Roxxxanne wrote:mysteryman wrote:Roxxxanne wrote:CoastalRat wrote:True Set. He uses hot button topics to inflame his audience, which is probably no different than any other talk radio host does, be they liberal or conservative. I wonder if the outrage directed at him is because he has done it so well and become so successful at it.
Wrong, lots of radio hosts do not pander, inflame and lie like druggie does. Not by a longshot, maybe other righties do, but liberal hosts don't.
I just love how when you have no other defense, you resort to the "everybody does it" canard. Really, it gets old.
So,are you saying that Al Franken is no longer on air America?
He is a proven liar also,just like Rush is...
http://www.frankenlies.com/
Read the research yourself.
He is not a proven liar. I didn't see any proof that he lied about anything. Sorry. And he certainly doesn't try to infalme his audience. In fact, most liberals beef with Franken is, is that he is too moderate. So he doesn't pander, he doesn't lie and doesn't inflame. Of course, facts mean nothing to misery man.
Since you apparently didnt read the link I posted,I will provide you with one example...
#1: Al Franken's Own WMD
Let's start with an easy one.
On page 225 of Truth, in writing about the lead-up to the Iraq war, Franken asserts that in 1998 (emphasis mine),
"[President Clinton] launched a series of bomb strikes, which, as Bush's handpicked weapons inspectors would later confirm in the Duelfer Report, knocked out all that remained of Saddam's atrophied WMD capacity. The threat to America was obliterated once and for all, even though Saddam was still in place."
The truth? The Duelfer Report says no such thing.1 There's not even a hint of anything like Franken's claim in the report. Franken's assertion is simply baseless and false.
The entire Duelfer Report is over one thousand pages long. Apparently, Franken was hoping that readers wouldn't actually take the time to study it for themselves and find out the truth on their own.2
[ADDENDUM: Franken repeated this bogus claim on the December 7, 2005, episode of Scarborough Country on MSNBC (link).]
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Notes:
1 "Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD," Volume 1 of 3, p. 11.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/duelfer/Iraqs_WMD_Vol1.pdf
In fact, the Duelfer Report says this about Clinton's bombings (emphasis mine):
"UNSCOM and IAEA inspectors departed Iraq just before the bombing and never returned. The Iraqis were satisfied with the outcome. They said, given a choice of sanctions with inspections or sanctions without inspections, they would prefer without."
Later (emphasis mine), with the inspectors gone,
"By 2000, the erosion of sanctions accelerated ... Prohibited goods and weapons were being shipped into Iraq with virtually no problem ... Major items had no trouble getting across the border ... Indeed, Iraq was designing missile systems with the assumption that sanctioned material would be readily available."
2 President Clinton's weak strikes on Iraq in December 1998 were called Desert Fox. "Where the WMDs Went" is a must-read article in which Bill Tierney is interviewed. Among his numerous credentials, Tierney was a United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) inspector (1996-1998) for overseeing the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in Iraq. Here's what he says about Clinton's Desert Fox strikes (emphasis mine):
"Operation Desert Fox was a perfect example of the uselessness of strike operations. Iraqis have told me that the WMD destruction and movement started just after Operation Desert Fox, since after all, who would be so stupid as to start a bombing campaign and just stop.
"It was only after Saddam realized that President Clinton lacked the nerve for anything more than a temper-tantrum demonstration that he knew the doors were wide open for him to continue his weapons program. We didn't break his will, we didn't destroy his weapons making capability (The Iraqis simply moved most of the precision machinery out prior to the strikes, then rebuilt the buildings), but we did kill some Iraqi bystanders, just so President Clinton could say 'something must be done, so I did something'."
#6: The Aircraft Carrier
In a chapter on President Bush and the Iraq war, on page 50, Franken writes (emphasis added),
"[O]n the day when Bush landed on that aircraft carrier dressed in a flight suit ... he declared the war over."
Franken's line has become a common deceit from the left. After the completion of major combat operations, President Bush addressed the nation from the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003.
What did the President really say that day? Here's your answer (emphasis mine):
"We have difficult work to do in Iraq. We're bringing order to parts of that country that remain dangerous. We're pursuing and finding leaders of the old regime, who will be held to account for their crimes ...
"The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done. Then we will leave, and we will leave behind a free Iraq."1
So did the President declare "the war over"? Quite simply: No.
There are other PROVEN lies and misstatements by Al Franken,and he is a radio talk show host and a liberal.
You said...
Quote:Wrong, lots of radio hosts do not pander, inflame and lie like druggie does. Not by a longshot, maybe other righties do, but liberal hosts don't.
I have just proven you to be wrong,but of course you wont admit it.
