LIES: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken

Author:Al Franken [Franken, Al]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2004-07-27T05:00:00+00:00

Janacek was referring to the closed captioning that the memorial’s organizers had thoughtfully provided for the hearing impaired. Janacek, perhaps, was thinking impaired. Or, more likely, honesty impaired. On radio, she said that the text on the Jumbotrons was proof positive that the entire event had been scripted. She didn’t mention that words appeared on the screen about five seconds after they had been spoken.

Janacek’s insanely stupid and/or viciously dishonest claim was repeated over and over on local right-wing talk radio. But what’s a local lie when you can have a national lie? On C-SPAN’s Washington Journal that morning, Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway, one of the Republican party’s most loyal flaks, picked up on the Jumbotron Lie and gave it a little more pizzazz:

CONWAY: The Star Tribune covers the fact that the people who were in attendance were told by screen when to cheer and when to jeer, and they were told to cheer when the Clintons and Ted Kennedy were displayed, and they were told to jeer when Trent Lott and Rod Grams, former senator of Minnesota who lost in 2000, were displayed.

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