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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, Is the Perfect Anti-Trump
The Nation ^ | 06/02/2017 | Joan Walsh

Posted on 11/16/2017 1:25:36 PM PST by horsappl

But rewrite-room excuses didn’t fly in the 24/7 reality of the campaign, and the “joke” almost killed Franken’s campaign. It landed on the eve of the Minnesota convention where he hoped to be chosen as the Democratic nominee to face Coleman. He made the dangerous move of addressing the controversy in a raw convention speech. “It kills me that things I said and wrote sent a message to some of my friends in this room and people in this state that they can’t count on me to be a champion for women, a champion for all Minnesotans, in this campaign and in the Senate,” he told the crowd. I’m sorry for that.” He went on to acknowledge he’d written and told some “offensive” jokes over the years, that he’d made some folks “uncomfortable,” and ended: “But I’m in this race because there are some people in Washington who could afford to feel a little less comfortable.” And he promised the first person he’d make uncomfortable was Norm Coleman.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 115th; alfranken; groping; leeanntweeden; melaniemorgan; minnesota; tds; women
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I wonder if Franken groped Coleman?
1 posted on 11/16/2017 1:25:37 PM PST by horsappl
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To: horsappl

Might have french kissed him, too.


2 posted on 11/16/2017 1:27:13 PM PST by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
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To: horsappl

Franken grabbing ladies by the pvssy.


3 posted on 11/16/2017 1:27:38 PM PST by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: horsappl

This article aged well /s


4 posted on 11/16/2017 1:28:40 PM PST by scottinoc
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To: horsappl

Maggot yes, giant no.


5 posted on 11/16/2017 1:28:54 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Smedley

Franken Giant of the Senate after Ted Lion of the Senate assumes room temperature.

What a hive of scum that place is..


6 posted on 11/16/2017 1:31:15 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: horsappl

I think Franken grabbed and groped Joan Walsh the author just the right way to make her type up this drivel.


7 posted on 11/16/2017 1:31:33 PM PST by beergarden
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To: horsappl

Franken is a giant sexual pedator and stalker.


8 posted on 11/16/2017 1:31:46 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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Franken, “Giant of the Senate?”

More like anal orifice of the Senate.


9 posted on 11/16/2017 1:34:08 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, Is the Perfect Anti-Trump

Giant of the senate??

Clearly...you have lost your mind. He was a horse’s ass and a failed comic, a laughing stock in the Senate, and now a female groper.

Giant asshole.


10 posted on 11/16/2017 1:34:28 PM PST by GoldenPup
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To: horsappl

Gnat of the Senate.


11 posted on 11/16/2017 1:36:06 PM PST by TTFlyer
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"...Torrential rain came down on the late May afternoon I interviewed Senator Al Franken about his new book, Al Franken: Giant of the Senate (yes, he’s still funny)..."

Microphone drop there...annnnnnnd...we're done.

12 posted on 11/16/2017 1:37:21 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: tennmountainman

What NO senators calling for his removal (I Am Shocked).


13 posted on 11/16/2017 1:37:25 PM PST by Don_Ret_USAF ("No Government can survive Without The Trust Of The People.")
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To: horsappl

I thought he was gay.


14 posted on 11/16/2017 1:39:41 PM PST by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: horsappl

Al Franken touches women on their private parts while they are sleeping, and he thinks it’s funny.

The man is a sicko.


15 posted on 11/16/2017 1:41:36 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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geez, President Trump is really turning the DC swamp upside down.

wonder if he knew about all the racists and sexual predators in congress..

DC is a f'in mess right now....

16 posted on 11/16/2017 1:43:42 PM PST by SGCOS
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To: SpaceBar

Or “Gnat of the Senate.”


17 posted on 11/16/2017 1:44:16 PM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: horsappl

Franken is the Democrat ‘troll under the bridge’.


18 posted on 11/16/2017 1:45:55 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: horsappl

Joan Walsh. Spit.


19 posted on 11/16/2017 1:46:33 PM PST by bkopto
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GIANT?
What a joke.
More like an Idiot.
And absolutely stupid.
I rest my case.


20 posted on 11/16/2017 1:49:32 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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