Poor Al (Franken apologizes for "ill-considered joke" about Hannity)

Tongue Tied ^ | 6.10.04

[mhking]

Liberal firebrand Al Franken was forced to apologize for an on-air quip ridiculing someone as a hermaphrodite during his radio show.

According to Bodies Like Ours, an intersex support group, Franken was insensitive when he said conservative talk show host Sean Hannity was “born a hermaphroditic conjoined twin” and “the doctor who delivered him and his twin reacted in horror at their birth.”

Following a flood on angry email, Franken apologized for “furthering the unjustified stigma attached to these conditions.” He said an estimated one in 2000 people are born with atypical genitalia, which, like conjoinment, is a naturally-occurring bodily variation.

“I am sorry for the ill-considered joke,” he said.

[MadIvan]

The one day I bothered to listen to Air America (call it morbid curiosity), I heard Franken make that joke...he thought he was being hilarious in his "Fighting Hannity's Lies With Lies About Hannity" segment.

He's a pathetic excuse for a comedian as well as a human being.

Regards, Ivan

[theDentist]

“I am sorry for the ill-considered joke,” he said.

Franken is an ill-considered joke.

[Asclepius]

Those leftists sure know how to laugh!

Just like those Stalin-era toadies sure knew how to applaud Stalin.

[sarasota]

That doesn't sound like an apology to me.

[tjm]

Al Franken is a big nerd...who really cares what he has to say!

[georgiadevildog]

Typical liberal hate speech. I can't believe anybody takes this guy seriously.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Do conjoined twins get two votes?

[Servant of the 9]

Bitten in the butt by Political Correctness.

So9

[Gefreiter]

Well he didn't apologize to Hannity. He apologized to the world's hermaphrodites.

Isn't Franken's network about to fold? Why is he still on?

[Tennessean4Bush]

The real joke is to compare Franken's ratings with Hannity's. That is the real joke, Al.

[cyborg]

or it could be halfassed and he's really apologizing to conjoined twins and not to Hannity.

[cricket]

Oh, I thought the apology was for Hannity. . .

Alfranken continues to serve well, the moshpitminds of the his constituency.

[Patrick1]

I wonder how anyone knew he said anything.

[dirtboy]

Following a flood on angry email, Franken apologized for “furthering the unjustified stigma attached to these conditions.”

It must be a bitch to be a liberal. You can't even craft a decent insult without offending some whiny liberal victim group.

[IamConservative]

I also note from your comment that like all liberals, Frankenmouth is in capable of original creative thought. All he can do is criticize other peoples good ideas.

[savedbygrace]

Franken is a humorless joke.

[longfellow]

Al Franken was forced to apologize for an on-air---here's the joke, he's still on the air???

[Alissa]

Soros is probably propping up Franken's show until after the election, then it will fold.

[prion]

Oh, that's too funny! I saw the headline and assumed he'd had to apologize to Hannity. Of course not! He had to apologize to hermaphrodites!