when a liar is caught lying, the liar usually turns his eyes to the right...or just starts smirking and jigglin' with his double chin. :]

Your mom is a whore? What I'm just asking.

What can I say?

Whenever Franken or Brock or whoever tries to play gotcha with Republican pundits (which, when based in facts is sooo easy) their delivery of the point usually contains some flaw.

In this instance, Blankley dismisses Franken on the basis of his squealing and emotions, rather than the facts ... and gets away with it.

I have two suggestions that need not be exclusive from one another ... but then again, it's always been in the minds of left-leaners to play with the normative ideologue.

First, use sound bites. If anything, imitating the Republican strategy will inflate their egos, which can be used against them. In fact, didn't someone suggest this a few days ago? Something along the lines of "we're not pro-torture" as a bumper sticker or whatnot...

Second - and this is stretching it - demand that you be given the opportunity to speak so long as you grant your opponents the same courtesy. Clinton, for example, did an amazing job of shutting Wallace down during that exchange on Sunday, but at the expense of being branded a raging maniac.

This would be rather difficult, of course. Franken nasal pitch gets me thinking of Professor Frink YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE !! MUHHAIIVENGLAVEN

... and Olbermann ... yikes, I love the scathing commentary he leaves, but he must be married to an English major, cause he is far too eloquent to be understood by anyone with anything less than a Native command of the language.

Blankley: "I don't like the manner in which you're calling me on the carpet. Please adopt an alternative style of confrontation -- preferably one that lets me off the hook and makes you look weak and ineffectual."

I love Franken

I just hope the public can make sense of this all.

I love Franken, too. And I'm glad to see him on TV! Glad he stood his ground with Blankley.

@nzMm

you wish my friend, you wish.

[and the rest of the world does so too...]

Oh, yeah, "we all screwed up". Let's just leave it at that. Now, that our nice little try of blaming Clinton for 9/11 seems to run against the wall, let's just call it quits and move over to blaming the Democrats for screwing up national security and Iraq and the aftermath in Iraq..

This is so despicable. I couldn't ever eat as much as I want to puke..!

Frankin, there you go using facts again....get with the program & just use slander.

reminds me of colberts bit about not liking facts, or books, because their elitist, i speak from the gut, and did you know your stomach has more nerve endings than your brain? look it up, i did. but not in a book, i looked in my gut.

"when a liar is caught lying, the liar usually turns his eyes to the right"

Wow, I noticed that too, mindcaster.