Author Topic: Guess I was right about Franken's book being autobiographical...... (Read 1195 times)

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #30 on:** August 30, 2003, 02:04:32 AM »

of course there is another side to the story.......

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=438014

Leslie · « **Reply #31 on:** August 30, 2003, 02:51:23 AM »

I read the article, though Andrew Gumbel's writing style was not to my liking...too biased, too many put downs, cussing. This is not professional journalism.

Find another source please.

Les

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #32 on:** August 30, 2003, 03:41:39 AM »

lol perhaps he just made too many points that made you feel uncomfortable?

Leslie · « **Reply #33 on:** August 30, 2003, 05:46:57 AM »

Schadenfreude is a journalistic term, is it not? What does it mean?

Your avitar is a crow or raven. Took me awhile to figure it out. Is that nose art?

Les

Toad · « **Reply #34 on:** August 30, 2003, 06:53:09 AM »

Gordo, I don't care about his book one way or the other.

I do immensely enjoy watching the "dance of denial" that goes on when a hero who "exposes how the Right shamelessly tries to deceive the rest of us." is himself caught lying.

NUKE · « **Reply #35 on:** August 30, 2003, 07:01:29 AM »

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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
lol perhaps he just made too many points that made you feel uncomfortable?

I got about half way through the article before laughing out loud. AL Franken made "a splendid second career as a political satirist"...LOL!

And " it all went wrong for the chief executive who had seemed so immune from criticism for so long.

And the answer, they all agree, is the moment that the mighty Fox News Channel - the red-meat chomping, propaganda-spewing, flag-waving, all-screaming, ratings-topping cable station doubling as chief baggage carrier for the Bush administration - was reduced to utter humiliation by a single pesky New York comedian."

LOL!

Leslie · « **Reply #36 on:** August 30, 2003, 07:10:15 AM »

Don't worry Toad, Franken has lost all academic credibility because of this. I doubt even if he donated lots of money to Harvard, he would worm his way out of it.

Les

NUKE · « **Reply #37 on:** August 30, 2003, 07:16:38 AM »

Is it just me or has anyone else never heard about Al Franken since about 1975?

Leslie · « **Reply #38 on:** August 30, 2003, 07:22:36 AM »

Last time I saw him was in the movie "Trading Places", with Dan Ackroid and Eddie Murphy.

I don't keep up with politics much. I'm a bohemian artist, more bohemian than artist sometimes.

Les

Lance · « **Reply #39 on:** August 30, 2003, 10:53:27 AM »

Toad, you have created this thread and put up 7 posts, one of which is biblical in length. That is an awful lot of time and effort spent on something you don't care about, and much more effort than anyone has put up defending Franken.

Toad · « **Reply #40 on:** August 30, 2003, 12:11:31 PM »

What can I say Gordo?

I told you I immensely enjoy watching these guys try to defend this.

Easily worth a dozen or more posts.

I have to admit though, I really thought there'd be more guys in here explaining what the definition of "is" is.

Montezuma · « **Reply #41 on:** August 30, 2003, 04:04:42 PM »

This is between Franken and Harvard. He was just too over-active in mining the comedy gold that is the 'abstinance movement'.

But someone should investigate Ashcroft's sex life, since regulation of sex is such an important area of public policy for his Justice Department.

popeye · « **Reply #42 on:** August 30, 2003, 04:13:44 PM »

Well, I got a few laughs from the book, but I have to say the Faux News lawsuit was just as funny.