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FRANKEN SHOCK: ONCE SANG SONG WITH LYRICS ABOUT SHOOTING JFK, MLK & RFK
By Michael B. Brodkorb | December 19, 2007
"Let me give you an example of the kind of bad karma that will come back to haunt Franken.
Back in the late 70s or early 80s, Franken made an appearance with his old sidekick, Tom Davis, at the Brave New Workshop. My late brother Mike was in town and, for some reason, we decided to take in the show, which turned out to be pretty bad overall.
But there came a moment that transcended the general mediocrity of the evening and raised it to a pitch of outright ugliness that almost got my brother, a volatile sort, up out of his seat to storm the stage. Franken and Davis sang what I'm sure they thought was a very witty version of Bob Marley's 'I shot the sheriff' only with new words they made up for it. Instead of 'I shot the sheriff,' they substituted oh-so-clever verses like 'I shot John Kennedy' and 'I shot Martin Luther King' and 'I shot Bobby Kennedy.'
It was meant to be shock-humor, but you know that if that performance had been taped and Coleman got his grubby hands on it, he'd air it again and again and again next fall and it would sink Franken faster than a donut in a coffee shop. Now, I doubt there was a tape made of that performance, but the point is there are plenty of tapes of similarly offensive performances; add Franken's intellectual mediocrity and his flip mouth and he’s far more likely to self-destruct on the campaign trail than either Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer or Mike Ciresi." Source: Twin Cities Daily Planet, December 18, 2007
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December 19th, 2007 at 3:14 PM
Norm once sang a song about marijuana, disobeying authority and ending a war. This is gonna come back to haunt him gravely. The majority of hte state’s population won’t stand for such nonsense.
Gimme a f*king break.
December 19th, 2007 at 8:24 PM
how many years ago was that again? will anyone care?.. I doubt it.. i care that Coleman is a socialist
January 18th, 2008 at 4:05 AM
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