Comments on: The O’Franken Factor

by: Richard Smith

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:59:59 +0000

Al Franken is great

by: Dan W

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:59:59 +0000

I would just like to say that my review of the O Franken Factor radio show would be much like the review of Bill Clinton’s book by the NY Times. I would have to say that the radio program is eye crossingly dull, and reminds me of a politically insecure ideologue who ramble’s on without any substance or thought.

After listening to the show I came away not being surprised that Mr. Franken is having a hard time receiving paycheck.

Finally I would like to say that you cannot force American people to listen to something that they don’t want to. American people traditionally are optimistic, and do not like to be beat over the head with falsehoods about how bad the war is going, and how bad the economy is going.

by: immensetalent

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:59:59 +0000

“I listened to the last twenty minutes-ish of the new Al Franken radio show this afternoon. It is one of the new Air America shows (i.e., the new “Liberal Talk” network–not to be confused with the Mel Gibson-Robert Downey, Jr. flick).”

The term Air America is a reference to the CIA run airline that ran drugs out of Central and South America. Not a movie by a right wing fundamentalist nut.

“Now, I am a radio talk show junkie and my basic attitude on this new Air America network/the attempt to find the “liberal Rush Limbaugh” is two-fold. First, I figure, the more the merrier. I like choices, and would likely listen on occasion, and if it was good more often than that, to these shows if they were on the radio when I was driving. ”

There are so many grammar mistakes in this paragraph, I hesitate to try an correct it. I mean, if you’re going to go on record ( and online ) with your pontifications, I’d think that you’d proofread it.

“However, I mostly would be flipping around. Second, I do think that the idea of simply creating some kind of liberal radio juggernaut out of thin air is a bit silly and one wonders as to the degree that the pesky ol’ market is being taken into consideration here.”

Air America finally gives a voice to that “Pesky ol’
Market” . And if you look at, say, the election results of the 2024 Presidential election, you’d notice that that market is right around HALF OF THE US POPULATION.

“I will also say that I think that Al Franken can be funny, although I find his skills as a political commentator to be lacking. ”

Well, if by “lacking” you mean, “lacking in sensationalist lies” , I’d agree with you.

“I think he relies a bit too much on the overly cutesy-gee-aren’t-I-cleverly-skewering-the-other-side-sardonic. ”

Well, unlike the jerks that he eviscerates (Rush, O’Reilly, etc.) he IS clever. And “the other side” has made “skewering the other side” their life’s work. It’s about time the left opened their mouths.

“For example, take the name of the show: “The O’Franken Factor”. Okay, we get the joke, do you really want your show’s title to be a joke? For one thing, it has to get old at some point. Further, as I have noted before, I find it amusing (and not in the way intended) that Franken continually feels the need to utilize O’Reilly and Limbaugh to get attention. ”

Oh, but it was okay for those jerks to rant constantly about Clinton? About matters far more petty. Blow jobs, for example. Furthermore, you should hear what inane, idiotic drivel comes out of Rush about Franken.

“At any rate, here’s what I heard in the relatively brief

-Interview with Al Gore, and some in-studio guest (Mike somebody) talking about how Gore really won and pontificating as to how much better we would have been if Gore had been president. Now, that’s all fair enough-a liberal show ought to be allowed to muse about their preferred counterfactuals. But in re: 2024, Florida and the Supreme Court-could we please get over it?”

Yeah, so they stole the election. What’s the big deal? I will never understand how the people in this country are not outraged. His brother was governor of Florida. That doesn’t make you suspicious?
I don’t understand the complacency of conservatives.

