Heard the One About Al Franken, Senate Candidate?

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Heard the One About Al Franken, Senate Candidate? - WSJ.com (http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB118910438493119588-lMyQjAxMDE3ODA5NzEwMDc0Wj.html)

MINNEAPOLIS -- A man walks into a political campaign and calls his opponent for high public office the president's lackey -- no, actually, he says something cruder, more insulting.

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Could that help decide which party controls the U.S. Senate?

The man is Al Franken, the 56-year-old former "Saturday Night Live" comedian and the bane of conservative talk-radio. The campaign is for the Senate seat now held by Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman.
And the question is no joke.

[BuckeyeMike]

The article is disingenuous when it states that "Mr. Franken left his Air America show isn't it? If I'm not mistaken, Air America left the air!

[MarlinsFan]

Air America might as well have never been on the air, with all due apologies to their six listeners.

[Timberwolf]

Mr. Franken says his humor was political but nonpartisan during the 15 years he wrote for "Saturday Night Live." That changed in 1995, he says, when the Republicans began to pare funding for social programs while also portraying themselves as the party of family values.
Clueless twit...family values starts with NOT being dependent on the government.

His response was to write a string of books -- starting with "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot" -- that relentlessly needled Republican Party luminaries and conservative talk-radio. He signed on as a talk-show host on the liberal Air America radio network, where he honed his outrage. He left that gig in February.
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HE left? Not even close!! That gig disappeared and is sorely missed by all 3 of its regular listeners.

Two years ago, he began planning a run for the Senate seat that Mr. Coleman won in 2002 after the death, in a plane crash, of Mr. Franken's political idol, Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone. Mr. Franken moved from New York to Minneapolis where he had grown up as the son of a printing salesman, and spent a year headlining local-level party events.
If there was ANY doubt as to Stuart Smalley's mental accumen before I read this, there is none now. This guys a fruitcake. If the good people of Minnesota, my neighbors, elect this clown, it will be a sad day. Franken is a PoS.

He now runs his campaign from his downtown Minneapolis house. A billboard across the street advertises conservative talk-show host Sean Hannity, who is a regular object of Mr. Franken's scorn.
Gotta love it. :thumb:

Ya know...after his abject failure at Air America, I would imagine he's looking to land a PAYING job. The conservative talk show hosts won't run because they couldn't afford the pay cut.

[ThomasMore]

Sorry, I know it's childish. But I couldn't resist:

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[Riverboat]

The man is Al Franken, the 56-year-old former "Saturday Night Live" comedian and the bane of conservative talk-radio. Bane? As in a "curse"? He's a boon! As in a "blessing."

[DesertFox]

That's precisely what I was thinking, Boat.

[DoctorDoom]

Bane? Banal, maybe. Rush, Hannity, Beck, Savage and the many other conservative talk folks are doubtless quaking in their shoes about the baneness of the overrated asswart.

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Stll, don't rule it out. Minnesota elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura as governor.

[Patriot Heart]

Stll, don't rule it out. Minnesota elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura as governor.

And leave us not forget they elected the first Mooslim Congressman

[DeclinetoState]

The article is disingenuous when it states that "Mr. Franken left his Air America show isn't it? If I'm not mistaken, Air America left the air!Well, the "Franken left" part makes sense. He is definitely a leftist.

[DoctorDoom]

One more portrait of Frankenstupid ..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/PITA/FrankenHorsebutt.jpg

[Lazarus]

The article is disingenuous...It is indeed...

Its title and the opening paragraph implies that the article is going to chastise the arrogant twit for his crude, classless attacks on his opponent, but it quickly turns into a puff piece on how successful his campaign is going...

When I was in school, such an essay which failed to remain focused or consistantly support its opening premise would have been given an "F"...

But there seems to be a growing trend among professionals who make their living with words so simply make up their own rules as they go - I heard a BBC reporter this morning use the word "Huger" to describe something that was of greater scale than something else that was already huge...

Just our continuing social decline as we Slouch toward Gomorrah... We are headed toward another Dark Age where personal excellence and a desire to achieve a higher order of thought will be lost for generations...