Al Franken Goes Fox Hunting at Correspondents Dinner(FULL STORY)

newsmax.com ^ | Monday, April 28, 2003 6:45 p.m. EDT | www.newsmax.com

[paltz]

The increasingly unfunny Al Franken blew a gasket Saturday night at Washington, D.C.'s White House Correspondents Dinner, where he accosted a table full of Fox News Channel personalities, causing a scene that threatened to erupt into physical violence.

"He saw Shepard Smith and Alan Colmes and he came over to incite," "Fox & Friends" morning host Brian Kilmeade reported Monday.

"He said he didn't like the way Alan challenges Sean," the top morning cable talker said, referring to FNC's hit nighttime team "Hannity & Colmes."

Kilmeade said Franken's behavior was so deranged that some thought he was drunk, but that wasn't the case.

Still, the obstreperous comedian got so out of line that Kilmeade asked him to leave, saying, "I personally thought we'd end up coming to blows."

According to Internet scribe Matt Drudge, when witnesses spotted the liberal ranter later he was bleeding from the chin. But Kilmeade said the altercation stopped short of throwing punches.

At the same gathering, Franken was heard to shout in the direction of Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz - "Clinton's military did pretty well in Iraq, huh?"

Wolfowitz's response? "F*** you."

The incident isn't the first time Franken has come gunning for Fox News personnel - and he seems to have a particular problem with "Hannity & Colmes."

Earlier in the year, after Franken's name came up as a possible star attraction of a Clinton-backed liberal talk radio network, Hannity told his radio audience that he once had to call security on Franken when he refused to stop haranguing him after a guest shot on "H&C" - following the TV talker down the hall until guards interceded.

Perhaps Fox News Channel honcho Roger Ailes needs to get a restraining order against the belligerent and uncontrollable left-wing comic.

[Paul Atreides]

I wish that Brian Kilmeade had decked Frankenweenie.

[MEG33]

Getting in the columns must be getting harder for Franken.

[bannie]

...Franken was heard to shout..."Clinton's military did pretty well in Iraq, huh?"

More activation of The Big Lie Technique.

[Inspectorette]

Unfortunately, the White House is not in charge of the guest list. It's not held at the White House - I believe it's at the Washington Hilton. It's the White House Correspondents' Association - a lot of Clymers :-(

[writmeister]

It's not a White House dinner. It's the White House Correspondent's Dinner.

[The Wizard]

he belligerent and FAT and uncontrollable left-wing comic.

[Mears]

Why was he at the dinner in the first place?

Was he the "entertainment"?

Are they that desperate?

[prairiebreeze]

Wolfowitz's response? "F*** you."

LOL!

What's glaringly absent is the media coverage so far of this "event".

Prairie

[gusopol3]

see Frankenweenie here:http://srd.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=frankenweenie/v=2/l=WS1/R=1/H=0/*-http://www.timburtoncollective.com/frank_gallery.shtml

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Who is this guy?

I may have seen him but he doesn't register!

[bannie]

PS...I would pay to see that over-ripe-fruit blow his gasket.

[EternalVigilance]

I like Wolfowitz more all the time.

[wardaddy]

Wolfowitz's response? "F*** you."

Another reason to really like Wolfie.

[NordP]

...Because he THINKS he's good enough, smart enough, and that doggonit, people like him.

--Course, he's wrong, and his mirror is starting to crack, but...

[friendly]

Franken is increasingly paranoid, delusional, psychotic, and grotesquely un-funny.

Many famous comedians are bipolar: hypomanic (up-beat, intensely euphoric) with escalating depressive tendencies as they age. Think Robin Williams, Steve Martin, and Woody Allen.

Franken is quite different; he seems obviously delusional and increasingly unstable. Franken is potentially dangerous in my view. A restraining order is not out of place with such a very sick person.

[secret garden]

He imagines that he's good enough, he's smart enough and doggone it, people like him. ;)

[grapeape]

The sweet innocent little lamb image of the left has been burnt to the ground. He is just another raving lunatic from the left in a long line of raving lunatics.