I don't care if Franken ends up being the worst Senator evar. The butthurt he's caused to Rush and the Foxtards will be more than worth it.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I don't care if Franken ends up being the worst Senator evar. The butthurt he's caused to Rush and the Foxtards will be more than worth it.

Naah. I want him to turn out to be the most level-headed, honest Senator to ever grace Capitol Hill. I want him to occasionally get balky with the Democratic leadership, just so that O'HanniBaugh have to say something nice about him (or further punctuate their hypocrisy). I want him to be so popular amongst his constituents that the RNC doesn't even bother fielding a candidate against him next time. THAT would be sweet.

dahmers love zombie: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I don't care if Franken ends up being the worst Senator evar. The butthurt he's caused to Rush and the Foxtards will be more than worth it.

Naah. I want him to turn out to be the most level-headed, honest Senator to ever grace Capitol Hill. I want him to occasionally get balky with the Democratic leadership, just so that O'HanniBaugh have to say something nice about him (or further punctuate their hypocrisy). I want him to be so popular amongst his constituents that the RNC doesn't even bother fielding a candidate against him next time. THAT would be sweet.

That would be freakin' SWEET!

He really is fat. Disgustingly so. The man has no shame.

Bucky Katt: He really is fat. Disgustingly so. The man has no shame.

surely, this isn't breaking news for you?

I've moved to all ends of the Earth to get away from my family, but recent advances in broadband and the fact they know my cell# preclude me from hiding from this exact conversation:

"I mean, can you believe that they elected that comedian? I'll bet that Stuart Smalley character is really his biography."

(without bringing up Reagan, Govuhnator, etc) "You folks do realize that the guy graduated from Harvard, right? I'm not saying that it necessarily makes him qualified, but jeez, he's clearly more than an SNL alumn."

"Can you believe they elected that comedian?"

Franken has been remarkably restrained and civil during this entire campaign. I'm sure he's just doing it to piss Rush off.

propasaurus: dahmers love zombie: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I don't care if Franken ends up being the worst Senator evar. The butthurt he's caused to Rush and the Foxtards will be more than worth it.

Naah. I want him to turn out to be the most level-headed, honest Senator to ever grace Capitol Hill. I want him to occasionally get balky with the Democratic leadership, just so that O'HanniBaugh have to say something nice about him (or further punctuate their hypocrisy). I want him to be so popular amongst his constituents that the RNC doesn't even bother fielding a candidate against him next time. THAT would be sweet.

That would be freakin' SWEET!

Without disentrigating into anti-FOX whaar again (as I'm prone to do, especially if drinking)...you do know that it doesn't matter how effective, civil, or otherwise beyond reproach Franken may end up being? Like a weed fighting to grow through concrete, FOX and co. will find a way to smear him. Anti-Franken was a CAUSE for Newscrap Corporation. What in their past makes you think they'll adhere to reality?

cause not "for" FOX. A story they have countless hours of vested interest in. Sorry.

All of these Foxites calling Franken insane, deranged, a weirdo, hateful, evil, bitter, maniacal, bigoted, and a bat guano crazy liberal are the same people who think that George W. belongs on Mt. Rushmore.

/Forget it, granite isn't dense enough

If nothing else Franken may increase SNL ratings when he does his first of many cameo appearances.
Sucked as a comedian. For Minnesotas sake I hope he is better at being a Senator.

Kenny B: Sucked as a comedian. For Minnesotas sake I hope he is better at being a Senator.

Read his books. Funny and spot-on political satire.

Kenny B: If nothing else Franken may increase SNL ratings when he does his first of many cameo appearances.
Sucked as a comedian. For Minnesotas sake I hope he is better at being a Senator.

Those 3 Emmys he has must be consolation prizes.

God bless Al motherf*cking Franken. This is gonna rule.

I read "The Truth(with jokes)", and I liken it to Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11" in that it had just enough humor to keep from being completely depressing. Smart guy, though.

Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot

Hmmm, it looks like the No shiat Sherlock file is pretty full, so we'll just have to file this one under Well, Duh!

