Al Franken stinks

Another hilarious Al Franken gag photo.

I never thought much of Al Franken on Saturday Night Live. He was known for bad taste. Older writers referred to him an Tom Davis as those guys who wanted to say "fart" on TV. (They can say that on TV now and it's not the boon Franken thought it would be.)

Politically, he's a right-wing Democrat. He's a Zionist, defends and supports Israel's ongoing crime against the people of Gaza, he supported the invasion of Iraq, the destruction of Libya and he supports mass government surveillance. Now he's a neo-McCarthyite. He went to an elite prep school and was a Harvard boy.

If he resigns, good riddance to him.

In fairness to Franken, in the '30's or '40's, the comedy team The Ritz Brothers were traveling by train. Their manager was with them and he fell asleep. So the zany Ritz Brothers gave him a "hot foot". If you had been that manager, would you have rather had a second degree burn on your foot or have those morons take pictures pretending to molest you in your sleep?

Franken is not as bad as The Ritz Brothers. At least not in that regard. I'm not aware of the Ritz Brothers calling for mass surveillance or the destruction of entire societies.

I was going to put a picture of a pediatric burn ward in Gaza here, but I couldn't.