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Townhall.com Brent Bozell May 26, 2017 Sen. Al Franken has a new book out humbly titled "Al Franken: Giant of the Senate." On that same level of attempted humor, his biography states he received "his doctorate in right-wing megalomania studies from Trump University." Stay classy, Sen. Franken. Sycophantic press profiles of Franken express admiration for the "former comedian" as if the satire stopped. Just two months ago, the Washington Post gushed: "the former comedian and satirist may be having a breakout moment as a political star. ... The Minnesota senator spent the last eight years proving that he's good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like him." The Democrats who support the Post swoon at Franken's feet, but if you're conservative, you can see he's a serious jerk. On May 24, the Post puffed him again in the style section gossip column under the headline "Al Franken is back to writing jokes with this sick burn on Ted Cruz." So what was this "sick burn," this masterful insult? Franken wrote about how before the Gridiron comedy dinner in Washington, D.C., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., asked Sen. Ted Cruz to listen to her Cruz-bashing joke that played off the 2013 Carnival "poop cruise" story about the ship with sewage seeping into the halls. Klobuchar joked: "When most people think of a difficult cruise, they think of Carnival. But we Democrats in the Senate think of Ted." Franken burst in on this conversation with his own rewrite. He said: "When most people think of a cruise that's full of s***, they think of Carnival. But we think of Ted." Cruz didn't smile. The Post wrote: "Now that's a burn." This is the same newspaper that cartooned Cruz's young children as organ grinder monkeys, so we guess it can relate to Franken. Franken devotes a whole chapter of his book to running down Cruz, who told Politico: "Al is trying to sell books, and apparently he's decided that being obnoxious and insulting me is good for causing liberals to buy his books. I wish him all the best." By contrast, Franken reportedly wrote in the chapter that he considers Cruz "singularly dishonest" and "exceptionally smarmy." The gentleman from Minnesota told USA Today's Susan Page, "You have to understand that I like Ted Cruz probably more than my colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz." Why be Franken's friend? Page relayed that he became pals with then-Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Jeff Sessions and their wives became friends. But when Sessions was nominated for attorney general, Franken told Page, "When my job meant doing everything in my power to deny my friend this important position, I was relieved there was so much to demonize him for." Cruz and Sessions are demonized by the "objective" national press for pressing their constitutional conservative agenda. But Franken can be as vicious as he wants and supplicants like Page write sentences like this: "His relish for debate and his full-throated liberalism is a good fit with the rising anti-Trump energy among Democrats on the left." This is why conservatives roll their eyes when liberal journalists lecture about the need for civility. They adore Franken's bilious nastiness as "full-throated liberalism" but freak out when someone uses Barack Obama's middle name. Their judgment of civility is as well-honed as their judgment of "news." It's all about whose ox is being gored. Link Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | ||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
Who is sicker - Franken or the people who voted for him (some twice)? Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Franken is but one name on a long list of people whose demise I will celebrate with beer and fireworks. | |||
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He thinks he priming the pump for 2020. And to be honest, he's better than some of the choices on that side of the political spectrum. I mean there's Chuckie, Bloomenthal, Warren, Sanders and others, a whole hit prarade of 'winners'. ———- Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for thou art crunchy and taste good with catsup. | |||
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I'll try to be polite and call him a cooter. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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Al Franken-stain. | |||
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Al and Amy... two white folks bashing Ted Cruz because he is of Mexican descent! Where is the liberal outrage? Any conservative who has ever uttered a criticism of Barry O has been portrayed as racist. Time to turn the tables. | |||
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The population of Minnesota was 5.49 million (2015). Approx 3.8 Million of those live in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, which like many cities in the US, have a liberal bent.  This map shows you Minnesota's most populous counties. The rest of us , in what is called "Outstate Minnesota", are outnumbered. Most of us, out here, can't stand Franken. | |||
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^^^^^^ Stearns and Wright Counties (yellow NW of MSP for those not from MN) went 2:1 for Trump. The problem lies in Minneapolis, St Paul, Duluth and Rochester. | |||
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When he was on SNL, I never found him funny. He was always the cynical, sarcastic asshole in school that you daydreamed of punching in the bridge of the nose - hard. If it wasn't for voter fraud, he wouldn't know what the Senate Chamber looks like. He's a cretin. | |||
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St. Louis County as a whole is nothing but a socialist hotbed. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
FIFY.  | |||
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Sure it is.  | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
  Franken/Stein 2020. | |||
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Unfortunately, very true. Very few conservatives here. | |||
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| Banned |
I never thought much of Al Franken, but if Bozell doesn't like him, well, I think a lot more of him. | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
I couldn't possibly think any less of Al Franken. Hitler evokes more positive thoughts in my mind than that amoeba of a man Franken. I can't even make sense of your comment. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
Cuban, actually. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Yeah, Cubans don't really count as "real" Hispanics to Democrats because most of them are Republicans. | |||
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