Liberal loon told to shut up
AL FRANKEN OVERSTAYS WELCOME AT TALK FEST
Mon Jun 13 2005 08:31:35 ET
AIR AMERICA's Al Franken became "The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave" after
receiving an award at a talk-radio convention in New York over the
weekend.
NY POST's John Mainelli reports Monday: The liberal talk-show host was
finally forced off the stage -- amidst shouts from supporters and
detractors -- after an acceptance speech became a nearly half-hour rant
against Bill O'Reilly and the Iraq war.
"Al, hurry up," said Michael Harrison, publisher of TALKERS mag, the
convention sponsor.
"It's freedom of speech," said Franken, referring to the Freedom of
Speech
Award he'd just been given by the magazine.
"It's not freedom to kill everybody's evening, so why don't you wrap it
up,"
Harrison argued.
"I'm talking about the war in Iraq and I have about two pages left, and
I
think the people in Walter Reed [Army Medical Center] who've been
injured
deserve the last two pages of my speech," Franken countered.
"There are people walking out," said Harrison. "We gave you the award
and it's
time to leave."
"Everyone who wants to leave can leave," said Franken, addressing
hundreds
of talk-show hosts and radio execs at a cocktail reception in a
downtown
hotel.
"Now don't leave!" Harrison urged the attendees. "We honored you. Now
honor
us. Don't kill our party."
With that -- while some shouted "keep going, keep going" and "let him
finish" -- the Air America star wound down his rant by talking about
his
visits with Iraq-war vets.
"The soldiers were so magnificent," Franken said, appearing to suppress
sobs.
--
"The U.S. military has had considerably more success in turning Iraq
around
than liberals have had in turning the ghettos around with their 40-year
'War
on Poverty.' So far, fewer troops have been killed by hostile fire
since the
end of major combat in Iraq than civilians were murdered in Washington,
DC,
last year (239 deaths in Iraq compared to 262 murders in DC). How many
years
has it been since we declared the end of major U.S. combat operations
against Marion Barry's regime? How long before we just give up and pull
out
of that hellish quagmire known as Washington, DC?" --Ann Coulter
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