Everyone's favorite liberal blowhard, former comedian Al Franken is going to make a run for the U.S. Senate in 2008 according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
WASHINGTON - Comedian and radio talk show host Al Franken has begun calling Democratic members of Congress and prominent DFLers to tell them he will definitely challenge Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in 2008, the Star Tribune has learned.
On Monday, Franken announced that he was quitting his radio show on Feb. 14, and he told his audience that they'd be the first to know of his decision. But Franken has been working the phones in recent days, telling his political friends he's ready to declare his candidacy.The Star Tribune confirmed today that Franken made calls to at least two members of the Minnesota congressional delegation in Washington to break the news. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity, not wanting to pre-empt Franken's announcement.
That's Franken having a meltdown at the Republican National Convention in 2004. If there's one candidate that is a potential victim of the You Tube "maccaca" effect it's going to be Franken. Senator Coleman's campaign should assign a videographer to Franken 24/7 and wait for the fireworks...
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Will franken be the dirty b... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Gianni | January 31, 2007 9:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Will franken be the dirty bastard to obama's 'clean black'??
1. Posted by Gianni | January 31, 2007 9:11 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:11
2. Posted by John | January 31, 2007 9:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Good on ya, Al.
I've been listening to his show on Air America since the beginning over two years ago. I've read most of his books.
While he has worked as a comedic writer, a comedian and a show host, he has a detailed understanding of politics and current affairs.
If elected, I think he will do well to represent his state.
2. Posted by John | January 31, 2007 9:17 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:17
3. Posted by aRepukelican | January 31, 2007 9:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Kevin
In your dreams
3. Posted by aRepukelican | January 31, 2007 9:21 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:21
4. Posted by George | January 31, 2007 9:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Maybe he can find a boys' and girls' club to loan him some money for his campaign.
4. Posted by George | January 31, 2007 9:22 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:22
5. Posted by BrandonInBatonRouge | January 31, 2007 9:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Coleman won't have to do much opposition research on this one...
Someone needs to send him a $6 copy of "Live From New York" which details what Franken was like in the 1970s when he was a writer on SNL, which included a lot of drugs and being abusive to any Republican politician he came across, such as Spiro Agnew or Henry Kissinger
5. Posted by BrandonInBatonRouge | January 31, 2007 9:31 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:31
6. Posted by Gloria Wise | January 31, 2007 9:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
So we found 1 of A/A's 8 listeners. Did Nurse Ratchett know you had a radio??
6. Posted by Gloria Wise | January 31, 2007 9:33 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:33
7. Posted by MyPetGloat | January 31, 2007 9:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Someone needs to send him a $6 copy of "Live From New York" which details what Franken was like in the 1970s when he was a writer on SNL, which included a lot of drugs and being abusive to any Republican politician he came across, such as Spiro Agnew or Henry Kissinger"
OK, deal. Let's unearth St. Norm's anti-war movement records. Y'know, like:
"these conservative kids don't fuck or get high like we do (purity, you know)... Already the cries of motherhood, apple pie, and Jim Buckley reverberate thorough the halls of the Student Center. Everyone watch out, the 1950s bobby-sox generation is about to take over."
Any day, please.
7. Posted by MyPetGloat | January 31, 2007 9:38 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:38
8. Posted by hugh | January 31, 2007 9:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It'll be a laugh a minute and it'll be hillarious when he wins. Can't wait. Love the guy.
8. Posted by hugh | January 31, 2007 9:41 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:41
9. Posted by MyPetGloat | January 31, 2007 9:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
SWEET! Bring it on, wingtards!!
9. Posted by MyPetGloat | January 31, 2007 9:41 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:41
10. Posted by bryanD | January 31, 2007 9:44 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Coleman's an empty suit. Even the anti-Baathist and fellow pro-warrior Christopher Hitchins refuses to suffer this fool. This is the event that confirmed my own party (R) as being a husk of it's former self and N. Coleman as a national joke. I remember it distinctly...http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=2544
10. Posted by bryanD | January 31, 2007 9:44 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:44
11. Posted by King Bonk | January 31, 2007 9:47 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Franken will beat Coleman like a drum. The war and Coleman's beating by Galloway already have brought Coleman down, and Minnesota is a blue state.
11. Posted by King Bonk | January 31, 2007 9:47 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:47
12. Posted by jp2 | January 31, 2007 9:47 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ahhh...the day is coming when C-span is watchable.
