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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Al Franken IS ugly and offensive
Franken is part of the subversive set, thus it’s OK.
Al Franken doesn’t need to speak to be ugly and offensive.
I sure am hearing a lot from and about Al lately. It almost makes me think he’s thinking about throwing his diaper in the ring for 2020.
He’s a disgusting hypocrite.
Shame on Minnesota
Please stop posting this photo.
In the movie “Tunnelvision” he makes some anti-gay statement.
Please stop posting this photo.
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If you don’t like the photo, don’t look at it.
Snowflakes need to grow a pair.
Yeah, but they love Al Franken back in Minnesota.
They’ve named a type of pond scum after him.
Al Franken Algae.
It only grows in sewage ponds and it eats lots of shirt.
Isn't he the Al Franken that was supposed to be a ‘comedian’ but fell short of it???
Oh that Al Franken, I'm surprised that President Trump hasn't said ‘Geesh, he's really ugly’!!!
LOL! I wondered how long it would take for someone to post that pic!! Hilarious!
It’s in the thread. It shows up when I’m scrolling.
Saturday Night Live was a springboard for young comedians. rather than “spring” to a career in comedy he spent two stints totaling 15 years on SNL. Fifteen years on a springboard proves that comedy was not his thing. What’s left? Politics.
Truth is all I have to offer fellow Freepers...regardless of who it might offend! ;-)
At Air America Franken demanded an annual salary of over $1,000,000 plus benefits. The burden of paying Franken led one of Air America’s investors to loot a charity he controlled. This created a huge scandal as Air America filed for bankruptcy and then folded.
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2006/01/did-al-frankens-outrageous-demands.html
Oh good grief! Get off the computer and crawl back in Mommy’s lap and let her soothe you poor ruffled feathers.
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