Posted on 02/04/2010 9:08:15 PM PST by Rufus2007
After hearing the wit and wisdom of Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., one has to wonder how modern media corporations could stay in business without the expertise and guidance of those elected to the U.S. Senate.
Sarcasm aside, Franken did admit during a Feb. 4 hearing he didn't necessarily have legal expertise to address the Comcast-NBC Universal merger, but he could more than make up for that shortcoming through his experience in show business. Franken, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee, explained he was bothered by the merger.
"As some of you may know, I'm on the Judiciary Committee, I'm not a lawyer," Franken said. "But I used to be in show business. In fact, I worked for years for NBC and I really feel that I owe a lot to NBC. But what I know from my previous career has given me reason to be concerned - and let me phrase that, very concerned about the potential merger of Comcast and NBC Universal."
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‘I Don’t Trust These Promises’ and they don’t trust you you small mean ugly man. Now you have common ground to work with them. It’ll be a suck-fest!
Then he knows how America views Obama and the rest of the DC gang of thugs.
Beck had a clip of Obama admitting he lied (well, he didn't admit the lie, he just admitted the truth) about being able to keep your own doctor and the government not getting between you and your doctor under Obamacare.
Every day brings more proof that it's insanity to trust the Obama admin and the dems.
5 more years of this douchebag in our future. Unreal.
When can this useless prick be removed from office?
I wonder if he is just laying some groundwork to preventdiscourage comcast from shaking up the MSNBC lineup.
But the idiot did spend a night in Holiday inn. God, democrats are stupid assho-es
Can’t wait for Chevy Chase, Sean Penn and Barbara Streisand to run for senator!
Yep and we can thank the fools in Minnesota that voted for this b!tch for putting him (her, it) in the Senate. They must be very proud.
I hear he gets really upset when someone talks about his son. Well, he goes: Hey, Al...you kid sits down to pee! Just like his daddy.
I lived in Minnesota back in the early 80’s...never realized just how ignorant many of the people were. I say that because any state that would actually take Jessie Ventura or Al Franken seriously is totally nuts.
Damn..thats the truth.
Judgment can't be soon or harsh enough, frankly.
Unfortunately I still live in Minnesota....what an embarrassment it is that the dumbest ass voters in the nation voted for clown & buffoon like Al Frankenstein....including my liberal RETARD phd boss, who is a flaming dumbass demoRAT to the core. My hope & prayer is that Franken will become more & more deranged as the socialist-marxist agenda continues to backfire on the demoRATs and at some point, Franken will have a mental breakdown and go beserk in the Senate. I would LOVE to see that happen soon!!! Or maybe his plane will go down like Minnesota’s other certified lib retard, Paul Wellstone.
Calling Franken names doesn’t change the issue. Over-consolidation of media ownership doesn’t serve the public. NBC and Viacom have given us years of evidence to this.
Gee Franken, I thought it was you no one trusted.
My thoughts exactly. Franken probably thinks Comcast will tell MSNBC to ditch the commie agitprop. I also think this is the reason for Olbermann’s hysteria over his ratings.
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