Comedian, author, political satirist and 'SNL' vet Al Franken has long been considering a Senate bid in 2008 against Norm Coleman, who won the seat in 2002 after a personal friend of Franken, Sen. Paul Wellstone, died in a plane crash.
This article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press suggests that he's serious about running. However, The Washington Post's political blog has continued to suggest that Franken is too polarizing a figure to win a statewide race.
I said that I couldn't tell if he was joking or not when he went into a tirade about the possibility that Stephen Colbert might be French. That doesn't mean I don't know anything about him
Al Franken is nothing more than the left wing O'Reilly, like what was said before. Liberal nuts run around him just like conservative freaks love O'Reilly. God I hope he never becomes a senator.
__________________ In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the Anti-American sentiment and negativity, we should remember England 's Prime Minister Tony Blair's words during an interview. When asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America , he said:
"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out."
__________________ In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the Anti-American sentiment and negativity, we should remember England 's Prime Minister Tony Blair's words during an interview. When asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America , he said:
"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out."
Seriously. Al Franken is not the 'liberal Bill O'Reilly' and anyone else who says that I will assume he/she does not pay any attention to politics.
Al Franken is a comedian. He is a self-described liberal. He is critical of the Bush Administration. Because he is a comedian, he is playful when he criticizes the Administration. And somehow people think this gives them the right to call him the liberal's Bill O'Reilly, which is completely false.
Why it is assumed that Franken is 'too polarizing a figure' to win a statewide election in a pretty true-blue state baffles me. He has good ideas, stands on the right side of the issues from my standpoint, and I believe he'd make a great Senator. It's only too bad that I don't live in Minnesota to vote for him.
Which itself is a flawed comparison, because O'Reilly is moderate. He even says so himself. Only far-left hippies would call him a right-wing extremist.
Leans? Do you watch his show? While he may not be as hyperconservative as Coulter or Limbaugh, he can only be accused of leaning to the right when watched from the perspective of Coulter or Limbaugh.
More important than that, however, is his complete lack of journalistic integrity or intellectual honesty.
The point I'm making, however, is that Al Franken is not the 'liberal's Bill O'Reilly' It's absoultely false.
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Al Franken for U.S. Senate?
Jan 19th, 2007 03:37 PM
