AL FRANKEN: THE CLINTON'S MEDIA ATTACK DOG?
Newsmax has been all over this strange story. Franken nearly came to physical blows with both Sean Hannity before, and Alan Colmes more recently at a Fox News dinner table. Lately he harangued Bill O'Reilly after doing the same to Rush Limbaugh for years. Is he nuts, or just Fox hunting for the Clintons?On Imus' show, Newsweek reporter Howard Fineman follows the rage of the would be "King of All Democrat Media" back to the Clintons' strategic plan.
"O'Reilly's a big, big factor in politics today," Fineman told radio host Don Imus. "And there's a lot of feeling among Democrats - and Al is a dyed-in-the-wool-Democrat, you know, a big friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton - that the party people aren't really taking it to the Republicans."
"And that's what Al's going to do," the Newsweek scribe added.
Franken's counteroffensive, however, won't be limited to jousting with conservative stars at book conventions.
Unmentioned by Fineman, the former "Saturday Night Live" writer happens to be the personality designated by the Clintons to launch a talk radio offensive against the so-called conservative media's vast right-wing conspiracy.
Noted the Washington Times on Feb. 24, a proposed liberal talk radio network built around Franken "is being backed by Democratic supporters of Bill Clinton and Al Gore and was jump-started at a recent meeting in Washington with Democratic politicos who included New York Sen. Hillary Clinton."
Franken's recruitment as Bill and Hillary's handpicked media hitman was revealed less than two weeks after the ex-president himself complained to a sympathetic Katie Couric that Limbaugh, O'Reilly and Hannity were spearheading the GOP's "media machine."
In fact, the recent attacks in the media on Rupert Murdoch personally are part of the same Democrat campaign to expose this vast right-wing conspiracy. Physical intimidation of news media by a designee of the Clintons is a new twist, but interestingly enough, intimidating a reporter just got one of the Clinton's former private investigators in trouble:
Pellicano was arrested earlier this month in connection with an attempt to intimidate Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch, who was investigating an extortion plot against actor Steven Seagal.
Busch allegedly discovered the windshield of her car broken and a dead fish on the front seat with a red rose in its mouth. Former ex-con Alexander Proctor told prosecutors that Pellicano paid him $10,000 to scare the Times reporter off.
After searching the famed private detective's office, investigators found plastic explosives, blasting caps and detonating cord, along with $150,000 in cash.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Clintons have their infamous "secret police"on the trail of Murdoch and his on-air talent while Al Franken and moveon.org take to the airwaves. If I were working for Fox News, I would turn the tables and report on the Clinton "intimidation machine" as soon as Hillary's book is released.