12. Posted by jp2 | January 31, 2007 9:47 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:47
13. Posted by Michael | January 31, 2007 9:53 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
He has to win the Dimo primary first you knuckleheads. You
think the DFL is going to just anoint him? He probably
won't even be the candiate running against Coleman in the end.
If he is though, Coleman skates to victory.
13. Posted by Michael | January 31, 2007 9:53 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:53
14. Posted by Gianni | January 31, 2007 9:57 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Werrnt all the uberlibnuts blowing Ned Lamont for a while, saying he was a 'lock'??
14. Posted by Gianni | January 31, 2007 9:57 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 21:57
15. Posted by Headzero | January 31, 2007 10:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Good.
Now Al Franken can see just what the voting public thinks of him. I would imagine that the huge amount of people that turn out for him will be appoximately the same as the huge number of poeple that turned out and tuned in to listen to him on Air America.
Maybe when the election is over he will quit thinking he is so important.
You hear that?
15. Posted by Headzero | January 31, 2007 10:14 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 22:14
16. Posted by Michael | January 31, 2007 10:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Minnesota was weird enough once to elect the likes ofJesse Ventura Governor(and look how that turned out)...but there is no way they will elect a walking joke like AL "bigmouth" Franken Senator. The DFL probably shudders at the thought of Franken being there candidate.
16. Posted by Michael | January 31, 2007 10:22 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 22:22
17. Posted by 914 | January 31, 2007 10:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I am so sick of these sickos like franken being trouted out as some kind of accomplished newlywed celebrity!
Him, or it and all the other illegals shooting up the freeways need to get the f out of My state and thumb each other to death!
17. Posted by 914 | January 31, 2007 10:22 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 22:22
18. Posted by jhow66 | January 31, 2007 10:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Stewart Smalley the Air America airhead. What station was he on? Was he on the same time as Rush or Bill? Or was he on in the middle of the night like Allen "eyebrow" Combs? Can't help but laugh at the thought of him running for Congress.
Update: All boys and girls clubs are going to back him in his run.- M. Moore to be manger-Jeane Godawfull to help when brains are needed.
18. Posted by jhow66 | January 31, 2007 10:45 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 22:45
19. Posted by Gianni | January 31, 2007 11:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wonder if franken will devote any airtime(and what idiots even listen?) to the SD senator sutton who was 'censured' for fondling an 18 yr old boy. we all saw the so called outrage over foley, so , since we know the libnuts arent hypocrites, will he have the balls to condemn sutton, and call for him to go to jail for 10-12 w/ a lifer named bubba.
19. Posted by Gianni | January 31, 2007 11:07 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 23:07
20. Posted by mantis | January 31, 2007 11:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Who's running for Senate next, Bill O'Reilly?
20. Posted by mantis | January 31, 2007 11:59 PM |
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Posted on January 31, 2007 23:59
21. Posted by Scrapiron | February 1, 2007 12:02 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
George: They didn't really borrow the money from the girls club. They stole it, got caught and paid, or promised to pay it back to avoid a rather long prison term. Dhimmi's habit of stealing is hard to break. Check and see how many millions Dirty Harry has stolen from the citizens of Nv. Guess ole Nan can't figure out which is the fill valve and which is the drain plug. The swamp is getting fuller every day. Crime and corruption is flourshing in the congress and that's all that is getting done.
21. Posted by Scrapiron | February 1, 2007 12:02 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 00:02
22. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 12:31 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This needs to be a Caption Contest. I'll submit my first entry:
"Listen, you son-of-a-bitch...I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and goddamnit I'm running for Congress!"
22. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 12:31 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 00:31
23. Posted by marc | February 1, 2007 12:48 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Franken for Senate, Biden for president.
Someone tell me it's not Halloween.
23. Posted by marc | February 1, 2007 12:48 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 00:48
24. Posted by marc | February 1, 2007 12:50 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I've been listening to his show on Air America since the beginning over two years ago.
Posted by: John at January 31, 2007 09:17 PM
So you're the one. I've been wondering who it was.
24. Posted by marc | February 1, 2007 12:50 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 00:50
25. Posted by bryanD | February 1, 2007 1:05 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
James Cloninger, Your actually funny! That's two in a row; the 1st being the "ping pong popper" reference to Malkin in the hypothetical voice of aR.
