Franken

So I’m watching C-Span at 9 PM on a Saturday night in Downtown Newport, RI (Playground of the rich and famous, and home to about 500 rich high school girls at boarding school). And Al Franken is giving a speech at U-Midwest, somewhere.

The dude’s funny. Stuart Smiley lives on.

Regardless, he’s the first of you lefties that I’ve actually been able to take somewhat seriously. It’s almost enough for me to buy that there may actually be a ‘right-wing conspiracy’ in the media. He doesn’t get nearly the even-handed coverage that he ought to get.

I’m also 2/3 of a bottle of wine and a beer to the wind, but he’s making a lot of sense. Great bit with the second question he answered regarding media bias, and why liberal bias really doesn’t affect coverage. He really seems to understand markets… No, he really seems to be someone with whom I could sit down and drink much beer.

Do we have a POC for him to see if he can come on as a desk commentator?

Posted by jank at November 22, 2003 9:23 PM