On Letterman, Al Franken Jokes About Execution for Treason of Rove...Bush

[truthpusher]

http://newsbusters.org/node/2424

From a Conservative Blog...This is some seriously funny stuff...these guys are really reaching...

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On Letterman, Al Franken Jokes About Execution for Treason of Rove, Libby and Bush
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Posted by Brent Baker on October 22, 2005 - 02:44.
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"And so basically, what it looks like is going to happen is that Libby and Karl Rove are going to be executed” because “outing a CIA agent is treason,” left-wing author and radio talk show host Al Franken asserted Friday night, to audience laughter, on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman. Franken qualified his hard-edged satire: "Yeah. And I don't know how I feel about it because I'm basically against the death penalty, but they are going to be executed it looks like." Franken later suggested that President Bush is at risk of receiving the same punishment, since Karl Rove likely told him what he did, but he added a caveat: “I think, by the way, that we should never ever, ever, ever execute a sitting President."

Joining the interview as Franken, who came aboard to plug his new book, The Truth (with jokes), delivered his explanation of the Valerie Plame case:

David Letterman: “The feeling was that this report made the administration's decision to go to war look bad-”

Al Franken: “Right. So they wanted to smear the guy who came back with the report, and so they out his wife and said she sent him there. This is essentially, you know, George H.W. Bush, the President's father, was the head of the CIA and he has said that outing a CIA agent is treason.”

Letterman: “It is treason, yes.”

Link: http://newsbusters.org/node/2424

[kurth]

1. Al was right

The penalty for wartime treason is not 3-month probation.

I saw the show, and Al Franken was very smart about how he phrased it...

[JDPriestly]

3. Franken is a very kind, loving person so no sane person could

take him seriously. That is his good side. That is what I like about him. In the past, he has been too soft on his Republican guests at times, But, I notice recently that he is not letting them run over him.

I guess treason used to be punishable by death. I'm not sure it is any more. I really don't know. We won't be able to trade these guys for spies out in the cold in some other country. No other country will take them.

But then, this bunch of traitors have nothing to worry about since Bush will pardon all of them soon anyway. So, their punishment will be just a joke, whatever it is.

[CTyankee]

2. And how do the RWers justify this?

Please inform me.

[applegrove]

4. What shocking and dark humour. Out of someone who has felt the pain

of Rove WH from the very start - it is honest. Still - I laughed half in sympathy with what he was saying (and how far he went in saying it) and half in shock. As it was meant to be.

[NAO]

5. You can download the video clip (link)

http://www.mrc.org/mp3/2005/audiobias10.asp#1024b