Liberal hypocrite: AL FRANKEN KNOCKS DOWN DEAN HECKLER

[bripat9643]

Do you imagine any Democrat will condemn Al Franken's behavior?

http://nypost.com/2004/01/27/al-franken-knocks-down-dean-heckler/​

EXETER, N.H. - Wise-cracking funnyman Al Franken yesterday body-slammed a demonstrator to the ground after the man tried to shout down Gov. Howard Dean.

The tussle left Franken's trademark thick-rim glasses broken, but he said he was not injured.

Franken - who seemed in a state of shock and out of breath after the incident - was helped back to his feet by several people who watched the tussle. Police arrived soon after.

"I got down low and took his legs out," said Franken afterwards.

Franken said he's not backing Dean but merely wanted to protect the right of people to speak freely. "I would have done it if he was a Dean supporter at a Kerry rally," he said.​

 

[Mac1958]

“I’m neutral in this race but I’m for freedom of speech, which means people should be able to assemble and speak without being shouted down.”

Holy shit. Amazing.
.

 

[Skull Pilot]

I would have loved to see Franken get the ever loving shit kicked out of him

 

[Ravi]

It was wrong, he admitted it was wrong, and he got a lot of criticism for it.

An hour later, over lunch with friends, Franken was beginning to regret his lunge. Such a veteran of political spin ought to have known better. ''That was dumb,'' he said in a voice close to that of his S.N.L. character Stuart Smalley. ''That was, like, really dumb.'' He called his wife, and in a hangdog tone explained what he'd done; she told him his behavior was ''inappropriate.'' Minutes later his cellphone started ringing -- CBS, The Daily News. Over the next several days the story would mutate as it percolated through the ether. Franken became obsessed with correcting a report in The New York Post (whose owner, Rupert Murdoch, he has characterized as ''evil'') that he had ''body-slammed'' the heckler; he wrote a letter to the editor, which only made the matter worse. Meanwhile, the story was picked up and embellished by right-wing media outlets and blogs and in The Post's own letters column: ''Stone Cold Al Franken. . . .'' ''Al Franken is a big, fat idiot. . . .'' ''Franken is a disturbed man. . . .'' ''Maybe he's in the wrong profession. Clowns perform their stunts in the circus.'' Stories of the lunge appeared as far away as Japan. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/magazine/al-franken-seriously-so.html

And somehow Bucky thinks that makes it okay for Trump to encourage his followers to commit violence for him.

 

[Skull Pilot]

It was wrong, he admitted it was wrong, and he got a lot of criticism for it.

An hour later, over lunch with friends, Franken was beginning to regret his lunge. Such a veteran of political spin ought to have known better. ''That was dumb,'' he said in a voice close to that of his S.N.L. character Stuart Smalley. ''That was, like, really dumb.'' He called his wife, and in a hangdog tone explained what he'd done; she told him his behavior was ''inappropriate.'' Minutes later his cellphone started ringing -- CBS, The Daily News. Over the next several days the story would mutate as it percolated through the ether. Franken became obsessed with correcting a report in The New York Post (whose owner, Rupert Murdoch, he has characterized as ''evil'') that he had ''body-slammed'' the heckler; he wrote a letter to the editor, which only made the matter worse. Meanwhile, the story was picked up and embellished by right-wing media outlets and blogs and in The Post's own letters column: ''Stone Cold Al Franken. . . .'' ''Al Franken is a big, fat idiot. . . .'' ''Franken is a disturbed man. . . .'' ''Maybe he's in the wrong profession. Clowns perform their stunts in the circus.'' Stories of the lunge appeared as far away as Japan. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/magazine/al-franken-seriously-so.html

And somehow Bucky thinks that makes it okay for Trump to encourage his followers to commit violence for him.

He should have been arrested for assault

 

[MACAULAY]

Hypocrisy and spending borrowed money to buy votes are the only two real trademarks of the Democratic Party.

 

[rightwinger]

I would have loved to see Franken get the ever loving shit kicked out of him

Franken is a bad ass

 

[Skull Pilot]

I would have loved to see Franken get the ever loving shit kicked out of him

Franken is a bad ass

Yeah that's why he had to blind side another guy