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ON NATIONAL TV, FRANKEN GETS ANGRY OVER QUESTIONING ABOUT VICIOUS ROVE & LIBBY EXCECUTION JOKES
By Michael B. Brodkorb | March 14, 2008
In an interview on CNN this morning, Al Franken got angry when questioned about his previous vicious jokes about the execution of Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Click here to read the exchange.
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March 14th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I think your missing the breaking news on the StarTribune website. I hope you will find out more with the interview tommorow.
StarTribune Breaking News: Pawlenty travels out of town on weekend…….Sometimes!!
“Most of my travels have been on the weekends, and I put in enough hours as governor to more than take care of my duties here,” Pawlenty told reporters this week.
Pawlenty’s spokesman, Brian McClung, expanded on those remarks Friday in a prepared statement, saying that Pawlenty was out of town for just eight weekdays so far this year.
“It’s doubtful that most Minnesotans care if the governor is playing hockey, campaigning or watching his daughter’s volleyball games on his own time on a Saturday or a Sunday,” McClung said.
From the Mayor’s Desk: I congratulate the groundbreaking reporting here. I was shocked. I’m sure we will see House Majority Leader Sertich (DFL) open a hearing on this one to get to the bottom of it.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
From “the exchage”….
“This is just ridiculous,” Franken went on. “The reason they want to do this kind of distraction is that Norm Coleman has such a terrible record. … I’m not going to let them do that.”
Spot on, Al. If ol’ Smokescreen COULD run on his record, he would.
But Smokescreen can’t, so is smearin’ time again, from the party of Rove.
No surprise there!
March 14th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
No, Al, the reason they keep doing this is because YOU are a terrible person and THAT is the record you must run on.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
You know Eight Putt Sean Hannity just played a conversation which Franken was trying to show how serious and horrible the conduct of Libby and Rove (mind you I think they did nothing wrong since talking to reporters is how they get information for stories). He used a comment made by George Bush 41 which in effect said outing a CIA agent was treason and than said that Rove and Libby should be executed.
Now he’s trying to deny it! What’s the point of him saying he care’s about the common person because he’s lying. After all he just lied that he said they shouldn’t be excuted so everything he must say has to be viewed as a lie.
Since he thinks Norm Coleman is doing a lousy than it’s obvious that Norm Coleman is doing a great job.
Oh and this comes from Franken who thinks he can break the law and shouldn’t punished.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
March 14th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Walter, I’m not surprised at all that you believe outing a CIA Agent is acceptable behavior for republiCons.
It’s just one more reason why GOP now stands for GreedOverPrinciples.
How many years did Scooter Libby get?
Oh, wait – none: Boy Blunder gave him a pardon.
Which fits the republiCon motto “Liberty and Justice for some.”
March 14th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Twopud: Mouth breathing basement dweller.
You sure are here a lot. Why is that? Nothing else to do?
March 14th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
TPT: since Richard Armitage admitted he was the one to out the CIA Agent should’nt he be in jail? I guess he gets a pass because he is a dem.
March 14th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
ogvette – Richard Armitage, a DEM??!?
ROFLMAO!!!!!
And thanks for proving your ignorance to the facts in The Plame Game, let alone Armitage’s personal history.
FYI – when Armitage realized he was the leaker, he – like a man – immediately manned up.
Now, if you had a clue about that outing law, you’d realize why – besides being the right thing to do – this is important.
But you don’t, and you don’t.
Which, of course, explains your support of Norm “Smokescreen” Coleman, R=Lapdog.
March 14th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
TPT:I will man up to being wrong on Armitage’s party. We will see if you do the same when you are wrong.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
ogvette – if you have the guts, watch Richard Armitage – a true American hero – on an hour long Carlie Rose production.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdwBR44aeBs
I don’t agree with everything Richard Armitage says – but then again, I haven’t been everywhere Richard Armitage has been, or done.
Not many have.
May God grant more heros to serve our country, as He has with Richard Armitage.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
ogvette – if you have any intellectual honesty at all, you need to watch Richard Armitage’s interview.
Especially around the 32 minute mark, when he talks about war, and Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave, at what today’s GOPer has done to the Grand Old Party.
Richard Armitage is a true American hero.
March 15th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Agreed TPT. Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave.
I keep hearing “What Reagan Do?” spewing out of Sean Hannity’s mouth.
Having served in Reagan’s 500 ship Navy, I could tell you what he would have done with Iraq. Back then we had the USS Wisconsin and the USS New Jersey along with 13 carrier groups. We made the mighty Soviet Navy back down time & time again. Saddam would have been no problem.
Libya (the Iraq of the 80’s) stopped making mischief after he got a few missiles in his tent.
Remember the USS Vicennes? We took no crap in Persian Gulf. Iran learned its lesson.
