rssHah! I Totally Blocked Your Fist With My Face!
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 6:41 pm
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This Benjamin Sarlin piece on right-wing delight at Al Franken’s Senate win in Minnesota is … strange.
“Al Franken is a very tempting target because he is so outrageous,” said Republican strategist Brad Blakeman. “It’s similar to Joe Biden—we hope that Al Franken is the gift that keeps on giving.”
We’re talking about Vice President-in-two-weeks Joe Biden, right?
In 2006, the Ohio GOP issued a news release attacking Senate candidate Sherrod Brown for associating with Franken that included a Photoshopped picture of the comedian in a diaper.
That would be Senator Sherrod Brown, right?
Stephen Marks, a blunt Republican consultant, gets at the truth in this article: once ensconced in the Senate, Franken will likely eschew the racier, angrier jokes that gave him political trouble and become a harder target for Minnesota Republicans, and barely a target at all for national Republicans. It’s not like he’ll become a cultural lightning rod like Rick Santorum or Katherine “Queen Esther” Harris — Franken’s a conventional liberal, which isn’t a controversial thing to be right now.
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13 Comments
Comment posted January 6, 2009 @ 6:27 pm
Who really cares? Who is shocked that Minnesota is a true blue state that allowed Franken to keep recounting the ballots until he won. What's in Minnesota for Republicans to protect anyway? Ice is about it, right?
Comment posted January 6, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
Noel…. They did not keep recounting the ballots until Franken won!!!!!….. There was ONE recount….hold up your index finger…That's the one next to your thumb…Now, …. looking at your one finger, count how many fingers you see protruding from your fist….That's right, the correct answer is one…Well, Noel, … That's how many recounts there were in Mn. Unlike Florida in 2000 when the US supreme court would not allow the recount to be completed.
Comment posted January 6, 2009 @ 7:07 pm
Also Noel….Al Franken counted no ballots as you claim in your post. No one working for either campaign counted ballots.
Comment posted January 6, 2009 @ 7:10 pm
In fact , Noel, you are the reason why the republican party got so thuroughly trounced in this election. Please keep up the idiocy so we can continue to spank your intolerent backsides into oblivion!….GO USA!!!!!
Comment posted January 6, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
What Weigel fails to note is Franken's personality type. This wasn't from one of his “comic” bits:
http://boreamerica.com/archives/2005/02/franken…
P.S. Here's a Weigel lie:
http://24ahead.com/dave-weigel-slate-reason-mag…
Weigel won't even call the state of HI to either get confirmation or – like me – to fail to get confirmation:
http://24ahead.com/dr-chiyome-fukino-responds-m…
What kind of reporter wouldn't try to confirm an assumption they made in such a situation?
Comment posted January 6, 2009 @ 10:28 pm
Oh YES. We're getting Obama Birthers in comments now!
Comment posted January 7, 2009 @ 8:29 am
When right-wingers say that he'll be a “very tempting target” they mean for people like Rush Limbaugh and his audience. But Al Franken was always a tempting target, which means he'll just continue serving that function. So you'll continue to hear Limbaugh make comments about Franken for the next 6 years, which will make the 10-20 percent of the country who listens to or agrees with Limbaugh laugh. But that's about it.
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Comment posted January 7, 2009 @ 11:41 am
Al Franken is the secret love child of Malcolm X and Marilyn Monroe.
He and Obama attended a Madrassa togther.
But Franken was kicked out for making too many jokes.
When asked for comment, he noted “This can only be bad for me, Al Franken.”
The republicans need to face it. He's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggone it, people like him. (republicans not included)
Comment posted January 7, 2009 @ 10:04 pm
Well, there is Pawlenty, who would probably not have been a total freaking disaster as a VP pick.
Comment posted January 8, 2009 @ 6:04 am
Well, there is Pawlenty, who would probably not have been a total freaking disaster as a VP pick.
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