Franken's book bravely presents the truth (DOUBLE-MEGA-BARF ALERT!!)

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 9/21/03 | Deborah Locke

[Lucretia Borgia]

I darn near lost my breakfast reading this one.

[Chi-townChief]

If Locke believes Franken as a news source, she's probably mentally ill.

[Brimack34]

How could you even read this? I passed. For All: Here in Minnesota we have no balance in the media, This is what we deal with day in day out. If we did not control the Gov and House it would look like California.

[Bringbackthedraft]

I wonder if there is any reference to the dubbed cheers at the NYFD - NYPD(?) rally where Hillary was actually boooed and MTV presented it with only cheers.

[Lucretia Borgia]

Opposition research. It's always good to know what the enemy is "thinking".

[Bogey78O]

Blatent lies by Franken. He ignores all of what actually happens. Then presents a minority of what happoened then uses the minority occurences to try and discredit reporting of the majority of the event. Not unlike what the left does when it shills for violent rallies and activism.

[Spiritus Gladius]

If Locke believes Franken as a news source, she's probably mentally ill.

As an editorialist for a liberal newspaper, isn't that part of the job description?

[moodyskeptic]

The problem, Ms. Locke, is that the Democrats made the mistake of televising the Wellstone memorial as a cynical propoganda device that backfired. The nation watched your beloved Democrats defile the casket with blatant anti-Bush campaigning.

We know what we saw, and the left cannot take back that day.

They cannot take back Elian's capture, Waco, Impeachment, the stained dress, complicity in treason and a hundred other embarrassments. Sorry.

Consequences. They're a bitch.

[Publius6961]

This is getting irritating.

I wonder if Jim R. can start a new category called "NEWSPEAK"?

We can visit it randomly when in need of comic relief.

[freekitty]

Only in the author's mind does this present the truth.

[ChuxsterS]

Hey Al, I didn't form my impression of the Welstone memorial based on what I saw on "right-wing media."

I happened to watch 10 minutes of the Wellstone memorial live, and was appalled. I saw a mob cheering a speaker screaming (approximately, I'm doing this from memory): "We're going to win! We're going to win!... we're going to take back the house, we're going to take back the senate... in 2004 we're going to take back the white house!" The crowd went wild.

It didn't take any right wing cabal in the press to spin this and distort it to create some powerful election-winning myth. The "memorial" was purely and simply a naked, partisan political rally masquerading as a memorial.

I wonder how Franken explains independent governor Ventura walking out in disgust.

[martin_fierro]

In short, while Democrats grieved in October...,

Depends on your definition of "grieve".

[brbethke]

Democrats mourning Paul Wellstone:

[brbethke]

Dang. You beat me to it.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Hmmm... someone needs to write a book called "Al is propagandist: A Fair and Balanced look at the lying liar and the lies he tells"

[Drango]

Locke is proof that Pravda has reporters and editors embedded with US newspapers.

[Wondervixen]

If she believes Franken is a NEWS source, maybe she was in the home-ec or nude basket weaving classrooms when the difference was being taught.

[DallasMike]

Dear Ms. Locke:

 

You wrote:

1. The next day 20 million listeners heard Rush Limbaugh describe the memorial as a "sham" and "disgusting," with a "planted audience."

 

Actually, Limbaugh played numerous lengthy (3 to 5 minute) clips from the "memorial" and it was easy for listeners to decide for the themselves that the whole thing was a sham. And, if it was all really a right-wing plot to discredit the "memorial," then why does this Associated Press article say that "Mr. Wellstone's campaign manager, Jeff Blodgett, apologized for the event the next morning?" Note that he apologized before Limbaugh's show or any other conservative radio or TV show.

 

Further, why does the article describe members of Wellstone's team realizing that it was a public relations disaster immediately after the event? Do you think that Limbaugh and Fox News called them and told them of their secret plans to undermine the lovely memorial?

 

And why did Governor Jesse Ventura walking out of the "memorial?" He isn't exactly a mind-numbed robot of the religious right, you know.

 

Looks like your research here was about as good as Mr. Franken's -- non-existent. Get a copy of the "memorial" and watch it.

 

Don't you just hate the internet -- informed citizens can give instant feedback with citations to lazy, biased reporters. Should we expect a retraction of your column?

 

Best regards,

 

-Michael McCullough

 Dallas, Texas

[Eva]

Let's refute the lies in this book so that we can answer the left's claims.

Start with the vandalism to the Whitehouse. We all know it happened, but can we prove it?

[rdb3]

Should we expect a retraction of your column?

Now we don't expect anything like integrity from these reporters, do we?