Air America's First Senator!
Air America is proud to announce its very first Senator-elect. Congratulations Al Franken!
Sure Norm Coleman thinks he still has a chance, but then he also thought Terry Schiavo's quality of life was less important than scoring political points in the pro-life community and, worse yet--wait for it--he's a Freemason.
Harry Reid said it best: “Coleman will never ever serve in the Senate [again],” he said. “He lost the election. He can stall things, but he’ll never serve in the Senate.”
We searched the archives and found some great video. Watch the newly minted Senator hosting Air America's "The Al Franken Show."
Al Franken officially launches Air America on March 31st, 2004
Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher interview author Ed Klein Part 1.
Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher interview author Ed Klein Part 2.
Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher interview Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher explains the confusion by the Bush Administration on Iraq.
Al Franken takes "The Al Franken Show" on the road to Fresno.
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- January 6, 2009
YEAH BABY!!!
Coleman's going down, the rest of the republicans are in retreat, and the bible-thumpers are whinging on about how we aren't being nice to them!
2009 looks to be harsh, but oh so very good!
give me lever, and a place to stand...
Dos!
Sher, I'm second.
But I want to be the FRist! to thank the editors for pulling out these video clips.
I can still remember sitting at my desk at work in front of the computer, patiently waiting for the voice of reason to stream through my speakers. And then, at high noon, I was saved:
Four years and countless incorrect predictions of failure made by wingnut after wingnut later, AAR still carries on with one of their very own newly elected to the United States Senate.
Well done, and good on everyone involved.
And the Ed Klein interview.... Who could ever forget it?
I remember listening to it that day, and then making sure I was around later that night to watch it on the TeeVee (it was at the time when Showtime picked up the Al Franken Show to run at night). During the radio show at noon, I picked up on the trembling fear in Klein's voice as Conason was introduced for questioning. And the only thing that topped it was seeing that fear all over his face later that evening. A classic.
Thanks for those oldies but goodies.
Ah, the days of the AFB. Oh, remember when...
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"It's all been satirized for your protection." --Maher
First off I think This
First off I think This election was stolen and Franken was not the true winner, but so be it. My point is - Liberals and left wingers keep electing these clowns for Hope and beleive there will be Change. 2006 elections were full of promises that never happened. Bush still did and got whatever he wanted.
Obama ran on hope and change and all of you beleived him. Now he is proposing the largest tax cut of all time. Obama promised to "bring our troops home". but now he is talking about deploying another 20,000 to 40,000 troops to fight the war on terror. So far he sounds more conservative than Bush.
And his appointments have represented no change at all. The list is full of Clinton and Bush adiminstration people. So the question will be, is this Clinton or W's third term? It will not be about change. So things may work out after all.
So keep gloating......... Ball is in your court.
He is proposing the largest tax cut
of all time for poor and working class people and will raise them on the wealthy. That is change. Provide proof that he is going to deploy another 40,000 troops. Obama is much more conservative than Bush. Bush is not a conservative, he is a right wing extremist, a fascist like his Grandfather.
Thankyou for posting the druggys opinion, you FREUD!
You always want proof of
You always want proof of what you don;t like. READ A PAPER>>>>
True, it is not only the largest Tax cut, that is what he calls it, it is also the larges welfare projects of all times. I never understood how handing people money they don;t earn is a good thing? Why should they work if they are paid by the government? Of course all it is is buying votes, but, you know that I am sure.
Can you define "working class people? for me? And please provide actually income levels. Thanks.
You dont have any proof
because you are a liar and a FREUD. I am glad that you do not agree with the Bush taxcuts that redistributed the wealth from the middle class to the rich. I am glad that you disagree with welfare for the idle rich. Why should the rich work when they are being paid by the govt? I agree with you.
Working class people are people who work. The median income is around $40,000 a year. Obama's tax cuts are for people under $250,000 a year so some rich working people are included. Thanks again for the druggys opinion, you Freud.
A few corrections...
First off, why do you capitalize "tax" in the middle of a sentence? Then, adding "that is what he calls it" using commas is a poor way to convey your main idea. I would suggest parenthesis: "Rush Limbaugh, the big fat dope addict (and pederast) is the source of all Jim's ideas." Alternately, you can insert a comment using em dashes: "Jim's sheeplike loyalty to Fox News—the propaganda arm of the Bush Administration—is rivaled only by his love of being spanked."
