Franken: I Lied to Ashcroft

NewsMax.com ^ | 8/19/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[Just mythoughts]

This guy is one twisted pervert, he and the porn hustler Larry sure give liberals credibility.

[vikingchick]

Here's some questions for Franken: does it hurt your feelings when you make passes at women, and they run away, screaming in horror? Be honest!

Did it make you want to go gay? Don't lie! Doesn't it haunt you to this day, the several hundred women who wanted no part of you, in spite of your 'celebrity'?

[Wondervixen]

I've seen this reported here three times now, yet nobody explains why he blew the whistle on himself & apologized. Could it be the lying liar felt he really put his foot in it this time and might get squashed like a bug?

[bjcintennessee]

This guy is one twisted pervert, he and the porn hustler Larry sure give liberals credibility.

Yeah he is, but what else can you expect from the left. If they didn't lie and distort the facts, no one would listen to them.

As for Fox News' lawsuit, I think it is a loosing battle for Fox. Instead they should have sued for defamation or slander for being accused of lying.

[Just mythoughts]

Maybe Fox will keep this pervert tied up in a courtroom for the next ten years, his smut is not enough of a money maker to keep up with potential legal fees.

[rockfish59]

Doesn't he play Stuart the homo?

[NYCVirago]

I've seen this reported here three times now, yet nobody explains why he blew the whistle on himself & apologized. Could it be the lying liar felt he really put his foot in it this time and might get squashed like a bug?

I was wondering the same thing. My theory is that somebody at Harvard got wind of what he did and realized that it would embarass the school (as if Al Franken at the staff wasn't enough of an embarrassment to begin with!)

[I still care]

I am thinking it must have something to do with the trial with Fox.

From what I have seen of Franken, conscience does not seem to enter into his attitude towards conservatives.

[#3Fan]

Rush always said liberals get funny when they're out of power. This idiot Franken is going nuts with his hatred and he's just making himself look like the liar and fraud that he accuses others of. Hilarious.

[#3Fan]

I'd still like to know who it was from Fox that bloodied him up at that media dinner when Franken decided to play drunken bully (if the little bits I've heard were true).

[George W. Bush]

Franken's little career, if you can call it that, was over years ago.

Playing a hatemonger for the Dims is his new gig.

[William McKinley]

Sanity check:

Isn't it a bit, um, peculiar for a man to sit around wondering about the youthful sexual exploits of John Ashcroft?

[William McKinley]

Kilmeade

[The Wizard]

News Flash: Al "asshole" Franken Lied

[NittanyLion]

I'd still like to know who it was from Fox that bloodied him up at that media dinner when Franken decided to play drunken bully

What happened? I haven't heard this one before...

[Miss Marple]

If you send a letter under false pretenses trying to get personal information from someone, isn't that MAIL FRAUD?

[OKSooner]

The story is that Franken was drunk and giving Alan Colmes a hard time for being chummy with certain conservatives, in front of Colmes' fiancee. Don't know all the details, but SUPPOSEDLY Brian Kilmeade ushered him away from the table and Franken was later seen holding a handkerchief to a bloody mouth. At least that's what I got out of posts on the topic here; no media reports anywhere. (Is Brian Kilmeade a cool guy or WHAT?)

[Miss Marple]

Ah-ha!

MAIL FRAUD - 18 U.S.C. 1341, makes it a Federal crime or offense for anyone to use the United States mails in carrying out a scheme to defraud.

A person can be found guilty of that offense only if all of the following facts are proved: First: That the person knowingly and willfully devised a scheme to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false pretenses, representations or promises; and Second: That the person used the United States Postal Service by mailing, or by causing to be mailed, some matter or thing for the purpose of executing the scheme to defraud.

Getting information from the AG for a satirical book which would be sold for profit, by lying about why he wanted the information, comes pretty close, in my non-expert opinion.

[bert]

Franken always failed high school gym class.

His grandmother wouldn't let him go in the public showers.