Important: Al Franken grills wise Latina about “Perry Mason” episodes
posted at 5:00 pm on July 15, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Greg Hengler, the Al Franken decade begins. Geraghty thinks he should be using his camera time to build credibility, but let’s face it: No one’s looking to Al Franken for intellectual fireworks, especially after umpteen dreary hours of Sotomayor lying her ass off about how she didn’t mean what she clearly meant with the “wise Latina” crap. If he keeps his head down and provides a few occasional moments of comic relief, he’ll be okay. Frankly, I’m disappointed he didn’t tell her she’s good enough, she’s smart enough, and doggone it, people like her.
Believe it or not, this wasn’t the dumbest question asked by a senator from Minnesota today.
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But… but… he’s a Harvard grad!
yogi41 on July 15, 2009 at 5:03 PM
For some reason I expect Senator Franken to wear rubber nose and clown wig during these proceedings.
Oil Can on July 15, 2009 at 5:03 PM
**FacePalm**
upinak on July 15, 2009 at 5:03 PM
I got nothin’. I’m speechless.
lorien1973 on July 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
it’s all theater now. pathetic to see all these ‘self-important’ people who couldn’t hold down a job in the real world.
gatorboy on July 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
There is a rumbling in the ground in these here parts…the founding fathers are spinning in their graves.
Laura in Maryland on July 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
dear… god. Waddaya think the voters of Minnesota are thinking about now?
creatocon on July 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM
The left must be proud of the
pornographersenatorgrapeknutz on July 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM
I’m waiting for the Bass-O-Matic hearings……
BobMbx on July 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM
When is he going to start using the John Belushi reference jokes?
rihar on July 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM
What does Ed think about this?
upinak on July 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Franken (later): “You should be confirmed…..because you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and doggoneit, you’re a Latina!”
/sarc
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Fake outrage time:
She perjured herself!
She was born in 1954. Perry Mason ran until 1966. Her claim that she was reviewing cases while watching the episode is dubious at best!
lorien1973 on July 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Ed still needs to apologize on behalf of all Minnesota residents.
lorien1973 on July 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Doesn’t this qualify as illegal torture?
Daggett on July 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Yeah.
Hey Ed, what are the jackals saying about Franken now?
BobMbx on July 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Wouldn’t it be classic if one of the Republican Senators asked………
Seven Percent Solution on July 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Got the popcorn and the barf bags ready to go!
JetBoy on July 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM
“Live from New York, it’s Saturday night”…ick
d1carter on July 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM
I am confident that Big Mouth Billy Bass would have asked better questions.
ICBM on July 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM
California, New Jersey, and West Virginia rejoice! You are no longer the country’s biggest jokes.
Sorry, Ed.
Laura in Maryland on July 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Ceaser, Great Emporer of Rome: Give them Bread, and Circuses!
Obama, Precedent of the US: Give them Healthcare and Al Franken…
Romeo13 on July 15, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Wow…a new low for Congress. And that’s saying a lot with Sheila Jackson Lee in the House.
SouthernGent on July 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Just another clown in the Obozo circus.
txag92 on July 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Laugh as we might he’ll probably have a very long Senate career.
Too funny.
patrick neid on July 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Bout sums this situation up perfectly…
Keemo on July 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Wow, what hard hitting questions the Dems are throwing at her.
marmaran on July 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM
You haven’t stocked your bunker yet? You better get busy, Bub.
Laura in Maryland on July 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Darn, now I’ll never see The Mall of America because there’s no way I could be civil in Minnesota. You people deserve to be hit over the head with a large stick!
redwhiteblue on July 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Hulu ok with us running these SNL clips?
LastRick on July 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
One word ……
Douchebag.
Send in the clowns.
fogw on July 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
I don’t know; Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein… The three witches of the west. Pretty close call I’d say.
Keemo on July 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Ya know what…I actually think that was a decent question. Not for it’s surface value or the answer it would provide, but because if you watch her (love the split screen) you can actually see the gears spinning in her head as to how to spin the answer appropriately. Of all the reasons NOT to anoint her, the number one reason is that she isn’t honest in the hearings. All of her answers average 4 caveats each (including this one). If the person can’t give a straight answer to the American people, then they don’t deserve unlimited power for life.
scottm on July 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Minnesotans = MORONS
August Horch on July 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM
And who can forget the greatest Frankisode of all!
