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As Al Franken considers challenging Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., for re-election in 2008, the comedian and liberal radio host is looking to his hometown senator for advice: Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites). "I asked Hillary, 'Can you give me some suggestions about running for Senate in a state you haven't lived for in a while, or in your case, ever?' " Franken recalled, laughing heartily. "And she said, 'This will be a long conversation,' so we agreed to have a long conversation about it." Clinton, D-N.Y., moved from Washington to New York to run for the Senate. Franken...

Al Franken is literally breathless. He's talking a mile a minute and sounding like a kid who's just arrived home victorious after a schoolyard brawl. And in a way, he has. Franken's just learned that his book, the controversial, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, has unseated Bill O'Reilly's tome atop the best-seller list of The New York Times. "We're very, very happy here today. I was No. 1 for the first five weeks and then he had it last week - for that one bright, shining moment of Camelot,"...

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The following is a monologue performed last week by Mark Levin on his new daily radio show on WABC radio 770 AM in New York. Mark's show runs from 6-7 p.m., Monday through Friday. You can listen to it on the web on WABCRadio.com Franken, this is your life! Acording to Al Franken's autobiography -- "When talent doesn't count" -- Franken was born into a family of gypsies. His mother, Knisha Franken, traded him away to a band of Motor Vehicle Department employees for scratch-off lottery tickets. Franken spent many happy hours of his childhood administering vision tests at the...

Hi: I was at Borders and read some of Franken's book. He goes after Ann Coulter with both barrles blazing. He makes some good points on descrepancies in her book Slander. He also comments on Oreilly and Bush etc. I have an open mind and am not a Bushbot, but one thing made me put the book down and I swear I am not going to ever look at that book again. Towards the end of the book he has a cartoon illustration of Jesus Christ. He makes Jesus out to be a fool who is a charlatan who is...