Al Franken is wrong. Again. Good thing nobody is listening!
Fraters Libertas has busted Al Franken- who likes characterize mistakes or even the use of better sources than his by conservatives as "lies-" in what by Franken's own standards would be a whopper.
On the say-so of somebody from the Brookings Institution, Franken claims that Ruth Bader Ginsberg- correctly characterized by Rush Limbaugh as more extreme than any of President Bush's judicial nominees- never suggested, as Limbaugh has maintained, replacing Mother's Day and Father's Day with a gender-neutral "Parent's Day." Writes my brother blogger:
I don't, either.
Rather than displaying the same disregard for the Eighth Commandment as Franken himself does, and apply Franken's own standards to this variance from the facts, I'll merely repeat two observations Fraters Libertas makes.
First, people make mistakes. Limbaugh makes them. Franken makes them. It's part of being human.
But on the other hand, when you do the Franken schtick, and make a career out of seizing on any slightly inaccurate detail in something someone you disagree with says and calling it a "lie," you really don't deserve the benefit you deny to others.
On the say-so of somebody from the Brookings Institution, Franken claims that Ruth Bader Ginsberg- correctly characterized by Rush Limbaugh as more extreme than any of President Bush's judicial nominees- never suggested, as Limbaugh has maintained, replacing Mother's Day and Father's Day with a gender-neutral "Parent's Day." Writes my brother blogger:
Thanks to Ed Whelan, who writes on the new, excellent NRO Blog Bench Memos, we know what a Senior fellow of the Brookings Institute does not. Quoting page 133 of "Report of Columbia Law School Equal Rights Advocacy Project: The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law," co-authored by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brenda Feigen Fasteau in September 1974:
Replacing "Mother's Day" and "Father's Day" with a "Parents' Day" should be considered, as an observance more consistent with a policy of minimizing traditional sex-based differences in parental roles.
Maybe instead of relying on the Prestigious Brookings institute, Al should go back to getting information on his own research staff. Of course, I don't expect to hear a retraction from Al Franken anytime soon.
I don't, either.
Rather than displaying the same disregard for the Eighth Commandment as Franken himself does, and apply Franken's own standards to this variance from the facts, I'll merely repeat two observations Fraters Libertas makes.
First, people make mistakes. Limbaugh makes them. Franken makes them. It's part of being human.
But on the other hand, when you do the Franken schtick, and make a career out of seizing on any slightly inaccurate detail in something someone you disagree with says and calling it a "lie," you really don't deserve the benefit you deny to others.
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