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Al Franken 1st Hour on Armed Forces Radio Network

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Right at the beginning of Al Franken's live show today from Minneapolis, MN - he said that the first hour of the Al Franken show will be airing on the Armed Forces Radio Network.


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> Right at the beginning of Al Franken's live show today from
> Minneapolis, MN - he said that the first hour of the Al
> Franken show will be airing on the Armed Forces Radio
> Network.
>
>
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> www.airamericaradio.com
>
> Air America Place Website (Podcasts)
> www.airamericaplace.com
>

Did Ed start today......as well? All they need now is a full liberal to make it a perfect balance....Ed and Al are moderates, Rush is conservative, and i don't know the right lib....maybe Bernie Ward (i know everyone is shocked i didnt say Randi..but for AFN, nope).
 
> Right at the beginning of Al Franken's live show today from
> Minneapolis, MN - he said that the first hour of the Al
> Franken show will be airing on the Armed Forces Radio
> Network.

Not sure how well he'll be received...
Maybe some soldiers lean left politically but I'd think the vast majority
lean right...especially since conservatives seem more pro-military and lately
the Dem. party has been taken over by the peace-march wing of the party. Sure,
some will listen to Franken or Schulz but I'd think more would prefer Rush
and Hannity (who is also being added to AFR, he has been saying)

If the Dems really cared about the troops, they'd let them finish the job.


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“In predicting that America will lose the war in Iraq, Howard Dean is the latest national Democrat leader to embrace retreat and defeat in the central front in the War on Terror. His outrageous prediction sends the wrong message to our troops, the enemy, and the Iraqi people just 10 days before historic elections. Democrats across the nation should stand up and reject the pessimism of their chairman and strategy of defeat by their Congressional leaders.”

-Ken Mehlman, RNC Chairma
 
> > Right at the beginning of Al Franken's live show today
> from
> > Minneapolis, MN - he said that the first hour of the Al
> > Franken show will be airing on the Armed Forces Radio
> > Network.
>
> Not sure how well he'll be received...
> Maybe some soldiers lean left politically but I'd think the
> vast majority
> lean right...especially since conservatives seem more
> pro-military and lately
> the Dem. party has been taken over by the peace-march wing
> of the party. Sure,
> some will listen to Franken or Schulz but I'd think more
> would prefer Rush
> and Hannity (who is also being added to AFR, he has been
> saying)
>
> If the Dems really cared about the troops, they'd let them
> finish the job.
If the republcans cared about "us". They'll bring us back alive and not send us to war for made up reasons and lies.
 
I certainly could see military members having an above average interest in current events, since they are current events...and the decisions the politicians make directly affect them. I don't believe talk shows are the only choice available on AFRTS. <P ID="signature">______________
..from the Ball Park Franks sponsored gr8oldies keyboard...</P>
 
Precisely the problem in trying to achieve "balance". No one can even agree on who is ideologically pure enough on any side.<P ID="signature">______________
..from the Ball Park Franks sponsored gr8oldies keyboard...</P>
 
> Precisely the problem in trying to achieve "balance". No one
> can even agree on who is ideologically pure enough on any
> side.
>
geez...why argue..it's all LIES...........LIES.......LIES.....!!

Now thats stimulating talk radio for an hour!
 
> lately
> the Dem. party has been taken over by the peace-march wing
> of the party.

Really? I only wish. Name one potential Democratic presidential candidate who's calling for troop withdrawal.

Sure,
> some will listen to Franken or Schulz but I'd think more
> would prefer Rush
> and Hannity (who is also being added to AFR, he has been
> saying)
>
> If the Dems really cared about the troops, they'd let them
> finish the job.

Franken has disappointed the liberal wing of the Democratic party by saying the U.S. has to stay to "clean up the mess" that the Bush administration has created. I don't listen to Schultz, but he's generally to the right of Franken. And in any case, the Dems are in no position to let the troops do anything since the Republicans control all three branches of government. <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Scribbler on 12/06/05 05:58 PM.</FONT></P>
 
There are no Democratic presidential candidates at this point.<P ID="signature">______________
..from the Ball Park Franks sponsored gr8oldies keyboard...</P>
 
> There are no Democratic presidential candidates at this
> point.
>
Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Wesley Clark, Mark Warner....none have called for a troop withdrawal. Clark has a good op-ed piece in the NY Times today, outlining a smarter strategy for winning the war.

We need to keep our troops in Iraq, but we need to modify the strategy far more drastically than anything President Bush called for last week.
 
WND: Franken foe decries decision

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47773

Alan Skorski, author of "Pants on Fire: How Al Franken Lies, Smears and Deceives," says from the leftist talk-radio host's "so-called satirical skits that accuse our troops of torture at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, to his accusing talk-show hostess Melanie Morgan of conducting a 'propaganda tour' to Iraq this past summer because she was determined to report 'the truth about our troops' accomplishments,'" the addition of Franken's program to the AFN line-up is "an outrage."
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Worldspace Satellite Radio & Soldiers...

> I would think that the soldiers would rather listen to
> music.
>

Apparently Worldspace Radio receivers have been popular in Iraq with the soldiers - like XM but with less channels. There's balance on Worldspace : Fox, BBC, CNN and NPR. There's also one channel (in English) for most genres of music.
 
