must see TV>>>>Al Franken on CSPAN: 8:57 CDT

[Gabi Hayes]

really good, slams the hell out of lying republicans

putting this up now; will edit

EDIT: Al wrote a book, Why Not Me? in which he becomes president, clones himself, then goes nuts....very very funny. in this book he thinks he's asked to give the commencement speech at Harvard, and it's really Hartford Institute of something or other. when he finds out, he goes to Hartford and gives a very insulting speech to the grads. the REPUBLICAN party in Minnesota starting using this passage from the book as a campaign issue against him, either not knowing, or not caring that it was part of a NOVEL.

I mention this because he brought it up in the interview with Stevie the republican mouthpiece.

cspan schedule on my computer is wrong, so I don't know how long it lasts, or if it's to be replayed

it infuriates me that he's not considered as a veep candidate. I started a thread on this. what better running mate to CONCENTRATE on getting under Trump's exceedingly thin skin?

remember what he did to the lying liar Bill OReilly?

[Gabi Hayes]

1. I own four of these books, and they're ALL extremely funny, as well as bitingly satirical.

http://www.amazon.com/Al-Franken/e/B000APX7XC

if you haven't read big fat idiot (Rush), Lying Liars, or Truth with Jokes, you owe yourselves.....they go back over 20 years, and are still relevant today

and his novel, mentioned above, is fantastic, especially the audio version, in which people like Norman Ornstein, with whom he appeared at the 96 convention for comedy central, playing themselves, is at times, LOLworthy. I almost drove off the winding mountain roads of WVA while listening.

gave it to a friend, who thought it was the best audio book he's ever heard

they just discussed how somebody at Politico called for his nomination as Veep, averring that he's the best rep for Bernie's viewpoint available--better than Warren.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Influences:

bob and ray
Jim Downey....head writer at SNL for decades, literally
Lorne Michaels
Harold Ramis

[Gabi Hayes]

3. he's gone, but they're apparently doing a session....

regarding prospective nominees, which is interesting on its own.

a guy from politico is on, talking about all the people who DON'T want anything to do with veep. he just said that, especially among younger pols, they consider it "too much of a risk to tie themselves to him," or a very close paraphrase of the quote

talking about Christie, who's at 25-30 percent in Jersey polls.
says the only upside for Trump is LOYALTY, haaa. politico guy says it's impossible to overstate loyalty to trump's (insular, my word) family, again haaaaa


they're showing a clip of Christie's insulting speech at the Romney convention, and he looks GIGANTIC. he must've lost half a ton since then.
not that he doesn't look like a stuffed walrus, still

still....apologies to the gravitationally challenged

[Gabi Hayes]

4. they still have Christie bloviating, and cut to a shot of the Romney's, with his wife

clapping, but both with pained expressions on their faces, especially the mitt. he looked like he'd rather be at a flying spaghetti monster congregation.

take your pick between his insane religion and that of the above.

I like their "our father"