To convolute Stuart Smalley, you're bad enough, you're dumb enough, and doggone it, people despise you...
http://mediamatters.org/items/200511090001Appearing on the November 7 edition of MSNBC's The Situation with Tucker Carlson, author Alan Skorski promoted his new book, Pants on Fire: How Al Franken Lies, Smears and Deceives (WND Books, October 2005), by leveling false attacks at Air America radio host Al Franken.
On The Situation, Skorksi attacked Franken as "one of the most vicious and dishonest political pundits in the arena today." When asked by host Tucker Carlson to provide two examples of Franken's "dishonesty," Skorski referred to a portion of Franken's book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Dutton, 2003), in which Franken exposed Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's false claims that Inside Edition, a tabloid-style news program he once anchored, had won "Peabody awards." Skorski claimed: "What Franken used to attack O'Reilly was a news column that had nothing to do with what Franken claimed it did." As his second example, Skorski claimed that Franken "made up" Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data in order to refute nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh's false assertion that the majority of minimum wage earners in the country are teenagers. In fact, the column Skorski -- and Franken -- referred to did address O'Reilly's false claim to have won Peabody awards. Also, the BLS data clearly demonstrate that the vast majority of minimum wage earners are 20 and older -- refuting Skorski's claim that Franken "made up" the data.
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Skorski's other brush with fame came via a March 25, 2000, Washington Post article about the controversy surrounding an exhibit at New York's Whitney Museum:
On Thursday afternoon, as hundreds of people waited in line to be among the first to view the Biennial, a lone protester stood in front of the museum, holding up a homemade poster that depicted Rosie O'Donnell, Hillary Clinton and Alec Baldwin wearing swastika armbands.
Alan Skorski, 37, wore a yarmulke, argued with museum-goers and said he was objecting to the exhibit because "enough is enough."
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