ON LIBERALS AND DENIAL (Just one example)

On Al Franken and Clinton

That said, I find myself, for the most part, enjoying Al Franken's confrontations with the right. I keep in mind, however, Franken's description, in his book "Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot," of Bill Clinton as the greatest president of the 20th century. Franken's knee-jerk defense of Clinton is evident in the transcript of his appearance on the September 10 edition of "The Flipside" on CNN Financial News. A caller to the program challenged Franken's assertion that Bush lied to start a war, whereas Clinton lied about "small things," supposedly a reference to the Lewinsky scandal. The caller pointed out that Clinton lied about the production of chemical weapons agents at a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory. The cruise-missile bombing of this factory in 1998 led to the deaths of untold thousands in that impoverished nation, as the sole source for the production of medicine was eliminated. "I think that's a little bit more serious a lie than lying about his sex life," argued the caller.

Franken responded, "OK. Well, that wasn't a lie. [Clinton] bombed a factory in Sudan. They had soil samples that had–that showed that this was a factory making a precursor to weapons of mass destruction. It was–al Qaeda was in the Sudan. This factory had been financed by al Qaeda. So you just got to get your facts straight. I mean this is–if you read 'The Age of Sacred Terror' by Daniel Benjamin and Steve Simon this is covered, chapter and verse."

Note: As any even casual Googler will find, Franken was either lying or a complete dumb ass in his above statement regarding WMD and Al-Shifa.

There is no evidence whatsoever that WMD were being made there. And the U.S., i.e., Bill Clinton, blocked any further investigation into the subject. (Hey Al: Why did your idol Clinton block an investigation into the Al-Shifa affair? It would have been easy to substantiate your claim that chemical weapons were being made there via tests of the ruins of the plant.)

Listen: Don't EVER call me a liberal or "left wing."

Al Franken is in fact more dangerous than a sociopathic lunatic like Ann Coutler (or Bill O'Reilly, or Sean Hannity or… on and on), the reason being: People of good will (but poor paying attention powers) are liable to think that by voting for liberal (or left wing) democrats all will be well in this sorry ass world.

I have news: All will not be well by voting for liberal (or left wing) democrats.

Not even close to all being well.