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Franken's book bravely presents the truth (DOUBLE-MEGA-BARF ALERT!!)
St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 9/21/03 | Deborah Locke

Posted on 09/21/2003 10:00:19 AM PDT by Lucretia Borgia

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To: DallasMike; Alberta's Child
I like what Alberta's Child wrote in that thread you linked to:
The Democratic Party has become nothing more than a series of industrial accidents just waiting to happen.
Almost a year later, and that statement is more true than ever.
41 posted on 09/21/2003 12:21:56 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: Chi-townChief
If Locke believes Franken as a news source, she's probably mentally ill.

Why not? The FCC believes Howard Stern is a news show.

42 posted on 09/21/2003 12:26:52 PM PDT by Archangelsk ("Toss in a buck ya cheap bastard, I paid for your g**damn breakfast." Joe)
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To: moodyskeptic
Indeed. I watched the Wellstone memorial service - it was disgusting! And no spinning from Franken can change what I saw, or thought as I was seeing it.

The truth hurts - so Franken should be pain free.
43 posted on 09/21/2003 12:38:52 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Lucretia Borgia
This book would be in the remainder bin by now were it not for all the free publicity generated by Fox's ill-advised and boneheaded lawsuit. You'd think they could afford real lawyers.
44 posted on 09/21/2003 12:43:48 PM PDT by clintonh8r (A gentleman knows something about everything and everything about something.)
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To: GreatOne
You have to remember that Joe Soucheray is the token voice of reason and sanity for the Pioneer Press. If it doesn't make sense in the garage, it will not make sense any where else.
45 posted on 09/21/2003 12:55:28 PM PDT by Lucretia Borgia
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To: ChuxsterS
Hey Al, I didn't form my impression of the Welstone memorial based on what I saw on "right-wing media."

Exactly. I watched the whole thing live on Cspan and didn't need Rush Limbaugh to tell me how disgusting it was.

46 posted on 09/21/2003 1:04:45 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: Lucretia Borgia
Franken recounts the Paul Wellstone memorial. The chapter is a good example of the way right-wing pundits aided by their media outlets will distort the facts to the American people.

The unedited broadcast of the political rally that way the Wellstone funeral did more damage than Rush Limbaugh or Fox News could ever have done. The public saw with their own eyes unrestrained hate and pontificating at a funeral.

Wellstone Memorial on C-SPAN2 NOW!

***RALLY ON A CORPSE: DEMOCRATS TURN WELLSTONE MEMORIAL IN TO FIERY CAMPAIGN CALL!***

Here's a blog entry I found where a Rat defended the booing of Trent Lott at the Wellstone funeral. Dick Cheney was told not to attend. These are the facts that people on the left "forget" or try to spin.

Bubba (and Fritz) got some laughs in:

Of course he always does at funeral:


47 posted on 09/21/2003 1:18:03 PM PDT by weegee
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To: Eva
The retreating Clinton staff vandalized the White House complex. The report is at http://www.gao.gov, Report Number GAO-02-360.
48 posted on 09/21/2003 1:23:45 PM PDT by optimistically_conservative (assonance and consonance have nothing on alliteration)
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To: 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.

Now now, SeeBS-MTV-VH1 are owned by Viacommie and had to protect their investment as Viacom's publishing arm, Simon and Schuester, paid Mrs. Bill Clinton $8million for her book.

That edited version of the concert is all that is available on DVD too. Rather than cut the offending speech altogether or letting it stay, warts and all, they have lied about the way that event happened that night and left in the overdubbed cheers.

I pointed this out on some DVD review sites and a few critics thought that this was bad, but not bad enough to avoid buying the disc. Of course, these are the same geeks who will throw a hissy fit if a song on the soundtrack has been changed on the DVD version, a director like David Lynch optically darkens a scene so that an actress' pubic hair will not be visible in the home video version of Mulholand Drive, etc.

Yeah. I know all about lying liars, Al.

49 posted on 09/21/2003 1:25:38 PM PDT by weegee
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To: Lucretia Borgia
"The other section -- and I call them sections because the book is strangely organized -- contains..."

Is "strangely organized" a kind euphamism for "poorly organized"?

50 posted on 09/21/2003 1:27:56 PM PDT by weegee
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To: Publius6961
Who needs a "NEWSPEAK" category on FR? When the libs come back into power, this site will be shut down, books and libraries will be banned, and the newspapers will purge their archives every night so that the "new" truth can be disiminated the next day.
51 posted on 09/21/2003 1:33:07 PM PDT by weegee
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To: 300winmag
If there were tender and quiet moments of respect, they chose not to show it to me, or the rest of the nation.

Maybe the quiet "respectful" moment came when they played "Love Train". I doubt that it was when they booed Trent Lott. Certainly "the fix was in" in the planning stages when they told Dick Cheney not to come. Hey, funerals of dead politicians, it's what VPs do. Just ask Albert Gore Junior (the real Jr. in election 2000).

52 posted on 09/21/2003 1:37:58 PM PDT by weegee
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To: optimistically_conservative
That's what I was looking for. It would be great if we could make a list of the lies in this book and the proof. This is a great start.
53 posted on 09/21/2003 2:10:28 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Lucretia Borgia
Franken recounts the Paul Wellstone memorial. The chapter is a good example of the way right-wing pundits aided by their media outlets will distort the facts to the American people.

Who you gonna believe Al Franken or your lying eyes?
54 posted on 09/22/2003 8:37:24 AM PDT by Valin (If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?)
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To: Lucretia Borgia
His book may be selling but I can't believe anyone is actually reading it.

55 posted on 09/22/2003 8:38:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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