Fox & Friends Host Calls Senator Franken "An Angry Clown" For Cutting Lieberman Off
When Congressman Joe Wilson shouted out "You Lie!" during one of President Obama's speeches earlier this year, Fox News ran cover for him and helped turn him into a right wing hero. When Senator Al Franken followed Senate procedure and told Joe Lieberman that his time was up, they tear him to shreds, making crass, childish and personal insults. Video and more from Media Matters:
During the December 18 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, hosts Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Brian Kilmeade repeatedly attacked Sen. Al Franken -- calling him "uncivil," a "newbie," and "an angry clown" -- for denying Sen. Joe Lieberman extra speaking time on the Senate floor. The Fox & Friends hosts ignored that, in fact, Franken, Lieberman, and Majority Leader Harry Reid all stated on December 17 that Franken was following Reid's orders not to grant any speech extensions.
But Franken, Reid, Lieberman say Franken was following request not to grant extensions
Franken: "I really just had no choice." Minnesota Public Radio reported on December 17 that "Franken says Majority leader Harry Reid ordered all senators who presided today to keep speeches to their ten minute limits and not grant any extensions" for senators of either party:
Franken says he wasn't trying to slight Lieberman and in fact supports the amendment to the health care bill Lieberman was discussing. Read on...
The right loves a good nontroversy. Senator John McCain was so outraged by the incident that he couldn't hold back that nasty temper of his, calling it unprecedented and outrageous. As it turns out, he was completely off the mark and out of line. In fact, he's done the same exact thing himself.
They had video before and after, but the objection was missing. Mark Dayton was making a speech against the Iraq War, then black and silent, then back to the next speaker with about a minute missing.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
forgot he did it himself. Gee, I hope someone reminds him before he goes and makes a fool of himself...oh, what? Too late? Well he'll forget in a few...
me-oww!
douche bag city
Steve Douchey has the mind of a child. A very slow, dim witted child.
Projection.
You could not be more correct
Is it me or does Steve Doocy look like a guy that teaches Sunday school and is later found guilty of molesting little boys?
We'll probably find out later, much to our horror, that we ar right.
.. yeah right ..
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
... thing had taken place earlier on the SAME DAY. Fox, Matthews, CNN and the rest of the blowt@rds acted as if the entire world, as they know it had just come to an end ... hmmm, guess thats why I dont watch TV ... (thx for the transcripts tho )
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
Three cheer for Al Franken, seems the Nazis' at Noise Nit Wit net Work are having a hard time dealing with a LEADER, now if we can get those photos of Joe on his knees and his face buried in the crotch of the pieces of SH*T he is backing, then these Racist Nazis at Faux Noise can really go off.
They just hate it when one of their Anti American pro- Socialist Corporatist gets shut down.
One more time three cheers for Mr. Franken. I watch it and it was great, especially when that snivelling clown mccain came to his Zipper lapping defence.
How dare Sen. Franken tell a corrupt, sociopathic evil neocon nutjob, that his lying time is over, and he really doesn't want to hear it anymore.
How rude!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
A show made for idiots!
Did the Propeller Beanie Gang on Fox and Friends clutch their pearls and hit the fainting couch when Cheney told a sitting US senator to go fuck himself on the senate floor?
And where was McNasty during that first ever show of disrespect to a US senator?
If he's asking for more time there's obviously the possibility of a yes or no answer and this time it was no. Boo frickin hoo. All these guys do is get off hearing themselves endlessly babbling about nothing. Hey, the fillibuster used to be the "nuclear option" until republicans made into a daily thing. Protocal means nothing, we're trying to get some results.
That get mad when you follow the rules that they start but when its not in their favor?
And all the MSM outlets ignores the fact that even though McCain feigned his outrage at Franken he did the same thing to kill over 4,000 Americans in Iraq. All but three people. Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow an Keith. Even on MSNBC.com who we are told are ultra liberal had attack stories on Franken. Every day I hate our media more and more. IS their any wonder why newspapers are folding and TV ratings are down in favor of the internet. Fuck the news media. They all suck even MSNBC.
