Al Franken...is this for real?

[TheMercenary]

Well first off as a now public figure he will be required to speak about all the details publicly.

And of course the apologists for the dems are going to say it is no big deal. But there has always been enough red flags for people to question his integrity, which is quite questionable as a representative of the people. With all the taxpdodgers on the current administration I guess the bar has been set. Franken was involved in questionable financial dealings with the start up of Air America and he has not answered to them publicly. He will need to do so now.

Here is a great interview by Franken in the Rolling Stone:

Lanpher reminds him (Franken) to give the number for callers to reach them.

"1-800-f-u-k-b-u-s-h," Franken says. "We tried not to get that number. . . ."

The next day, in the hour before the second rehearsal, Franken and Lanpher sit together in the studio. Lanpher is intent on having Franken lay out a structure for the show. "Let's go through it hour by hour," she says. When Franken digresses, Lanpher politely insists he return his attention to the task. "I want to lay out the broad pattern first," she says.

Once that is disposed of, Franken records a satirical advertisement. Leaning toward the microphone, speaking deliberately and using a deep, patrician voice, he says, "Three, two, one . . . George W. Booosh wants to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage. But evidently Booosh has no problem with terrorist couples getting married. Right now in America there are terrorists planning to sanctify their love for each other in holy matrimony and blow up the Holland Tunnel. Call George W. Booosh and tell him America doesn't need a president who is soft on terrorist marriages. Because, unlike gays, terrorists can breed." Then, "Brought to you by the Coalition to Distract You From Important Issues."

The rehearsal show begins. He and Lanpher talk on the phone to David Sirota, of the Center for American Progress, a think tank for liberal issues. Sirota has discovered that among the members of President Bush's independent commission to study the search for weapons of mass destruction are three people who contributed to Bush's campaign. One of them was the first person Bush invited to spend the night in the Lincoln bedroom. The show's main guest is former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, but he's not answering the phone where he had arranged to be.

"This happens all the time," Lanpher tells Franken during a break. "We'll vamp, just talk until we get him."

When Reich is finally on the line, Franken ends up listening to him so intently that he is sitting at one point with his elbows on his knees and staring at the floor, while Lanpher waves her arms to get his attention.

After Reich concludes, Franken and Lanpher perform a skit Franken wrote.

"Katherine's teaching me about radio," he says.

"Well, things might happen in the world, and on live radio you have to react to them," Lanpher says. "With a little forethought and preparation, we can handle unexpected situations like old pros."

"Exactly," Franken says. "Let's say the country is hit by another terrorist attack. It would be inappropriate for us to continue doing comedy. So let's say we're doing a show and having some fun with my Strom Thurmond impression."

"Al, he's dead," Lanpher says.

"But it's a good impression, and there's no reason I can't do him from the grave, where I think he'll be more honest," Franken says. "So he was talking about the illegitimate black daughter he had when a terrorist attack occurred."

Franken grimaces. His voice becomes high and gravelly. "Sure, I had a black daughter," he says in a Southern accent. "I screwed them all. 'Cause the pecker knows no bigotry."

Lanpher says, "Al -- "

"I even had an Amish girl," Franken says. "Lots of them. See, the Amish girl, she takes a year off. You got to get them on the year off."

"Al, there's been a terrible outbreak of small -- "

"I'm not Al," he says defiantly. "I'm Strom, and I've screwed everything."

"Stop doing comedy," Lanpher says. "There's been an outbreak of smallpox. In Seattle."

"I screwed a girl with smallpox," Franken says. "Built up my immunity. She was Bangladeshi."

"Al, stop it."

"See," Franken says, leering, "the pecker knows no bigotry."

The skit delivers them into a break for the news. Franken sits back in his chair. "This is fun," he says. "We could pull this off." Lanpher responds cautiously. "If we get really, really, really organized," she says.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...fat_radio_host

A great example of who is going to represent MN in the Senate.

You can defend him if you care. I will continue to rack him back and forth across the coals and expose the hipocrisy.