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...Reilly and their national and local kin dominate the airwaves so powerfully that a visitor to the U.S. might ask if we still have a two-party system. That's one reason Air America exists: to defeat George W. Bush in November. "He is going down," signature host Al Franken promised on his first show. Another aim is to offer liberals and moderates talking points on the day's issues. The network does so in tones that career from wonkish to impish, from sedative to incendiary...
Sadly, the chances that Air America Radio and the new liberal radio program hosted by Al Franken ’73, will have more than a marginal influence on this country’s political climate are next to nothing. As one observer noted, conservative programs like those hosted by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are popular because conservative ideas are relatively simple and unsophisticated—and that’s exactly the level of discourse that’s likely to capture the attention of the apathetic, uncommitted voters who decide elections. As hilarious as he is, Franken...
...FRANKEN ODDS...
...response to Al Franken’s upcoming liberal radio program, “The O’Franken Factor,” Bill O’Reilly will think it wise to sue the savvy satirist once again—it worked so well last time with his suit over his image used alongside the phrase “Lying Liars...
...Culture War isn't really a war; it's more a public entertainment, a Culture Circus. Wars require combatants. The general public is not up in arms but plastered in armchairs, occasionally roused to flaccid pique by a handful of show-biz gladiators--Rosie O'Donnell, Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken, Jerry Falwell--who fight carefully selected papier-mache lions...