Al Franken and Air America

Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney have tirelessly been following the Air America scandal.

What scandal, you ask?  Oh, if you've been getting your news from the BM, I guess you haven't heard about it.  Seems that Air America, the wonderful liberal radio network that was going to drive fascists rightwing talk shows like Rush and Hannity from the air, somehow got a "loan" for nearly $1 million from a charity in NYC.  There's talk of fraud and embezzlement.

Al Franken, author of Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right and host of Air America's flagship show "The O'Franken Factor" (yeah, he seems to have a thing for Fox News) has been regalling anybody who'll listen with tales of his own innocence, how he was as much a victim as anybody, and how he didn't know a thing about the loan.

Well, court documents don't jibe with these claims.  As Malkin and Maloney write:

Far from being an innocent party with no knowledge of Air America's money woes, Franken was a signatory to the agreement. The document, published here for the first time, exposes how Franken misled his listeners and the press about his knowledge of the charity loan.

Michelle has PDFs of the documents at her site and a lot more.  Brian is also covering this at his site, Radio Equalizer.