Scalia Gives Franken Some Air (chides Franken like a schoolboy over rude & clumsy questions)

NY Post ^ | November 23, 2005 | Richard Johnson

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AL Franken found out the hard way not to mess with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who chided Franken as if he were a delinquent schoolboy at Time Warner Center on Monday night…

When Pearlstine opened the floor for Q&A, Franken stood up in the back row and started talking about "judicial demeanor" and asking "hypothetically" about whether a judge should recuse himself if he had gone duck-hunting or flown in a private jet with a party in a case before his court.

Franken was clumsily referring to the fact that Scalia had gone hunting and flying with Dick Cheney before the 2000 election.

First, Scalia lectured Franken, "Demeanor is the wrong word. You mean ethics." Then he explained, "Ethics is governed by tradition. It has never been the case where you recuse because of friendship."

Time Warner chairman Dick Parsons later told PAGE SIX: "Al was not quite ready for prime time." Franken was a "Not Ready for Prime Time Player" on "Saturday Night Live" long before he began hosting a radio show on Air America.

[Semper Paratus]

Not a very even Battle-of-Wits.

[martin_fierro]

Franken was a "Not Ready for Prime Time Player" on "Saturday Night Live" long before he began hosting a radio show on Air America.

He sucked then, he sucks now.

[indcons]

LOL......great posting.

[LIConFem]

Note to Franken: Never bring spitballs to a gunfight.

[demlosers]

An Al Franken spanking "Waaaaaaaaaaaah...sniff... sniff"

LOL!

[Rippin]

Al Franken would have a better chance of Kicking Warren Sapp's behind then of winning a debate with Scalia.

[OXENinFLA]

Oooooooooooooooooh I hope this is coming to C-span!!

[Americanwolf]

Yeah...but if Franken took a gun to a gun fight he would end up shooting himself.... not that many would be opposed to that... but I digress...Guns in the wrong hands are a dangerous thing... :)

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Another tidbit from today’s Page Six in the NY Post:

Teresa: Bag Hag
November 23, 2005

THE salesgirls at Hermes found out what a pain Teresa Heinz Kerry can be. According to our spy, "Teresa had the bag department cornered. She was mak ing the poor girls bring her every bag. Every time another customer wanted to see a bag, she had to see it first. They were harried by her demands." When our operative asked to see a bag, one salesgirl told her, "Please. Go to the second floor."

[ArmyTeach]

An adult vs a posturing post-adolescent...

[EternalVigilance]

Al Franken: The poster boy for liberal retardation.

[d-informed-1]

is this the entire article? if not, could you please post it so we don't have to register with the NY Post to read it.

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[Vaquero]

Al Franken is a Douche bag.

[KamperKen]

Franken thought he could take on Scalia??? Truly, the man is dumber than I thought!

[CFC__VRWC]

The funny thing is, I'll bet the DUmmies are running victory laps over this today, crowing about how Franken got into Scalia's face and "spoke truth to power." They're so cataclysmically stupid that they won't understand just how hard their village idiot got slapped down.

[RicocheT]

Note to AL Franken, don't bring a blow-dryer to a shoot out! Franken ended up like the bad guys with holes in their heads in the old Dick Tracy comics.

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is this the entire article? if not, could you please post it so we don't have to register with the NY Post to read it.

This is not the complete article.

The NY Post is on FR’s “must excerpt” list.

[demlosers]

[LIConFem]

"Yeah...but if Franken took a gun to a gun fight he would end up shooting himself.... not that many would be opposed to that."

Opposed?? I'd pay good money to see that! In fact, I'd bet DirectTV could make a fortune carrying the event on Pay-Per-View.

[rod1]

Well I have to give him his due. At least Al proved one thing. He may not be ready for prime time but he certainly exceeds the standards esatblished to be a DemocRAT US Senator. I assume he did not stagger, drool, forget his own name, lose important billing records or plagerize the question in his back bench "demeanor".