> Not sure how well he'll be received...
> Maybe some soldiers lean left politically but I'd think the
> vast majority
> lean right...especially since conservatives seem more
> pro-military and lately
> the Dem. party has been taken over by the peace-march wing
> of the party. Sure,
> some will listen to Franken or Schulz but I'd think more
> would prefer Rush
> and Hannity (who is also being added to AFR, he has been
> saying)
>
> If the Dems really cared about the troops, they'd let them
> finish the job.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> “In predicting that America will lose the war in Iraq,
> Howard Dean is the latest national Democrat leader to
> embrace retreat and defeat in the central front in the War
> on Terror. His outrageous prediction sends the wrong
> message to our troops, the enemy, and the Iraqi people just
> 10 days before historic elections. Democrats across the
> nation should stand up and reject the pessimism of their
> chairman and strategy of defeat by their Congressional
> leaders.”
>
> -Ken Mehlman, RNC Chairma

The military may still be mostly conservative, but they've really been turning against Bush and the war lately. This NC poll from October shows 56% of military members now disapprove of how Bush is handling the war, only 43% say we should still be there, and just 19% say the war is even worth fighting. All those speeches before cheering troops? Commanders are instructed to send only those with "high morale." And eight of the nine Iraq veterans running for Congress are running as Democrats. Like I said, the military may still be mostly conservative, but we should at least give servicemembers the option of hearing another side. We are fighting for that sort of thing.
 
Re: WND: Franken foe decries decision

> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47773
>
>
> Alan Skorski, author of "Pants on Fire: How Al Franken Lies,
> Smears and Deceives,"

Predictable. He's gotta hump his book.

Franken's "The Truth (With Jokes)" is still number 8 on the NYT best-seller list.

I don't see Skorski's book on the list at all, even with all the Scaife machine's typical bulk orders. Let's see, Amazon has it at #131,043 in sales, while "The Truth" is at #29.

And, of course, WorldNetDaily is "Pants on Fire"'s publisher...

> to his accusing talk-show
> hostess Melanie Morgan of conducting a 'propaganda tour' to
> Iraq this past summer because she was determined to report
> 'the truth about our troops' accomplishments,'"

Hey, whatever happened with that tour? Those third-rate right-wing talkers sure were quiet when they came back from Iraq. No major revelations at all.<P ID="signature">______________
also known as tombetz.</P>
 
Re: WND: Franken foe decries decision

> Alan Skorski, author of "Pants on Fire: How Al Franken Lies,
> Smears and Deceives," says from the leftist talk-radio
> host's "so-called satirical skits that accuse our troops of
> torture at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, to his accusing talk-show
> hostess Melanie Morgan of conducting a 'propaganda tour' to
> Iraq this past summer because she was determined to report
> 'the truth about our troops' accomplishments,'" the addition
> of Franken's program to the AFN line-up is "an outrage."

Are women still "hostesses?" And is the opinion of 74% of Americans really "an outrage?"
 
Re: WND: Franken foe decries decision

Which right wing talkers?<P ID="signature">______________
..from the Ball Park Franks sponsored gr8oldies keyboard...</P>
 
> I would think that the soldiers would rather listen to
> music.
>
> Why the hell are we sending over so many talk shows?
>
And this, my fellow Americans, may be the smartest post in this thread!<P ID="signature">______________
What, you were expecting me to make sense for a change?</P>
 
Re: WND: Franken foe decries decision

WorldNetDaily has the credibility of the North Korean Press Agency.

> Alan Skorski, author of "Pants on Fire: How Al Franken Lies,
> Smears and Deceives," says from the leftist talk-radio
> host's "so-called satirical skits that accuse our troops of
> torture at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, to his accusing talk-show
> hostess Melanie Morgan of conducting a 'propaganda tour' to
> Iraq this past summer because she was determined to report
> 'the truth about our troops' accomplishments,'" the addition
> of Franken's program to the AFN line-up is "an outrage."

Skorski needs to check his facts. Franken never accused soldiers of torture - apparently the right wing in this country equates anyone that puts on a uniform - ANY uniform - as "our troops." The abuse was directed by private contractors who were given a free pass to run roughshod all over the place. The only ones who got prosecuted were low level soldiers who followed the orders they were given, and Franken demanded that the higher-ups who actually gave the authority to private contractors to put on their fake uniforms and order our troops around should be held accountable.

Torture is not and should never be an American value. There's nothing more patriotic than exposing it and stopping it.

Morgan and the mini parade of right wing talk show hosts who went to Iraq never strayed beyond Baghdad and were heavily protected and escorted, so they got the same view of "real life in Iraq" that a visitor to Pyongyang would get with their minders taking them on tour.

For the group that is always screaming about "fair and balanced," the sheer hypocracy of the complaints about providing something beyond Rush Limbaugh exposes, again, that providing balance is fine, as long as it isn't balanced.

The major shock and awe here is the fact there are right wing loons like this guy who apparently can't afford what could happen if our troops hear something other than Pentagon press releases and apologists like Limbaugh.
 
> Sure,
> some will listen to Franken or Schulz but I'd think more
> would prefer Rush
> and Hannity (who is also being added to AFR, he has been
> saying)

Which is another way of putting out the same tired old rhetoric that nobody wants to hear libtalk, which was proven wrong more than a year ago, and will be proven wrong here. In a marketplace of ideas, providing more voices and choice is always better, and to the rest of the world that can also listen to AFRTS transmissions in many areas, it's a great testament to what real democratic values are all about.
 
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