The Agony Of Defeat: Conservative Media React To Senator Franken

http://mediamatters.org/research/200907010008

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• Senator Franken
• Norm Coleman
• Fox News
• Fox and Friends
• Glenn Beck
• Sean Hannity
• Brian Kilmeade
• Steve Doocy
• Media
• Media Matters
• Minnesota

[Minnexyz]

The real question the recount poses is why were so many legally cast votes for Franken not counted in the first place.

[pabobfin]

Watch Mr. Franken grill the "arbitration" lawyer for KBR over Jamie Leigh Jones, to see some class and some statesmanship. Dream on Glenn Beck, you're right, you would not have a place at the table of thinkers. Go find some more golden plates, and archeological evidence of Egyptians wandering in the USA.

[truckdawg43]

@angel102ify Dream on Carter was and Obama is a close second .The only thing he has done is make things worse .Only Cater had higher unemployment .Yes I remember him and my Dad swearing at the TV everytime his goofie face came on TV. I remember the guys coming up to my dads gas station begging a job just enough to feed their families .My Dad did it every time .Now my Dem former boss has swore off dems because his million dollar investment is sitting idle because of taxes ,and I sit unemp thanks

[angel102ify]

@truckdawg43 going down before the dems got in? what are you smoking because i want some.

The lehman collape was what started a chain reaction in the US and world economy, i love how you try and pin that on Obama before he even took office when Bush has probably been the worst US president in modern history.

[truckdawg43]

@angel102ify because it was going down before the dems got in .It took 8years to get there now it took only two years to get here and he is piling on more debt .Check your unemployment stats the lowest was 4.9 % under bush 4.8% is full employment EVERYBODY IS PAYING TAXES even Illegals .Thats why Bush wanted amnesty Obama just wants more votes .Everybody working, everybody paying, debt was going down .Simple economics .Dems took over the houses debt, unemployment, taxes, up

[angel102ify]

@truckdawg43 oh my god, you must have learnt how to count in the fox school of economics, US debt in 2000 was 5.7 trillion, in 2009 when Obama took office it was 11.9 trillion, its currently around 14.4 trillion, so tell me how you think Bush was better for the economy?

[truckdawg43]

@streetswell Well what where you thinking ? It took GW 6 years to get us 4 trillion in debt it took Obama 2 to get us 14 trillion so WTF .Hell GW even had the illegals working and a on a path to citizenship .I wasnt happy with the Amnesty but they were paying taxes .So WTF did ya have your hat in yer hand and yer head up yer ass ? Al Franken is a low rent actor you must be dumber than a sack a tacks to vote this ass clown in

[samantha34ize]

i dont want some steroid actor has a bastard mex kids in california and a shiitty old man acto as a president reagan ornld so we elelct al so wat fuk u bk

[palinsuxdix]

@Dacadvid Glenn Beck is an idiot.

[streetswell]

@TheGeekyNinjaStudios A certain number of ballots are thrown out in every election. I'll give you that some people probably did vote illegally for both candidates, but the facts remain: Franken won, and the right wing is screaming about it because it's an embarrassment to them.

[TheGeekyNinjaStudios]

@streetswell Well at least 93 ballots were deemed illegal after Franken was sworn in. If we are going by the Katherine Harris argument of 2000, then Mark Ritchie might be just as worthy of scrutiny , but I digress.

[streetswell]

@TheGeekyNinjaStudios It's true that Franken won a narrow victory (kinda like Bush in both elections, and that's if you give him the benefit of the doubt about 2000), but the fact is that Franken won and Coleman lost. I would check your sources on the "convicted felons" bit - that tends to be right-wing code for "black people voted".