25. Posted by bryanD | February 1, 2007 1:05 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 01:05
26. Posted by Live@9 | February 1, 2007 1:11 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ahh Minnesota, the state that put Jesse "the Mind" Ventura in office, Paul Wellstone, Hubert Humphrey and don't forget Mondale as VP. Do you really think the fine folks in Minnesota would pass up the chance to give the old GOP a "what do you bastards think of me now" statement by putting Franken in office. Of course they wouldn't. SO rave on about all of Al's faults and what a bad politician he will be. It will only strengthen the resolve of the blue state folks of Minnesota and Al will be their next Senator.
You Wizzbangers have bigger things to worry about.
http://www.truthout.org/imgs.art_02/cheney.notes.doc.jpg
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16770023/
Checkout the links. It may not look like much to you now. What we have here is enough to indite both Bush and Chaney. All Fitzgerald has to do now and get them to testify under oath and perjure themselves trying to deny it.
Are we seeing the demise of Nixon all over again?
26. Posted by Live@9 | February 1, 2007 1:11 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 01:11
27. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 1:31 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Checkout the links. It may not look like much to you now. What we have here is enough to indite both Bush and Chaney.
1. I didn't know Lon was Vice President, though he made a marvelous Lennie.
2. You forget the ham sandwich in your list. (Thank you Sol.)
27. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 1:31 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 01:31
28. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 1:34 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Another spelling tip, Live---it's "indict". Then, again, you are getting your points from "TruthOut", so I guess I'm expecting too much from you.
28. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 1:34 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 01:34
29. Posted by mantis | February 1, 2007 1:35 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I anxiously await the indictment of the Wolf Man.
29. Posted by mantis | February 1, 2007 1:35 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 01:35
30. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 1:36 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
SO rave on about all of Al's faults and what a bad politician he will be.
Thanks for you permission, but I think we can manage just fine.
30. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 1:36 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 01:36
31. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 1:38 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Thanks for *your* permission...
31. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 1:38 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 01:38
32. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 1:39 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
anxiously await the indictment of the Wolf Man.
Only if the moonbats howl loud enough.
32. Posted by James Cloninger | February 1, 2007 1:39 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 01:39
33. Posted by wavemaker | February 1, 2007 7:06 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Live@9, you're truly delusional.
33. Posted by wavemaker | February 1, 2007 7:06 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 07:06
34. Posted by drlava | February 1, 2007 7:16 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Al just got back from Iraq and Afghanistan on his 4th. USO tour.
Al had the SNL makeup department devise a Saddam costume for him. Al said that the disguise was to perfect for some of the Iraqis in the audience who thought it really was Saddam.
Al has the best guests in Radio.
34. Posted by drlava | February 1, 2007 7:16 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 07:16
35. Posted by Michael | February 1, 2007 7:44 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Do you really think the fine folks in Minnesota would pass up the chance to give the old GOP a "what do you bastards think of me now" statement by putting Franken in office." Yeah I think they
will. Why would they want to elect a buffoon?
35. Posted by Michael | February 1, 2007 7:44 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 07:44
36. Posted by JohnAnnArbor | February 1, 2007 9:06 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
If Franken is the candidate, it'll be just like when Geoff Fieger (Kevorkian's blowhard lawyer) was the Democratic candidate for governor of Michigan.
Fieger got crushed like a roach in a stamping press. Of course, he was too classless to call Engler to concede, raving "we concede nothing" when a reporter asked him about it.
36. Posted by JohnAnnArbor | February 1, 2007 9:06 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 09:06
37. Posted by OregonMuse | February 1, 2007 9:56 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Franken has a continent-sized ego, but it's as fragile as a bad souffle. He's even worse than O'Reilly. When he starts campaigning, it'll be fun to start a betting pool as to how long it will be before he takes a swing at someone.
37. Posted by OregonMuse | February 1, 2007 9:56 AM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 09:56
38. Posted by nikkolai | February 1, 2007 12:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I dunno..Didn't this state elect Jesse the Body AND Keith Ellison. Serious moonbattery up there--Franken may be one of them....
38. Posted by nikkolai | February 1, 2007 12:25 PM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 12:25
39. Posted by 914 | February 1, 2007 4:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yes this state is infected with liberalism! Help!!
39. Posted by 914 | February 1, 2007 4:51 PM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 16:51
40. Posted by 914 | February 1, 2007 4:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Caption entry!
Franke: Pull down My pants and say AHHHHH!
40. Posted by 914 | February 1, 2007 4:54 PM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 16:54