Monday, January 5, 2009
News Sen. Al Franken
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:21 PM
This should make the right wing nuts a little nuttier.
Over to you, Bill O'Reilly.
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"I know this isn't an easy day for Norm Coleman..."
I would not have been able to say that with a straight face.
I would not have been able to say that with a straight face.
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wow. the man has no personality when he's not doing comedy. But then, it's hard enough to move your mouth at all outside in MN in January.
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He needs to sounds like a Minnesotan and bring out the diphthong in Minnesota like in "Drop Dead Gorgeous"
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So if Franken, Schwarzenegger, and that WWF dude who's name that I can't remember, can become politicians, when's George Clooney going to run for the a Senate or House seat? I see him either as a great politician or a great ambassador.
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WWF Dude = Jesse "The Body" Ventura
What's sad is that Franken has to go out of his way to be unfunny. Hopefully he's keeping notes & will pen a good memoir
What's sad is that Franken has to go out of his way to be unfunny. Hopefully he's keeping notes & will pen a good memoir
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@13: Actually after he got into office, Ventura changed his moniker to "The Mind." I think it was before he let his teenage son have keggers at the governor's mansion and after he suggested that the state's roads were built by drunken Irishmen.
So, yeah, it's "The Mind."
So, yeah, it's "The Mind."
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Politics is perception and it will only become more and more likely that tv and movie stars will become elected officials. Some good, some bad, but that's how I think it'll turn out.
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Al Franken is a deranged psycho. He is an admitted alcoholic who has pushed people down when he gets mad. His selection to a fine institution further increases the tarnish it gained when Teddy Kennedy and Hillary Rotten were elected.
Freedom loving Minnesotans must do everything in their power to have this communist removed.
Freedom loving Minnesotans must do everything in their power to have this communist removed.
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Sorry to be the bucket of cold water on your fervent fantasy Baz, but "Freedom loving Minnesotans" elected Franken, donchaknow?
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It hardly matters whether he has a mandate. What does matter is that he has *6 years* to work in the senate.
42% of the vote is large enough, especially when you consider the number of people who voted for a third party candidate.
Frankly, who cares what Minnesotans think when there's so much to be done on a national level?
For those who think he's a joke, or an embarrassment, fine. Deal with it for the next 6 years, because Al Franken is a smart guy whose heart and mind are in the right place, and he'll likely be one of the best senators this nation has.
He'll be fighting for you even as you try to drag this nation back into the dark ages, in the hope that perhaps your children won't inherit the backwards ideology you cling to.
I guess that's the one thing to remember when you bitch and whine about all of this: History has been a long slow march towards the progressive ideas Al Franken holds. No matter what you do, your children, and your grandchildren are OURS. The ideals you hold so dearly are being wiped out of existence slowly but surely. Sleep on that.
42% of the vote is large enough, especially when you consider the number of people who voted for a third party candidate.
Frankly, who cares what Minnesotans think when there's so much to be done on a national level?
For those who think he's a joke, or an embarrassment, fine. Deal with it for the next 6 years, because Al Franken is a smart guy whose heart and mind are in the right place, and he'll likely be one of the best senators this nation has.
He'll be fighting for you even as you try to drag this nation back into the dark ages, in the hope that perhaps your children won't inherit the backwards ideology you cling to.
I guess that's the one thing to remember when you bitch and whine about all of this: History has been a long slow march towards the progressive ideas Al Franken holds. No matter what you do, your children, and your grandchildren are OURS. The ideals you hold so dearly are being wiped out of existence slowly but surely. Sleep on that.
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Is Al Franken a puppet of the
lady in the red coat standing to his right [our left]? You never see her hands, her lips move when he talks and he seemed really stiff....
Yeah I realize it's [probably] his wife, but that makes puppethood all the more likely, don't you think?
lady in the red coat standing to his right [our left]? You never see her hands, her lips move when he talks and he seemed really stiff....
Yeah I realize it's [probably] his wife, but that makes puppethood all the more likely, don't you think?
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@26, I think you're right that Franken has the potential to be a great senator (I don't know whether he will be, but I think he could be). Wellstone was initially perceived as a bit of a wacko, I think. If I remember right, in 1991, there was a Newsweek cartoon that showed Saddam Hussein looking into a mirror, saying "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the biggest jerk of all?" then asking his wife "Honey, who's Paul Wellstone?"
@14, Ventura actually was only talking about St Paul's streets: "Whoever designed the streets must have been drunk. Because in Minneapolis, you know if you're on 32nd St., 36th St., is four blocks away. In St. Paul, there's no rhyme nor reason; it's not numerical; it's not alphabetical. You know, I think it was those Irish guys. You know what they like to do,". St Paul actually does have a few numbered streets in the city center. They are, in order, along Robert St: 2nd St E, Kellogg Blvd E, 4th St E, 5th St E, 6th St E, 7th Pl E, 7th St E, 9th St E, 10th St E, 11th St E, 12th St E, Columbus St E, 14th St E. Yes, at Robert there is no 1st, 3rd, 8th, or 13th, and there are two 7ths.
@14, Ventura actually was only talking about St Paul's streets: "Whoever designed the streets must have been drunk. Because in Minneapolis, you know if you're on 32nd St., 36th St., is four blocks away. In St. Paul, there's no rhyme nor reason; it's not numerical; it's not alphabetical. You know, I think it was those Irish guys. You know what they like to do,". St Paul actually does have a few numbered streets in the city center. They are, in order, along Robert St: 2nd St E, Kellogg Blvd E, 4th St E, 5th St E, 6th St E, 7th Pl E, 7th St E, 9th St E, 10th St E, 11th St E, 12th St E, Columbus St E, 14th St E. Yes, at Robert there is no 1st, 3rd, 8th, or 13th, and there are two 7ths.
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