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When I first heard the “Go Joe Song,” I was convinced it was a last-minute attempt at political satire. Who but a satirist would urge voting for Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., in the presidential primary because “He’s got the longest name on the ballot/It’s the easiest to find”? The less-than-ringing endorsement of “So vote for the candidate/Who refuses to eat bacon” confirmed my suspicions...
Your "10 Questions For Bill O'Reilly" [INTERVIEW, Oct. 6] quoted the Fox News host as saying about political satirist Al Franken, "He got up in front of a national audience and called me a liar for 20 minutes. President Andrew Jackson would have put a bullet between his eyes." O'Reilly, a petulant man, revealed his crass philosophy, which evidently involves fantasies of killing anyone who points out his lies. JAMIE WAGONER San Francisco...
...Reilly suggesting that Franken should have been shot? Franken is a very funny satirist, and he obviously struck a nerve. O'Reilly is more than scary if this is his response to Franken's thought-provoking book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. It is telling that O'Reilly made no attempt to dispute Franken's points; O'Reilly's response is to whine that he can't shoot the messenger. MARCIA HAIR Marietta...
...Forum’s new season was launched in late September with a discussion led by political satirist Al Franken ’73. An unprecedented number of people attended the taping, which was held—like every edition of the Forum—at First Parish Unitarian Universalist on Church Street...
...front of a national audience and called me a liar for 20 minutes. President Andrew Jackson would have put a bullet between his eyes. Franken's job is to do exactly what Donald Segretti did for Nixon--dig up dirt on people. He is not a satirist; he is not a comedian. He's someone who wants to injure people's reputations, and I think people have got to know that...