Franken Apologizes to Ashcroft

Fox News ^ | 8/19/03 | Staff

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Comedian and liberal activist Al Franken (search) has written an apology letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft after asking him for his personal story about remaining abstinent before marriage.

Franken, a satirist and former writer for "Saturday Night Live," admitted in a letter last month that he deliberately tried to mislead Ashcroft when he sought personal information from him.

"In the letter, I indicated that I wanted your story for a book about abstinence-only sex education entitled 'Savin' It!' I claimed that I had already received testimonies from several conservative leaders, which I had not," he wrote.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Author of book about lying shows where he got his experience.

[Paul Atreides]

Al Franken, Bill Maher, Michael Moore, and Janeane Garofalo: The Four Horse-Apples of The Apocalypse.

[ErnBatavia]

It wouldn't bother me in the least were I to wake up tomorrow morning and see that "Just missed being a Downs Syndrome lookalike" Franken had died a horrible death...

[TheConservator]

This is in DIRECT response to the lawsuit that Fox News recently filed against this out of control jerk.

I would bet my last nickel on it.

[ErnBatavia]

Yep....a mere half-click away from taking the 'little bus' to skool.

(With all seriousness....my wife's precious brother has Down's - but dammit all, Franken sports the look!)

[Paul Atreides]

The above-mentioned are seriously disturbed individuals. I had hoped that we had, at the very least, heard the last of Janeane for a while.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

That's the big difference between a Downs person and Franken, Downs people are the sweetest, kindest you could ever meet while Franken is pure scum.

[Tall_Texan]

It's just an excuse to promote his book.

[tophat9000]

Franken, who has a new book out next month titled "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right," has long been a critic of Ashcroft and has frequently railed against other conservative politicians and newsmakers.

[Lancey Howard]

Franken, a satirist and former writer for "Saturday Night Live,"

LOL, that's the whole resume for that simple scumbag, isn't it?
Except the part about "satirist" - - what's that all about?

[1rudeboy]

Posted here, with 55 comments and no excerpting.

[Paul Atreides]

They spelled it wrong. Franken is a Bill Clinton supporter, making him a satyrist.

[Lancey Howard]

By the way, I can't help but wonder, when I see the likes of Al Franken, Helen Thomas, Michael Moore, Molly Ivins....why are the most strident, irrational liberals so incredibly ugly? Okay, I know Ellen Goodman was probably decent looking thirty years ago, and there are a few others who are not truly ugly, but generally speaking, liberals are not an attractive bunch. Maybe that has something to do with why they are liberal? Misplaced victimhood of some kind? Is there a psychiatrist in the house?

[Rudder]

Why excerpt this one?

[Hugin]

Lying liberals and the lies they tell liberally.

[Humidston]

Umm, his book is about right-wing LIARS, right?

So what do the following words describe?
*deliberately tried to mislead
*Franken's prank, which he acknowledged
*school never gave permission for the use of their letterhead

Umm, isn't that a prime example of LYING?

[RightWinger]

If stupidity were a virtue, Franken would be a saint.

[af_vet_1981]

It's just an excuse to promote his book.

It is evidence that he (Franken) is a liar.

[AquariusStar22]

This is the e-mail I sent to Fox on this article:

I'm beginning to think that Franken is trying to live up to the titles of his two books.

I think he should just combine both hateful diatribes into one.

May I make a suggestion for the title?

"I Am A Big Fat Lying Idiot..A Raving Lunatic's View From The Left".

It would be autobiographical of course. But, GOSH DARN, he's just a loveable fuzzball of nitwittery that you just have to love him, right?

NOT!

His latest weak attempt at humor (or is it just a sign of a brain tumor) fell flat.

Much like him

[alnick]

Well, I guess that would make Franken a "Lying Liar who tells Lies."

Seriously, he should be charged with fraud.