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Friday, August 15, 2003
Laugh it up, folks.
I would be remiss, on Fair & Balanced Friday, if I did not present the other side of the Al Franken/Fox Steel Cage Smackdown. Unfortunately, the best I could come up with is some loon named Lowell Ponte over at FrontPage, who actually makes Ann Coulter look vaguely rational. You really have to read the whole thing because it is so stridently over-the-top that it defies description. Here is a snippet, and remember, this guy is serious:
In 1975 Lorne Michaels hired Franken and partner Tom Davis as writers for a strange new TV show called “Saturday Night Live” (SNL). In his early years with SNL, Franken reportedly has acknowledged, he was “not addicted” but was a user of mind-altering drugs, including LSD and cocaine. They also performed on-air skits as “The Franken & Davis Show.”
Transcripts of those skits, which reveal Franken’s deepest core values, can be hard to find. A synopsis of one that aired October 21, 1978, during the show’s fourth season, reads: “Franken and Davis are International Communist revolutionaries, calling for the overthrow of the U.S. gov’t – they act out the campaign of two corrupt nominees for congress.”
In another, the transcript of a 1978-aired “Saturday Night Live” skit co-authored and approved by Franken includes this inserted message by an announcer: “’The Franken & Davis Show’ is brought to you by the International Communist Party: Sooner or later, you’ll be a Communist. And now…here’s Al & Tom.”
Yes, the Court Jester Al Franken would smile at this and say, “Laugh it up, folks. These are the jokes.”
But what if this fake ad had said instead: “brought to you by the International Nazi Party: Sooner or later, you’ll be a Nazi.” Would that be a laughing matter?
Socialist Adolf Hitler murdered 12 million people, including six million Jews, in his concentration and death camps. Soviet socialists murdered 17 million people by systematic starvation in the Ukraine alone. According to the Black Book of Communism, over the past 100 years Communist governments in Russia, China, Cuba, Eastern Europe and elsewhere have murdered at least 100 million human beings. (Most serious scholars concur.)
As the luminous P.J. O’Rourke has said, liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink. Because Al Franken’s socialist politics different only in degree from those of the late Soviet Union, he took delight in praising Communism repeatedly in his skits on “Saturday Night Live.” Laugh it up, folks. Sooner or later, you’ll be a Communist.
...and if you think that the Republicans would think this guy is a little too crazy from the heat to be a part of their team, guess again.
He makes me glad I'm on the side that I'm on.....
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