By John Burtis
Monday, July 31, 2006
Oh boy, it appears that the great comedic genius of our times, the Saturday Night Live veteran, the sophomoric muse of the left, al Franken, the guiding power behind the faltering air america, is testing the waters for a run for the US Senate after moving his unique radio show to Minneapolis from the Big apple, where wags said, his unique brand of humor was losing some steam with the loss of WLIB-aM, the erstwhile flagship station.
and it is suspected that the imminent failure and final disappearance of air america is driving Mr. Franken west to his destiny in the US Senate. after all, why would a keen intelligence, a man of such wit and humor, a person so genetically designed for the hurly burly of the big city, seek solace in Minneapolis, the home of Billy Graham?
Perhaps al needs a job with vast guaranteed riches, the ability to trade stocks with non-public information, the ability take his war chest into his dotage, and a grand retirement funded by the very people Mr. Franken has humored and fleeced for so many years -- a sweet irony indeed. You know, the folks the Democrat politicos call the wealthy, the saps like you and me who make up the waning 51% who still pay an income tax. and the politicos that Mr. Franken would fit right in with, worships, and prays will succeed in redistributing all of our hard earned wealth but not his.
and only three final comedic acts remain for this seasoned vaudevillian; the need to shake down those liberal fat cats he has so successfully groomed for many years, to overcome those few negatives his name connotes, and the final act of grand guignol around the ballot box in Minnesota.
But will the folks in the North Star State buy into the off color one liners, the outright fiction, obscene jokes, threats to kill the President, that Donald Rumsfeld "ought to be tortured," and that Rush Limbaugh has been accused of "being a Nazi," which air america and Mr. Franken's hand picked crew of disc jockeys, like the irrepressible Randi Rhodes and Rachel Maddow, have pumped into a reluctant troposphere, groaning under the weight of their worthless truck?
Can the farmers, small business people, common folk, people who still read books and possess critical thinking, patriots of all ages who still value america and her ideals, take a pass on Mr. Franken's all too visible foibles and forget this highly troubled past with the radio dial?
Will they be able to push aside the memories of the problematic $800,000 loan from a Mr. Evan Cohen of the Gloria Wise Boys and Girl's Club of New York, a non-profit organization, to Mr. Evan Cohen a co-founder of air america, the same man, which Mr. al Franken, the key executive of air america, claimed no knowledge of? a transaction which led to investigations and Mr. Cohen's full and spontaneous resignation from both positions? To which Mr. Franken still claimed no knowledge?
Can they be made to forget the sad tale of the poor staffers in air america's Chicago operations who became incensed to find that they had been dunned for months for a health plan, touted by air america, which had never existed?
Will the fact that air america's paychecks suffered prolonged bouts of a high latex content and had to be recalled be brushed between Mr. Franken's growing Oriental carpet and the thinning pad which lies below?
But these bits of snide venomous slapstick, damaging acts of business management, the cheating the employees, open threats against the President, members of the Cabinet, and the leaders of the conservative movement will only serve to boost Mr. Franken in the eyes of the Democratic elite -- all of whom share exactly the same base values.
Suppose Mr. Franken succeeds in his latest endeavor. He'll be able to rub elbows and drop his ready snoot into the free tax payer supplied trough with golden luminaries like Ted Kennedy, John "Live Shot" Kerry, Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer, and Pat "Leaky" Leahy -- despisers of business, democracy, our current President, current cabinet members and free expression.
Imagine if you will, a future Senator Franken, replete with glasses, his trademark smirk, minutes of preparation, a decided progressive ideological bent of outlandish proportions, tearing into a judicial appointee under the approving smiles of Mr. Leahy and Kennedy.
Then picture the hapless victim, as we did Judge alito - excoriated again by Mr. Kennedy, in a recent op ed piece, where this panting ranting liberal nabob accuses an honest man of pulling a heavy wool blanket over this veteran prevaricator's eyes and ears -- as he is skewered by a former stand up comic in a suit, with glasses lowered, with a straight face (if that is at all possible), reading from a script prepared by the finest staffers the Democratic leadership has to offer.
It is a picture which boggles the mind and serves to show us the path our country is following as it lurches toward perdition and full voting membership in the Third World.
ah, yes, al Franken is moving to Minneapolis, the North Star State.
and it's the beginning of the third creation for al, from comedian, to liberal radio founder and Chapter 7 receiver, and now national political hopeful.
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