Al Franken disembowels Bill O'Reilly

seems the opposite to me, actually.

Ive never understood why al franken is supposed to be funny.

he got spanked by bill.
 
Atta boy Al!

Newt learned the hard way not to mess with Al.

Looks like it's time for O'Reilly to go to the woodshed, hehe.
 
could someone please explain to me how Al won this match ?

seemed more like a frightened child trying really hard to be spanked.
 
Uh, it doesn't sound like Al won anything to me. O'Rielly has a good point. This dude digs for dirt and comes up with Bill saying Inside Edition has won the wrong award. Those awards are public record. I doubt Bill was trying to lie. In a whole career that's all Al could come up with?

Sounds like he's the one who got taken to school.
 
Naturally Fox isn't going to evenly cover the event. I wish I had seen it on CSPAN.

It's enough of a kick for me that O'Reilly made a fool of himself with his "shut up's" and Franken nailed him on it.
 
Considering that he wrote a book on O'Reilly and the others, I'm guessing that that is not all he can come up with. (Seems pretty obvious, doesn't it?) I'm also guessing that O'Reilly knows full well what other criticisms Franken makes of him in the book, and is simply telling yet another lie for sound-bite purposes.

And claiming that you have won a Peabody when you have not is not a simple accident, in my opinion. It's the kind of thing you make sure of before you make the claim, if you have any integrity.

That said, I hardly think Al disembowled him.
 
Sundog said:
Naturally Fox isn't going to evenly cover the event. I wish I had seen it on CSPAN.

It's enough of a kick for me that O'Reilly made a fool of himself with his "shut up's" and Franken nailed him on it.
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wait...........so O'Reilly made a fool of himself by telling him to shut up and that he'd gone over 15 minutes (double the time of other speakers) ?

when Al responds with "this isnt your show", I find that hilarious because Al is whining about being spanked and wants it to be his show.

he called out Bill and Bill spanked him. It made him cry because he wants it to be his show.............hardly "nailed" anything besides his his obvious inability to see the irony of his own statement.
 
Michael Redman said:
Considering that he wrote a book on O'Reilly and the others, I'm guessing that that is not all he can come up with. (Seems pretty obvious, doesn't it?) I'm also guessing that O'Reilly knows full well what other criticisms Franken makes of him in the book, and is simply telling yet another lie for sound-bite purposes.

And claiming that you have won a Peabody when you have not is not a simple accident, in my opinion. It's the kind of thing you make sure of before you make the claim, if you have any integrity.

That said, I hardly think Al disembowled him.
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By your own logic, I doubt if he was up there all that time - 35 minutes? - expressing his admiration.
 
In summary:

Media event:
Liberal: You are bad.
Conservative: You are a bad.

Commentary:
Liberal: That liberal really made a fool of that conservative.
Conservative: That conservative really made a fool of that liberal.

People hear what they want to hear. If you switched the names Franken and O'Reilly around in that story,
the same people would be arguing the opposite point they are now. We need a double blind test :)
 
uneasy said:
In summary:

Media event:
Liberal: You are bad.
Conservative: You are a bad.

Commentary:
Liberal: That liberal really made a fool of that conservative.
Conservative: That conservative really made a fool of that liberal.

People hear what they want to hear. If you switched the names Franken and O'Reilly around in that story,
the same people would be arguing the opposite point they are now. We need a double blind test :)
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bullseye
 
I saw some of this on C-SPAN (on tape delay late Saturday night). I turned it on in progress as Franken was talking so I can't say how long he spoke or what happened before I turned it on. As I watched Franken talked maybe 15 minutes or so but as I say I turned it on in progress.

At first I assumed it was a gathering where everyone was on his side because he was ripping pretty hard on others. Then he started on O'Reilly. A couple times as he spoke on the edge of the screen I could see a guy that looked like O'Reilly. What a coinicidence, I thought, he's ripping on O'Reilly and sitting right next to him is a guy that looks like O'Reilly. I was pretty surprised when I finally realized it was O'Reilly.

I had mixed feelings about it. On one hand it's nice to see both sides of the political fence play by the same rules but on the other hand it'd be nice if that were achieved by both sides coming up to a higher level then both going down to a lower level. Aside from pointing O'Reilly's mistake he was also simply taunting O'Reilly. Ironically, the person Franken reminded me of was Rush Limbaugh, who Franken wrote a book about a couple years ago.

Franken definitely got under O'Reilly's skin. O'Reilly was clearly mad. I think O'Reilly would have "won" (in my opinion) the altercation if he could have resisted taking the bait and getting angry. O'Reilly made a good point about being on TV a long time but Franken could only get him on a minor thing and if O'Reilly had pointed that out and stopped their he'd have looked better but instead he stooped to calling Franken an idiot.

Sadly, the O'Reillys and Frankens are becoming more common while the Molly Ivins' (who was also there and speaking in a calm, deliberate, non-attacking manner and who thus was ignored) are becoming less common.
 
Did Franken ever name this decade? The 1980s was the Al Franken Decade. The 1990s was the Joe Franken Decade (Joe being Al's son). I wonder if the 2000's have a name.
 
The suspicious side of me says Franken knew exactly what he was doing. His first book sold out of anti-Limbaugh angst. This new book has no real buzz or draw as far as I can see. This manufactured incident however is just what he needs. Kudos to Al for knowing how to promote, it worked for Tyson/Lewis.
 
Genghis Pwn said:
Uh, it doesn't sound like Al won anything to me. O'Rielly has a good point. This dude digs for dirt and comes up with Bill saying Inside Edition has won the wrong award. Those awards are public record. I doubt Bill was trying to lie. In a whole career that's all Al could come up with?

Sounds like he's the one who got taken to school.
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Al pointed that Bill lied about the award (it was the Polk). but he also pointed out that award was given to the show after O'Reilly left the show. O'Reilly is a blowhard who likes to shut out dissenting views on "his show". It was nice hear about him having to sit there and take it.

Daredelvis
 
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