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Smerconish needed to hear it from somebody

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Regular readers know I am not a huge fan of Al Franken, comedy writer turned radio talk show host. But Franken earned the gratitude of legions in the Delaware Valley yesterday morning on NBC's three hour morning puff pastry which was once The Today Show (late Swarthmore resident Dave Garroway must turn in his grave at what it has become - but that's another topic).

Yesterday morning at 7:17 am Eastern Time, Franken said to Larry Kane's pool attendant turned malpractice and personal injury lawyer turned talk show host Michael A Smerconish, "Screw You!."

What the Video

The so-called "Today Show," featuring former KYW-TV Evening Magazine Ken doll Matt Laurer, must have really had to work their way down the list of right-wing talk radio "usual suspects" if Shysterconish was the best they could come up with to debate Franken. Of course, for MAS this meant a trip up the New Jersey Turnpike. Lots of accidents every morning. Maybe a chance to pick up a client or two on the way. Dredging the bottom of the barrel is nothing new for Smerconish if he is the best CBS Radio could come up with to be the only local talk radio host in town (excluding the former channel six news bimbo who gets the hour between two syndicated shows The Big Talker doesn't know what else to do with).

Thank you, Al Franken. It needed to be said.

And with that bullethead look, the last thing Smerconish should be doing is going on TV. The guy looks like a comic book villian.
 
Thank you for the laughs! What a great TV moment.


> Regular readers know I am not a huge fan of Al Franken,
> comedy writer turned radio talk show host. But Franken
> earned the gratitude of legions in the Delaware Valley
> yesterday morning on NBC's three hour morning puff pastry
> which was once The Today Show (late Swarthmore resident Dave
> Garroway must turn in his grave at what it has become - but
> that's another topic).
>
> Yesterday morning at 7:17 am Eastern Time, Franken said to
> Larry Kane's pool attendant turned malpractice and personal
> injury lawyer turned talk show host Michael A Smerconish,
> "Screw You!."
>
> What the Video
>
> The so-called "Today Show," featuring former KYW-TV Evening
> Magazine Ken doll Matt Laurer, must have really had to work
> their way down the list of right-wing talk radio "usual
> suspects" if Shysterconish was the best they could come up
> with to debate Franken. Of course, for MAS this meant a
> trip up the New Jersey Turnpike. Lots of accidents every
> morning. Maybe a chance to pick up a client or two on the
> way. Dredging the bottom of the barrel is nothing new for
> Smerconish if he is the best CBS Radio could come up with to
> be the only local talk radio host in town (excluding the
> former channel six news bimbo who gets the hour between two
> syndicated shows The Big Talker doesn't know what else to do
> with).
>
> Thank you, Al Franken. It needed to be said.
>
> And with that bullethead look, the last thing Smerconish
> should be doing is going on TV. The guy looks like a comic
> book villian.
>
 
I heard him on Glenn Beck's show yesterday, and it seemed to me that Glenn wouldn't let him have a word in edgewise the whole segment.
 
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