Al Franken Radio Show 10/5

randym431

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Interesting segment on the Al Franken radio show today 10/5 with guest Tom Oliphant.
Tom spend the day on the hill. He predicted soon after the coming elections, a commission that was setup a year ago and ran by Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton (on Iraq) will force some major changes in the current Iraq policy and in demanding major changes in war policy. Mostly due the their impatience with what Jim Baker see?s as the failure of the current Iraq government, in that under its current leadership the Iraq gov has failed to have any success on stopping the violence. And that they are on their third plan (attempt) to curb the violence that has sky rocketed since June.
With some 30 attacks daily on American troops there and the huge spike in American troop injuries and deaths lately. The Jim baker commission claims the Bush policy in Iraq has failed, and major changes are now due. They will insist on the replacement of both Rice and Rumsfeld as a start, and a change in focus towards the war. Tom Oliphant also said a large portion of the republican leadership has lost patience with the Bush policy and will join Baker and Hamilton in forcing these changes with president Bush.

It looks like the sh*t has finally hit the fan and the republican leadership has had it with the failed Bush policy, a failed Iraq policy and the large number of American deaths now occurring.

This will happen after the November elections as the republicans try to take over the misdirected Bush policy in the final two years.

It would be so nice if this actually happens and the republicans themselves stand up and change the direction of this war Bush started. Lets hope so, for our troops sake.

You can hear the show on Air America radio and download the entire show in MP3 format. You can say what you want about Al Franken, but he does have interesting guests and has talked about many subjects way before they became mainstream, like the Delay corruption that brought so many of them to justice.
 

daveymark

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I'll pay to listen to that drivel as soon as you pay to listen to today's Rush show. you can download the podcast at Rushlimbaugh.com
 

Moonbeam

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And whom might I ask set up this subversive commission that's going to overthrow the Bush Administration and is it bipartisan by any chance. Hehe, the OP is a dreamer.

One take on it here.
 

JD50

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Where are all the lefties that jump into any thread that has anything to do with any conservative commentator or Fox News, bitching and moaning about how biased they are?
 

Pabster

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Originally posted by: daveymark
I'll pay to listen to that drivel as soon as you pay to listen to today's Rush show. you can download the podcast at Rushlimbaugh.com

:thumbsup:
 
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Originally posted by: JD50
Where are all the lefties that jump into any thread that has anything to do with any conservative commentator or Fox News, bitching and moaning about how biased they are?


Amazing.

Franken and Limbaugh are openly biased toward the Democratic and Republican parties. Fox news is supposed to provide dispassionate information.
 

JD50

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Originally posted by: Pabster
Originally posted by: daveymark
I'll pay to listen to that drivel as soon as you pay to listen to today's Rush show. you can download the podcast at Rushlimbaugh.com

:thumbsup:

No no, you guys are all wrong. Al Franken just tells it like it is, he tells the truth, absolutely no bias whatsoever. But Dr. shopping Rush and Faux News and the Repugs I mean Repukes I mean Republicans are the only ones that are biased.

I figured I'd go ahead and say it to save all the lefties some time. I even added in their "clever" misspellings that they all seem to enjoy so much and high five each other over.
 

ProfJohn

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Originally posted by: JD50
Originally posted by: Pabster
Originally posted by: daveymark
I'll pay to listen to that drivel as soon as you pay to listen to today's Rush show. you can download the podcast at Rushlimbaugh.com

:thumbsup:

No no, you guys are all wrong. Al Franken just tells it like it is, he tells the truth, absolutely no bias whatsoever. But Dr. shopping Rush and Faux News and the Repugs I mean Repukes I mean Republicans are the only ones that are biased.

I figured I'd go ahead and say it to save all the lefties some time. I even added in their "clever" misspellings that they all seem to enjoy so much and high five each other over.
:thumbsup::D:thumbsup: is that how it works?
 

randym431

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lets just wait and see what happens after Nov 7th.
I give republicans credit for finally waking up.

Bush has two years to go. The midterms will be over. Many Republicans are pissed as hell over this war. Lets just wait and see...

BTW, old AL plays Rush show clips very often on his show, just to point out how Rush likes to play to his audience stupidity. Al's long time best friend is a Rush dittohead. He's a guest on Al's show all the time and Al plays clips from the Rush show and wants his ditto head friend to comment. You will not get that kind of openness listening to Rush or Bill O'.

Its not Al that I listen to his show for, its his guests. And how can ANYONE dislike Tom Oliphant? Its like hating your mother...
 

daveymark

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Originally posted by: randym431
lets just wait and see what happens after Nov 7th.
I give republicans credit for finally waking up.

Bush has two years to go. The midterms will be over. Many Republicans are pissed as hell over this war. Lets just wait and see...

BTW, old AL plays Rush show clips very often on his show, just to point out how Rush likes to play to his audience stupidity. Al's long time best friend is a Rush dittohead. He's a guest on Al's show all the time and Al plays clips from the Rush show and wants his ditto head friend to comment. You will not get that kind of openness listening to Rush or Bill O'.

