{"id":12468,"date":"2010-08-06T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2010-08-06T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T14:19:36","slug":"somebody-warned-some-state-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12468","title":{"rendered":"Somebody Warned <i>Some State<\/i> About This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Franken? \u00a0Treating the Senate like a comedy club?<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/112947-mcconnell-scolds-franken-for-making-faces-from-presidents-chair-during-speech\">figger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Franken, who was presiding over the chamber from the dais, gesticulated and made faces while McConnell explained his opposition to Kagan, according to witnesses.<br style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" \/>The television cameras broadcasting the speech on C-SPAN remained fixed on McConnell, missing Franken\u2019s antics from the Senate president\u2019s chair.<br style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" \/>McConnell grew increasingly angry as Franken made fun of him before a crowded public gallery and Senate aides lining the chamber walls. Senate aides said they were shocked that Franken would flout the decorum of the chamber during such a solemn occasion.<br style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" \/>After McConnell finished his remarks, he walked up to the dais and rebuked him.<br style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" \/>\u201cThis is not &#8216;Saturday Night Live,&#8217; Al,\u201d McConnell said, making reference to Franken\u2019s career as a writer and actor on NBC\u2019s long-running comedy show, according to a witness who overheard the exchange.<br style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 1px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 1px; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">While Franken offered his apologies, I can&#8217;t imagine that it&#8217;s even occurred to most of the thousands of people who&#8217;ve served in the Senate over the centuries to even think about mocking another speaker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 1px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 1px; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">But we tried to warn you. \u00a0Yes, we did.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; line-height: 21px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Franken? \u00a0Treating the Senate like a comedy club? Go figger: Franken, who was presiding over the chamber from the dais, gesticulated and made faces while McConnell explained his opposition to Kagan, according to witnesses.The television cameras broadcasting the speech on C-SPAN remained fixed on McConnell, missing Franken\u2019s antics from the Senate president\u2019s chair.McConnell grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12470,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions\/12470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}