Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Democracy In The Age Of Dubya

Best-selling author and political satirist Al Franken speaks at Cambridge
Forum's on "Democracy in the Age
of Dubya,". Program was recorded on Monday, September 29th before a live audience in Harvard Square, Cambridge. This forum wasproduced as part of Minnesota Public Radio's 2003 Public Radio Collaboration on "Whose Democracy Is It?"
Drawing from his forthcoming book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell
Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" (Dutton, October 2003),
Franken employs his trademark wit and insight in a discussion of the state
of American democracy under the administration of George W. Bush. He
debunks the myth of a liberal bias in the media and takes aim at the
conservative organizations and individuals who perpetuate it. Does
political satire address topics that traditional media does not? What role
do entertainers and satirists play in the political process?

Al Franken is a Grammy Award-winning comedian and best-selling author of "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations;" "Why Not Me?;" and "Oh, the Things I Know!" He was a member of the original creative
team behind Saturday Night Live and won five Emmy Awards for his writing
and producing on the show. A graduate of Harvard University, he was named
a 2003 fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and
Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.