Al Franken: Hyper (and hypo)critical

[babylonsister]

Al Franken: Hyper (and hypo)critical

Despite the serious issues that face us, the Senate and Norm Coleman are playing games over an ad.

Al Franken


I'm a satirist by trade. And as a satirist, my job was to point out the absurd, the hypocritical, the ridiculous in life.

It's been a banner week for ridiculous.

Case in point: On Tuesday, Sen. Norm Coleman took out an ad in this paper criticizing me for criticizing a Senate resolution that criticized MoveOn.org for taking out an ad in the New York Times criticizing Gen. David Petraeus.

It is, of course, ridiculous that the United States Senate spent a day debating and voting on a resolution condemning an advertisement while our troops remained in Iraq, fighting a war with no end. And it's doubly ridiculous that Coleman, of all people, is still playing politics with this issue.

After all, he voted last week against a resolution that condemned personal attacks on anyone who had served our nation honorably. That would include Democrats like Max Cleland, John Kerry and John Murtha -- proud American veterans who were the targets of political attacks not just on their character, but on their patriotism. In 2004, when Murtha (a Silver Star winner) called for better armor for our troops, Coleman himself accused him of "emboldening the enemy" and "undermining the morale of our troops."

And as his reelection campaign gets underway, it's worth noting that Coleman has hired the same media consultant who ran ads in Georgia that juxtaposed pictures of Cleland, who lost two legs and an arm in Vietnam, with Osama bin Laden.

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http://www.startribune.com/commentary/story/1445784.html

[LSK]

1. K&R

I miss your show Al.

[Coexist]

2. love it.

[blondeatlast]

3. The hypocrisy is jaw-dropping. I believe I'll send Al another doantion just for that.

I can't get either of my rotting deadweights out this cycle, but I'm happy to support those that offer some hope.

Happy to be the vote that puts this on "Greatest" too.

[fasttense]

4. Great come back Al.

Facing down the spin and lies with the plain truth. More Democratic politicians need to come back to their attackers in this way.

[Nimrod2005]

5. K

[progressoid]

6. Way to go Al.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

7. Al has destroyed Coleman's former 20 point lead

Franken is now within the margin of error with 41 percent to Norm's 45.
Wellstone's constituents will do the right thing and boot the GOP cretin from office.