Former comedian Al Franken is better known these days as the unabashedly liberal junior senator from Minnesota. When Franken refused on Thursday to consent to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) running over his allotted time for a statement on health care reform, liberal blogs like Firedoglake were quick to cheer the…
Ever since an episode of Law & Order: SVU stepped into partisan politics last week with a character’s declaration that right-wing news hosts like Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck “spread ignorance and hate,” the right-wing blogosphere and talk radio-sphere have been up in arms about the politicization of a prime-time…