Al Franken and sex should not be mentioned together in the same sentence.
Or column.
Or magazine.
Posted on 05/22/2008 7:20:28 PM PDT by Jean S
Minnesota Republicans unleashed one of their harshest piece of opposition research yet on Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken, pointing out a 2000 column, including graphic sexual descriptions, written by Franken for Playboy magazine.
The Minnesota Republican Party on Thursday circulated a letter from GOP women calling on Franken to apologize for the piece.
The public airing of the column coincided with Republican objections to Playboy CEO Christie Hefner throwing a fundraiser for Franken.
In the column, titled “Porn-O-Rama!” and clearly intended to be humorous, Franken describes visiting a fictional sex institute where he participates in sex acts with machines and humans.
Franken writes of sitting in a virtual sex machine and choosing his preferred setting, then describes and evaluates the act. Later, he investigates other parts of the fictional institute and participates in other sexual acts that he describes.
In the same article, Franken jokes about his 12-year-old son researching a report on bestiality and using the Internet “to download some effective visual aids.” He makes up fake statistics comparing Playboy readers with readers of Hustler magazine.
Franken told The Hill last month that he’s not going to respond when Republicans bring up his past statements because “that’s all I’d do” — an allusion to the amount of material out there similar to the Playboy column.
Campaign spokesman Andy Barr indicated during the April interview that the campaign thought Republicans had already used their best opposition research against Franken.
On Thursday, Franken spokeswoman Jess McIntosh said: “Al had a long career as a satirist. But he understands the difference between what you say as a satirist and what you do as a senator. And as a senator, Norm Coleman has disrespected the people of Minnesota by putting the Exxons and Halliburtons ahead of working families. And there’s nothing funny about that.”
Franken’s history of sometimes crude and vulgar satire promises to be an issue throughout his race against Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.). Franken, a former “Saturday Night Live” star, is the Democratic favorite in next month’s state endorsing convention.
The GOP has also found traction recently by highlighting a series of tax problems involving Franken. The comedian failed to pay workers’ compensation insurance for employees of his personal corporation and also failed to pay income tax in 17 states in recent years.
Coleman’s campaign declined to comment.
In the 1960s leftist yippie radicals tried to run a pig for president. Not much has changed in 40 years except that yippies are now THE establishment and anyone who questions them is a radical.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
These revelations will only serve to energize Franken’s base.
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Al Franken and sex should not be mentioned together in the same sentence.
Or column.
Or magazine.
Was Franken ever funny??
Somehow, I don’t think Al gets a lot of “Sex-O-Rama.”
I figured it had to be fiction because there’s little chance AlFrankenstein has ever had sex..... unless it was a “sympathy lay”..... from a male prostitute.
Bill Clinton is jealous!
"Franken, a former “Saturday Night Live” star
Was Frankin ever really a "star"?
Be honest, does anyone really want a scum bag like this anywhere near an elected office?
He’s only slightly to the left of Norm Coleman, unfortunately.
How low can the public go in wanting THIS in office?
Franken was the beginning of the end of SNL’s great years.
Nothing could beat the original crew and when Al came along it just started going down hill.
No, and anyway he's already had his decade.
As for Al himself, let me just suggest that imaginary sex with an imaginary machine might be as good as it's ever going to get. Anyone who elects him, deserves him.
A couple of his Stuart Smalley bits were OK.
“Erotica by Al Franken”, in my opinion, has all the attraction of “striptease by Helen Thomas”.
It is simply wrong to use Franken and sex in the same sentence.
Has anyone brought up Frankin dropping acid to write the “Final Days” sketch on SNL back in the 1970’s? It’s in the first book written about the show.
Yes, but Jimbo Webb was elected as senator from VA after his racy novel tripe was well-aired. The Democrat Party doesn’t seem to mind bad porno writers.
I still think Coleman will prevail.
Somehow, I think he's on very intimate and frequent terms with Rosie Palms.
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