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A week after being accused of hypocrisy by National Review's Cathy Seipp, who writes for the magazine about media and the entertainment industry (among other things), Al Franken informs readers and writers of NR that the books they read could possibly -- just maybe -- be filled with some inaccurate facts.
Citing Do As I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, a "well-researched polemic" by Peter Schweizer, the occasionally funny Seipp charged that "Al Franken rails against audiences for not employing more minorities, and yet apparently couldn't find any non-white research assistants for his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them... or writers for Saturday Night Live when he was an executive producer there... or researchers and producers for Air America." Writing in to NR, Franken demonstrates that every single one of those claims is demonstrably false (including the easily verifiable misinformation that Franken was ever an executive producer at SNL rather than simply a producer). What's that about the polemic being "well-researched," again?
Meanwhile, on her very popular personal blog, Seipp admits she was wrong, apologizes for repeating Schweizer's erroneous claims, and says she won't trust the other stuff in his book either. Oops -- actually she does none of those things.
- Ankush Khardori
