Franken renames his show !

[JohnnyRingo]

I JUST heard it on CNN.
"Under legal pressure from Bill O'Reilly"

......I'm dissapointed

On edit....I didn't hear the whole story and I think maybe they WERE saying that it was because of a LACK of legal pressure....Sorry

[Dickie Flatt]

1. New name: "The Al Franken Show"

link

[LuminousX]

2. Good

I didn't like the original name and it essentially implied that Franken wouldn't exist without O'Reilly where as I like the idea that Franken in independent and complete onto himself.

Really, I think it was all a ploy and he intended this outcome.

[Fenris]

3. Wait, CNN said it was under legal pressure from O'Reilly?

That's way off if they did. Part of the reason he's changing it is because O'Reilly wouldn't threaten him with legal action. It stopped being fun.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. I think you're right...

I was just coming back into the room when I heard it.
That makes more sense. I'm no longer disapointed.

[NYCGirl]

4. CNN has it wrong...here's the real reason from Franken:

From http://airamericaradio.com/bin/blogExcerpts.cfm?blogId=1&prg=3

WHY THE NEW NAME?

As of July 12, “The O’Franken Factor” is changing its name. No matter how hard we tried, Bill O’Reilly wouldn’t sue us. Since that was the whole point of the name “The O’Franken Factor” – to get sued by O’Reilly – we have decided the time has come to change it.

O’Reilly made Fox sue me to stop publication of my book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. And, of course, Fox was laughed out of court. I guess O’Reilly knows that old Texas saying: “Fool me once, shame on…shame on you…fool me, you can’t get fooled again.” I think it’s an old Texas saying. I heard George W. Bush say it once. Once. I don’t think he could ever say that again.

Other than the absence of a lawsuit, the name “The O’Franken Factor” has served its purpose. It has annoyed O’Reilly to such an extent that he has broken his self-imposed rule never to dignify my almost daily indictments against him with a response (other than that lawsuit), and now spews crazy-ass nonsense about me pretty much constantly.

And yet, the OFranken Factor has, as a title, had its limitations; its own natural life span. It has not, by itself, infuriated Rush Limbaugh nor has it aggravated President Bush. We have been forced to rely on the internal program content to do that. And while we considered adopting the new name “The O’Limbaugh Factor” or “The O’President Bush Factor,” somehow they didn’t have quite the same ring to them.

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. CNN gets it wrong again

Franken changed it because he couldn't get O'Reilly to sue him...he wanted him to do it again so that FAUX could get laughed out of court like when they took issue with the name of his book.

Franken even said on his show that he reserves the right to change it back "Just to keep Bill in line"