Shhh!
Posted on 03/28/2007 9:43:09 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Comedian and U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken said in a taping of the "Late Show with David Letterman" on Wednesday that the country needed an "Apollo project" to create more renewable energy.
Franken took a poke at President Bush in arguing that the country should be abiding by the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty that requires 35 industrial nations to cut greenhouse gases. The Bush administration argues that Kyoto would hurt the U.S. economy and objects that high-polluting developing nations like China and India are not required to reduce emissions.
Franken told Letterman: "One of the dumbest things that this president has said -- and that is a high bar -- is that if we abided by the Kyoto agreement, it would be ruinous to our economy. The opposite is true."
Franken said that in cities that are voluntarily abiding by the agreement, the air and water is cleaner and high-tech jobs were being created.
"We need to do an Apollo project in renewable energy," he said in reference to the NASA program that sent men to the moon. "We need to have biofuels, we need wind."
The former "Saturday Night Live" writer and performer is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination to challenge Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., in 2008.
Franken also said he supports the setting of a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in 2008. Coleman opposes a firm timetable for withdrawal, though he has criticized the Bush administration's strategy on the war.
The state Republican Party got in a few digs of their own, releasing a "Top Ten Al Franken Over-The-Top, Negative Personal Attacks" list.
Number Five: "Attacked President Ronald Reagan as `crack dealer' of debt." (The party said the comment is in an op-ed article Franken wrote for the New York Times in 1988.)
There's a first time for everything, I guess.
Who decides who is actually a "comedian" and who is not?
Franken on Letterman ?
May I suggest a target for the next al Qaeda op?
And pcottraux yawns at Franken's lame attempts at humor.
Isn't this an oxymoron?
Someone needs to ask Stuart Smalley: "Ok, can you name one city that is complying with Kyoto AND is prospering economically?"
I bet he can't answer that...
Focus grouping showed that 'Manhatten Project' wasn't playing so they're trying 'Apollo' and I won't sully FR by suggesting that Allan Parsons is next.
I'm not a public figure and I can't be fired so I probably can use the word 'faggot' when describing Franken without having to check into rehab.
Al Franken is still alive?
No he isn't at all funny but he was decent enough to read a list madeup from soldier comments about calling and talking to loved ones from the field. First was to say I love you, talk about something that was memorable and will be memorable again when you're together again, a couple more I don't remember and then last was to say I love you before saying goodbye.
That said Franken is a putz.
And this stuff is all so original - I've never heard any other liberals say this stuff on tv, have any of you?
I bet the brain dead audience ate it up though.??
Uh, no. Franken is just a moron : )
No Ox.
Phil knows funny!!!
;-)
Wouldn't a better anology be a renewable energy Manhattan Project? The Apollo project was a sequential series of successful steps to reach the moon, whereas the Manhattan Project was a government sponsored and led program with the encouragement of the top scientists in the world for the purpose of unlocking energy. Moon or energy, which one is the correct analogy? Energy.
He can't answer anything intelligable, JR : )
I was channel-surfing and saw al walk on stage. I hit the button and he was gone, but just seeing him left a bad taste in my mouth.
97% of all statistics are just made up.
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