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    Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick

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    Image of ShanghaiLil ShanghaiLil
    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
    I would give up all of my retirement savings to watch Sarah Palin try this. OK, that currently amounts to something like $0.43, but still, I'd like to see it.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick

    Letterman should host Franken and Fred Armisen back-to-back.
    [www.hulu.com]
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
    This is why Franken could never win a presidential run. He's totally cut in half the size of both Florida and California. If they take that as a slight, he's dead in the water.
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    09/08/09

    @The Recession Is Over: Yeah, and Oregon somehow ended up New Jersey sized.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
    Stupid trick?More like awesome parlor trick. I think the map drawing is pretty impressive, but I'm also that a**hole who likes to juggle for people, whether or not they've asked to see it.
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    09/08/09

    @vampirebris: Okay, but you have to pick a card first. Any card.
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    09/08/09

    @vampirebris: Letterman reference in the headline apparently going over many people's heads here. There was no offense intended to Franken.
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    09/08/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: Naw, we got it alright. The "all the 48 states" thingie though still stands scrutiny. Unless am unbeknownst to me drunk at the keyboard, Franken does contour ALL the fiddy states in your featured Boing Boing video.

    True, he geographically places Hawaii somewhere around the Mexican state of Michoacán--but hey, decidedly a good effort on his part.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
    I bet Rush couldn't do it.
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    09/08/09

    @meechybee: That's because Rush blew out the circuit board on the right-side of his brain with all that Oxycontin.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
    I'm holding out for a balloon sculpture of Nathan Hale.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
    It was 1988 on SNL, shortly before the election. He not only drew the map from memory but also explained the electoral vote math that would enable Dukakis to pull off an upset.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
    Franken's some kind of savant. I'm sure of it.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
    Norm Coleman just called to say Franken's Minnesota is way, way off.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
    "Boing Boing came across this recent video of Franken drawing all 48 states from memory"

    Someone failed social studies...
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick

    I'd have been vastly more impressed if he'd drawn the United Steaks of America from memory.
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    09/08/09

    @snugbug: And to the rib eye for which it stands, one ration, forget the scrod, with Liberty and au jus for all.
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    09/08/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: I pledge allegiance to the Flank of the United Steaks of America, and to the Repast for which it sears, one Nibble of Gods, delectable, with leek citrique and Jesus juice for all.
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    09/08/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight:

    Oh moo-tiful for grazin' bovines, who're fed their weight in grain....
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    09/08/09

    @lobstr: We hold these tri-tips to be sesame-marinated. All beefsteaks are grilled equal, and endowed by their Grill Master with certain unassailable spices. Among these are leaf of bay, libations and the pursuit of yumminess.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
    Thank god he drew in Hawaii, too. Otherwise the wingnuts would take it as evidence that even if Obama was born there, it doesn't count.
    (Yeah -- he does Alaska, as well.)
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    09/08/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: his Hawaii sucked- apparently I live on a dot.
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    09/04/09

    In reply to Teabaggers Ambush, Listen Politely To Al Franken
    They may be all ginned up with outrage, but these are people who've been conditioned for generations to listen politely to literally anyone talking to them.

    Well, they are next door neighbors to the Canadians. It's bound to have an effect on them.
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    09/14/09

    @My_Latest_Incarnation: Isn't Lake Woebegon there, too?
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    09/04/09

    In reply to Teabaggers Ambush, Listen Politely To Al Franken
    Franken & Frank: Insurance Reform Tour - 2009
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    09/04/09

    In reply to Teabaggers Ambush, Listen Politely To Al Franken
    Aww, I'm proud to be a Minnesota and to have voted for Franken. Now we just have to run Michelle Bachmann out of the state (politely, of course).
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    09/04/09

    @vampirebris: In all seriousness, can you please explain Michelle Bachmann to us? How in the world did she get elected? Do people in MN really see how crazy she is, or is she all set for re-election?
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    09/04/09

    @pinkteapot: I think a nutjob like MB gets elected by coalescing factions (taxes. guns. abortion) who are each willing to overlook incompetence and insanity because of their single-issue politics. When combined with a conservative-leaning district like the 6th, you've got Michele Bachmann.

    She's bat shit crazy, but she's wily that one...
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    09/04/09

    @pinkteapot: I went to college in Stearns County and I left before she got in, and I seriously cannot explain it. It's always been Republican, but Kennedy was nothing like her. There have to be enough crazies in St. Cloud, which is why they won't build the light rail out there after all
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