Al Franken, fair and balanced liar

The invaluable Michelle Malkin catches the singularly unfunny Al Franken in lies and misuse of a position at Harvard.

Thanks to Court TV’s Smoking Gun Web site, we now know that the Saturday Night Live leftover abused his position as an “academic fellow” (now that’s funny) at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy in a puerile attempt to trick Attorney General John Ashcroft into publicly sharing his personal experience with abstinence.
Franken urged Ashcroft to share his abstinence story for “a book about abstinence programs in our public schools entitled, ‘Savin’ It!’” (lie). He assured Ashcroft that the book would document how the Bush administration is “setting the right example for America’s youth” (lie). And he breezily informed Ashcroft that he had already “received wonderful testimonies from HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, William J. Bennett, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, Senator Rick Santorum, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice” (lie, lie, lie, lie, lie).

As Malkin notes, Franken got caught, and ended up having to write a sniveling apology.