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The Al Franken dilemma

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Is Al Franken's dry humor better suited for TV?

Forget the LPAM (Low Power AM) status of the Clear Channel signals (what an oxymoron, hardly a "clear channel" a la WBZ) I find Franken more entertaining on Sundance re-runs than listening to him on the radio. His pauses just don't make for good radio, despite his honest and intellectual presentation.

Flush Limbaugh, on the other hand, called Cindy Sheehan "deranged" today, and applauded a Pennsylvania writer for calling Donovan McNabb a "white" quarterback.

So juvenile. Do people really find the constant put downs entertaining?

Or is Rush a highly paid propaganda machine forced on the public by the radical right?

Low blows on Chelsea Clinton and Cindy Sheehan say it all.

I would rather hear Cindy Sheehan (or Chelsea) than Al Franken. Can't someone give him a cup of JOLT or get him a co-host with some sizzle?
 
Don't you understand ? The Right has a constitution right to slime anyone it wants. The left doesn't because they are all Communists...
Satirical humor intended.

> Is Al Franken's dry humor better suited for TV?
>
> Forget the LPAM (Low Power AM) status of the Clear Channel
> signals (what an oxymoron, hardly a "clear channel" a la
> WBZ) I find Franken more entertaining on Sundance re-runs
> than listening to him on the radio. His pauses just don't
> make for good radio, despite his honest and intellectual
> presentation.
>
> Flush Limbaugh, on the other hand, called Cindy Sheehan
> "deranged" today, and applauded a Pennsylvania writer for
> calling Donovan McNabb a "white" quarterback.
>
> So juvenile. Do people really find the constant put downs
> entertaining?
>
> Or is Rush a highly paid propaganda machine forced on the
> public by the radical right?
>
> Low blows on Chelsea Clinton and Cindy Sheehan say it all.
>
> I would rather hear Cindy Sheehan (or Chelsea) than Al
> Franken. Can't someone give him a cup of JOLT or get him a
> co-host with some sizzle?
>
 
Re: The Al Franken dilemma (no Jay again)

> I would rather hear Cindy Sheehan (or Chelsea) than Al
> Franken. Can't someone give him a cup of JOLT or get him a
> co-host with some sizzle?
>
Yeah, when people get on these boards and boost Franken over Hannity I say
"Well at least Hannity has a pulse." Sounds more lively and professional--
and yes, I'll admit DePetro is also a bit too soft-spoken in some ways.
But maybe I'm just going by entertainment value/"sound" of the host.

btw: Jimmy Severino absent yet again from WTKK. Let the rumors begin.

My take: He'll wind up on WRKO with his new show, tape delayed at 10 pm.
 
> Flush Limbaugh, on the other hand, called Cindy Sheehan
> "deranged" today, and applauded a Pennsylvania writer for
> calling Donovan McNabb a "white" quarterback.
>
> So juvenile. Do people really find the constant put downs
> entertaining?
>

You called Rush, Flush, and yet you say HE is jouvnile...

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Eh, we all do it. I'm surprised nobody has called DePetro DUH-Petro yet.
There was a popular bumper sticker that said "Flush Rush" years ago.

I call Jay Jay Excedrin because you need one after listening to him for
too long, and my nickname for Rush is based on one of his fave sayings:
"Talent On Loan From Oxy-Contin!" Sometimes it's good natured ribbing/
nicknames while other see it as hateful.

Sometimes I make up nicknames in the spirit of ESPN's Chris Berman: Homeland
Security's Michael "If It Gets Too Hot, You Can Take Your" Chertoff .

> You called Rush, Flush, and yet you say HE is jouvnile...
>
> You people never cease to amaze me.
>
 
Yeah, I know, but to say it's jouvenile, only to do it, was like the pot calling the kettle black.
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Yes, Cab, I'm talking about Al Franken who called Rush a lot worse.

Rush called the mother of a dead soldier "deranged" today on WRKO.

That constitutes treason, in my mind.

Why is it OK for Limbaugh to trash real heroes or innocent children like a twelve year old Chelsea Clinton, yet we can't call a drug addict a drug addict?

