I Found Democratic Underground because of Al Franken

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12. Same with me

It was a year or two after the Bush "election" in 2000 and I was depressed that I could not find much in the way of "liberal" oriented news - MSNBC had just fired the reliably liberal Phil Donahue from their network after he spoke out about the upcoming Iraq War... then, a few months later, I heard Bill O'Reilly calling for Al Franken's upcoming Lying Liars book to be banned, or maybe he threatened to sue Franken... well, nothing piques my interest more than trying to ban something. So, I picked up the book and devoured it quickly. What a funny and smart book! It really gave me hope that there must be others out there like me, so I googled something like "liberal news forums" and the first one that came up with a site about Bill O'Reilly called something like O'Reilly Sucks (it's still there - http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/ )

Somewhere else on the internets, I was debating some RWers on the issue of the week and I asked on this guy's forum for support to help debunk these RWers, and then he said that he doesn't really know, but www.democraticunderground.com was a great place to go if you needed more information like that. I then found DU in October of 2003 and have been here ever since.