[lbo-talk] 'shillin' with Al Franken

[C. G. Estabrook]

Good for Sam Smith.  See Tom Gorman, "Al Franken and Al-Shifa"  
<www.counterpunch.org/gorman10182003.html>, where Franken is quoted as
referring to himself as a "DLC Democrat" and defending Clinton's 
cruise-missile bombing of the al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant in Sudan in
1998 (which, we learned this week, Richard Clarke approved and still
defends).  --CGE

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Joseph Wanzala wrote:


> The proper alternative to rightwing talk radio is good talk radio, not
> Al Franken making jokes that only a member of Move On could enjoy. The
> difference between the great leftists humorists of the past - Mort
> Sahl, Lennie Bruce and the like - and the Franken types of today is
> that the former were (a) funny, (b) not shills for the Democratic
> Party. - SAM SMITH www.prorev.com