[Loud Mime]

Al Franken believing that he is capable of debating Justice Scalia?

Think about it.

The foundation for the intensity of liberalism is conceit. These people THINK they're smarter than others. Their rhetorical reactive armor protects them from reason and learning. They should try studying "ethics" for a change instead of party rhetoric.

[nicmarlo]

First, Scalia lectured Franken, "Demeanor is the wrong word. You mean ethics." Then he explained, "Ethics is governed by tradition. It has never been the case where you recuse because of friendship."

Laura Ingraham talked about this this a.m. on her program; it was a riot to listen to hearing about how stoooopid Franken is...as if he has the smarts or ability to take on Scalia.

[Fintan]

One can imagine Franken afterwards, smoking a bone with his Air America buddies, telling them, "Boy, I really told him off!!!"

[CFC__VRWC]

I assume he did not stagger, drool, forget his own name, lose important billing records or plagerize the question in his back bench "demeanor".

Now all he's got to do is promise not to flee DC with his tail between his legs when DHS raises the terror alert level, and the poeple of Minnesota will make him their senator.

[Semper Paratus]

Al Franken believing that he is capable of debating Justice Scalia?

He came to the battlefield unarmed.

[Americanwolf]

" "I think I got under his skin a little," Franken humbly told us."

OH PLEEASSSEEEEEEEE!!!!!! That must be Frankenese spin for I got Byetch Slapped hard and want to cry to mommy... Franken is even more deranged then I thought.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Franken came to a battle of the wits unarmed.

[d-informed-1]

thanks!

[Americanwolf]

I knew there was a market out there for it.... :)

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I wonder if the Scalia-Franken exchange was captured on film...I'd love to see it.

[freedomson]

A new word for the FR dictionary:

pwned!

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LOL...........

[Paved Paradise]

Not even close! I just love this. I heard it being talked about on the radio this morning and it's one of those times ya just wish ya coulda been there!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Speaking of that, there was some tv sitcom with Fanken on it with G. Gordon Liddy in a guest appearance. Franken was given a revolver as an award for something (all this was on the show and not real) and was goofing around with it and accidentally discharged it and shot Liddy in the arm (grazing wound). Liddy stomped over and snatched it out of Franken's hands calling him a stupid liberal moron who should NEVER have a gun.

That was the only episode I ever watched and that was because the G-man was on it.

[Semper Paratus]

Love to see Franken follow this up with a question to Rumsfeld then Cheney.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

Unlike John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, and Bill Murray, Al never BECAME ready for prime time. (Back when he had that comedy partner? I used to wonder if they were homosexual lovers.)

[Americanwolf]

LOL.... I would love to see a clip of it... :) Don't happen to remember the name of the show do you?

[calrighty]

"He sucked then, he sucks now."

ROTFLMAO.....I have said for years that Franken was the most unfunny comedian I have ever seen, and he went political just to keep his name out there. And YES he sucked on SNL : )

[Great Caesars Ghost]

pwned!

It's like a three way conflation of: Owned, Pawned, and Punked!

[evets]

From the Ubrban dictionary: Pwned
A corruption of the word "Owned."
This originated in an online game called Warcraft,
where a map designer misspelled "owned."
When the computer beat a player,
it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned."
Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned."

[Borax Queen]

It's unbelievable how the libs at work worship him. They are not *that* dumb typically, but they act like idiots when they hear Franken's name.

[Borax Queen]

He did suck on SNL!!! I never liked him then even before he came flaming out of the liberal closet!

[Blood of Tyrants]

It was called "Lateline" and I don't think it lasted an entire season. Liddy played himself in episode: "Kids 'N' Guns"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137314/

[Peach]

If you ever hear it is coming to C-Span, ping us all please.

Happy Thanksgiving and safe travels, OXENinFLA.

[Condor51]

Never register again.

BugMeNot

(pay sites excluded)

[Billthedrill]

Well, Al, when you mess with a bull sometimes you get the hamburger and sometimes you get the horn...