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You are here: Home / It’s 12 O’Clock…

It’s 12 O’Clock…

by John Cole|  August 19, 200311:27 pm| 14 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

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It’s 12 AM, do you know where your teenagers are? Chances are they may be at a Democrat strategy meeting, as that seems to be the level of maturity from the blogosphere left. Via Matt Yglesias, we see this ‘rather clever scheme’ from Ezra Klein to attack the Bush campaign website. Twelve year old Ezra wants to “show Rove who owns the ‘net.”

Meanwhile, the other high schoolers at the Daily Kos are responding to paid Dean operative Kos’s innocent query:

I’m having a bit of trouble with this … perhaps you guys can do better.

Name three good things for which Bush can take credit.

I’m having a hard time coming up with one.

In case you were wondering, that is Democrat humor. Apparently, so is this, from liberal ‘funny man’ Al Franken:

Comedian and liberal activist Al Franken (search) has written an apology letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft after asking him for his personal story about remaining abstinent before marriage.

Franken, a satirist and former writer for “Saturday Night Live,” admitted in a letter last month that he deliberately tried to mislead Ashcroft when he sought personal information from him.

“In the letter, I indicated that I wanted your story for a book about abstinence-only sex education entitled ‘Savin’ It!’ I claimed that I had already received testimonies from several conservative leaders, which I had not,” he wrote…

Franken wrote his request to Ashcroft on letterhead from Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center for Press and Politics (search) at the Kennedy School of Government, where he was a fellow during the spring term.

But the school never gave permission for the use of their letterhead, and apparently wasn’t pleased with Franken’s prank, which he acknowledged in the apology.

I am searching for a word. Oh- it’s ASSHOLE. I don’t kow why people keep insisting Franken is funny. Chris Rock is funny. Bill Cosby is funny. Bob Newhart is funny. Dennis Leary is funny. Robert Schimmel is funny. Larry David is funny. Al Franken is an asshole.

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  1. 1.

    Dave Weigel

    August 20, 2003 at 3:05 am

    At the very least, an enterprising conservative should set up a site in tribute to Al Franken’s lies – like lefties did when John Lott used a psuedonym to see what others thought of his work.

  2. 2.

    st

    August 20, 2003 at 6:55 am

    I’m not quite sure what is “immature” about contacting the press regarding one’s political views. Certainly the Bush website is requesting that its own supporters do just that. Is your objection that using Bush’s contact tool against him is somehow…unfair, or something? Or do you find the whole notion that there is anything about the Bush record to criticize somehow childish? Considering the criticisms you have levelled against the current Bush fiscal policies, that would surprise me. So, what gives?

    Also, I wasn’t aware that being an asshole necessarily disqualified one from being funny. For instance, I agree that Dennis Leary is funny, but there’s no way he’s not an utter asshole.

  3. 3.

    John Cole

    August 20, 2003 at 7:09 am

    My objection is that the intent is not to contact the press, but to ‘flood the zone,’ if you will- to make it impossiblefor anyone to take any email seriously.

    I agree with you- being funny and being an asshole are not mutually exclusive- except in Franken’s case, where he is clearly the former.

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    RW

    August 20, 2003 at 7:37 am

    Imagine the economy if half as much fervor were put forth in getting jobs/advancement as there is in demonizing the other side?

    Maybe certain, ahem, districts wouldn’t be the proverbial pissholes that they currently are (and have been for decades)?

  5. 5.

    Jonas

    August 20, 2003 at 7:59 am

    Well, I agree with you on this comment:

    I agree with you- being funny and being an asshole are not mutually exclusive- except in Franken’s case, where he is clearly the former.

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    Gennie

    August 20, 2003 at 8:03 am

    I agree, Al Franken is an asshole. And not a very funny one either. It’s people like him and those “childish sabotagers” that remind me why I switched parties. Democrats are so incredibly childish these days.

  7. 7.

    HH

    August 20, 2003 at 2:08 pm

    The letters

    I think that Leary just plays the role of asshole (hell, he wrote a song about it) onstage. His charity work, especially for the Sept. 11 firefighters, is very admirable.

  8. 8.

    Kimmit

    August 21, 2003 at 1:21 pm

    I think Al Franken’s a very funny guy who has on days and off days like any other comedian.

  9. 9.

    David Perron

    August 22, 2003 at 8:33 am

    If you’d replace “days” with “decades”, I’d have to agree. I don’t think Al has been in the same area code as funny since the early ’90s.

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    Eric

    August 26, 2003 at 12:46 pm

    Have you heard about him lying about E.D. Hill? He says in his book that she was drunk and all over him. Not so…doesen’t that make him a lying liar who tells lies???

  11. 11.

    talbert

    September 20, 2003 at 9:50 pm

    have you read lies and the lying liars who tell them??? because i did, and i don’t recall him saying anything about E.D.Hill being all over him. Maybe you should actually read before you criticize.

  12. 12.

    RHJunior

    October 10, 2003 at 2:00 am

    Has anyone yet posted a list of “factual errors” (known to the rest of us as LIES) in Al Franken’s books?
    I’ve been rooting around looking for a site with one… Oh, I’m quite confident of finding one. After all, Franken’s a liberal– and as with all liberals, you can tell he’s lying by the fact his lips are moving.
    But I would like to have an organized list to reference….

  13. 13.

    Al Franken

    December 27, 2003 at 12:49 pm

    I am NOT an asshole!… ok, ya I am. I suck. Visit my homepage!!

    http://www.lyingliar.com!

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