Most of the people calling him a mad man are either perpetually single or leave behind a string of failed marriages. Franken, on the other hand, has a loving relationship with his wife and two kids. Much like the president.

But who claims they represent family values?

Alphax: I read "The Truth(with jokes)", and I liken it to Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11" in that it had just enough humor to keep from being completely depressing. Smart guy, though.

The Truth was ridiculously depressing. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is a much more entertaining and funny book. The content of Truth. . . it's just not funny. It's painful.

Al Franken rocks.

RemyDuron: Alphax: I read "The Truth(with jokes)", and I liken it to Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11" in that it had just enough humor to keep from being completely depressing. Smart guy, though.

The Truth was ridiculously depressing. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is a much more entertaining and funny book. The content of Truth. . . it's just not funny. It's painful.

I don't mean to say it's not funny because of Franken. He's a funny guy. He's just not the kind of comedian that gets you to laugh at how farked up the world is. It's not his style. His comedy is usually self deprecating, with him playing either a putz or an arrogant failure. Maybe Carlin or Hicks could make it funny, because that's what they did, made you laugh at the farked up world.

Dalton Voss: God bless Al motherf*cking Franken. This is gonna rule.

QFT

RemyDuron: Alphax: I read "The Truth(with jokes)", and I liken it to Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11" in that it had just enough humor to keep from being completely depressing. Smart guy, though.

The Truth was ridiculously depressing. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is a much more entertaining and funny book. The content of Truth. . . it's just not funny. It's painful.

This. The Truth (With Jokes) seemed more about just attempting to dump rage on a page than his other books.

/would love to have seen a movie based on Why Not Me?

RemyDuron: Most of the people calling him a mad man are either perpetually single or leave behind a string of failed marriages. Franken, on the other hand, has a loving relationship with his wife and two kids. Much like the president.

But who claims they represent family values?

I'm impressed that nothing has been found to discredit Franken yet. You know that a lot of people have been digging like motherfarkers for anything to stick to him.

My one and only Franken book is Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. As a Christian, Supply Side Jesus really hit a nerve - not because I was offended by what he wrote, but because I was offended by the reality.

I don't find Franken's SNL bits funny at all. Honestly, I think that variety comedy is wasted on him. He's a far smarter politician and writer than he is a comedian, in my eyes.

He's no Paul Wellstone, and he doesn't pretend to be. But I think Minnesotans will do just fine with him as Senator, and I'm glad this is finally over.

captainktainer: My one and only Franken book is Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. As a Christian, Supply Side Jesus really hit a nerve - not because I was offended by what he wrote, but because I was offended by the reality.

I don't find Franken's SNL bits funny at all. Honestly, I think that variety comedy is wasted on him. He's a far smarter politician and writer than he is a comedian, in my eyes.

He's no Paul Wellstone, and he doesn't pretend to be. But I think Minnesotans will do just fine with him as Senator, and I'm glad this is finally over.

He was actually one of my favorites on SNL long before I ever heard of his politics. I think I'm the only one who liked him. Stuart Smaley wasn't that great, but his bits on Weekend Update were hilarious. And really, Weekend Update has always been the best part of SNL, IMO.

But he is a better comic writer than comic actor.

captainktainer: I don't find Franken's SNL bits funny at all. Honestly, I think that variety comedy is wasted on him. He's a far smarter politician and writer than he is a comedian, in my eyes.


To be fair, Franken's primary position on SNL was as a writer/producer more than as a performer. He was initially supposed to replace Lorne Michaels in 1980 until he pissed off NBC brass.

colatf: RemyDuron: Most of the people calling him a mad man are either perpetually single or leave behind a string of failed marriages. Franken, on the other hand, has a loving relationship with his wife and two kids. Much like the president.

But who claims they represent family values?

I'm impressed that nothing has been found to discredit Franken yet. You know that a lot of people have been digging like motherfarkers for anything to stick to him.

I think it's probably something like Obama: He's just boring. He's just a boring, jewish, comedy writer who happened to get motivated enough by the crap he saw to run for the Senate. And he won.

