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Al Franken is an Emmy Award-winning television writer and producer, New York Times bestselling author, Grammy-winning comedian, and the host of The Al Franken Show, the flagship program of Air America Radio. Franken's book, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations spent over eight months on The New York Times bestseller list and was number one for five weeks. His newest book, The Truth (with Jokes) debuted at number one on the Times bestseller list when it was published in October of 2005. Franken's radio show, The Al Franken Show delivers three hours a day of commentary, comedy, and interviews.
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Al Franken is the alter ego created by famed self-help guru Stuart Smalley (born May 21, 1951 in New York City. Figures.) Smalley, a known Jew rat communist, came up with the uber-liberal Franken character as a way of venting his frustration with all things good and American.
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On Friday, July 14th, Radio host Al Franken officially opens DemocracyFest with a live broadcast of “The Al Franken Show” coast to coast on Air America Radio from Montezuma Hall at San Diego State University. In the afternoon, the Grassroots Leadership Summit will feature representatives from national and local grassroots organizations including Democracy for America, the Commonweal Institute, Progressive Democrats of America, Service Employees International Union and the San Diego County Democratic Party to share organizing strategies. Friday night’s “Celebration By Night” includes Robert Greenwald as he introduces “The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress,” a film co-produced by Jim Schermbeck and Mark Birnbaum.
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As part of this new partnership, Air America Radio's on-air personalities, including Al Franken, will regularly take their progressive political talk on the road for special, live broadcasts in front of a studio audience from XM's Washington, D.C. studios. The first of these live XM studio shows will take place later this year.
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[W]hile Franken was basking in the glow of that book's success, a new force rose to prominence on the right. Its name was Fox. Clinton supporters and others whined at its coverage; to Franken its slogan -- ''fair and balanced'' -- coupled with its emergence as the top-rated cable news channel, was a gauntlet thrown down. ''Nobody was going after them for their lies,'' he says. ''The mainstream media was intimidated.'' As he had with Limbaugh, and with the heckler at the Dean rally, he took matters into his own hands last May, metaphorically throwing himself at the knees of an unsuspecting Bill O'Reilly at the BookExpo America convention in Los Angeles. It was only 10 months ago, but it seems an age: for one thing, Bush's re-election seemed inevitable then.
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Franken signed a one-year contract in early 2004, to become a talk show host for Air America Radio's flagship program with co-host Katherine Lanpher who remained with the show until October 2005. The network's launch began with the inaugural broadcast on March 31, 2004 at noon EST. The show was originally named The O'Franken Factor, but was renamed The Al Franken Show on July 12, 2004. Franken's last radio show on Air America Radio was aired on February 14, 2007. In the last segment of the show, Franken announced his candidacy for the United States Senate.
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