Why does the Conservative movement have that right, and progressives do not?

> > Flush Limbaugh, on the other hand, called Cindy Sheehan
> > "deranged" today, and applauded a Pennsylvania writer for
> > calling Donovan McNabb a "white" quarterback.
> >
> > So juvenile. Do people really find the constant put downs
>
> > entertaining?
> >
>
> You called Rush, Flush, and yet you say HE is jouvnile...
>
> You people never cease to amaze me.
>
 
Dead air on Al Franken show 1:48

Hardly, the man made sport of a dead soldier's champion.

Also, forgot to mention, Franken's show had dead air today circa 1:48 PM for a few minutes, anyone know why

> Yeah, I know, but to say it's jouvenile, only to do it, was
> like the pot calling the kettle black.
>
 
Al doesn't get it.

> Is Al Franken's dry humor better suited for TV?

I've only tried to listen to Al - once. In Albuquerque.

And it had production values and content equivilant of ten-
watt college radio.

No entertainment value whatsoever.

Rush gets the concept. Randi Rhodes gets the concept. Ed
Shultz gets it.

Somebody's afraid to tell the network star how to do it.

Al, you're really not that funny. You were much better as a
writer on SNL. Or even as a performer ("affects me, Al Franken").

But thats just my opinion and I could be wrong.
 
My point has NOTHING to do with politics.

Read what you said AGAIN:

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> > > Flush Limbaugh, on the other hand, called Cindy Sheehan
> > > "deranged" today, and applauded a Pennsylvania writer for
> > > calling Donovan McNabb a "white" quarterback.
> > >
> > > So juvenile.
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You call Rush .."Flush Limbaugh", but say HE is jouvenile for his antics. I'd say the same thing if the poitical tables were turned.

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Re: Al doesn't get it.-oh..and...

> Rush gets the concept. Randi Rhodes gets the concept.

Randi does overdo it. Stop the shouting. Damn.
 
Franken's show is deadly dull... I switch back and forth between that and Dale and Holley on WEEI. He does have some pretty good guests on there but I prefer Randi, Malloy and I've also been listening to Laura Flanders' weekend show... she's very good, as well...
 
> Franken's show is deadly dull... I switch back and forth
> between that and Dale and Holley on WEEI. He does have some
> pretty good guests on there but I prefer Randi, Malloy and
> I've also been listening to Laura Flanders' weekend show...
> she's very good, as well...
>
Franken is definitely an acquired taste. Even I sometimes get a bit frustrated with his starting a sentence, stopping before I can figure out what he was probably going to say, and then pausing for many seconds, apparently waiting for co-host Katherine Lanpher to bail him out.

Yesterday, one of his guests was fellow Minnesotan Garrison Keillor, who was hawking his latest book. There seemed to be a certain tension between them--notwithstanding the fact that the interview sounded much like the famous Bob and Ray bit about the S....T....O....A (Slow Talkers of America). It has been no secret for some months now that Franken is moving back to Minnesota. He wants to establish residence there for a potential Senate run (2006? 2008? not sure). But yesterday, he announced that he was moving the show to Minnesota. (His wife is already there; I thought it odd for him to still be in New York when the show can originate from anywhere that DSL lines go. Also, Katherine Lanpher--his co-host--is another native Minnesotan; she used to work for Minnesota Public Radio.) Anyhow, Franken tried to get Keillor to say that it would be OK for Franken to rename his show "A Liberal Home Companion," a takeoff on the name of Keillor's long running Public Radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion." (Recall that when Franken started the AAR show, he called it the "O'Franken Factor" and promptly got sued by Fox. The court dismissed the suit, but AAR changed the name of the show anyhow.) Keillor DID say that it would be OK if Franken renamed the show "A Liberal Home Companion" (he remarked that it would be great publicity for Franken), BUT, he said, "We'll sue you." I'm not sure that Keillor was kidding.
 
the minute I heard Keillor was the minute I changed the station... Zzzzzzzz
 
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