Dr. Manning and Al Franken

The overflowing Rochester audience enthusiastically agreed with Al Franken's assurance that Dr. Manning could describe the credit card industry as "greedy bastards." Franken continued that there is only one word that Dr. Manning is not allowed to say on a national broadcast from among George Carlin's legendary Big Ten. During the break, it was learned that this word is Franken's favorite descriptor of a certain FOX spinmeister and Dick Cheney. Of course, like Dick Cheney's famous utterance directed toward a New York Times reporter during the Presidential Campaign, anything goes on the Franken Show AFTER the microphone is turned off!

Today we're in Rochester, NY, courtesy of NewsTalk 950 WROC. The guests on today's program:

(12:30est): Mayor Robert Duffy, the former Rochester Chief of Police. On January 1st, he became the 65th mayor of the city of Rochester.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Rules. She’s serving her tenth term as U.S. Representative for the 28th Congressional District of New York, which includes Rochester.

(1pm) Eric Massa, a graduate of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and spent 24 years in the US Navy. He's the Democratic candidate for New York's 29th District in the House of Representatives.

David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times, and the author of Perfectly Legal: The Secret Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else.

(2pm) Mark Noble, one of the nation's leading stem cell researchers, and a Professor of Genetics at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

and Robert Manning, the author of Credit Card Nation, and a Research Professor of Consumer Financial Services at the Rochester Institute of Technology.