Interesting to note one Bill O’Reilly chiming in on the stalled placement of one Al Franken into the Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 First off, reading his assortment of letters — he apparently wowed his fans by socking it to David Letteron on Letterman’s show.<\/p>\n
Andy Jacobs<\/span>, Clearwater, Florida<\/span>: “Bill, you were calm and collected in a hostile environment. Your superb handling of Letterman<\/span> may have changed a few minds out in Never-Never land.” Vincent Tordarello, New York City: “Bill, you rocked on Letterman. It was refreshing to see his propaganda smacked down.” Alan Skorski, West Hempstead, New York: “Hey, Bill, anyone who cozies up to Al Franken the way Letterman does, has no right to discuss truth telling.” Gerald Christensen, Huson, Montana: “Kudos to you, Bill, for holding your own with Letterman. Some of us out here wish he would pack up his house and take Tom Brokaw with him.” Mr. Letterman and Mr. Brokaw have homes in Montana<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n I don’t quite know how someone can insert Al Franken’s name into this, and despite the Leno \/ Letterman difference in comfort level for political guests I don’t quite see how this can be positied as some sort of one-on-one “Crossfire” “Hardball” match-up.\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s the way O’Reilly rolls.<\/p>\n On a later program, we find him discussing the election, and from the transcript.:<\/p>\n O<\/span>‘ REILLY<\/span>: Thirty-eight, 28 or whatever.<\/p>\n WIEHL: Or whatever the number is.<\/p>\n O<\/span>‘ REILLY<\/span>: So this drags on for what.<\/p>\n WIEHL: There’s no deadline in sight. Could be months, could be years.<\/p>\n O<\/span>‘ REILLY<\/span>: Let it go on for six years and then have another election, because you don’t want this pinhead Franken which really, come on, you know? You all know who he is. You want him in the Senate? Him?<\/p>\n This?<\/em><\/p>\n I assume that with the “THIS” he’s waving clips\u00c2\u00a0of, say, Franken in a diaper on a SNL sketch or Franken on SNL doing the Keith Richards impression.\u00c2\u00a0 The answer is a, “Yep.\u00c2\u00a0 That.”\u00c2\u00a0 The reason– Al Franken’s qualifications for the US Senate?\u00c2\u00a0 He won an election.\u00c2\u00a0 He could be spouting off everything that Michelle Bachman has been saying, or he could be Montana’s Finest, Bob Kelleher<\/a>, and his entry into the Senate Chambers would be just as necessitated.<\/p>\n But, in the interest of stalling this seating, we have the viscarel argument of “THIS?”<\/em>, which has a seductive quality, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interesting to note one Bill O’Reilly chiming in on the stalled placement of one Al Franken into the Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 First off, reading his assortment of letters — he apparently wowed his fans by socking it to David Letteron on Letterman’s show. Andy Jacobs, Clearwater, Florida: “Bill, you were calm and collected in a hostile environment. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}