Obama is more of a politician, but I get the sense in his personal life he's a kind of boring dude. He just seems that way, I could be wrong. But I think that, after the juicy sex scandals of Clinton and the terrifying scandals of George W Bush, we might be in for another rather boring president. Thank farking god.

RemyDuron: The Truth was ridiculously depressing. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is a much more entertaining and funny book. The content of Truth. . . it's just not funny. It's painful.

RemyDuron: I don't mean to say it's not funny because of Franken. He's a funny guy. He's just not the kind of comedian that gets you to laugh at how farked up the world is. It's not his style. His comedy is usually self deprecating, with him playing either a putz or an arrogant failure. Maybe Carlin or Hicks could make it funny, because that's what they did, made you laugh at the farked up world.

With Franken's humour it's hit or miss in those, and that's too bad because when he nails the joke in one of the books, you wince on behalf of its victim. But then I can recall, for example, that chapter in Lies that's just a list of things about America that are good or bad. The whole list, other than the "Getting Blacks the Vote: Good... for blacks! Just kidding again, good for Democrats!" joke, just feel lame, as if the whole thing was thrown together for 80-year-old curmudgeonly progressives.

lajimi: All of these Foxites calling Franken insane, deranged, a weirdo, hateful, evil, bitter, maniacal, bigoted, and a bat guano crazy liberal are the same people who think that George W. belongs on Mt. Rushmore.

/Forget it, granite isn't dense enough

Did you know that much of the Sierra Nevada mountains consist of something called "rotten" granite? Because they're quite old as mountains go, and the granite has begun to decay.

In case you need someplace to carve certain politicians and pundits, rotten granite might be a good rock to consider.

The grief this is causing the right-wing is worth all of the bullshiat Franken has had to put up with for the last 8 months. To drag it out this long, only to see their Republican hopes smashed on the altar of Jurisprudence is priceless!

Personally, I think Franken will do a fine job. He's a very intelligent guy and he's very passionate about his beliefs. Hopefully, he'll keep those qualities when he goes to Washington.

That said, how much did Al pay to have that article written?

Has faux news run his name with an (R) next to it yet?

RemyDuron: colatf: RemyDuron: Most of the people calling him a mad man are either perpetually single or leave behind a string of failed marriages. Franken, on the other hand, has a loving relationship with his wife and two kids. Much like the president.

But who claims they represent family values?

I'm impressed that nothing has been found to discredit Franken yet. You know that a lot of people have been digging like motherfarkers for anything to stick to him.

I think it's probably something like Obama: He's just boring. He's just a boring, jewish, comedy writer who happened to get motivated enough by the crap he saw to run for the Senate. And he won.

Obama is more of a politician, but I get the sense in his personal life he's a kind of boring dude. He just seems that way, I could be wrong. But I think that, after the juicy sex scandals of Clinton and the terrifying scandals of George W Bush, we might be in for another rather boring president. Thank farking god.

Boring will be a nice change. Hell, decent people in politics is a nice change. I think Obama would be a pretty fun guy to hang out with though. Not in the "Hold my beer and watch me shoot this firecracker out of my teeth!" way, but in the regular, straight-up guy way. Though maybe I'm just suckered in by his charisma and liberal chicanery :-|

Liberal obsession with Rush Limbaugh is really getting past sad here people. Let's have 2 Rush threads everyday here on Fark!!!!


Give it a rest. Yea, we know. Yea, we get it.

You gotta wonder if Senator Franken will be the mild, well-mannered candidate Franken or the not-so-mild pre-campaign firebrand who went all vigilante on an anti-Dean Heckler and thought
jokes about rape and assaulting or executing members of the opposition were humorous.

Have to see.

3_Butt_Cheeks: Liberal obsession with Rush Limbaugh is really getting past sad here people. Let's have 2 Rush threads everyday here on Fark!!!!


Give it a rest. Yea, we know. Yea, we get it.

Shouldn't you be planning an attack on an American city right now?

bmasso: You gotta wonder if Senator Franken will be the mild, well-mannered candidate Franken or the not-so-mild pre-campaign firebrand who went all vigilante on an anti-Dean Heckler and thought
jokes about rape and assaulting or executing members of the opposition were humorous.

