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Al Franken: Bill O'reilly
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In Al Franken: God Spoke, the makers of The War Room capture the emergence of Al Franken as a political commentator. The film is shot over the course of two years and follows Franken from his highly publicized feud with Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly to his fierce campaign against president George W. Bush during the 2004 election.
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Franken would be nothing today without Rush Limbaugh. O.K., that's an exaggeration. But if Limbaugh has exerted a huge influence over American conservatives, the shadow he casts over liberals is probably just as great. (Limbaugh, through a spokesman, declined to be interviewed for this article, as did Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, the Fox News personalities and frequent Franken foes.) Limbaugh's first great insight was in realizing, circa 1990, that there was value in the abandoned real estate that was AM talk radio. His second stroke of genius was in bringing what was thought a dinosaur of a medium into significance by becoming a voice for those who felt frustrated and alienated by the Clinton 90's. He is, by universal acknowledgment, the progenitor of the legions of conservative talkers on the dial today.
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Franken is opposed to the 2007 troop surge in Iraq, and has been a vocal critic of the war for several years; ... he supported the invasion at the time (a fact he often admitted, with regret, on his radio program). In an interview with the MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough[22], Franken said he “believed Colin Powellâ€, whose UN presentation convinced him that the war was necessary. Franken now believes that Congress should refuse to pass appropriations bills to fund the war if they don't include timetables for leaving Iraq. In an interview with Josh Marshall, Franken said of the Democrats, "I think we've gotta make [Bush] say, 'OK, I'm cutting off funding because I won't agree to a timetable.'"[23]
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Al was sued by Bill O'Reilly and Fox News over the use of the term "Fair and Balanced." Al was victorious when the lawsuit was virtually laughed out of court, with U.S. District Judge Denny Chin famously calling Fox's lawsuit "wholly without merit, both factually and legally." Ironically, much of the initial popularity of Lies has been attributed to O'Reilly's lawsuit.
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In 1992, Franken anchored Comedy Central's Indecision '92, covering the presidential conventions and election-night events. In 1996, he teamed with Arianna Huffington, covering the party conventions and election night for Bill Maher's show Politically Incorrect.
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