An (interesting?) Al Franken-Malcolm X connection

Chris Steller — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:45:58 +0000

Here’s a post about something Rep. Michele Bachmann didn’t say. Last year, Bachmann reveled in connecting dots between Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, and last month she pronounced it “interesting” that swine flu outbreaks only happen during Democratic presidencies (forgetting that Republican Gerald Ford was in office for the last one). So how did we get through this week without Bachmann finding it interesting that it contained the birthdays of both Al Franken and the late Malcolm X?

Actually, there is a six-degrees-type connection between Franken and Malcolm X:

Until he announced his run for U.S. Senate in early 2007, Franken hosted a weekday radio show on the Air America network from noon to 3 p.m., Eastern Time. Last week, Air America announced that the new host in Franken’s old time slot is Ron Kuby. In 1995, Kuby, with former law associate William Kunstler, represented Qubilah Shabbazz against charges (filed in Minneapolis) that she tried to hire an FBI informant to kill Louis Farrakhan, who she suspected of involvement in the 1965 death of her father, Malcolm X.

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An (interesting?) Al Franken-Malcolm X connection