Al Franken is debating conservatives...
...as long as nobody is around to report on it.
Maloney reports:
Is Al Franken now avoiding potentially embarrassing debate circumstances?Wonder if you'll have to take a loyalty oath to get into his upcoming (?) Minnesota campaign appearances? Posted by Mitch at March 29, 2006 06:51 AM | TrackBackBetween three events which began last night and extend through early April, only in media-free surroundings has the Air America host agreed to debate a conservative.
Where reporters are allowed, the other panelists are either "progressive", or Franken's sitting it out entirely.
He's taking a lead from W. All those campaign stops in 04 were pretty well sanitized. Hard to get in with a Bush Lied, People Died t-shirt on, dontcha know.
Posted by: Kermit at March 29, 2006 08:27 AMWell, everyone knows that the right-wing-lackey press will just twist his words.
Damn that NYT!
Posted by: bobby_b at March 29, 2006 11:55 AMHugh Hewitt on the front lines... This is really really funny!
http://blogoland.blogspot.com/2006/03/hugh-hewitt-terror-warrior.html
MW: Let's look at it this way. I mean, you're sitting back in a comfortable radio studio, far from the realities of this war.
HH: Actually, Michael, let me interrupt you.
MW: If anyone has a right...
HH: Michael, one second.
MW: If anyone has a right to complain, that's what...
HH: I'm sitting in the Empire State Building. Michael, I'm sitting in the Empire State Building, which has been in the past, and could be again, a target. Because in downtown Manhattan, it's not comfortable, although it's a lot safer than where you are, people always are three miles away from where the jihadis last spoke in America. So that's...civilians have a stake in this. Although you are on the front line, this was the front line four and a half years ago.
Posted by: Doug at March 29, 2006 07:20 PMWell, he debated Stephen Colbert.
Wait a minute....
Posted by: Laurie at March 31, 2006 12:31 AM