Fraken Sense
January 31, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Al Franken is running for Senate in Minnesota, against incumbent Norm Coleman.
If you like your Senators to have cocaine backgrounds, this development might be good news.
Let’s pick up a copy of Tom Shales’ 2002 book “Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live.” Here’s Al Franken, who wrote for the show in the early days, quoted on page 109:
“For some people, it was impossible to do the show without the drugs. Comedians and comedy writers and people in show business in general aren’t the most disciplined people, so the idea of putting the writing off until you had to, and then staying up all night, was an attractive one. And then having this drug that kept you awake in an enjoyable way was kind of tempting too. But I only did cocaine to stay awake to make sure nobody else did too much cocaine. That was the only reason I ever did it. Heh-heh.”
b4 buffalo said,
February 1, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
only in america … is this a great country or what? I wish him as much success in his senate campaign as he had on his radio show.
Joshua S. Rubenstein said,
February 1, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
“Put A Cokehead In Congress! (It couldn’t hurt.)”
Will that fit on a bumper sticker?
Joshua S. Rubenstein said,
February 1, 2007 @ 3:45 pm
“Put A Cokehead In Congress! (It couldn’t hurt!)”
Will that fit on a bumper sticker?
Adam said,
February 1, 2007 @ 5:42 pm
Franken had the twelfth ranked radio show in the country with 1.5 million regular listeners daily. If he has that kind of success in his Senate Campaign that’s a surefire victory.
Sluggo said,
February 1, 2007 @ 7:08 pm
What’s wrong with a coke fiend in the Senate? We already have one in the White House.
SaveFarris said,
February 2, 2007 @ 2:14 pm
Adam,
I guess you’re not aware of election laws in Minnesota. They take the candidate with the most votes, not the guy that finishes #12.
Craig said,
February 2, 2007 @ 6:46 pm
Not only did he snort cocaine 30 years ago, I heard he drank his ass off, went AWOL from the Army, crashed a car, drove two companies into the ground, and a baseball team, slept through 9/11, invaded Mexico to prove himself to his daddy, and decided to turn our armed forces into the Muslim police.