Are you trying to say "largest" or "largesse?"
"At all times" is a common instruction in military and corporate regulations. It means to do something whenever you are at work. "Of all times" means nothing. Perhaps you meant to say "of all time" as in "Jim is the dumbest dittohead of all time."
How is a tax cut for the working classes "handing them money?" Isn't that money theirs, particularly by your definition that makes all taxes evil?
And just FYI, Genius Boy, a semicolon is used to break two related ideas in a sentence. Example: "Jim is a moron; he also likes getting his ass paddled." I think you meant to use an apostrophe, thusly: "Jim's Mistress is well paid to whack his ass until it's as red as Texas."
For more help, dial 1-800-A-B-C-D-E-F-G. Hooked On Phonics might even get you a job.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
Always changing the subject.
Always changing the subject. Next you call me a facist and the is the end of you...
Answer this. How is giving money from the federal government to people that did not pay in a "TAX cut"?
And what income levels is a "Working Family"?
Answer the questions with PROOF>
Typical neocrumb
It is YOU, Spanky, who dodges every attempt to pin you down to fact. The "demands" you make of me come directly from some radio talk show. If you want to know more about Obama's plan, how about you go to http://www.barackobama.com/taxes and read the definitions for yourself? The full tax plan is also available there as a PDF. But you don't want to read anything other than the latest slop by O'Reilly or Coulter. You think you can attack me with the same tired old republicunt tactics. Go and try it on your Mistress, Bondage Boy.
What Dumbo2244 Is Into
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
They Hate This
Good Old Liberal Debate Tactics
1. SHOW UP WITH YOUR TALKING POINTS. Make sure you have something that you feel will show your opponents in a negative light, and make that the subject of the discussion.
2. DEMONIZE YOUR OPPONENT. Attempt to cover them with shame, the same way you would a 4 year old that touches his pee-pee.
3. IF YOU SEE SOMEONE DOING #2 ABOVE, SUPPORT HIM IMMEDIATELY.
4. ACCUSE YOU OPPONENT OF SAYING SOMETHING HE DIDN’T. Attempt to define his statements in a negative light. Interpret them this way and state it as fact that he did actually say it. NEVER ask him…always TELL him what his meaning was.
5. CLAIM THAT IT IS “OLD NEWS” AND NOT WORTHY OF DISCUSSION. This applies especially when the discussion turns to the misdeeds of Democrat Party Leadership.
6. QUOTE AN UNSOURCED NEWS ARTICLE. Always quote the article selectively, or describe it in a general manner.
7. IF ASKED DIRECT QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NEWS YOU HAVE PROVIDED, RESPOND INDIRECTLY. Never actually answer the specific of the question.
8. IF ASKED TO SOURCE YOUR NEWS ARTICLE, IGNORE THE QUESTION.
9. ACCUSE YOUR OPPONENT OF A MENTAL DEFECT OR LACK OF INTELLIGENCE. Personal attacks of this sort are especially useful as the target will almost always try to defend himself, thus changing the subject.
10. IF THE PARTY LEADERSHIP IS ATTACKED, ATTEMPT TO TURN THE TABLES BY INFERRING THAT SOMEONE IN YOUR OPPONENTS PARTY IS JUST AS BAD.
11. ACCUSE YOUR OPPONENT OF NOT ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS. Try to do this before he has an opportunity to. Try to infer that it you have given him multiple opportunities to do so. Do it even if the question has been answered. If he misses the question and asks you to repeat it DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES REPEAT THE QUESTION FOR HIS BENEFIT).
12. RESORT TO INSULTS. Try to question you opponent’s masculinity, his resolve, ANYTHING, but try to diminish and demean him. (This is know as the “LBJ Rule” codified by him thus: “Accuse your opponent of being a pig fornicator, then make him deny it.) REMEMBER, IF YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO THIS TACTIC, IT MEANS YOUR OPPONENT IS WINNING!
13. ACCUSE YOUR OPPONENT OF BEING UNINFORMED. This works especially well when you are asked to provide your sources. It is especially effective if you work in a reference to someone you have already demonized. Rush Limbaugh is currently the Demon of Choice.
