Franken goes to a lot of trouble to get his facts straight and to follow them up a bit deeper than some. Also, he always leavens his assertions with a generous dollop of humor, even self-deprecating humor. This is not an attribute I have ever heard used in describing Coulter or Limbaugh, for example. Just an observation. Ihave also never heard Franken resort to vitriol of the kind that spew out of Coulter and Limbaugh routinely. Not that I have heard everything he's ever said.

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