On Jun 21, 3:15 pm, AnAmericanCitizen
earthlink.net> wrote:> In his article, Franken wrote that it is an "exciting time for
> pornographers and for us, the consumers of pornography."
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> The idea that this man could be elected to the U.S. Senate boggles the mind.....AAC
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> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:15:24 -0400, Patriot Games
America.Com> wrote:>
>>Washington Post Shreds Al Franken’s Porn
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>>Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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>>A Washington Post columnist has ripped Democratic Senatorial candidate
>>and comedian Al Franken for his “Porn-O-Rama!” article in Playboy
>>magazine, calling him a “vulgarian at the gate.”
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>>Michael Gerson, George Bush’s former chief speechwriter, declares in
>>his Post column that “Porn-O-Rama!” is “a modern campaign document
>>every voter should read — the Federalist Papers of lifestyle
>>liberalism.
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>>“It has the literary sensibilities and moral seriousness of an awkward
>>adolescent nerd publishing an underground newspaper to shock his way
>>into campus popularity. But, in this case, the article was written in
>>2000 by a 48-year-old man.”
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>>In his article, Franken wrote that it is an "exciting time for
>>pornographers and for us, the consumers of pornography."
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>>The Internet, he stated, is a "terrific learning tool. For example, a
>>couple of years ago, when he was 12, my son used the Internet for a
>>sixth-grade report on bestiality. Joe was able to download some
>>effective visual aids, which the other students in his class just
>>loved."
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>>Franken also used several crude or X-rated words in his Playboy piece.
>>But the article is far from the only instance in which Franken
>>resorted to vulgarity or bad taste. He once proposed a television
>>sketch about a female CBS reporter being drugged and raped, Gerson
>>noted.
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>>At an event hosted by the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1999,
>>Franken said: "Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They
>>can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our
>>grandmothers."
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>>Gerson equates Franken’s political “satire” with the “vulgarity” of
>>“The Jerry Springer Show” or misogynous rap music, saying it
>>“generally expresses contempt and cruelty.”
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>>And he observes: “Franken is not content to disagree with Karl Rove;
>>he calls him ‘human filth.’ He is not satisfied to criticize Ari
>>Fleischer; Franken terms him a ‘chimp.’ The objects of Franken's humor
>>— including political opponents and women — are not merely mocked but
>>dehumanized. His trashiness is also nastiness.
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>>“Rather than lampooning the emptiness and viciousness of our political
>>discourse — a proper role for satire — Franken has powerfully
>>reinforced those failures.”
"In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or
shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision,
burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring
about improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny,
the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself so much as an
attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using
the weapon of wit."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
Franken did all right.
>>The flap over Franken’s Playboy article and other disclosures
>>evidently does not sit well with voters in Minnesota, where Franken is
>>matched up against incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
"In 2002, the Bush Administration persuaded Coleman to run against
Paul Wellstone for Senate rather than try for the governor's chair.
[30] [31] In his first year in office he voted with President Bush's
position on bills 98 percent of the time (according to Congressional
Quarterly statistics)."
"Coleman campaigned in 2002 for the United States Senate, after being
persuaded by Karl Rove to channel his electoral efforts from a second
race for governor to a race for the senate seat against incumbent
Senator Paul Wellstone"... before "Senator Wellstone died in a plane
crash on October 25, 2002."
"Coleman became a lead Senate Republican defender of White House
Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove amid allegations that he illegally
leaked the name of formerly covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. In
December 2005, Coleman voted for a budget bill that cut funding from a
number of programs, but kept funding for sugar beet farmers in
Minnesota after Rove advocated the change. Coleman told Congress Daily
that he would not vote for a bill that cut sugar beet funding but,
"Karl Rove called me and asked what I wanted. A few hours later it was
out of the bill."[32]"
Ahhhh.. ya know what....?
I think I would vote for Bozo the Clown.. before I would ever trust
some carpet bagger (from NY) name Norm Coleman.
