Al Frankin at MoveOn Awards last night.....

[Rose Siding]

AL FRANKEN

*"I'm Al Franken. I'm here to present the funniest ad award. I'm a last-minute substitution, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill was supposed to be the presenter, but unfortunately he was murdered."

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When I bust out laughing all by myself, I can't resist sharing. Can't you just see him dead panning that one? sigh. This is on a Drudge page- linked from Atrios or I NEVER would have seen it- swear- but if you can bear to go there, Margaret Cho has a few good funnies, too.

http://drudgereport.com/mattmo3.htm

[baldguy]

1. What a crass and hateful thing for him to say.

The only reason its funny is because people believe it could be true.

and THATS scary.


edit: Sorry, I was being sarcastic. Except about the "scary" part. I was serious about that.

[K8-EEE]

2. Dark Humor

I thought it was funny. I love Al.

[K8-EEE]

4. GO JULIA STILES!!!

WELL ALRIGHT! I really liked this, because I was so disturbed by all the McCarthy-type Dixie Chicking etc..

"I was worried that some soldiers over in Iraq who are actually younger than I am would see some salacious report on MSNBC and think that I was attacking them and not the government that put them there. And I was afraid that Bill O'Reilly would come and, with a shotgun at my front door and shoot me for being unpatriotic. But I decided that that's actually, that fear that was silencing me is actually why it's so important that MoveOn exist and do this ad contest..."

[Sterling]

3. I was there. I met Al at the after party.

People loved that joke.

[efhmc]

5. I thought it was in bad taste. Flip this comment to a Dem and see how you

think it would play.