14. SPEAK CRYPTICALLY. Try to make it difficult for people to divine your meaning
15. CHANGE THE SUBJECT. Try to get it back to your original talking points (see #1 above)
16. APPEAR TO AGREE. You will need to do this in order to achieve #15.
17. CLAIM YOUR OPPONENT IS BEING UNREASONABLE OR WON’T LISTEN TO REASON, AND LEAVE IN A HUFF.
18. BAIT YOUR OPPONENT. Needle him, tease him, call him names until he makes an inappropriate post, then scream bloody murder to the Moderator.
19. DENY THE EVIDENCE EXISTS. Ask for evidence of wrongdoing by those you support. When that evidence is presented, continue denying that it exists.
http://battalions2.wordpress.com/2006/06/21/good-old-liberal-debate-tact...
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860
dude...
Is there a reason you've rebranded horowitz's/rove's rhetorical bag of tricks as a liberal shtick?
Why is it that each of the Great Neo-Conservative Pronouncements have all back-fired? (Liberals don't debate, permanent conservative majority, liberals don't stick up for the little guy, etc.) Could it be it's all because people are now tired of your industrial strength horse crap?
Great set of "leaders" you've got
-Bully O'Reilly
-George "decider" Bush, the man presiding over the biggest financial mess since '29.
-Rush "you shouldn't use drugs, unless you're me" Limbaugh
Leave in a Huff? Why? I'm having fun making making fun of you, while showing where you are so egregiously wrong!
give me lever, and a place to stand...
And if that's too soon, he can leave in a minute and a Huff!
It is truly a hoot, isn't it? The dittoheads have noting left, but to accuse liberal of the very things they themselves do, and hope it sticks. Too bad, Officer Bill! The public is finally tired of all the macho chest-thumping. Most people know the dits are really a bunch of sniveling little mama's boys.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
You've misunderstood the
You've misunderstood the label. It means those are the tactics trolls use when debating liberals.
By Jim2244 January 6, 2009 - 4:54pm
2006 elections were full of promises that never happened.
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There is two-years-worth of congressional record that disagrees with you. I know you're too dumb to grasp a full reading of it, so I'll be kind enough to put just some of it in picture form for you (as compared to the achievements of the clowns you help elect).
Obama ran on hope and change and all of you beleived him. Now he is proposing the largest tax cut of all time.
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Here-in lies the problem with only being able to grasp one two-word bumper-sticker slogan at a time:
it precludes you from grasping other two-word bumper-sticker slogans that accompany it.
Like "tax cuts".
Maybe he confused you by adding "for 95% of Americans"?
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"It's all been satirized for your protection." --Maher
By SJerseyIndyJanuary 6, 2009 - 3:10pm
Damn do I miss the old blog days...
I figured that if he didn't win the election he might return and bring with him the blog. This is good too I guess.
By bobcollum January 6, 2009 - 5:14pm
Well, looky here. Howdy there, pahtnah.
**tips hat**
The new digs take a little gettin' adjusted to.
But if you stick around long enough, you'll find that:
--The regulars are good peeps (though hufflooney2000 has a certain way about him)
--There's lots of good info to be found (though links are tough to come by)
--The humor is much the same in many ways (Guido --"Guy Fawkes"-- could double as vesti in another life. OK, well, nobody can quite double vesti. But Guido comes close.)
And...
--The trolls are just as dumb as ever, and all too willing to play the role of targets (for a small taste, just get Dumbo2244 here to start on a rant about Climate Change/Global Warming )
Good to read you again, fishboy.
:fromage:
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"It's all been satirized for your protection." --Maher
By Jim2244January 6, 2009 - 4:54pm
What are you some kind of independent whack-job?
Its not as glamorous as i'd thought it'd be.
I don't think so.... Just
I don't think so....
Just watching the process roll along. I vote, I talk to my elected officials, I state my point of view, and I pray that our leaders do the right thing.
I think this coutry is headed in the wrong direction, But I pray it goes in the right direction.
As for posting on here, these loons are fun to play with. Huffy especially. Amazing what this guy thinks, Did you know he supported Hillary? Yet he bashed Bush.
I think you are a liar
and a FREUD. You are immoral, valueless and an America hating traitor. You are uneducated and dumb as a rock.
Don't you mean "Mister Frood?"
Careful, Huff, or they'll all want one. I hear Hatey wants to be "Mister So-crates!"
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
By bobcollum January 6, 2009 - 5:11pm
What are you some kind of independent whack-job?
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Only half-right. See if you can guess which half...
