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TURKEY BELIEVER SUPPORTS TURKEY CANDIDATE
Minneapolis writer Susan Lenfestey meets former radio host and future Minnesota senator Al Franken, and is deeply impressed. As you’d expect Susan to be, considering her deductive abilities:
He’s done four tours in Iraq to entertain the troops, and unlike our Commander-in-Chief who serves them a plastic photo-op turkey, Al eats all his meals with the men and women who are stuck in this quagmire.
That’s not to say Franken doesn’t have his faults:
When asked his greatest area of vulnerability, he said it was that he cares too much.
But not enough to investigate whether a plastic turkey is actually plastic.
(Via Raffi)
Franken can be funny sometimes, for example after the 2004 elections. But he stayed on a single (``Bush is stupid’‘) joke too long on his own former show.
“It’s almost scary to see how much is churning in that big head of his.”
Why yes, yes it is. That has to be a serious candidate for some “money quote of all time” list.I just can’t wait to hear her glowing tributes for Rush and Hannity since she believes talk radio is such a great training ground. If a few years makes you so “well-informed” think what a few decades can do!
<the Yojimbo would place the sarcasm key back in the “off” position but it done busted on that last piece>
I ran across this priceless comment by Myrna Blyth, retired editor of Ladies Home Journal in The Corner on Wednesday.
“Saw that Al Franken just announced that he is running for senator from Minnesota. Kind of surprising since he is my neighbor on [West] 81st and Riverside Drive, just around the corner from that fine lutefisk establishment, Zabar’s. In fact, I ran into Al just the other day and he said he couldn’t stop and talk because he was rushing to get a haircut. Guess he feels he is good enough for the people of Minnesota but a Minneapolis haircut is not good enough for him. That New York haircut looked great in his announcement!”
That would be West 81st St. and Riverside Dr. in Manhattan, for those in doubt.
#11 Mark,
I actually do remember the last ‘laugh out loud’ moment Al gave me. It was a “Culture Wars” reference during Comedy Central’s 1992 Election Night coverage.
As the early returns in the East were showing Clinton doing well, Franken dismissively warned viewers that New England was a hotbed of lesbianism and might not reflect the country as a whole.
Franken’s like a kid who was funny and made you laugh in second grade but you tend to avoid him in high school. (Wow, I’m writing like Maureen Dowd!)
But, which Al will show up for the campaign? Mild mannered Stuart Smalley or Angry Al Franken?
Minnesota loved Paul Wellstone and elected Jesse Ventura, so I suppose anything’s possible. Word is Norm Coleman’s more than a little worried about this election, with or without Al Franken.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 16 at 05:02 PM • permalinkOne of the best gifts I was ever able to give was a remaindered copy of “Al Franken’s a Gap-Toothed Moron” to a friend who loved Franken’s “Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot.” The look on her face was worth much more than the stick-on price tag of$.98.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 02 16 at 06:29 PM • permalinkI found her I’m-so-breezy-but-I-don’t-know-words-longer-than -a-few-letters-to-convey-a-concept-so-I-must-use-hyphens-instead method of writing to be a bit pretentious. Of course, since she was invited to a dinner with other serious people who wanted to see who else came to dinner with other serious people…. Oh, never mind.
OT - if you have not seen Stephen Colbert’s interview with Debra Dickerson talking about whether Barak Obama is black (I kid you not) then I’ve got it posted at Kerplunk.
It is really very funny and shows up the black lobby for the shallow lot they are these days.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 02 16 at 11:35 PM • permalinkFranken, hmmmm, isn’t Al Jewish? Has he met the Islamic representative from Minnesota, yet?
Big question…if elected and the way Coleman is going, Al just may be a shoe in…but should he be elected, will he take his oath on The Bible, the Torah, or Thomas Jefferson’s Quran?
Hey, Al. What about those Islamic cabbies, I mean I assume you take a few belts, what happens if they toss your ass out?