Have to see.

You mean that guy he restrained?

3_Butt_Cheeks: Liberal obsession with Rush Limbaugh is really getting past sad here people. Let's have 2 Rush threads everyday here on Fark!!!!

But I REALLY HATE Rush! And I need to be on the internet to tell like minded people how much I hate Rush, because they all hate Rush too!

colatf: bmasso: You gotta wonder if Senator Franken will be the mild, well-mannered candidate Franken or the not-so-mild pre-campaign firebrand who went all vigilante on an anti-Dean Heckler and thought
jokes about rape and assaulting or executing members of the opposition were humorous.

Have to see.

You mean that guy he restrained?

Yeahhh.......
Most audience members don't get up out of their seats to "restrain" hecklers.

The security guys were likely correct in hustling him out of the auditorium.
But it wasn't - as some Frankenites have suggested on the internets - a John Wilkes Booth situation - it was this (and at least one other) asshat making noise and "protesting".
You may think it was "heroic" for Franken to deputize himself to help the guards expel anti-Dean folks from a pro-Dean rally, but I kinda doubt that if (say) Bill-O had acted the same vs. a BDS sufferer at a pro-Bush rally that you'd view it with the same fond & affectionate eye.

Vigilante.

subby does not beat around the bush

NYTimes:

From 1966 to 1969, Franken was a member of the varsity wrestling team at his high school in Hopkins, Minn. Six years after graduation, when he showed up in New York to begin work as a writer on the first season of 'Saturday Night Live,' he was still almost as much an athlete as a comedian. 'He seemed like a total jock,' says the comedian Laraine Newman, who was a member of the original cast. 'He always had a football in his hands when they were writing. And he had this very defined musculature. His butt was like a cut basketball. Which, you know, you don't normally see in comedy writers.'

Sidestepping the cut-basketball issue, Franken still has a wrestler's build, but more to the point he has kept his grappler's mentality. As he enters the Palace Theater, 860 defiant Dean supporters have filled the seats. They're on edge, eager to prove to Peter Jennings, Tim Russert and the rest of the national media that have ranged thickly around the perimeter that their man isn't done yet. Onstage, Martin Sheen speaks first, then Dean's demure wife, then the suddenly embattled former governor of Vermont himself. Sometime after Dean begins taking questions from the audience, a manic-looking heckler starts to heckle, accusing Dean of 'covering up for Dick Cheney.' He gets louder. A couple of spindly members of Dean's security team approach him uncertainly; he swings his arms and keeps shouting. It goes on for several minutes and seems to be veering toward actual violence. Dean, the media, the members of the audience: nobody knows what to do.

At this moment Franken turns, cocks his head slightly, gives that well-known magnified, tortoise-shell-framed gaze and says: 'I think the two of us can get him out. You wanna do it?' After a pause that is meant to be emphatic, I say, 'No.' But it's too late: he's off, in rumpled jeans and a big down jacket, plowing up the aisle.

By this time there is a confused scrum around the heckler, who is holding his ground and still ranting. Franken hits the floor, wedges himself among a couple dozen legs and puts the man in a wrestling hold, grabbing him at the knees. That destabilizes him, and others now quickly push him down the aisle and out the side door of the theater. Franken gets up, looking dazed; his glasses are snapped in two. He's quickly swarmed by confused but excited reporters who want to know, like, what was he doing?

