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...best and the worst senses of the phrase. The candidates churned out position papers that not many people read. But Michael Moore made a movie that a lot of people saw. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth made an ad campaign--a lot of people saw that too. Al Franken pulled up to the microphone. Ann Coulter took up near permanent residence in front of the TV cameras. Now George W. Bush gets four more years. Do the rest of them get four more as well? The people on these pages had a significant impact on Campaign '04. We asked...
LOSER | AL FRANKEN...
This is not where Al Franken's career looked like it was headed in the '90s, when his Stuart Smalley character was poking fun at support-group therapists on Saturday Night Live. Instead, Franken, 53, has become one of the most involved political comedians in history. Back when Kerry looked as if he was going to lose the nomination to Howard Dean, Franken not only organized a buffet lunch in his Manhattan apartment for the Senator to meet New York's media élite but also grappled with a heckling Dean supporter at a Kerry rally in New Hampshire...
Media blaming is an old staple of politics, but rarely has it been so widespread and loud. Many of the political books that have dominated the best-seller lists--from Ann Coulter, Al Franken and the like--are as much about bias charges as about politics. The most active political blogs are full of posts that pick apart reports for slant. Both sides see the U.S. as the Matrix, a virtual reality in which citizens are conned into voting against their own interests. And considering the major screwups on major stories in the past four years, the public was ripe...
...engaged in a nuanced discussion of the relative benefits and drawbacks of a neoconservative foreign policy. Instead, you will be greeted by the likes of Ann Coulter, screaming that John Kerry lied about being in Cambodia during the Vietnam War and is, therefore, a commie coward. Meanwhile, an Al Franken on the other side responds by whining that Bush missed three weeks of training while in the National Guard. And, of course, there’s the Bill O’Reilly to close the argument by offering some inane, vaguely patriotic, point about terrorists hating the freedom that America...