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Al Franken travelling road show moves to Ithaca; More irony...

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fred flintstone

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http://www.radiodailynews.com/
Al Franken will air his nationally syndicated "Al Franken Show" live from Ithaca College on Wednesday, April 26 from noon to 3:00 p.m.
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http://www.ithaca.edu/news/article.php?id=1953This is almost too delicious. Al's appearance is sponsored by the school of communications. Ithaca has long had a well-regarded school of communications. It's a private school and not cheap. People go there to prepare themselves for careers in media, including radio. Wonder if a student will have the cajones to ask Al something like, "Why are we wasting all this time and money learning about the radio business when people with no radio background, training or experience - doctors, lawyers, actors and comedians - walk in and get handed the best gigs?" Maybe they should ask the faculty of the school of communications questions like that, too.That said, I listen to Al's appearance in Buffalo. He was in very good form and had a great audience. AAR should not let him go on without an audience. He comes alive with an audience. In the studio he's dogmatic; in front of people, he's funny.Coming soon: Rochester. Phillip, do you have tickets? Hoping for an in-person eyewitness report on Al.
 
Honestly, I don't find much interest in going to see talk show hosts do their gigs. Al Franken isn't entertaining to me anyway - I need the edgier stuff.Ithaca BTW is like living in West Virginia... it's extremely hilly and easy to get totally lost, which I managed to do twice even with my Garmin unit the last time we were down there. The nearer to downtown you get, the more liberal it gets. It's even too liberal for me! It's like the Berkeley of the southern tier. Militant vegetarianism seems to rule in the cafes down there. I recall eating in the Moosewood Restaurant down there once and asking for a diet Coke and the place was filled with audible gasps and then silence, along with the shocked comment from the waitress taking my order that they don't serve corporate controlled beverages, but I was free to have a glass of fresh squeezed lemonade from lemons imported from poor villages in Guatemala or somewhere.OK then. :)
 
Surely they must have had "fair trade" lemons which did not exploit native workers. :eek:
 
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