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MUST READ FROM THE STAR TRIBUNE: “FRANKEN’S PORN-O-RAMA IS NO SATIRE”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | June 4, 2008
“In the last few months, I’ve gotten a flood of emails from readers suggesting stories about Al Franken and his follies. This vein could be a rich one to mine, given Franken’s years of motor-mouthing on Saturday Night Live and Air America Radio, and his collisions with taxing authorities across the country.
But I’ve let the Franken stories blow by, overwhelmed by their number. However, things changed last week when Franken’s 2000 Playboy article — ‘Porn-O-Rama’ — got stuck in my e-mail filter.
I know what you’re thinking: Kersten’s got one of those prudish, Jerry Falwell-style family filters designed to snare anything that would raise a slight pink on your grandmother’s cheeks. Not so. Mine seems to screen primarily ads for male enhancement products and overly creative animal films.
Why then did my e-mail filter crash closed on Porn-O-Rama?” Source: Star Tribune, June 3, 2008
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June 4th, 2008 at 11:05 AM
So now that “satire” has been officially defined, I look forward to Kersten’s official definition of “art” I can’t imagine it’s anything other then Norman Rockwell.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:05 AM
So now that “satire” has been officially defined, I look forward to Kersten’s official definition of “art” I can’t imagine it’s anything other then Norman Rockwell.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Uh… Kersten didn’t define satire… she cited the correct definition. Franken’s shit routine isn’t often technically satire. It also isn’t often “comedy” … it’s just boorish crap.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:22 AM
What a major blunder on the part of the republicans.
Don’t you know that the moment Katherine Kersten writes about ANYTHING, it instantly become irrelevant?
Democrats will start to rally around Franken, because if KK thinks something is bad, it is obviously the best thing ever.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Betty, Katherine, Esme, and others are leading on this important issue despite people like you, Leroy.
You don’t even use a real name how can people rally around you and your porn-friendly banner?
Better leave this one to the Democrat, Republican, and everyday women sufficiently brave to take a public stand, internet gamer-boy.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Frankenfrauds definition of satire is
“anything I do or say or that shows what an arrogant selfcenterd, lieing, taxfraud hypocrite I am”
Feel free to add anything I may have missed in the description of Angry Al.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Aw the Strib’s star plagiarist again….