Anyone read Al Franken's book...

Nope. Not worth my money, time, or energy. He is so far left that he has no credibility with me. He was, however, very funny on SNL at one time. If only he stuck with what he knew.

Joseph Botwinick

 

Did anyone here him speak at the National Press Club about a month ago? Brilliant speaker.

 

Yes, he's very knowledgeable & well-spoken.

And funny.

 

I have heard him speak several times on CSpan and found him to demonstrate a lack of thinking skills. He is not a critical thinker. He is by nature a showman, not an analyst and when your life is made up of getting laughs, you go for that. He seems more interested in getting jab in at his opponents than drawing logical conclusions about issues. I assume his book his more of the same. Unfortunately, this is typical of much of the political dialogue today.

 

For me,

it wouldn't matter how much research he did, he has no credibility with me. There is no way I would ever take such an extremist liberal like him seriously. He was funny at one time to the mainstream of society. That time is over. Now, the only people I know who take him seriously or who find him funny are the extreme militant wacko left wing in this country who have a deep burning hatred for Bush and conservatives in general. This certainly appeals to the core of the Democratic Party of today, but does not reflect the ideas of mainstream America.

Joseph Botwinick

 

One's credibility does matter, to me, at least. If they have a history of acting like hate-filled left wing wackos with an axe to grind against conservatives, they lose all credibility with me. This is exactly what Franken is. Like I said, there was a time when he was funny to mainstream America. His character Jack Handy was absolutely hillarious. He has, however, ceased to be funny and relevant in society.

Joseph Botwinick

 

No. He's an idiot. Why waste my time?

 

So ones politics cancel out any facts that they may be able to show or bring to light? </font>[/QUOTE]Yep. If they are militant left wing wackos like Franken, that excludes them from being taken seriously by me.

For example, Bill O'Reilly has said more than a few time on his television show that he was an independent, and has always been one. It's a stance that he takes in order to "prove" that he doesn't really have a political agenda. [/QUOTE]

I don't agree with Bill O' Rielly on everything. But, one thing I can say about him is that he is not a militant extremist hate-filled wacko left wing nut. He certainly has more credibility when he speaks than does Franken. He is not on the fringe like Franken.

Franken and his researcher went and uncovered his actual voters registration card, which showed quite clearly that he was a registered Republican. [/QUOTE]

Is that legal? Aren't voter registration cards supposed to be confidential? I think this might also show that not only is Franken a fringe left wing nut, but an immoral one as well, further diminishing his credibility.

Does this matter? Perhaps not. But it goes to show that Bill O'Reilly lied in this matter, and his credibility is quite tied up to what he says about himself. [/QUOTE]

Actuallly, all it says is that he voted for Republicans in past elections. I think Independents are allowed to do that, you know.

I don't care (and neither does he) what you think of him personally,[/QUOTE]

I don't care if you or he cares either. You asked a question, I answered and told why, and now you are attacking me. This is pretty typical of closed-minded fringe liberal wackos. If you don't want to know, don't ask.

but you can't ignore the facts that he has uncovered about so many of those who the Right respects. [/QUOTE]

I certainly can when they are presented by fringe left wing nuts who lack credibility.

Joseph Botwinick

 

It would appear that some information on the Voter Registration Card is open to the public:

"Voting records are kept at the County Clerk's or Registrar of Voters office. As of January 1995 only limited amounts of voter registration information are public record: your name, city, ZIP code, post office box (if applicable) and party affiliation."

However,

"Other data, including your home address, telephone number, occupation, precinct number, and prior registration information are confidential. The sealed information is released if your vote is challenged."

So, if they searched out his current records at the time, they were within the bounds of the law. If they, on the other hand, searched out past voting records, they did something illiegal.

http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs11-pub.htm

Either way, their discovery is meaningless. He may have changed his mind. He may have just decided, as an independent is certainly allowed to do, to vote Republican. Tell me, if one says they are a Democrat, are they not allowed to vote for anyone but a Democrat? Are they that cultish in their mindset?

Joseph Botwinick

 

Scott, I think Larry was just disagreeing with me because of some stuff going on in the C/A forum. He's getting a little upset over there, even deleted one of my threads.

 

No. He's an idiot. Why waste my time? </font>[/QUOTE]You are too kind. He's a moron. "His" book was funded by the left, researched by the left, and anyone who trusts his political "research" is selling themselves short.

And was never that funny.

Funny how the left hates Ann Coulter, who is one of the more brilliant speakers of our day, and much funnier that Al Franken.

 

I have plenty of fiction to read already

 

I stand corrected.

 

I wasn't responding to you at all. I didn't even know you posted here. I didn't see the National Press Club deal.