Comedian Al Franken Wins Minn. Senate Nod<\/a><\/p>\nST. PAUL, Minn. \u2014 Comedian Al Franken grabbed the Democratic nomination Tuesday for U.S. Senate in Minnesota, setting up a showdown with Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What?<\/p>\n
Not “Statesman” Al Franken?<\/p>\n
Not “former State Representative” Al Franken?<\/p>\n
Not “Entrepreneur” Al Franken?<\/p>\n
Not “Former Mayor” Al Franken?<\/p>\n
Not “former War Hero” Al Franken?<\/p>\n
Not “Prominent Attorney” Al Franken?<\/p>\n
Not “former Professor” Al Franken?<\/p>\n
Not “Community Organizer” Al Franken?<\/p>\n
Not “(failed) Radio Political Commentator” Al Franken?<\/p>\n
Not even “long-time Minnesota Resident” Al Franken?<\/p>\n
The AP, ostensibly not able to apply any other credible label to Mr. Franken, listed him as “Comedian” Al Franken.<\/p>\n
Even less funny, 163,000\u00a0Minnesotans actually went out of their way to cast a primary vote for a candidate listed as a “Comedian.”<\/p>\n
Seriously, folks (pun intended) are you telling me the best candidate the DFL in Minnesota can muster is a vulgar, tax-dodging, carpet bagging “Comedian?”<\/p>\n
That’s all ya got?<\/p>\n
Is this thing on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hey, wait. That’s not funny. Comedian Al Franken Wins Minn. Senate Nod ST. PAUL, Minn. \u2014 Comedian Al Franken grabbed the Democratic nomination Tuesday for U.S. Senate in Minnesota, setting up a showdown with Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. What? Not “Statesman” Al Franken? Not “former State Representative” Al Franken? Not “Entrepreneur” Al Franken? Not “Former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}