Weird Al's Hate radio
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By David Grossack
I have always enjoyed Saturday Night Live. Al Franken is clearly a
gifted and entertaining comedy writer and performer. His movie based on
the character Stuart Smalley was one of the funniest and underrated
films of its day.He is also funny and engaging in person, and once I
even trekked into Harvard during a snowstorm to see him at the Kennedy
School of Government give a hilarious presentation about political
commercials. My friend and I arrived a bit late. Franken looked ut us
for about 30 seconds like a disapproving professor.
But when it comes to politics, Al Franken is the Josef Goebbels of the
Democrats, a creator of a demented propaganda machine, the Air America
radio network, that is vicious, defamatory and hateful to near
insanity in its ceaseless output of anti-Bush, anti-American, and
anti-patriotic rage that sends outrageous messages to the
audience,messages based on lies, half truths and distortions that
subtract from the positive career that Franken had built at SNL..
There are five clear messages that Air America's talkmasters aim to get
across.
1.: "George Bush is not intellectually competent to run the country. He
is closely supervised by emissaaries from corporate America who are the
real masters of the country."
Well, I always thought that assembling a strong and capable team
was the sign of a capable manager and George Bush is proving himself
well. He inherited an economy in trouble from September 11, the
collapse of the dot-com bubble , outsourcing and powerful competition
from China. He inherited a security nightmare from President Clinton
who preferred dalliances with Monica to accepting Sudan's well
documented offer to turn Saddam Hussein over to us. That America is
bouncing back as well as it has is a credit to the President. The
voters, to Franken's chagrin, agreed.
2. "The Iraq war was launched by "retarded neo-cons" (sic) planning to
enlarge the war into Syria and Iran." Wisely omitting the ethnic slurs
and anti-Zionist rhetoric bigots such as Patrick Buchanan hurl at the
supposed neo con cabal, the Franken network instead focuses on the
theory that Weapons of Mass Destruction were never in the hands of
Saddam Hussein, and the preposterous allegation that Iraq had never
been involved in terrorism.
Franken's gang of liars ignores the fact that one of the criminals who
hijacked the boat Achille Lauro and murdered Jewish American Leon
Klinghoeffer by pushing him overboard was living comfortably under
Saddam Hussein's protection when America invaded Baghdad.
Similarly, terrorist Abu Nidal was living in Baghdad. This miscreant
had bombed synagogues in Vienna and Istanbul and the El Al terminal in
Rome. Perhaps John Kerry and the French don't see that as terrorism,
most Americans do.
Using the proceeds of the United Nations Food for Oil program, Saddam
Hussein was funding Hamas, the band of thugs whose idea of being
freedom fighters is to bomb Israeli children at pizza parties and
bar-mitzvahs. Again, franken and his pal Stephanie Miller make constant
about how the senselessness of attacking Huissein. Putting the man out
of business was a service to humanity.
Evidence aplenty indicates that acquiring a nuclear devioe and chemical
weapons was a past policy of Saddam Husssein. There is a possibnility
that these weapons were transferred tio Iran, Syria, Sudan or the
Lebanese Hizbullah. We just don't know.
3." Americans who do not agree with the Franken agenda are stupid.
People who live in so-called Red States are incapable of deciding
things properly and should let Al Franken and Stephanie Miller bring
them abortion on demand, surrender in Iraq and French input into our
foreign policy decisions." So what if French indsutry was making
billions off Saddam and French pols and journalists accepted his
bribes, the French are our cultural betters, any ol' mule knows that.
4 "People who do not agree with Franken and Stephanie Miller are
morally inferior to those that do. Republicans are wealthy, heartless,
complacent folks who would just as soon see the rest of the world
starve than give a penny to charity."
In fact, most Republican voters are poor people in the Bible Belt who
give far more to charity than those who live in liberal states like
Massachusetts, Connecticut or New York.Conservatives in Mormon, Utah
are the kindest, most generous (and polite) people I have ever seen
anywhere.
They tithe to the Church, which provides a huge safteynet for both
Mormons and nonMormons around the globe.
5." The Bush Administration is not lawfully in power.": The Stephanie
Miller/ Al Franken Braintrust claims to have information that the
Supreme Court decision declaring Bush president in 2000 was a corrupt
decision and the current eelction ws the result of vote fraud. Like the
schnook on the Daily Show who rolls his eyes around and smirks when
discussing Bush, Rice and Rumsfeld, Al Franken, not Rush Limbaugh, is
an idiot.Bush first came to power because the Supreme Court determined
he was the lawful winner ;the second time the voters made their choice
unequivocally clear. Get used to it, Franken, you've been picking
losing candidates who the American people reject because they are sen
as not strong enough to deal with these country;s challenges and
because their values are , well, too liberal for the tastes of tens of
millions of voters. Too bad, but that't the way it really is.
Franken does not see that his intolernce is a form of fascism, Rather
than offer discussion of the allegeddly posituive beenfits of the
Humphrey or Mc govern style of liberalism that would accrue of their
choices became elected, all Franken and his sidekicks can do is spew
venom. I do suspect that Al may even be off balanced, witness his weird
encounter with Bill O'Reilly at a public forum. Maybe now I'll call him
Weird Al. May be the name will stick. May be he'll get sick of name
calling and decide to grow up and have a rational discussion without
insulting people who disagree with him, without tearing apart our
President, and without inadvertently giving comfort to the Islamic
fascists who would behead him in a moment of they could.
David Grossack is a writer and lawyer in Hull, Massachusetts. See his
website at grossack.com