An hour later, over lunch with friends, Franken was beginning to regret his lunge. Such a veteran of political spin ought to have known better. 'That was dumb,' he said in a voice close to that of his S.N.L. character Stuart Smalley. 'That was, like, really dumb.' He called his wife, and in a hangdog tone explained what he'd done; she told him his behavior was 'inappropriate.' Minutes later his cellphone started ringing -- CBS, The Daily News. Over the next several days the story would mutate as it percolated through the ether. Franken became obsessed with correcting a report in The New York Post (whose owner, Rupert Murdoch, he has characterized as 'evil') that he had 'body-slammed' the heckler; he wrote a letter to the editor, which only made the matter worse. Meanwhile, the story was picked up and embellished by right-wing media outlets and blogs and in The Post's own letters column: 'Stone Cold Al Franken. . . .' 'Al Franken is a big, fat idiot. . . .' 'Franken is a disturbed man. . . .' 'Maybe he's in the wrong profession. Clowns perform their stunts in the circus.' Stories of the lunge appeared as far away as Japan.

bmasso: colatf: bmasso: You gotta wonder if Senator Franken will be the mild, well-mannered candidate Franken or the not-so-mild pre-campaign firebrand who went all vigilante on an anti-Dean Heckler and thought
jokes about rape and assaulting or executing members of the opposition were humorous.

Have to see.

You mean that guy he restrained?

Yeahhh.......
Most audience members don't get up out of their seats to "restrain" hecklers.

The security guys were likely correct in hustling him out of the auditorium.
But it wasn't - as some Frankenites have suggested on the internets - a John Wilkes Booth situation - it was this (and at least one other) asshat making noise and "protesting".
You may think it was "heroic" for Franken to deputize himself to help the guards expel anti-Dean folks from a pro-Dean rally, but I kinda doubt that if (say) Bill-O had acted the same vs. a BDS sufferer at a pro-Bush rally that you'd view it with the same fond & affectionate eye.

Vigilante.

WTF? Now I think it was heroic and I'm a vigilante? Nice leap there, twat.

bmasso: colatf: bmasso: You gotta wonder if Senator Franken will be the mild, well-mannered candidate Franken or the not-so-mild pre-campaign firebrand who went all vigilante on an anti-Dean Heckler and thought
jokes about rape and assaulting or executing members of the opposition were humorous.

Have to see.

You mean that guy he restrained?

Yeahhh.......
Most audience members don't get up out of their seats to "restrain" hecklers.

The security guys were likely correct in hustling him out of the auditorium.
But it wasn't - as some Frankenites have suggested on the internets - a John Wilkes Booth situation - it was this (and at least one other) asshat making noise and "protesting".
You may think it was "heroic" for Franken to deputize himself to help the guards expel anti-Dean folks from a pro-Dean rally, but I kinda doubt that if (say) Bill-O had acted the same vs. a BDS sufferer at a pro-Bush rally that you'd view it with the same fond & affectionate eye.

Vigilante.

Ah but the difference is that "Bill-O" is an closet falafal smuggler, so we would all die of shock if he actually did something like "restrain a heckler".

Hell, I would also die of shock if he did any of the following:

1) Not yell while interviewing someone he disagrees with.
2) Admit that he's not an "independent".
3) Fact check anything.

HairBolus: His butt was like a cut basketball.

what the hell? Did he have a bubble butt or something?

3_Butt_Cheeks: Liberal obsession with Rush Limbaugh is really getting past sad here people. Let's have 2 Rush threads everyday here on Fark!!!!


Give it a rest. Yea, we know. Yea, we get it.

And yet they keep pulling you in...
Perhaps you're obsessed?

Also, if rush stopped being such a fat idiot, he'd stop being a proxy target, but as long as it keeps bringing in the dough, it's pretty unimaginable.

Didn't Franken challenge some Internet tough guy from NRO to a fight? If I recall, the guy pussied out.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I don't care if Franken ends up being the worst Senator evar. The butthurt he's caused to Rush and the Foxtards will be more than worth it.

He's actually there to do the farking job, not create some career out of politics because he's a failed used car salesman. I doubt you'll have to worry about his success.

Rick Moran called Franken "a bat guano crazy liberal" and gloated over the "rabid, unbridled, hateful partisanship" that will bring both the senator and his party to grief. "It is a pathological, almost clinical condition that will explode from time to time in bitter denunciation of the opposition, supplying bloggers and commentators with a cornucopia of material," wrote Moran with grim satisfaction, adding that "Franken's psychosis" includes a pathological hatred of Christians and particularly Catholics (which may come as a shock to his Catholic wife, Franni).

get a brain Moran

sez this guy