BobMbx on July 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM
OMG
reshas1 on July 15, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Ed, move out while you can!!
jencab on July 15, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Wow, Minnesota must be so proud of their new Senator… /sarc
What a moron
Norwegian on July 15, 2009 at 5:16 PM
A little OT but have you seen the last Auto Tune the News??? TOO FUNNY! Boehner going “hell no” repeatedly on Cap-n-Tax. … Entertainment you can believe in…
catlady on July 15, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Gawd Almighty, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry…
If only Coleman had had the cojones to appeal it to SCOTUS…
Weep for all of us in the Gopher State.
(To those of us in the Sane Community, he’s Senator 42%.The horror, the horror…)
Bruno Strozek on July 15, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Up next…. Senator Leahy asks her about Matlock’s views on parliamentary procedure.
The Ugly American on July 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Procrastinating.
JetBoy on July 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM
don’t know; Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein… The three witches of the west. Pretty close call I’d say.
Keemo on July 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
“I’ll get you… you and your little dog, too!”
catlady on July 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM
No offense, but a lot of you need to lighten up. It was just a light-hearted question at the end of his time. Yes he’s a doofus, and shouldn’t be there, but I can’t fault him for trying to keep things light.
Rabble, rabble, rabble. -You
Abby Adams on July 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Hey Democrats ….. something else you own.
They must be beaming with pride. Actually they are.
Dumb@sses.
fogw on July 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM
My God! Give the woman a break!
How does she stand against such withering questioning?!
Daddy-O on July 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Oh dear God, man. From the State that brought you Harry Blackmun, Walter Mondale, Paul Wellstone, Jesse Ventura, and Keith Ellison, comes this crap.
And there are still people who act surprised when I tell them I don’t plan on moving back there, ever. Of course I’m now in the land of Client #9, Paterson, and the second-worst deliberative body in the world, the New York State Senate.
Fallen Sparrow on July 15, 2009 at 5:20 PM
You may be right.. but thanks to your mention of Cerberus, I’ve lost my appetite. Eeeew.
Laura in Maryland on July 15, 2009 at 5:20 PM
I’m reminded of the dream sequence from PCU where the big dumb wastoid proclaims that he didn’t exhale.
MadisonConservative on July 15, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Now Congress really is made up of clowns.
Enoxo on July 15, 2009 at 5:20 PM
It wasn’t a cocktail party.
fogw on July 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Normally, I have no problem calling out “my side” of the political aisle when I see fit to do so.
But I can’t think of a single reason to defend Al Franken in any way, shape or form.
*thinks*
Nope.
JetBoy on July 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM
good schtick but how does that help the country.
rjoco1 on July 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM
I didn’t understand what he was asking. Did he finish his question or was she just saying whatever came to her mind regarding perry mason?
Phoenician on July 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM
As much as I don’t like Sotomayor, she is a Federal Appeals Court Judge, hearing her address Franken as “Sir” is disgusting.
elduende on July 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM
I don’t know about the lying her ass off part. I’m pretty impressed. I always thought she was a conservative-for-Obama pick, and he picked her only for the first Latina woman effect b/c it rubs off on him. Her comments were troubling, but she’s made no bones about repudiating them, as well as asserting that her judging style is applying laws to facts. She’s been very deferential during a process that might trip up someone with a bigger ego — she seems to have humility and warmth. I guess we will see if she’s lying or not in time, but I just want to put forth the possibility that she’s not.
Simona on July 15, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Enjoy the idiocracy.
lorien1973 on July 15, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Good lord . . . Franken. This entire government is nothing more than a sick joke. Our adversaries must be laughing their backsides off.
rplat on July 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM
The left at YouTube is already cover his butt!
grapeknutz on July 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM
That’s going to crack me up all night… :)
Very clever of you.
Keemo on July 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM
I’m thinking she’s not who her backers wanted her to be. Anyone read ol’ Dahlia over at slate?? She is FUMING, and it’s soooo funny!
Simona on July 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Whats next….Ron Jeremy as Majority Whip?
BobMbx on July 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Do you mean the ones on the Judiciary Committee or all of the donks?
fogw on July 15, 2009 at 5:26 PM
“Didn’t They prepare you for these questions Ms. Sotomayor”
Need any more proof of how scripted, rehearsed, and vapid these hearings are?
fourdeucer on July 15, 2009 at 5:26 PM
What would you expect? They all work fron Soroses script anyway.
Rick007 on July 15, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I wonder if the other members of SCOTUS are looking at her thinking, “Seriously? I’m going to have to work with that?”
