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Univ. of Minnesota Newspaper Makes Excuses for Al Franken After He Declines Campus Debate
NewsBusters ^ | September 3, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 09/03/2014 6:50:11 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Imagine the student association at your university wages a Twitter campaign to get the two candidates for the U.S. Senate seat to agree to a debate on campus. The challenger agrees but the incumbent senator declines.. Disappointing? Yes. But guess who the student newspaper on that campus lavishes praise upon? The candidate who declined to debate.

How does that happen? When the incumbent senator who declined the debate has the magic "D" next to his name as happened in Minnesota when Al Franken declined the invitation of the student government to debate his opponent. The student newspaper, the Minnesota Daily, after registering a barely perceptible bit of disappointment in Franken for declining to debate then went on to heap praise upon his overall record. Oh, and for his opponent who actually did agree to debate? Not a word of praise.

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KEYWORDS: 2014midterms; alfranken; mn2014
For the University of Minnesota student newspaper it's heads Al Franken wins, tails his opponent loses. No matter what.
1 posted on 09/03/2014 6:50:11 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

‘swhy we took our Yankee money and moved south.


2 posted on 09/03/2014 6:52:47 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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3 posted on 09/03/2014 7:02:06 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Keith (PBUH) Ellison worked for the Daily when he was a student there. Probably had something to do with his renouncement of Catholicism and hooking up with the dark side.


4 posted on 09/03/2014 7:21:18 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Plea$e $upport Free Republic.)
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To: PJ-Comix

“I ate the dog that ate my homework.”


5 posted on 09/03/2014 7:21:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Al Franken, islamist facilitator.


6 posted on 09/03/2014 7:24:44 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: isthisnickcool; All

bad placement, about .1 mile any side
(air burst) should glass 'em

7 posted on 09/03/2014 7:28:40 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: skinkinthegrass

No, it’s perfect placement. It’s not about killing Muslims. It’s about killing Islam. The theory goes, “If you nuke the Kaaba in Mecca, you destroy Islam.” http://www.discoveringislam.org/destruction_of_kaba.htm

Ironically, ISIS has a similar idea about what to do about what is in the Kaaba: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/islamic-state-if-allah-wills-we-will-kill-those-who-worship-stones-in-mecca-and-destroy-the-kaaba


8 posted on 09/03/2014 7:46:03 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: isthisnickcool

Since I accidently dropped both my guns in the ocean about 8 miles off Fort Pierce,
I’d have to go next door and borrow one of my neighbors to shoot in the air to celebrate this happening.


9 posted on 09/03/2014 8:15:30 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: vladimir998; All
Thank You, for the links

True..That would slice-off one head of the Hydra, then
onwards towards Iranian (VarJar's Client) goat-humpers.

10 posted on 09/03/2014 8:18:39 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: Joe Boucher

“Since I accidently dropped both my guns in the ocean about 8 miles off Fort Pierce,”

Were you in a canoe at the time? That’s what happened to me.


11 posted on 09/03/2014 8:37:08 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: PJ-Comix

It’s gotta be the cold up there that allows such fuzzy-headed “thinking” and “voting” for the likes of Franken.


12 posted on 09/03/2014 8:57:18 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: isthisnickcool

#3 What us suppose to be in the rock? The black heart of Mohammad?


13 posted on 09/03/2014 9:48:18 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: vladimir998

Nope,
Skeet shooting flying fish.
Dropped a shotgun and a pistol at the same time.
It’s a shame.


14 posted on 09/03/2014 12:25:32 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Joe Boucher

“Dropped a shotgun and a pistol at the same time.”

I hate it when that happens!


15 posted on 09/03/2014 1:31:43 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: PJ-Comix

Leftists running a campus newspaper. Who would have guessed?


16 posted on 09/03/2014 8:54:22 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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