Fox host: ‘Angry comedian’ Al Franken mistreated ‘kind’ Joe Lieberman

[meegbear]

Former comedian Al Franken is better known these days as the unabashedly liberal junior senator from Minnesota. When Franken refused on Thursday to consent to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) running over his allotted time for a statement on health care reform, liberal blogs like Firedoglake were quick to cheer the "glorious moment."

From the conservative point of view, however, Franken is an upstart who is ignorant of the hallowed customs of the Senate and needs to be taken to the woodshed and taught his place.

Michelle Malkin condescendingly described the episode as "Franken's little snit fit," and the hosts of Fox & Friends were equally dismissive of what Steve Doocy called Franken's "snippy exchange" with Lieberman.

"He's an angry comedian," Brian Kilmeade complained," and now he's an angry senator from Minnesota with a gavel."

"Maybe there's a new trend of people getting into politics, newbie politicians that don't know exactly the protocol," Gretchen Carlson suggested, assuming her best schoolmarm manner. "Maybe he will learn after being chastised by Senator McCain."

"He needs somebody in his own party that has power over him to say, 'Al, you're embarrassing us,'" Kilmeade offered as an alternative. "You may not agree with Joe Lieberman, but he's a kind -- he's a very upstanding person. He should not be treated like that, I don't care what his position is on anything."

"It's very uncivil," Doocy agreed.

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/fox-host-calls-franken-angry-comedian/

[YOY]

1. That liberal BRUTE!!!

Picking on that noble bastion of "sane moderatism"!!!!

[Marr]

2. The way Fox is defending Lieberman, you'd almost think he was a Conservative©.

This kind of treatment is reserved for friends.

[charlie]

3. Go fuck yourselves, Murdoch bobbleheads

I heard something like that on the Senate floor once.

[babylonsister]

4. faux whines, as usual. I didn't think Franken embarrassed anyone, I

think what he said was brilliant! No, Lieberman, you don't deserve Franken's respect; he made that pretty obvious. Joe is the embarrassment.

[bullwinkle428]

5. Hey Kilmeade...that's SENATOR Franken, you ignorant assclown!

[WCGreen]

6. And yet they cheered when the boorish Joe Wilson screamed out Liar durring the SOTU ....

Fucking ass holes...

[Brickbat]

7. Good God, I *WISH* our senators were angry!

Angry on our behalf, of course.

[Xenotime]

9. Agreed.

[gratuitous]

8. Maybe they missed Senator Levin

After John Sidney McCain III huffed at Senator Franken about decorum, Senator Levin pointed out that exactly that sort of thing had happened just a couple of hours earlier that same day. Lieberman was allotted 10 minutes, he used it up, and asked that his complete remarks be entered into the record as if read. Senator Franken asked and received unanimous consent, and that was that.

People are dying for lack of access to health care, but Fox is upset because Joseph Lieberman was denied a chance to stammer through the rest of his prepared remarks. Why doesn't Fox have him on so he can read his entire statement in full without interruption? Wouldn't that be a civic-minded thing for them to do?

[laughingliberal]

10. Joe Lieberman is kind? Are you sure it wasn't Comedy Central? nt

[DonkeyHoTay]

12. Of course he's kind... as in kind of the pariah of the party!

Just go, Joe! Run as an Indepentdent next time, OK?

[Monk06]

11. So Al wouldn't allow Lieberman to filibuster the HCR bill while debating the spending bill.

It was an obvious attempt at filibuster in all
but name. Al was right to stick to the time
limits. Even so Mc Cain wasted five to ten minutes
on his objection. Bunch of foot dragging reactionaries

[StarfarerBill]

13. Pfft. Lieberman would be the comedian, if he didn't have so much underserved power.

As it is, he's just a smug traitor.

[Winterblues]

14. Senator Franken must be doing something correct if FOX News is Howling.

:thumbsup: to Senator Frankin