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jonathantilove @JTiloveTX@alfranken, in Giant of the Senate, recounts @amyklobuchar pre-clearing a Ted Cruz joke she was going to tell at Gridiron with @tedcruz
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____ Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday called Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) "obnoxious and insulting" for focusing on Cruz for an entire chapter of his new book...
Franken said he considered Cruz "singularly dishonest and smarmy during a USA Today interview about his new book, "Al Franken, Giant of the Senate." The Cruz-focused chapter is titled Sophistry."
»»» A page of the book circulating on Twitter reveals a time when the former "Saturday Night Live" comedian stepped in when Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) was struggling to write a joke about Cruz for a Gridiron event.
According to the excerpt, Franken told a version of the joke in front of Cruz that called him "full of shit" as part of the punchline...
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'Full of s**t' is definitely funnier (Original Post)
bigtree
May 2017
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dem4decades
(11,296 posts)1. Ha Ha Ha , that's great.
VOX
(22,976 posts)2. Saw this earlier. It is GOLD!
progressoid
(49,991 posts)3. Oh Al...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)4. Now THAT is the "real" Al Franken we've missed!
So glad he's decided to come out again -- at least within the covers of his book.
Hope to see the real Al Franken use his powers for good in 2018.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)5. HA!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)6. ...
bresue
(1,007 posts)7. I wish Al Franken would run for President!!!
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)8. He has a way with words. our Al
my continuing gratitude to the great state of Minnesota.