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MDE FROM THE ARCHIVES: ANGRY AL FRANKEN WAS OUT OF CONTROL
By Michael Brodkorb | February 15, 2007
U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken is trying to hide his anger and out of control temper from Minnesotan voters:
“After the show, Franken hugged radio staff members and jokingly told reporters, ‘Well, as you can see, I’m an angry man.’ He also responded to the accusation that he was driven by ‘extreme anger.’ ‘I’m not an angry person, but I do get angry about things like this [Iraq] war.’” Source: Star Tribune, February 15, 2007
I was at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York and witnessed Al Franken’s temper first hand. He was out of control. Some of the pictures below have never before been publicly released.
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February 15th, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Maybe he was angry because Republicans don’t like discussing Iraq????
We are writing to urge you not to debate the Democratic Iraq resolution on their terms, but rather on ours.
Democrats want to force us to focus on defending the surge, making the case that it will work and explaining why the President’s new Iraq policy is different from prior efforts and therefore justified.
We urge you to instead broaden the debate to the threat posed to Americans, the world, and all “unbelievers” by radical Islamists. We would further urge you to join us in educating the American people about the views of radical Islamists and the consequences of not defeating radical Islam in Iraq.
The debate should not be about the surge or its details. This debate should not even be about the Iraq war to date, mistakes that have been made, or whether we can, or cannot, win militarily. If we let Democrats force us into a debate on the surge or the current situation in Iraq, we lose.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:57 AM
Who is the guy in the flannel shirt that Al is upset with?
February 15th, 2007 at 12:04 PM
Notice how Al is standing his ground against a guy who is bigger than him. You would never see a republican do that.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:05 PM
Who is the guy in the flannel shirt that Al is upset with?
He is obviously a great American who isn’t afraid of Angry Al and his obvious attempt at physical intimidation.
Angry Al = Angry Bully who can’t tolerate opposing views.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:17 PM
I apparently saw a lot of men physically restraining their wives/girlfriends last night on the way in and out of restaurants.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:23 PM
Good for Al! We need someone with fire in their belly for once!
February 15th, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Franken and Hatch could exchange notes on their unbridled anger.
February 15th, 2007 at 1:22 PM
Does anybody know what Al was mad about?
February 15th, 2007 at 2:45 PM
Was the guy Al talking to “Angry” as well?
February 15th, 2007 at 2:49 PM
I remeber this and was upset I was not there. I gladly offer my services to anyone who thinks Al may get physical with them. I would love nothing more than to flatten fat Al right out. He likes to think he is a tough guy ex-wrestler. Al was a sub par athlete and now appears to be fatter than Rush at his heavist!! I sure would love nothing more than to tie that loser up in a knot and leave him to wonder what just happened.
Al is a bully and tries to use his intense anger to intimidate people to not argue with him. Once again it demonstraights how the left does not tolorate dissent of their viws.
February 15th, 2007 at 4:26 PM
I was in “Radio Row” at the GOP Convention when this happened. The reason Al Frankenfraud got so mad was because he had apparently agreed to go on Laura Ingraham’s show and then chickened out. The guy in the flannel shirt was Laura Ingraham’s producer/sidekick nicknamed Habib. When Frankenfraud chickened out, the altercation began and Franken nearly lost it and had to be restrained by the guy in the white shirt. Someone should call in to Laura’s show sometime and ask her to tell the story on the air. It would be pretty funny.
February 15th, 2007 at 4:56 PM
Let’s see, Franken just about goes ballistic and get physical because someone called him out for backing out of a show?? Oh yes, the Franken meltdown will be a great deal of fun to watch. I sure hope not too many of you looney lefties get your hopes up for this loser.
Man the couple nights it would have been in jail to drop Franken at that event would have been worth every minute and dollar it would have cost me. I hate bullies and love nothing more than to give em a dose of their own medicene. I usually find it funny the biggest bullies are often the first to tears when tables are turned.
February 15th, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Makes me wonder some what all those white collars would have done had a semi-pro fighter stepped up and blasted away at Franken. I guarantee no one would have wanted to be the one to try and separate us.
Sorry but anytime I see a person who wants to be a bully and be physical with someone I like to make sure they know I will be their huckleberry.
February 15th, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Makes me wonder some what all those white collars would have done had a semi-pro fighter stepped up and blasted away at Franken. I guarantee no one would have wanted to be the one to try and separate us.
Sorry but anytime I see a person who wants to be a bully and be physical with someone I like to make sure they know I will be their huckleberry.
February 15th, 2007 at 7:43 PM
Nice try Chris. That’s not what happened. Here is what Al said about this:
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Al Franken: It is a long story. Basically it goes back several months when I was first doing the book tour for the hard cover addition of “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them†and my publicist asked if I wanted to do the Laura Ingrahm show. I said no.
Then later there was an item in Page 6 of the Post that said that I was scheduled to do the show but backed out cause I was afraid.
The long and short of it is that her producer had either himself called Page 6 or had someone else do it and lie to them. So I had my publicist call him and she asked why he did that and he said they get guests all the time that way — by “Page 6ing them.” So I was not amused. Page 6 ran a kind-of correction — they had never called us to confirm because Page 6 is Page 6.
So then I later did a debate with Ingraham, and after the debate, not wanting to color the debate, I spoke with Ingraham I ended up on the phone with her producer. He asked me to do the show. I said no cause he lied. He kept asking me and I said no.
Cut to now and we are in Radio Row and he asked me to do the show and I said “No, because you lied.” And he said “I didn’t lie” and then started giving me some incomprehensible story. And then I got mad at him and then he acknowledged that he had lied. And then I got mad at him again and he evidently lies so much that he seemed to not understand why he would make someone else angry. So when he wouldn’t acknowledge that I had a right to be angry it only made me angrier. That was really the source to all that.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54126-2004Sep1.html
February 15th, 2007 at 8:44 PM
Uh, Christine, were you there? Because I’m pretty sure I didn’t see you. And I was there. Now, I’m not gonna be like Dylan and say I know everything that happened during the Republican convention. But I was there when the altercation took place.
Even taking Al Frankenfraud’s word for the exchange, does that create an excuse for Frankenfraud to need physical restrint? Because I don’t think it does. In fact, I thought all of you snarky liberals were anti-violence.
February 15th, 2007 at 9:00 PM
“then I got mad at him” … “then I got mad at him again “… “it only made me angrier.”
Funny stuff. He should do stand-up.
February 15th, 2007 at 9:30 PM
Franken is no Smalley. He is going to erupt in anger while campaigning. It’s bound to happen. Franken is out of control with rabid rage. It’s no wonder Minnesota liberals love him. Ceresi doesn’t stand a chance.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:27 PM
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July 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Physical restraint? Does anybody in their right mind (I know I’m in the wrong e-space to be using that term) believe that guy could have ‘physically restrained’ Franken?
I hope not. You wingnuts are even more clueless than I had imagined.
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