Al Franken and the Republican Comicality Deniers

It was a shot over the bow, a ballsy warning to the Minnesota Republican Party that Democrat’s are no longer working within the clichéd frame conservatives have labored so hard to perpetuate.

If the AP story is any indication, we might be in for a fight, with a little irony thrown in:

Al Franken won a resounding endorsement for the U.S. Senate on Saturday
from Minnesota Democrats, quickly dispatching with concerns about jokes that
offended some and promising a tough challenge to Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" writer and performer (said) "I'll tell the truth, I will keep my spine, and I will work for you."

Despite a few dense, humorless and strategic dimwit Democrats like U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, (who) “criticized a racy column he wrote for Playboy magazine in 2000,” Franken’s wit should help cast Sen. Coleman’s positions in the proper context. In fact, most women get the humor.

Franken…earned the endorsement of the feminist caucus of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party…the group was willing to look past salacious material from Franken's past that some have considered degrading to women.

Humor and irony has already gripped the Coleman campaign with this stunning revelation:

Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan attacked Franken (and) said the campaign will employ old Franken material. "Al Franken wants to wants to talk about Norm Coleman's record. We're not going to be shy about talking about Al Franken's record," Sheehan said.

Perhaps they're planning on passing out free DVD copies of Franken’s greatest comedy bits from TV and film. We could all use a good laugh again.

Just to be perfectly clear:

The Republicans plan to use comedian Franken’s satirical writings, comedic exaggerations of reality, as source material to discredit him. Their inability to separate fantasy from reality proves they just don’t get humor, along with the illusion that the crumbling reality they’ve created is the pathway to prosperity.