In a silly passage on Bush strategist Karl Rove, Franken writes on page 146 of Lies that Rove
"orchestrated the most complete takeover of Texas since Sam Houston routed Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. (Sam Houston was later killed at the Alamo by terrorists.)"
Oops. Sam Houston was not killed at the Alamo. Sam Houston died of pneumonia in 1863, some 27 years after the Alamo.1 This slip is particularly embarrassing considering the fact that the battle cry at San Jacinto was "Remember the Alamo!"2
Let’s hope none of those 14 Harvard researchers are history majors.
http://www.frankenlies.com/alamo.htm
Is Al Franken so determined to defend President Clinton’s record on terrorism that he has to make things up? What about those 14 Harvard researchers? On pages 109-110 of Lies, Franken writes,
"Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah are all currently behind bars ... They were involved in [further] plots to kill the Pope and blow up twelve U.S. jetliners simultaneously. But neither happened. ... Why? Because Clinton thwarted them. He thwarted them all."
The truth? The plot to kill the Pope was thwarted by Philippine officials in January 1995, less than one week before the pontiff’s arrival in Manila!1 Abdul Murad was captured after he and Yousef accidentally started a fire in their apartment while trying to mix explosives. Upon interrogation, Murad confessed to the plot to kill the Pope.2
Murad also confessed the details of a plan called Bojinka, the plot to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners.3
When Murad was handed over to the F.B.I. months later, the work (and heroics) had already been done ... by Philippine law enforcement!
The truth is that Bill Clinton had as much to do with thwarting these plots as much as, well, as much as Al Franken did.
How many Harvard researchers was that again?
http://www.frankenlies.com/frankenpope.htm