Another One Bites The Dust

The Elder caught me red handed yesterday...or, I suppose you could say, red-eared. I was, indeed, listening to Air America even without the motivational influence of a loaded gun leveled at my temple. I did have a very good excuse for my actions, however.

After running across this Powerline post regarding Al Franken's latest display of tolerance at the RNC, I needed more details. Laura Ingraham briefly addressed the kerfuffle on her program, but I wanted to hear it from the horse's ass...er, I mean mouth...himself.

That's how I found myself on the Air America web page searching for their local affiliate, since it seems to change on a monthly basis. While I was there, I noticed with some astonishment that the Prince of Pronto Pups himself was slated to be on Wednesday's show. I quickly fired off an e-mail to alert the Fraters Libertas staff of Hugh's impending slaughter of yet another dim-witted leftie, and those who took heed were greatly rewarded.

Al Franken is, quite simply, a horrible talk show host. I speak with some authority on this matter as I have first hand knowledge of some very skilled radio artists (myself, most assuredly, not included). It takes the man a lifetime of Sundays to ask a simple question and, by the time his nasally ramblings have finally been punctuated with a merciful pause, one tends to forget what his intended point happened to be. Such was the case today with Hugh.

Lest you think that Franken's failings lie solely in the technical realm of the radio world, rest assured that he is equally incompetent in the intellectual realm. For the majority of the interview, Franken kept trying to hammer home his quarter-baked notion that the President's familiarity with the infamous August P.D.B. should have driven him to immediately link the impact of the first airplane on the morning of 9/11 to Osama bin Laden. Hugh deftly shot this bit of nonsense down (read it yourself...Hugh has promised a transcript here).

The other prong to Al's thrust was the complaint that no speaker at the RNC had yet to mention bin Laden by name while Saddam's name was being dropped more often than the Cleveland Indians' outfield drops fly balls (those are my words, not Franken's...an eight game lead in September tends to make a man gloat). Hugh, again, succeeded in popping Al's balloon by pointing out that his complaint makes it evident that the left simply does not grasp the scope of the war on terror (again, read the transcript) and that if this was to be the left's tactic for the remainder of the campaign, they're going to lose 50 states to none. I think "beat them like a bongo drum" was Hugh's exact phrasing.

The subtitle of Hugh Hewitt's new book is "Crushing The Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It". Wednesday's domination of Franken on the tail of Tuesday's smackdown of Terry McAuliffe shows that Hugh is willing to do just that...one Democrat at a time.