It's Friday, y'all - Randi's on and AAR is streaming!

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Okay, it's Friday, ya bastids.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. We get Ed Shultz in Boston, Randi comes on at 6 PM

so I listen to her at work on the internet. :D

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2. Yup, I'm here for my lunch hour on the West Coast

Then I hope others will carry on.

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3. Yup, George is just like reg'lar folks

Heck, he went back to visit the press on Air Force One for the first time since . . . September 11.

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4. Kerry mentions Mary Cheney

And the Republicans lecture HIM about morality and ethics. Give me a break!

By the way, it's not an insult to be gay or lesbian. Unless of course . . . you're ashamed of their sexual orientation.

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5. But let Alan Keyes go

When he called Mary Cheney a selfish hedonist.

Lynne Cheney's take on lesbianism, considering her book "Sisters" and her apparent loathing for her daughter is that lesbianism is acceptable if it's written in a poor fashion by a repressed, self-loathing lesbian who is forced to have sex with someone like Dick Cheney.

The Cheneys: Proud of war criminals, ashamed of lesbians.

[cheezus]

6. exactly. kerry treats their daughter with respect

whereas keys says terrible things about her.

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8. Hee, hee: First of all, lesbians are NOT selfish

It takes a lot of work, AN HOUR, to pleasure a woman!

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7. Playing a tape of Cheney thanking Edwards

For mentioning his lesbian daughter.

Then a tape of Cheney pissing and muling about Kerry's mention.

H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E. Dick Cheney will say anything to get elected.

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9. Going to the phones

Beth from Lawn Guy-land, a 53-year-old lesbian mother of three children, adoptees from China.

Why aren't any of the news outlets asking Mary Cheney what she thinks, considering their relentless coverage of this non-issue? She's a big girl. A grown up. Can presumably speak for herself.

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10. The Republicans are on the attack over this non-issue

Because the polls look bad, damn bad. They've been caught all over the country practicing vote fraud in Oregon, Wisconsin, Ohio and Arizona, so they have to pump up a non-issue to distract a compliant media.

By the way, you've all surely heard that Karl Rove testified before a grand jury today?

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11. Caller from Portland ME

Getting at the stupid question Schieffer asked that started the whole ruckus. Stupidhead claiming that he doesn't know whether homosexuality is a "choice", Kerry was reminding the Dope that based on his acquaintance with someone he should know very well (the daughter of his running mate), maybe he ought to have a little more of a clue.

What a tempest in a teeny teapot.

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12. Uh oh, caller going off the rez

"Kerry should have known" that the Republicans would blow his lesbian statement all out of proportion. Hello?

How can you tell prospectively what the Republicans will lie about? They'll lie about anything, say anything, blow anything totally out of proportion in order to further their cause. There's no way to tell going in what will set these irrational butt-nuggets off.

47 after. Station break. I am outta here!

[krkaufman]

13. Randi 1, Franken 0 -- Randi wailing on BC04 Re: "Mary" nonsense

Gotta say that I was disappointed in Franken's show today. I didn't hear *ANY* refutation of the "Mary Cheney" diversionary propaganda on his show today -- but Randi is just wailing on the issue right now, underscoring the hypocrisy of the Cheneys (relative to their silence when Alan Keyes said their daughter was "hedonistic").

The transparent propagandistic motives of BC04 and the Cheneys needs to be blasted to the media -- along with demands that they return to the REAL ISSUES.

[krkaufman]

14. *WHERE* can I get the audio/video for the "RNC ad"...

... that Randi just played? Any clues?