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  2. jason330
    October 9, 2008,

    Why doesn’t the guy just says, “No.”

    I heard this on Mike Mathews show. What a trainwreck this is for Coleman – who was winning until yesterday.

  3. pandora
    October 9, 2008,

    Well, that went well. How many times did he say “I think the Senator reported every gift he ever received”?

    Loved the reporters. And you know they’ll get to the bottom of this.

  4. Dominique
    October 9, 2008,

    Wow. That was uncomfortable. I hope Franken wins. I’ve been a fan for a long time. I loved his books and, darn it, people like him.

  6. Gelatinous Monk
    October 9, 2008,

    You’re right….this is awesome.

    It shows why the press should be ignored.

    Guy answers the question. Ignorant liberal reporter pretends she didn’t hear him.

    Makes me long for the darker days of politics…..when a little corrective motivation could be “spread around”.

  7. Von Cracker
    October 9, 2008,

    Ah yes, it’s always someone else’s fault – the evil librul press, in this case.

    Anyhoo – I work with plenty of Minnesotans; they seem to be very positive about Franken – no joke.

  8. anonone
    October 9, 2008,

    Yes, Gelatinous Monk , your absolutely right. The press should be controlled and punished for asking repubs questions and expecting answers other than gibberish. Such behavior by the press is absolutely unacceptable! They are filtering! Ignore the press – LISTEN ONLY TO THE PARTY!

    These miscreant so-called journalists should be hauled off to Gitmo for some waterboarding and re-education. They need to be taught that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to criticizing repubs because the founding fathers never said it specifically in the Constitution and I am a strict constructionist. Anybody who says otherwise is just legislating from the bench.

  9. Dorian Gray
    October 9, 2008,

    GM – For the record and in the spirit of Orwell, “the guy” never gave an answer. That’s the problem. His “answer” requires us to assume that the suits fit the definition of “gifts” based on some arcane Senate rule. So the reporter asked a follow-up inquiring as to whether we should assume that the suits were technically a gift. Perhaps they were below the cost threshold or something.

    The problem, Mr. Monk, is that these are not answers. This is treating plain English as a playground. This is what Orwell called political language.

    “Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

    Politics and the English Language (1946)

  10. Donsquishy
    October 9, 2008,

    I’ve been a fan for a long time.

    I think Franken made fun of Hillary once. You should probably hate him now….

  11. Donsquishy
    October 9, 2008,

    This guy is no Dana Perino. She would have deflected this easy.

    Go figure relentless local reporters.

    they put the Washington Eastern Elite press to shame. Dogging this guy

    I love the “wont respond to unnamed sources”

    Both parties love being unnamed sources when CNN calls them…

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