Al Franken for U.S. Senate?

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Al Franken for U.S. Senate?

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.

What do you think?

Grimm22 King of the Castle

Al Franken is the left wing Bill O'Reilly

Nothing but blant and stupid opinions

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Originally posted by Grimm22
Al Franken is the left wing Bill O'Reilly

Nothing but blant and stupid opinions

Incorrect. Unlike Bil O'Reilly, Al Franken is intelligent.

Shakyamunison Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Originally posted by Strangelove
Incorrect. Unlike Bil O'Reilly, Al Franken is intelligent.

This is what you said about Bill O'Reilly when I told you that he was joking...

Originally posted by Strangelove
I don't know with him.

This makes you look like a hypocrite

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Originally posted by Shakyamunison
This is what you said about Bill O'Reilly when I told you that he was joking...

This makes you look like a hypocrite

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

Shakyamunison Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Originally posted by Strangelove
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

OK, thank you for clarifying that. Your other statement was too vague.

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Well, I've yet to hear anything other than an an uninformed opinion...anyone else want to try?

Kinneary Ex scientia tridens

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.

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Originally posted by Kinneary
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.
Originally posted by Strangelove
Well, I've yet to hear anything other than an an uninformed opinion...anyone else want to try?
make that two uninformed opinions

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Kinneary Ex scientia tridens

Originally posted by Strangelove
make that two uninformed opinions

http://www.lyingliar.com/index.htm

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Originally posted by Kinneary
http://www.lyingliar.com/index.htm
not his official webpage. It's bullshit. He's official website is alfranken.com, funnily enough

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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.

Quiero Mota Member Señor
Originally posted by Strangelove
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.

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.

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Originally posted by Quiero Mota
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.
Then grow my hair and call me a hippie 😮‍💨

Quiero Mota Member Señor
Originally posted by Strangelove
Then grow my hair and call me a hippie 😮‍💨

He leans a bit to the right, but he's no Coulter or Limbaugh.

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Originally posted by Quiero Mota
He leans a bit to the right, but he's no Coulter or Limbaugh.
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.

Back on topic.

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He has officially announced his candidacy! w00t

YouTube video

Kram3r Senior Member

Originally posted by Strangelove
He has officially announced his candidacy! w00t

YouTube video

Good to hear that O'Reilly Franken is running. 13

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Why I oughta....shakefist