Lying Liar

Franken takes two Coulter quotes out of context, trying to make her look inconsistent. He begins: And what really burns Coulter is that, in the fawning liberal media, “Jim Jeffords’s degree from Yale cannot be cited often enough. (And consider that Jeffords got into Yale long before the terrorizing regime of the SATs, back when admission to (read more...)

This is without a doubt Franken’s most famous incident.  In a column for Newsday on March 8, 2001, Robert Reno asserted:  O’Reilly… has repeatedly boasted of his Peabody Awards… As Reno is quick to point out:  Actually he has never won a Peabody. If O’Reilly had claimed have Peabody Awards, this would in fact be quite a lie. (read more...)

Franken and his late friend Molly Ivins were lying about Rush Limbaugh in the early nineties. Rush always ignored them. So, no doubt knowing Rush would pay no attention, they weaved this whopper, based loosely on an actual event, and repeated it countless times until it became ingrained in cultural folklore. It was so ingrained that when the internet took off (read more...)

 Some people are under the false impression that Franken is just in it for laughs.   Lest we cut Franken any slack because he was a professional comedian, let us remember that he is mounting a bid for the United States Senate in 2008. No joke. Franken clearly wants us to take him seriously, and maybe we should.  With (read more...)

 Al Franken proposed what he called the “hypothetical liberal media paradigm matrix”.  What it translates to is the idea that “if” the media really has a liberal bias and the candidate is Republican then the media would want to hurt him or her with negative stories but “if” the media has a liberal bias and (read more...)

 After having hooked the reader with his inaccurate representation of the Pew study, Franken proceeds to reel the reader in with a few additional distortions.   First, Franken seems a little annoyed that the media would talk about Gore’s claim of inventing the internet. As Franken points out, Gore actually claimed to have taken the initiative in (read more...)

Lines after attacking the right for taking Gore out of context, Franken crops an interview answer given by Bush in order to call the answer “a bold faced lie”, while ignoring more egregious of the same nature made by Clinton. Franken writes: Regarding Love Story, at no time during that controversy did Gore ever get arrested for (read more...)

Al Franken loves to repeat this as a supposed example of Rush Limbaugh telling a lie. He probably still looks for opportunities to bring it up. The following is from his interview with Geov Parrish: GP: What do you think the differences are between you and Limbaugh? AF: I’m glad you asked me that. (read more...)

On page 61 (paperback, p. 65) of Lies Franken falsely claims Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes co-directed the infamous 1988 “Willie Horton attack” TV ad during the Bush-Quayle presidential campaign. Ailes worked for the Bush camp in the election, but he had nothing to do with the ad; and neither (read more...)

Franken asserts that Bill O’Reilly was wrong when he declared in a magazine interview that the liberal Los Angeles Times “never mentioned Juanita Broaddrick’s name, ever.” (Lies, p. 138 (paperback, p. 147))1 (Juanita Broaddrick is a woman who has claimed that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978.)    However, in his effort to (read more...)