Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Al Franken Announces For Senate
We at GN knew Al Franken back in the late '70s/ early '80s during his Saturday Night Live days. He was, in short, a jerk. But in hindsight, he was no more arrogant than everyone else connected with such a powerful show in those days.0 comments
Over the years, he's seemed not only to "get older," but to "grow up." While the ego came through clearly in his Air America show, he became quite capable of understanding complex issues and presenting them simply for his listeners; he appeared capable of great moral outrage at what he saw this nation becoming; he was able to speak with impressive humility about his numerous trips to Iraq to entertain U.S. soldiers.
So, we watched the last couple of years, as this morphed from a good joke to an idea to be considered to a full-blown strategy:
USA TODAY | Al Franken enters Minn. Senate raceSo, Franken has decided to give up an easy, well paid life as an outside carper to take on Norm Coleman, someone who, as a first termer, has supported George Bush's rape of our Treasury, our middle class existence, our rights as U.S. citizens under the Constitution and the full dismantlement of our heroic military.
USA TODAY's story herein is short and rather to the point. The meat of the link, however, is the comment section on all this. Definitely a Must Read. It's just hilarious!
Franken's announcement has certainly brought out the mouth-breathers.
They're very cute in their rantings. Dangerous, but cute. Kinda like NY alligators. Very cute, but you finally have to flush them down the toilet.
As is usual, their diatribes are all ad hominem attacks. Variations of "Al Franken is a doody-head!" Along that general line of unreasoning.
One thing I dearly love about the wingnuts (and the wingnut sponsors in the MSM) is their tenet that ANYTHING a Democrat had done for a living before seeking public office automatically disqualifies him or her, whereas biography for a Republican is simply a trifle to be ignored fully, unless it sounds sexy enough be used as a marketing tool.
To these bright lights, if you disagree with them, you're an asshole, period—even if you were pope, or God or had saved millions of starving, dying children.
To them, if you agree with them, being a bug exterminator is OK. Or being someone who worked to free convicted rapists so they could kill again is cool, so long as it was done to get back at Bill and Hillary Clinton. Or being a Watergate burgler and co-conspirator; or an Iran Contra co-conspirator while in military uniform. Or a Klansman. Or any amount of jail time for an array of offenses against humanity. That's all cool.
But if you simply disagree:
YOU are an asshole, and you should move back to (whatever place they can think of that sounds really bad)!!!!! And whatever it is/was you do/did SUCKS!!!!!!!!!! Gottit, DUDE?????
We here at Gotham Notes make really bad wingnuts. Our spelling is just too good. (Sigh.) Oh well...
To encapsulate:
Ted Nugent is cool; The Dixie Chicks should shut up.
Ronald Reagan and George Murphy were cool; Jeannine Garofalo and Sean Penn should shut up.
Life is easy and very simple when you're scared and stupid.
But this race is easy to understand.
Franken is a comedian.
Coleman is a joke.
The race is on.
posted by Gotham 2:57 PM
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