Posted on 06/10/2004 7:12:11 AM PDT by 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.
That's easy. Just ask Charles Rocket.
Does anyone still listen to Err America?
When you consider what types of people (DU as an example) listen to EA, hermaphrodites probably are a significant portion of their audience as opposed to radio listeners in general. Of his ten listeners, nine are probably hermaphroditic, gay or found by a court to be mentally incapacitated - usually a combination of the three.
Joke?
Nah, Franken only does "satire".
So, basically, Franken got in trouble with this comparison because the hermaphroditic conjoined twins didn't like it?
I feel sorry for franken's kids.
"liberal firebrand"?
more like "leftist wet blanket"
Sick sick sick.
And your ill-considered career? Are you sorry for that?
His father should apologize.
Shalom.
"atypical genitalia" includes far more than true hermaphrodites. most of the deviations are basically trivial.
What a dope for going on the first time let alone the second.
Boortz just lost at least one listener, me, when and if I am in a city in which he is heard.
What a sap.
AV
Franken is the joke.
Franken was confused BEFORE birth. Somehow he got in the mouth line twice and skipped the brain line entirely!
What the heck is up with this new "firebrand" word? Just another adjective to suggest the person has a legit purpose?
Franken's desperation for an audience, any audience, is being demonstrated by his need to parasitize the popularity of Hannity through his "clever" ridicule.
In the old days, guys like Franken lived under a bridge and snatched children.
"This is supposed to be fun, folks! We're supposed to be entertaining listeners. I do guest shots with talk show hosts, conservative, libertarian and leftist, virtually every week. Most of these people are professionals who know how to entertain. Al Franken approaches his show with a nasty demeanor and mean temperament. No wonder he's working for free! Life's too short, Al. See ya later. Don't call me, I'll call you. Maybe."
As Howie Carr would say, "When the phone don't ring, you know it will be me."
Unfortunately, LIBERALS take him and his like-minded rabble-rousers seriously. They are stepping up the hate speech in a political season. The hysterics and histrionics of Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, The FLIP-FLOP himself, the Congressional Black Caucus, and all too many DHIMMI-RATS, IS cause for concern, and it has only just begun. The question is, will these LOWER LIFE FORMS go beyond mere speech and take their violence to the streets even as they are now assaulting legislatures, city councils and courts, and the media, including the Internet, to implement a total liberal victory for the culture wars.
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