Did anyone else hear Al Franken say this?

[kitchen girl]

I turned on AAR today as I was driving home from work and heard a bit of Al Franken's phone interview with Jimmy Carter. Pres. Carter recommended people check out the website for his foundation to see all the great things they do. I'm driving along thinking this is cool - I want to see what his foundation does! Shortly thereafter, Franken comes on in person and *apologizes* for Carter's self-serving behavior in asking people to go to his website! Says they hate it when people do self-serving stuff like that. :wtf:

So...did anyone else hear this? Was it some kind of weak attempt at humor? Was there something that I missed because I hadn't heard the beginning of the show? Or is Franken even more of a horse's patootie than I gave him credit for?

[bossfish]

1. Calm the hell down...

...it was humor

[Syncronaut Seven]

15. It's an inside joke.

Dontcha know? Everything that JC has done since 1980 has been an excercise in self serving, attention grabbing self promotion. Gee... Where ya been!?!

Righties insist that it's just Jimmy trying to polish a failed presidency. Fuckers.

That's the joke.

[xultar]

2. Franken seems to have lost it after 11/02...it's a shame.

[glitch]

3. He had to have been kidding, after all the hawking of his book that he did

on the show. Sometimes self-mocking doesn't come through the radio - you need to see the face for it.

Edited because sardonic the wrong word.

[Maat]

4. The former president of the United States ... while graciously

granting an interview, refers people to his foundation WHICH DOES DO GOOD WORK, and Al objects? Yet Al permits anyone else to promote their activities (e.g. David Brock - my hero - and his Media Matters -but that's another story). Please verify. If this is so, I'm ticked off. I've put Jimmy Carter's foundation on my list to investigate for potential donation purposes. So there Al!

[a new day]

5. Yes, it is a running gag

Franken is always pimping his book and Lampher derides him for doing so.

Carter can give as good as he gets at this, btw. Yesterday, he was telling Al what a tremendous relief it is to finally have an unbiased arbiter of truth available for the American people in the form of Al and AAR.

[Maat]

8. O.K. It was a joke.

I'll lighten up.

[Inland]

13. You should have heard it when Franken told John McCain that

McCain had managed to sit out almost the entire Vietnam War. Or related how he had traveled with John Glenn while seeing the troops in Afghanistan and each time the plane or helicopter took off, he asked Glenn if he was all right, told him not to worry.

They enjoyed the jokes.

[kitchen girl]

11. A-ha, I suspected as much.

I only get to hear about 20 minutes of Al every day when I'm driving home from work, so I miss out on the "inside jokes". Thanks for the clarification.

[Downtown Hound]

6. I'm pretty sure that was humor

But I do agree that Franken has gone downhill since the election.

[librechik]

7. I think he was joking. He was so deadpan though I had to wonder

but the very idea is ridiculous--of course they encourage people ti advertise their websites when they come on the show.

[UdoKier]

9. It was weak-ass humor

like all Franken's humor.

[Mojambo]

10. It was classic Franken deadpan

Come on people! This is what the man does (and has been doing for years.)

He's a comedian.

I keep hearing that liberals have just as good a sense of humor as anyone else, but I wonder sometimes...
;)

[Inland]

12. If it were TV, they could flash a warning "HUMOR" on the screen for

the comedy impaired.

[kitchen girl]

14. Anyone who has met me knows...

I'm definitely *not* comedy impaired. I just don't get to hear enough of that show to know the inside jokes. :)

[qb]

16. I heard it. I knew it was humor, but boy did it fall flat.

It just didn't seem right for someone of President Carter's stature. Al sounded uneasy while he said it. It probably didn't sound quite right to him, either.