Its not Al that I listen to his show for, its his guests. And how can ANYONE dislike Tom Oliphant? Its like hating your mother...


feel free to record it and post it here if the show is so profound.

 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: International Machine Consortium
Rush's drug induced haze and brain dead listenership create a synergy heretofore unknown, IMO.

Well according to ProJo OC Limbaugh's audience is made up by a bunch of smart fellers.
 

Corbett

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Man you Rush haters are giving the term "libeal eliteist" a whole new meaning!
 

Aisengard

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Hey guys, look, someone creates a thread about Al Franken and it's all every single right-wing poster can do to keep from making a circle-jerk!

Just like someone else said, Al Franken, biased or not it doesn't matter. He's on public radio, for god sakes. But Fox News, a nationally accredited news organization, is not supposed to be biased. If they are, then it's false advertising whenever they say "Fair and Balanced". I can't believe some of you are trying to apologize for them by using a little-listened-to guy on public radio to compare to. If there's a definition for the word 'pathetic' other than the one in the dictionary, I think I just found it.
 

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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: Corbett
Man you Rush haters are giving the term "libeal eliteist" a whole new meaning!
Except I'm not Liberal.

That's what they all say. let me guess, you are a moderate?
 
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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: International Machine Consortium
Rush's drug induced haze and brain dead listenership create a synergy heretofore unknown, IMO.

Well according to ProJo OC Limbaugh's audience is made up by a bunch of smart fellers.

OK, so what's their excuse then? Are they all on drugs? ;)
 

fitzov

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I'm always liberal with the jimmies on my ice cream, but conservative when it comes to caramel topping.
 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: Corbett
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: Corbett
Man you Rush haters are giving the term "libeal eliteist" a whole new meaning!
Except I'm not Liberal.

That's what they all say. let me guess, you are a moderate?
Well if you insist that I'm a Liberal please point out some of my liberal stances if you can.
 
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Originally posted by: JD50
Originally posted by: Pabster
Originally posted by: daveymark
I'll pay to listen to that drivel as soon as you pay to listen to today's Rush show. you can download the podcast at Rushlimbaugh.com

:thumbsup:

No no, you guys are all wrong. Al Franken just tells it like it is, he tells the truth, absolutely no bias whatsoever. But Dr. shopping Rush and Faux News and the Repugs I mean Repukes I mean Republicans are the only ones that are biased.

I figured I'd go ahead and say it to save all the lefties some time. I even added in their "clever" misspellings that they all seem to enjoy so much and high five each other over.


I have never heard anyone say Al Franken was unbiased - he is a left-wing pundit. Similarly, Rush is not really in the business of being unbiased. Fox News, however, purports to be, and therein lies the difference.

Originally posted by: Corbett
Man you Rush haters are giving the term "libeal eliteist" a whole new meaning!

I am probably guilty of both from time to time, but at least I can spell "liberal," and "elitist."
 

ProfJohn

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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: International Machine Consortium
Rush's drug induced haze and brain dead listenership create a synergy heretofore unknown, IMO.

Well according to ProJo OC Limbaugh's audience is made up by a bunch of smart fellers.
Why do you feel the need to bring me into your little argument?
And why do you attack the thread I created about what Tom Wolfe said as "Another thread that's much ado about nothing from ProJo!" ??

Is there a reason that you are so obsessed with me that you must attack everything I say? And why aren't you attacking a thread about guy heard on 86 radio stations nationwide as being much ado about nothing?
It is getting a little old, find something else to rant about besides me and my opinions.

Back on topic, I created a thread about a visit by Rice to Iraq yesterday and posted some comments by Senators who were in the region as well, and you can certainly see the ?getting tired with Iraq? effect starting to happen.

BTW: I made a post on the 4th that said the right was getting tired with Iraq, maybe Tom and Al should stop reading my posts and get their own ideas :)
 

ProfJohn

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Originally posted by: DonVito
I have never heard anyone say Al Franken was unbiased - he is a left-wing pundit. Similarly, Rush is not really in the business of being unbiased. Fox News, however, purports to be, and therein lies the difference.

Originally posted by: Corbett
Man you Rush haters are giving the term "libeal eliteist" a whole new meaning!

I am probably guilty of both from time to time, but at least I can spell "liberal," and "elitist."
Don, if you focus on just the NEWS sections of Fox News then you will see that they are not nearly as bad as everyone on here makes them out to be. Watch the Britt Hume show of the 7pm news casts or the little 2-3 minute updates at the start of each hour. Those "news" parts of the network are not overly biased, there are some studies that say that Fox?s "news" broadcasts are the least biased ones on TV.

Where Fox IS biased is in its nightly commentary shows. O'Reilly is to the right, Hannity and Colmes is I think a little more right than other shows like it "crossfire", but Gretta is actually a Democrat, but I don't care for her show so I don't watch(and it?s not because she is a Democrat, but because of the topics and the 4 people discussion groups she leads become a mess.)

MSNBC is the home to Olbermann, by that right alone all of us on the right should be attacking everything they post and say as biased right? But we don't, because we can see the difference between "commentary" and "news"