Al Fraken Roasts Ann Coulter IN MP3
For your listening pleasure...
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http://www.kmox.com/programming/show...features.shtml
Is a short mp3 archive(2) of a radio interview between Al Fraken and Ann Coulter. He confronts lies she told in her book and the methods of her lying ways.
Ann should get into cycling. She backpedals very well.
On this site:
http://www.kmox.com/programming/show...features.shtml
Is a short mp3 archive(2) of a radio interview between Al Fraken and Ann Coulter. He confronts lies she told in her book and the methods of her lying ways.
Ann should get into cycling. She backpedals very well.
Comments
She apparently only makes mistakes and paraphrases...
She had to go... call on the other line... it didn't go well.
I bet she had her agent ready to call to get her outta trouble if it wasn't going her way.
Originally posted by Eugene
On most bikes, backpedaling does absolutely nothing but freespin the cogs.
Not only that, but he had twoo endnotes in the entire book, and they were both there to demonstrate how her endnotes are deceptive!
Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
i see, she's not a liar, just a shitty researcher and writer.
Isn't it amazing how these people, like 'conservatives' on these boards, always try to hide behind gross incompetence?
I gotta pick up that book!
Since Dec. 2000, NOTHING amazes me anymore...
love teh bit about maybe getting a better picture of her for teh cover . . . perhaps one of her lying . . .with her mouth open!!!
And he made the point that her mistakes were the culmination of her topics! her proof ... and they were mistakes! So are he points valid if her proof isn't? ummm... nope.
And I loved how he asked her about the guy who wrote the Kmart Sighed article... which she claimed proved that the Times was elitist... and she knew exactly where Al was going... the writer is from Alabama... a southerner... not some yankee looking down his nose at southerners.
Spinsanity
While Franken laces his book with attacks on conservatives, such as facetiously declaring that his next book will be titled "I F*cking Hate Those Right-Wing Motherf*ckers!" (p. 107), most of his partisan rhetoric is clearly marked as sarcastic and satirical. That humor, however, often degenerates into name-calling: Ari Fleischer is a "chimp," (p. 341); Karl Rove is "human filth," (p. 151), Ashcroft covered up a statue in the Justice Department because "He didn't like being photographed in front of another boob" (p. 161).
Other parts of the book blur the line between humor and spin even further. For example, he characterizes Bush's anti-terror efforts prior to September 11 as "Operation Ignore" (this comes just after a chapter rehabilitating Clinton's record on terrorism and skewering conservative pundits for misrepresenting it). One such passage from the chapter of the same title illustrates how Franken hides behind satire to imply things than he can't prove:
Now, on August 6, CIA Director Tenet delivered a report to President Bush entitled "Al Qaeda Determined to Strike US." The report warned that al Qaeda might be planning to hijack airplanes. But the President was resolute: Operation Ignore must proceed as planned. He did nothing to follow up on the memo. (p. 120)
Franken is a joke. He uses sarcasm to "prove" what facts cannot. Those recordings consisted of an argument about a paraphrased quote, an argument about on what date an article ran. The part most around here like, well the insult of course.
Nick
but, he does it better and out 'fact's them
Originally posted by pfflam
There is something to be said about the way that Francken calls the kettle black. He critiques talk show hosts for using personal insults but then describes his figures with the same sort of insulting descriptive terms . . . hmmm?!?!
but, he does it better and out 'fact's them
Did you read the book?
Did you read the book?
I read the spinsanity article and the book...
The Operation Ignore chapter was satire...
Conservatives were screaming bloody murder after 9/11 practically blaming Clinton... he was making the point that while Clinton increased anti-terrorism and national security spending... and made many attempts to get Osama... when Bush took office... they didn't get it... didn't think it was a priority... of course the was no Operation Ignore... but he's making a point that there was no concerted effort by the Bush administration to heed the warnings that Clinton, Richard Clarke and others and left with them.
Franken is not the joke. Ann Coulter is...
She says she's paraphrasing... when she's taking quotes out of context and distorting their meaning. Or flat out gets her facts wrong. Facts that supposedly prove her weak points.
Originally posted by chu_bakka
Franken is not the joke. Ann Coulter is...
Coulter is not just a joke, she's clearly insane.
Originally posted by giant
Did you read the book?
I must admit I have not . . . but I heard an interview with Francken where this point was brought up and sections of the book were read aloud.
if he manages to avoid this then I am happy but I would hate to see him drag the Liberal perspective into the gutter with rats
I think harry truman said it best when he said:
I never give them Hell. I just tell the truth and they think its Hell!
The proper boxing match would've been Ann Coulter vs. Joe Conason. Both deadly serious authors.