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   XPost: seattle.politics   
   From: cobalt@newscene.com   
      
   On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:43:49 -0800, "Clave"   
    wrote:   
      
   >"Mike Smith"  wrote in message   
   >news:rqlu601b7p5u20g6kj2m04tbmn59pbc34v@4ax.com...   
   >> atheist@home.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >> =Say, didn't you think it was really funny that after   
   >> =writing his book "Lying Liars" that the honorable   
   >> =  Mr. Franken had to apoligize when he   
   >> =was caught telling lies?   
   >>   
   >> I haven't read the book yet, although I sort of   
   >> like him. What lie(s) did he get caught for?   
   >   
   >None.  He's probably referring to this:   
   >   
   >    You'll notice that in his column, Rich [Lowry] accuses me of   
   >    a grand total of two lies. First, that I described him as   
   >    "terrified" during our initial phone call. Believe me, he was.   
   >    Rich says that's impossible because we were being "jocular."   
   >    Thing is, it's actually possible to joke while you're terrified.   
   >    In fact, that was the entire basis for centuries of Jewish humor.   
   >   
   >    The second lie is that I claimed that Rich had stopped talking   
   >    about Democrats feminizing politics after our encounter on the   
   >    phone. But, in fact, I wrote that I just *thought* he had, and   
   >    even held out the possibility that Rich had indeed continued   
   >    that nonsense. Still I could have assigned one of my research   
   >    assistants to Nexis all of Rich's articles, and for that I   
   >    apologize. We were busy trying to confirm that Iraq had   
   >    attempted to buy uranium from Niger.   
   >   
      
   Nope, I don't think it's funny.  I think it's a rather lame   
   accusation.  But then again, I'm a liberal, so I don't get off on   
   misrepresentation.   
      
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