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MAC WEEKLY: “FRANKEN’S DEMEANOR SMACKED OF CARPETBAGGER CONDESCENSION”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | December 7, 2007
"'Minnesotans know what's a joke and what isn't,' Franken said in a recent New York Times interview. Was it a failure of cultural literacy when Franken did his damnedest to dress down a Mac Weekly reporter for challenging Democratic Party orthodoxy in Feb. 2006?
Franken's characteristic comedic nonchalance dropped during that initial interview, much of which was spent on a disagreement of facts in which The Mac Weekly was later vindicated.
Mac Weekly writer Alex Park wrote in Oct. 2006 that 'speaking with Al Franken, one gets the impression that he likes to laugh at you.' Franken's demeanor smacked of carpetbagger condescension, and his flippancy may have been a dismissal of a student body that is less than 20 percent Minnesotan." Source: Mac Weekly, December 7, 2007
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