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A Sure Bet (Call Vegas, baby)
Jimmy Carter will win a Grammy this year for Best Spoken Word Album. His “Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis” is nominated for the award along with albums by Bill…
Al Franken
American comedian and politician (born 1951)
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Euphemism watch: “cash flow problem” and Air America
Per WRAL: Financially strapped Air America Radio has acknowledged laying off a few employees, but insists it has no plans to declare bankruptcy. Star commentator Al Franken has said his…
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Speaking of Goldwater…
I randomly mentioned “The Conscience of a Conservative” in a post below, not having thought of that book for at least five years. Then, 15 minutes later I get a…
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The Grammy Awards
In the “Oh My!” category: Few media outlets reported that Alison Krauss & Union Station won three more Grammys last night: Best Country Performance, Best Country Instrumental Performance, and Best…
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That’s gotta hurt
According to Drudge, the New York City April-June talk radio ratings book is mucho bad news for Al Franken and Air America. Franken’s at the bottom, below even Michael Savage.…
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Left of the Dial
I watched a fascinating documentary on HBO about the creation of AirAmerica called “Left of the Dial”. It chronicles the Al Franken, Garafolo (sp?), Randy Rhodes excursion into left-wing radio.…
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Re: October surprise watch
“Bush Has Secret Plan to Bring Back Debtors’ Prison” Documents released today by Al Franken show conclusively that if re-elected, President Bush has a plan to reinstitute debtors’ prison in…
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Fill in the Blanks
Al Franken has a laughable complaint in USA Today: Charges against John Kerry by a group of Vietnam veterans first got a foothold in cable news earlier this month. Network…
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Re: Art and politics
There seems to be something about “celebrityness” that makes its possessors think that others are impressed and influenced by their utterances in fields outside of their ken. Why should anyone…
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Re: Faster than…
Hammer and Sickle Superman reminds me of one of Saturday Night Live’s classic skit series from the 1970s called “What If….” The skit would suggest what might happen if certain…
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Do You Hear the One about the Talk-Radio Host?
Carolina Journal writer Paul Chesser has a short ?Media Mangle? post over at Carolina Journal Online that is well worth reading ? even though it mentions Al Franken.