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McNasty set an aircraft carrier on fire killing and injuring his fellow shipmates, crashed multiple fighter jets at tax payer expense, and plucked Sarah Palin out of the sticks of Alaska inflicting her on the rest of America. Hasn't this "war hero" done enough damage to this country? If his daddy wasn't and admiral he'd be in a stockade instead of on the senate floor feigning outrage. STFU McNasty.
and in all my nigh on twenny years in this ...hey! you kids get off my ....ummmm .... !"
Honey ...which house are we living in this week ..?"
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I can forgive him for most of that shit but the Palin thing is unforgivable.
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If his daddy was not an admiral he would vacuuming the Senate floor instead of speaking from it.
fox and it's
fucked-upfactless friendsare like being incontinent..they just can't help being so
sh*tty.
thing that's happened to the Senate in a long while. What a pleasure it is to see and listen to a man with common sense, intelligence, wisdom, ......and, Wit. Kind of reminds me of Ben Franklin (though I didn't know him personally...)
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Franken is pissing people off. Repigs are trying to pant him as a clown over some phony incident. He ain't playing the good old boy. Good for him.
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the repigs as usual have forgotten, especially
mcfuckhead, when he did the very same thing that
he, mccain, did.
Cable stations that use the word news in their name must actually report the news. I don't mean helicopter feeds of a car chase in Compton just waiting to watch the black guy get beat down and tazzered, I mean news. What hours of FOX is actually news?
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Fair and Balanced.
That's what the bologosphere needs to hit. How is Doocy either fair or balanced?
Their excuse? This is not one of the handful of hours they broadcast news. Like it matters.
Yes, McCan'tremember was horrified. (Aren't the Internets marvelous. in the old days it would have taken weeks to find the examples of McCain being a lying piece of shit.)You know they now have Alzheimer's medication that delays the onset of the disease.
Stheve Dothy thought it was kind of snippy? I'll show you snippy Stheve. What a dunce.
To take the medication you first have to admit you have a problem. Don't see that happen anytime soon. Actually, McCain was showing some signs while campaigning last year. People might have started to catch on if he hadn't nominated Palin for vice-president. Her deficits were a major distraction from his deficits.
Now if we could just make it a rule that if you ask for a reading of an amendment you have to stay for the whole reading.
.....is a total boycott by all Dem elected officials and other Dem Party luminaries, cabinet members, etc. Just don't go on any shows or do any interviews.
that went out the window when the DICK told Senator Leahy to "go fu*k yourself" on the Senate floor.
No one Rethug said a word about that, so they should all STFU. Now.
Thank God nobody cut off the Faux News Idiot Brigade and gave them time to make total Asses of themselves. Now that's good TV.
see above
That was the worst analysis of a Senatorial proceeding I have ever heard. You've gotta be stupid to endure this shit.
can look forward to a post political career at Fox News, the home of angry clowns.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
of the unintentionally comedic variety - watching these three bitch like old crones made me laugh out loud- thanks you fox and friends!
Most of the people who are willing to compromise their ethics and their integrity by being paid shills for FAUX are patently WATBs!
how can anyone be proud of a health care bill that has been pared down to almost what the republicans p=roposed verbatim in their initial offering.
as for Franken and his shutdown of lieberman on the senate floor. this is what we all have been calling for. do not allow the repubs to crucify him. support him monetarily or on the blogs. go al. put this lilly livered turncoat in his place. yea.
IF there are experts on clowns in this world, these are the folks...
Franken does not sound angry at all.
He actually sounds very low key, there's no anger in his tone.
Fox, once again out and out plain lying.
GOD BLESS Senator Al Franken!
If it pisses off Fox and the right it's a very good thing indeed .
the convenience of that relationship ends.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
A U.S. senator's value to the country usually varies in direct proportion with how much Fox and its co-conspirators revile him.
"We distort, you deride."
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