I’m nowhere near the intellect that Alito, Roberts, Thomas and Scalia are, and just watching the interviews and reading the transcripts has convinced me that talking to her for 10 minutes would make me want to drive an ice pick through my school.
JadeNYU on July 15, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Will not watch this corrupt bastard, ever. Thanks for the synopsis so I don’t have to.
rockmom on July 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Thank you Minnesota! I now have one less state to visit. Ever.
I’m so embarrassed and scared for my country.
jennifernaz on July 15, 2009 at 5:28 PM
I always liked Davis more than Franken.
malclave on July 15, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Another example of the failure of public skulls.
BobMbx on July 15, 2009 at 5:29 PM
How did this newbie moron even get on a committee anyway? Don’t you need seniority or something?
KS Rex on July 15, 2009 at 5:30 PM
You either have a really large ice pick or a really small school.
Snowed In on July 15, 2009 at 5:30 PM
But Brawndo has electrolytes.
Abby Adams on July 15, 2009 at 5:31 PM
He’s more senior that Specter! Life is a bitch…..
BobMbx on July 15, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Somehow I get the feeling you could dub in Franken’s dialogue from Trading Places (in which he played a drunk train baggage handler) and it wouldn’t sound any dumber.
Snowed In on July 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Minnesota, making the rest of the States look sane since 1998
TheBigOldDog on July 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM
At least he didn’t call her a big fat litigator.
Jim Treacher on July 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Simona on July 15, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Respect that this is your opinion, but her body of work points to the fact that she is lying her head off. Time will unfortunately prove this.
catlady on July 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM
I did get a bit of chuckle from this line during Jon Stewart’s confirmation hearing rant last night.
[speaking about the senate judiciary committee members]
“Anyway, you can find out the rest of what you’ll be doing on Wikipedia — just like we did”
Hilarious.
The Ugly American on July 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM
This just amplifies how weak Norm Coleman really is as a “conservative” and how stuck on stupid the average Minnesotan is.
Fletch54 on July 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM
I don’t see what the point is. This is just a formality. She’s in, and we all know she’s in.
SuperManGreenLantern on July 15, 2009 at 5:37 PM
The Court Jester speaketh!
SilverStar830 on July 15, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Then give up.
Jim Treacher on July 15, 2009 at 5:38 PM
And yet:
See, that’s the stuff she’s lying her ass off about. She’s not “repudiating” them, she’s trying to claim that she didn’t really mean what she clearly meant. Multiple times. And her assertion of her judging style is at odds with her actual, you know, judging style.
Jim Treacher on July 15, 2009 at 5:42 PM
We’re heading up to Minnesota later this summer. I can’t wait to mock everyone I see.
NebCon on July 15, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Leave Danny Kaye out of this!
Snowed In on July 15, 2009 at 5:42 PM
embarrassing…..i really should get on that whole moving thing
alexraye on July 15, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Well so what if Sotomayor couldn’t remember the name of a Perry Mason episode. Heck, I can’t remember any Saturday Night Live episode where Al Franken was funny.
radjah shelduck on July 15, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Good show, ya fn assclown.
TheSitRep on July 15, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Well, as long as everyone is having fun…
thegreatbeast on July 15, 2009 at 5:48 PM
He’s a winnin’ lad, ‘eh?
CynicalOptimist on July 15, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Is the bread and circus option still on the table?
TheUnrepentantGeek on July 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM
He is
Wade on July 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM
And to think people have given me shit for suggesting that Franken will be an unserious politician.
Seixon on July 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM
This is how this tax cheating dickweed is going to earn his senate salary.
TheSitRep on July 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Before the hearings, Franken said he was meeting with a group of lawyers because he wasn’t a lawyer and didn’t know what to ask. Makes me wonder what he would’ve asked if he hadn’t been briefed first.
What a buffoon.
conservativegrandma on July 15, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Sure, the people of Minnesota are morons.
But let’s face it:
- Illinois has Dick Durbin and Roland Burris;
- California has a dozen of the stupidest women ever elected to national office;
- Texas has Sheila Jackson-Lee, apparently as the result of gerrymandering a ghetto district in Houston; and
- New York has Scummer and
ShrillarySome punch-drunk upstater.Jaibones on July 15, 2009 at 5:55 PM
And this is what the people of Minnesota got for 8 months of counting votes.
Idiot. Make that idiots.
stenwin77 on July 15, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Are you effing kidding me? More than a complete and total dumbass. Waaaayy more.
RWLA on July 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM
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