Al Franken to shadow politicos
Al Franken is taking his radio show on the campaign trail.
“The Al Franken Show” will broadcast live across the country starting Thursday and ending Oct. 9, making stops in eight cities, including swing-state battlegrounds Miami, Minneapolis and Columbus, Ohio.
“It serves a lot of purposes,” Franken said Tuesday. “The main one is to drive me into the ground before the elections.”
The satirist-commentator shares hosting duties with Katherine Lanpher for the show, one of the daily programs on the 6-month-old liberal talk radio network Air America Radio. The network doesn’t have an L.A. outlet but can be heard on the Internet.
The tour will open in San Diego and then head to San Francisco; Denver; Minneapolis; Madison, Wis.; Columbus; Miami; and Tampa, Fla. “The Al Franken Show” airs weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
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