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Recount madness: Al Franken killed my puppy!

By Paul Demko | 01.09.09 | 9:09 am

The State Canvassing Board’s determination earlier this week that Al Franken won the U.S. Senate race by 225 votes has caused some rather unseemly frothing among right-wing pundits. The talking points were initially established by the Wall Street Journal…

Daily Beast: ‘Franken is the right’s new punching bag’

By Paul Demko | 01.07.09 | 2:43 pm

The Daily Beast has a provocative piece up today theorizing that Sen. Al Franken might be just the remedy for an ailing Republican Party. Writer Benjamin Sarlin posits that Franken presents exactly the type of frothing, over-the-top liberalism…

COLEMAN WINS rematch with Franken at Political Championship Wrestling

By Chris Steller | 11.26.08 | 2:38 am

Not even their last engagement at Political Championship Wrestling could prepare you for:

MATCH #2 NORM COLEMAN (American Patriots) vs. AL FRANKEN (Progressive Alliance)
Franken is fired up. Coleman sidesteps the initial charge and wastes no time attacking

NY Post retraction: No caviar for Michelle Obama

By Paul Demko | 10.22.08 | 10:19 am

When I was traveling around the state last week in pursuit of Todd Palin, a frequent topic of conservative talk radio was Michelle Obama’s lavish, mid-afternoon room-service purchase of champagne, lobster and caviar at the Waldorf-Astoria in New…

Blogs react to not-so-terminal Tuesday

By Jeff Fecke | 03.05.08 | 2:29 pm

Hillary Clinton got her victories in Ohio and the Texas primary, keeping her bid for the presidency alive. And unsurprisingly, bloggers were abuzz this morning.

“Delegates, schmelegates,” said Clinton supporter Taylor Marsh. “There’s a new comeback kid and her…

Senate Democrats Call on Clear Channel to Denounce Limbaugh

By Jeff Fecke | 10.01.07 | 2:17 pm

klobucharSenate Democrats, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., called on Clear Channel Communications to “publicly repudiate” conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, and comments he made that anti-war soldiers are “phony soldiers.”

Clear Channel Communications syndicates Limbaugh’s show…

Democrats Blast Limbaugh ‘Phony Soldiers’ Comment

By Jeff Fecke | 09.28.07 | 1:18 pm

limbaughDemocrats and liberal activists sharply condemned conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh for his statement that anti-war soldiers are “phony soldiers.”

Limbaugh’s statement, made on his radio show and first reported by the liberal news watchdog Media Matters,…

Limbaugh on Darfur: Racism on Steroids

By Abdi Aynte | 08.29.07 | 10:56 am

Aynte MugshotRush Limbaugh is known for uttering creepy stuff, but what the nationally syndicated radio host said last week about the genocide-stricken Darfur region of Sudan was categorically bigoted and once again proved his disqualification to weigh…