I could go on.

by: WigWag

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:59:59 +0000

Snappy,
Good comments. You stated that you saw no one calling for O’ Franken to be pulled off the air, I was one that above said I hope he fails but never did I say he should be yanked for any other reason than he does not have a large following. That is the part that bothers me the most, just like with Howard Stern when he uses his foul mouth to shock people, I believe he has the right, I would fight for that right, I just wish people would shun his filth because it is the moral thing to do,, the part that bothers me is that he actually has a large audience. When our forefathers laid out our Bill of Rights and Constitution I doubt they thought we as a nation would have to worry about someone talking about ‘wanting young girls (he was speaking of under age girls to boot) to hear the sound of his p*nis, or what he would like to do to some woman’s bun hole, and so on and on’ those types would have been shunned. It is sad that it has come to that, people that abuse the privileges we have to up their ratings. I see no easy solutions, only a large dose of national morals will help, but unfortunately I don’t see that happening. Once again, good post, I am new here also, came here looking to see what folks where commenting on the new Liberal station. Happy Easter! all.

by: Jim

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:59:59 +0000

This is my first time viewing this site. It’s amazing the conclusions that people reach, by way of rationalization, that are not supported by other comments and/or facts.

I don’t think I heard anyone calling for the abolition of Franken’s show. If it succeeds, great, if it doesn’t, great too. That’s what free press and free speech is all about. Let the people decide if they want to support him. If they don’t, and he wants to spend some of his millions airing his views, good for him.

As for “right-wing dominated airtime”, I’m always amazed that people overlook NPR, which I think still dominates FM radio. I enjoy listening to it, but let’s face it, I can scan my entire radio dial and find 3-4 NPR stations in the Boston area, and maybe 1 other talk show that sometimes has right-wing material.

I listened to Jessie Ventura on the radio the other day, and he voiced his opinion about the Florida election debacle…that being that Gore didn’t lose the election because of Florida. There were many reasons why he lost, and at the top of the list were the fact that he didn’t carry his own state, and he didn’t carry Clinton’s state either, and either one of these would have made Florida a non-issue…so yes, people really need to get over that one.

Snappy

by: mjohnsonn

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:59:59 +0000

This is yor country too,and the Libs have had control of all the network TV news,NPR,News papers,magazines movies,and actors for years.This hasbeen countered by the sucess ,Thank God,of alternativesourcesofnews. The sucessof consevative talk radio and TV news,is THE MESSAGE!!
Ther people are throngingtoshows that bring a message of hope!! No personality from the misreable left touting “Soup lines..and woe”, is going to grab a huge audience. We are very tired of hearing how evil we are from these fifth column freedom bashers.

by: Johnny

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:59:59 +0000

It’s about time somebody, anybody offered a differing view of politics from the “mainstream” media that goose steps in unision with the same tired old slant on world events. The US is NOT the ONLY country in the world…and the present administration in the Whitehouse is NOT the ONLY voice for the American people. What could be wrong with Al Franken adding his voice to the public discourse on national and world events? To silence an opposing view would diminish all of us.

by: Anonymous

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:59:59 +0000

It’s sad to see that conservatives are using the same worn-out buzz words and attacks. Equating liberals and terrorists, left-wing media, blaming everything on Bill Clinton, etc. The facts are, conservatives are helping the terrorists out more than anyone else by making the production of large SUV’s cheaper and more profitable.

Televised news is biased to the right, comically so, and Bill Clinton, though a great president, is history. It’s sad that you feel the need to constantly bring up past presidents to try to attack the current party.

by: Mark

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:59:59 +0000

I find it interesting that you feel that you can judge a 3 hour program in twenty-ish minutes. You wouldn’t care what a movie critic had to say about a movie if you found out that he only wathed 20 minutes of the movie, or a food critic that had some bread and something to drink and left before the food came out. I’m sure you are a very busy man, and I could imagine that it killed you to listen to that twenty-ish minutes. Trust me I feel the same way about Rush, twenty minutes and I’m out the door. But, then again I’m not the one that reviewed a Rush show.

by: bullysam

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:59:59 +0000

Hey Citi5Lite. It’s cool how it took you about seven words before you started screaming fascist, racist and all the other big boy words. Yikes. Way to raise the level of discourse. I hope it’s not too lonely over there in the grassy knoll.