committee of idiots."
Dr. Laura
He wasn't joking. It wasn't funny, and it was a serious question. And he's repeated the same "not funny joke" over and over when people have asked about his cocaine use. He laughed because even he saw how ridiculous the comment was, but he went with it because he'd repeated it so many times in the past, it was kinda hard to change his story at this late date.
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