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The O'Franken Factor

Air America got off to a predictably shaky start yesterday, but I have high hopes for the show, and for host Al Franken. If anybody can prove that liberal talk radio doesn't have to be grim and humorless, it's the former Saturday Night comedian who once wrote a game show sketch called "Jew - Not a Jew".

Franken has some unintended help from right wing blowhards like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter, the four Horse's Asses of the Apocolypse, who have grown to become parodies of themselves.

You can hear The O'Franken Factor and other liberal talk shows in about eight American cities right now, which makes his total audience slightly larger than mine. OK, so that's a gross overstatement, and I would like to apologize to both of my readers for it. If you don't listen to AM radio in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and some other cities where all the cool TV shows are based, then you'll have to catch AirAmericaRadio on the internet. Here's the link:
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And while I'm on the topic of Saturday Night Live, there had better be a sketch this weekend about Bush and Cheney sitting side by side, explaining to the 9/11 commission how seriously they took the terrorist threat in the first eight months of 2000.

BUSH: We knew that bin Laden fellow was up to no good. That's why I called nine-one-one. I didn't know they'd send a committee.

CHENEY: What he means to say is that this administration actively pursued a strategy that addressed the root causes of terrorism, which involved going after states that support terrorism.

BUSH: I was expecting the police. Or maybe a firetruck.

CHENEY: He's speaking metaphorically.

BUSH: Where are the jellybeans?

REP. HAMILTON: Mr. President, I regret to inform you that we did not place jellybeans on the witness table.

BUSH: We always have jellybeans in the situation room. That's in the White House.

REP. HAMILTON: Uh huh.

BUSH: It's in the basement.

CHENEY: For my next trick, I will drink a glass of water while he "sings." Do I hear any requests?

1.4.04 15:55

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