{"id":1322,"date":"2007-09-18T13:42:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2007-09-18T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T18:42:20","slug":"ethics-for-ye-but-not-for-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Ethics For Ye, But Not For We"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Franken bashes tobacco companies from the stump, among other places.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfranken.com\/blog\/entries\/big_comedy\/\">this entry from his &#8220;campaign blog<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al Franken, who hopes to challenge Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., next year, says he delivered a stern message to friend Tom Hanks at a fundraiser in Los Angeles last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At one point I talked about the contrast between me and Norm, which was that he takes money from Big PhRMA and Big Insurance and Big Oil and Big Tobacco, and I&#8217;m taking money from Big Comedy,&#8221; Franken recalled in an interview Wednesday. &#8220;And I said, for example, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be writing any earmark in for Tom Hanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Franken, Hanks stormed out of the room, bringing the house down. Then the actor returned to applause, pointed to Franken, and the two said in unison, &#8220;Big Comedy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is to chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>But as it happens, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/09\/18\/franken-invite-for-fundraiser-at-home-of-tobacco-heir\/\">he&#8217;s not above dipping his fingers into Big Tobacco&#8217;s deep pockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local lefties are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/09\/18\/more-information-about-smith-bagley\/\">un-thrilled<\/a> at the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Franken bashes tobacco companies from the stump, among other places. Indeed, check out this entry from his &#8220;campaign blog&#8220;: Al Franken, who hopes to challenge Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., next year, says he delivered a stern message to friend Tom Hanks at a fundraiser in Los Angeles last month. &#8220;At one point I talked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-06","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","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=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}