Talking of Iraq:
You’ve got the ABC, we’ve got the CBC.
From the 0900 radio news rport on Saturday:
“..in Baghdad, the new [security] crackdown coincided with a significant dip in attacks.”
Wow, I wonder why that might be?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 17 at 10:21 AM • permalinkWimpy Canadian, would you please persist on insisting on being logical?
It gives our leftist friends headaches.
ENOUGH WITH THE BLEEDING TURKEY. It was not plastic. Maybe, just maybe, Bush wanted to do something nice for the troops who are fighting to keep all of us safe and free? Is that so inconceivable to these people? *headdesk*
God, I wish I was old enough to drink.
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 02 17 at 03:11 PM • permalinkNot only does it not die, but what do they think happened? Do they think the President walked around giving the grunts a fake turkey leg and then laughed at them when they bit into it? Even if the myth was true, what do they think it shows about his character?
Posted by Vile Pliskin on 2007 02 17 at 03:32 PM • permalinkO/T
Eric Hunt Arrested After Wiesel Attack.
No mention of his brothers York and Mike.Since Tim doesn’t seem to be around, you can get your Blair-fix here:
PM derangement syndrome
“Howard Derangement Syndrome’’ was on glorious display this week following a few lines from Howard to the Sunday’s Laurie Oakes, after Oakes had asked him about US Senator Barack Obama’s “plan to bring troops home by March, 2008 ... basically he’s agreeing with the Labor party’‘.Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 02 17 at 08:55 PM • permalinkGood one, Tim. “Wasted troops” may be Obama’s first significant error, but plenty of voters picked up on his characterizing Australia as Bush’s ally rather than America’s. Bad form. Very bad form.
So far in Campaign ‘08, the only people who have employed racist tactics are Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 17 at 09:43 PM • permalinkTotally OT, but I wonder if Dreamboat Loewenstein has seen the photo of Tzipi Livni featured on the main webpage of The Australian.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 02 17 at 10:53 PM • permalink#29 Canadian,
That’s evidence for the acute and sophisticated intelligence of the news reporters today, like the New York Fishwrap reporter Fox Butterfield, who for years was puzzled over the fact that the prisons were full even though crime was declining. Doh!Thirty years from now (when secret documents are declassified) some history grad student will make his reputation by disproving the conventional wisdom in his field that Bush offered the troops a plastic turkey, and that he spent time in Baghdad actually serving Thanksgiving dinner to the troops. The historical profession will be astonished. Look for his book to be published in New Delhi because no American publisher would touch it, Regnery having been forcibly closed down in 2029 by President Chelsea Clinton.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 02 17 at 11:07 PM • permalink#38
From Tim’s column:
Readers may have noticed a parallel syndrome extant in Australia, usually limited to the more feverish realms of the internet, but sometimes bursting through to the surface media and mainstream politics…
Sounds like that campy sci-fi movie with Kevin Bacon, Tremors.
=^0
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 02 18 at 12:22 AM • permalinkNo, Tremors was intelligent and entertaining.
I headed over to Turkey Girl’s site. Odd how none of these people can receive .jpeg attachments.
Wonder what they’re afraid they’ll see?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 02 18 at 01:23 AM • permalinkSo, Susan Leftenski found herself at the bottom of a recycle dumpster under a pile of used Barbie dolls and plastic turkeys.
She had nothing left to say and nothing left to give, except herself.
Opportunities come and go, but here was one that could lead to an exclusive interview, a book deal and the chance to honestly tell the world about Al’s real campaign performance.
Ugh, whaddya do?
#24
Great link.The US Black Movement must see themselves as a protected species ... Obama isn’t qualified to represent them because he doesn’t have African American slaves as forebears?
Only the PC Left could subdivide by race and culture to the molecular level.You’d think that this movement, supposedly representing the downtrodden, would take any help they could get, rather than shun it.
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And his excessive humility. Don’t forget the excessive humility.