Posted on 02/14/2017 10:28:42 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Minnesota Sen. Al Franken called President Trump “racist” over the weekend for referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren — who claims to be part Native American — as “Pocahontas.” Left unmentioned, however, is Sen. Franken’s own history of using ugly and offensive language regarding women and minorities.
While speaking at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 1996, Franken “ridiculed [Gingrich] with a joke about his daughter’s first menstrual period,” The New York Post’s Deborah Orin reported at the time.
The joke was so out-of-bounds that then-Vice President Al Gore personally walked over to Gingrich’s table with an apology, The Weekly Standard noted after the dinner, adding: “Soon after, Gingrich encountered Franken and told him that, were Gingrich not a public figure, he’d have punched the comic out.”
As a writer and comic for Saturday Night Live, Franken helped craft a racist skit advertising a fake toothpaste called “Tarbrush,” meant to darken black people’s white teeth, according to the book “Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live” by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad.
Hill and Weingrad write that two black technicians on the show reportedly walked out due to how offensive the skit was. “We relied on [Morris] to bring some blackness to the show,” Franken told the authors.
Franken is also on record making anti-gay comments.
“I just don’t like homosexuals,” he told Harvard University’s student newspaper while working for SNL. “If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding [a Harvard social club]. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia. . . "
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It’s in the thread. It shows up when I’m scrolling.
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I’m 56 yo and have absolutely no idea what you just said.
I do want to apologize for calling you a snowflake.
(and I don’t want to know what you said)
Elizabeth Warren falsely claimed to be Native American in order to have an advantage in gainful employment. When she was found out she defended her status as a minority by claiming to be a teeny tiny amount Cherokee. But her evidence for this claim turned out to be bogus. So she retreated to the position that she had high cheek bones.....yeah so she got minority status for having high cheek bones. In other words, she is a fraud....all at a time when her fellow leftwing nuts are telling people its "cultural appropriation" and wrong to have dress, hair styles, or perform music from other cultures....they are not only ready to excuse Warren from her fraud, but are ready to condemn anyone who calls her out on it as being "racist".
MN has these rats because of Minneapolis, Duluth and “Democrat no matter what” old Lutherans.
The heartland, like in NY state, is largely conservative. Andd the Somali situation has been hardening many against D’s. Trump’s last minute rally at the airport was big, I was there, at least 8,000.
Trump’s successes will likely swing MN red.
And Al Franken is a cheat. 300 votes, all for him, found in the trunk of a car when the incumbent was winning. Drain the swamp!
Did you HAVE to??? MY EYES!!!
The quotes from Franken listed here are just the tip of the iceberg. He has said so many extremely crude and offensive things in his comedy acts of the years.
I have been wondering why Republicans never brought this stuff up.
Speaking of Al Franken, isn’t he the poster child of voter fraud? How many fraudulent votes did he get? Shouldn’t Norm Coleman be senior Senator of Minnesota?
Part of me will never accept that this GD circus clown is a US Senator.
Senator Al Franken.
What’s next, Secretary of State Carrot Top?
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