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 did official Bush-Quayle […]
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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 besmirch O’Reilly, Franken […]
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At the beginning of Chapter 27, Franken claims that Bush and Cheney lied about the military’s readiness to report for duty at the time and uses a statement to the contrary that former Bush foreign policy adviser Richard Armitage gave to Carl Levin during n Armed Services Committee. After this, Levin said at the hearing […]
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Lies and the Lying Liars who tell Them was researched with the aid of 14 students when Franken was granted a fellowship at Harvard. On page xii of Lies (p. xvi in the paperback), Franken tells his readers that his study group received seven hundred (700) applicants. However in an October 2003 interview with the […]
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On page 257 (paperback, p. 266) Franken reprints the text of this flier allegedly found in “black neighborhoods” shortly before the hotly contested 2002 Maryland gubernatorial election (Republican Bob Ehrlich vs. Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend). Franken decries the flier as a racist effort to prevent blacks from coming out to vote, being in part that […]
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