First off, Reagan would not have reduced the Armed Forces to the level that Bush 41 & Clinton did. Second, he would have listened the military expertise of Colin Powell not Dick Cheney. Thirdly, under a Reagan administration, Donald Rumsfeld would not even be a restroom attendant on Mahogony Row in the Pentagon.
Reagan committed troops once–in Beirut. It was disaster, rather give into lust for revenge, he pulled our troops out of harm’s way. The USS New Jersey’s guns took care of the rest. Has Hamas messed with us since? No. This October it will be 25 years.
Granted, I will never vote for Franken but Coleman needs to be his own man. The man who cleaned up St.Paul after Goofus Latimer not this Bush 43 butt sniffer.
March 15th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Two Putz will will no doubt fail to condemn the Clinton pardons as Bill and his cigar rode out of town in 2000.
March 15th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Eight Putt:
One, what CIA covert agent was outed? There’s this talk this woman who worked in the CIA was exposed by the Bush admiration, but her first outing was actually done in the Clinton administration.
Two, what you have forgotten in this dispute was Rove and Libby were talking to reporters. They were telling the reporters that the CIA appointed Wilson not the Bush Admiration. It was later learned in this mess that the woman who has been harmed by being outed exercised influence to get him appointed to this mission. If Wilson had wrote a pro Bush report you would be questioning the method how he got appointed.
Three, very important Joe Wilson created this problem because when it got to a point where he was trying to embarrass the Bush Adminstration that he decided to be public about his identity! He had no problem being interviewed by Robert Novak when he thought Novak wrote a pro Wilson piece. His complaint came months after Novak wrote his piece. Not the day the story was published.
Four, where was the immediate outrage? Novak did this alleged harm in July 2003. Wilson didn’t start complaining about this until like October 2003. The CIA when Novak talked to them placed no restirction. The fact that the CIA didn’t urge caution (compare that with all the begging the Bush Adminstration was doing to stop the Times from publishing some of their spy coverage stories) the CIA thought there was no harm. AKA she wasn’t covert.
Five, are you mad at Mr. Fitgerald who apparently was never worried enough about it that he tried to get Libby let alone Rove charged with outing a covert agent which could cause execution?
You see Eight she was never covert therefore she was never outed! Joe Wilson created this myth to please people like you and get rich at the same time!
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
March 15th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
So the Top Five (5) according to [the David Letterman Show?] Walter Hanson:
-5. Joe Wilson created a myth to please TwoPuttTommy and also to make himself wealthy by writing a book.
-4. Quick Outrage was way too slow.
-3. Joe Wilson created this problem. Only when he couldn’t do it quickly did he go public.
-2. TwoPuttTommy forgot that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby were talking to REPORTERS.
-1. Blame BILL CLINTON [and/or his administration] . That is where the fault is.
March 15th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Walter;
So, what color is the sky in your world today?
Patrick Fitzgerald did say that his investigation proved that Plame was covert at the time her name was given to reporters
Walter, correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t the White House have a person who’s job it is to communicate these sort of corrections to the news reporters.
By embarrass, don’t you mean expose the truth that there was no sale of yellow cake.
Did you ever think that the reason the CIA said and did nothing at first to protect the agents that worked with Plame.
The reason Rove was never charged is because Libby obstructed the investigation, the crime he was convicted of.
“You see Walter, she was covert and her outing placed the agents who worked with her in danger! The Bush Administration created this myth, to cover their lies and make their friends lots and lots and lots of money.
That’ll do Sheeple that’ll do
March 16th, 2008 at 8:44 am
HCDFL, wrong, wrong, wrong. But please, don’t let the facts get in your way. The final proof is that Joe and wife are trying to get rich off of this whole mess. They have no credibility.
March 16th, 2008 at 9:39 am
“You’re doing one heck of a job, Pete-y.”
March 16th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Pete;
Which statement is incorrect?
Which fact is wrong?
You are asking me to believe that to make a buck, the Wilsons sat around one day and said lets “embarrass” Bush by telling the press that there was no “yellow cake” sale , we’ll get you outed from the CIA, we’ll force Rove and Libby to talk to reporters, we’ll place the lives of your fellow agents in danger, we’ll force Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate Rove and Libby’s patriotic duty to set the record straight about who sent me on the trip, we’ll write a book we’ll sue the Government and then we’ll be rich, rich I tell you, rich beyond our widest dreams HA HA HA HA.
OK, must be a little foggy in Wingnutville this weekend.
Pete,
The comments by you and Walter during this thread are the reason you are Sheeple, and that’ll do
March 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
DFL senate candidate Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer probably has TWO OR THREE WORDS of WRITTEN advice about elected officials [and their appointees] using the resources of the United States of America to get involved in all of this war-making non-sense:
DON’T DO IT!!
March 17th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Walter and Pete – it’s people like you, that cause independents to vote DFL.
Keep up the good work!!!
Oh, and the reason those independents are voting DFL?
You simply cannot trust a republiCon to tell the truth.