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"It's all been satirized for your protection." --Maher
By Jim2244January 6, 2009 - 5:32pm
Huffy especially.
He certainly likes to mistake you for a certain Austrian psychologist.
Mega Dittos
I suspect that the great senator from Nevada is also looking at his last term. I like term limits not matter how they are inforced.
By fiscal republicanJanuary 6, 2009 - 7:02pm
I suspect that the great senator from Nevada is also looking at his last term.
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Just taking this small bit of time to acknowledge a point of agreement with someone from the other side of the aisle.
I suspect you may be right. Moreover, I sure hope you are.
Given Harry's record as SML, I'd say he's due for a primary challenger from the Left.
One spineless Jellycrat at a time.
SJI: Moving on from "More and Better" Democrats to "Better and Better" Democrats.
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"It's all been satirized for your protection." --Maher
Congrats, Al
I am happy for you and the country but sad for me. No Al Franken show for at least another 6 years and probably much longer.
At least I know exactly where you stand on the important issues. Please don't forget those stances when big corp starts flashing cash in your face.
It can be tempting to take the easy route to raise 70 million for a job that pays less than 200K. I hope you are there to fix this problem.
By SJerseyIndyJanuary 6, 2009 - 6:14pm
I can't tell you how relieved I was to see the comment time stamp in the post subject line!! Its like everyone done and gone threaded list on me. Meh well...
I really miss the AFB. Kinda sad really.
:vampire:
By bobcollumJanuary 6, 2009 - 7:28pm
I miss it too. The free-form, off-topic conversation from thread to thread is sorely missed, and difficult to reproduce here on the front pages because of the sheer number of threads in multiple locations. I tried bringing along "Elvis!" to make it more like home, and Gaz played along with me for the short time he stayed here, but it doesn't quite follow in this format. And now he's gone... (breaks out into singing The Dead) he's goooone... and nothing's gonna bring him back. He's gone. DocB swings through from time to time. frazz has been known to make the few and far between appearances. But, near as I can recall, that's about it. Though I suspect there are others floating around holding different handles.
One thing I have brought along, though, is timestamps! It's chaos in here without'em...
:-S
And FRists!. Woo, boy. There are some 'round these parts who just don'ts likes the FRists!.
Nazis...
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"It's all been satirized for your protection." --Maher
LOL
jimbo 224 always cracks me up. He is one of these religious right people. The other day he said that Rush and Bush do not define friend and foe for him as I suggested. No. He said they define good vs. evil.
jimbo! You are who we thought you were!
I guess those fundies are pretty kinky!
You suppose Jim-jim role plays while he's getting spanked? "Please Mistress, I've been very naughty in the eyes of Jesus! I need to have the sin beat out of me!"
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
By LiberalIconoclastJanuary 6, 2009 - 8:45pm
LOL
Too true
Al would talk about this on his show
I remember Al Franken talking about the Downing St Memo
Of course the right wingers denied the evidence existed.
There is a list somewhere of typical right wing tactics such as ignoring evidence.
The right wingers typically post it but change the title to "liberal tactics"
Typical.
Here are some other Al Franken "classics"
My favorite is Al kicking O'Loofah's ass, at a book expo in L.A. in 2003 (to promote: "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right"), whereupon Bill-O throws a tantrum. Al also ripped into the right-wing media, Chenney and Coulter, but they didn't have the priviledge to be there in person (on that day).
Part One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOAYI6Qnl6E
Part Two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMM7NRdwrnc&feature=related
Part Three (with O'Loofah's tantrum):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjFbRYVFmlk&feature=related
Here are some other classics of Al making (M)Ann Coulter look stupid (as she usually does) at the CT Forum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHx0oLrGjKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYV4D_jKepc&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=susZ2ceEHwk&feature=channel
Enjoy!
Coldcooter was on Today this morning
Promoting her new ghost-written piece of shit on the network she has practically accused of being in league with al-Qaeda. Go figure! Anyway, typical of Matt "Lacksnuts" Lauer, he let her walk on him like a treadmill. Neverhtheless, her republifascist diatribe was retarded beyond belief, and will likely do nothing but make the neocrumbs look even more narrow-minded in the perception of millions of Today viewers.
I won't even get started on how Cooter and Dr. Whore-ah should practice what they preach. Those two seriously need to be home obeying their husbands, and their public lives should be limited to running Submitted Women's Prayer Groups.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury