Stuart Smalley isn't good enough, bright enough, and no people don't like him, apparently.
Alan Skorski discusses expose on 'truth teller' Al Franken
In his new book, Skorski turns the tables on Franken, a self-described "truth teller," setting out to prove not only are conservatives and Republicans not the demons the Air America host characterizes them to be, but that it is Franken himself who is "shamelessly deceptive and using the very tactics he accuses his targets of employing."
For other info MIchelle Malkin has a thorough piece "Inside Air America: Al Franken's Lying Lies Part of an ongoing investigative blog series" by Brian Maloney and Michelle Malkin
Sept. 7, 2005 (Part II of this installment is at The Radio Equalizer)
On July 27, our blogs first reported on a shady loan scheme between Air America Radio and the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club (which is now under investigation by both NYC's Department of Investigation and NYS Attorney General Eliot Spitzer). National mainstream media outlets have failed to give the deal--and Air America's continued money-flow crisis--the scrutiny they deserve.
Air America has yet to formally offer to pay back the loan in full, and knowledgeable sources tell us the liberal radio network is contemplating how to stem the lingering bad publicity. Anticipating further negative press, the company is apparently poised to "settle" the matter very soon.
Along with the network's current management and shell-game-playing owners, Al Franken has gotten a pass, even from some conservative commentators who have claimed that it's unfair to blame the liberal radio network's financial and legal entanglements on its on-air talent.
Those claims are wrong.
Al Franken says 20,000 poor kids and old people weren't the only victims of an exec who allegedly arranged a Bronx charity's mega-buck "loan" to Air America.
"About three weeks into the life of Air America, I became an involuntary investor — I stopped being paid," Franken told listeners yesterday on WLIB (1190 AM).
It was the first time the all-liberal network's biggest star addressed at length a controversial $875,000 loan from the disgraced — and now de-funded — Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club...