Posted on 05/29/2008 10:46:31 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Senate candidate Al Franken's satirical and explicit take on virtual sex and other topics, published in Playboy magazine eight years ago, is drawing concern instead of laughter from some Minnesota Democrats.
Rep. Betty McCollum, who supported the comedian's rival Mike Ciresi until he dropped out of the race for the party's nomination for the Senate, complained Thursday that she and other Minnesota Democrats will be on the same November ballot as a candidate "who has pornographic writings that are indefensible."
"Do they spend all of their time defending him, or do they spend their time talking about issues that are important to this election?" McCollum told The Associated Press in an interview. "The whole story was a shocking surprise."
Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" writer and performer and a best-selling author, is the Democratic front-runner to take on Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. Minnesota Democrats hold an endorsing convention next week and a primary Sept. 9.
"Al understands, and the people of Minnesota understand, the difference between what a satirist does and what a senator does," Franken campaign spokesman Andy Barr said. "It's unfortunate that she's trying to create divisions in our party rather than working with other DFLers (Minnesota Democrats) to take on the special-interest senator."
Two other Minnesota Democrats in the House, Keith Ellison and Tim Walz, also expressed concerns about the 2000 satirical article that Republicans began circulating last week. None of the critical House members called on Franken to step aside.
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Let me see if I have this right...This is the party of those who backed Bill Clinton in his Oral Office fiasco?? Give me a break. Keep writing Al, let’s put Norm back in.
Please, Please, Please let us keep this seat in the Senate because this schmuck in their nominee.
We are going to need some luck as well as some mistakes on their part in order to survive this November without incurred major damage. And if we lose MN, we’ll not likely ever get one of those two Senate seats back again since the state has gotten darker blue.
Norm Coleman isn’t my favorite Senator but he will be lightyears ahead of any democrat from MN.
Gee, there sure seems to be a lot of divisiveness going on in the party that places such a premium on "unity".
You don't think all that talk about unifying the country is just so much bullsh*t do you?
How about trying to defend is decades old propaganda “gag” he told on SNL “news” about how the troops wives were cheating on them back in America?
It was his “message” to the troops.
Axis Sally demands a pardon because this jerk isn’t on trial for treason under the same standard she was convicted.
The only unifying democrats want is, unified power to screw the people
Yeah, I was about to say. Jim Webb is lower than pig vomit. His scribes were a cross between a very low-rent Nabokov and Larry Flynt’s Chester the Molestor.
Again Keith Ellison fails as a muslim. First he doesn't insist on a fatwa on the evident apostate Obama, and now allows sexual license unfettered by Franken.
What kind of "religion" is this supposed to be, eh?
There, there. Good little muslim....
Ptuh!
Playboy has articles?
One that will cheat and lie, do anything it needs to in order to destroy the infidels government and establish itself in it.
Yeah, Keith. I'm betting that's the only thing in Playboy you'd have to explain to your 11-year-old daughter.
Franken and Coleman matter not. Jesse “the Body” Ventura is on the precipice of jumping into this race and screwing it all up. Just watch, you’ll see.
Like Franken himself, there is nothing remotely funny about this.
Franken was always sooooo overated.....
If Franken gets elected after writing that his 12-year-old son was able to use the internet for a sixth-grade report on bestiality, I’ll be shocked...
I always thought that 'articles' was a code-word for those things on the girls' chests.
Franken running for the Senate? Damn, if that doesn’t sound like an episode from “The Twilight Zone”. Pleez gimme a break!
He’s got a lot going for him, however. Like a burned-out career as a “comedian”(?), and major success at Air America. /s
Franken is very, very, intelligent. But, IMHO, he’s never been able to focus that intelligence into accomplishing anything important. Does that sound senatorial? ;)
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