Or chop it up into four or five shorter spots and spread them out over prime time. Sort of a compressed version of the delayed release of the Palin-Couric videos.
There seems to be some context missing — or, at the very least, I am missing it — what does this have to do with Al Franken? Is this a you-kinda-haveta-live-in-the-U.S. thing?
The speaker is Norm Coleman’s press secretary — Norm Coleman is the Republican Senator from Minnesota whom Al Franken is running against.
Coleman isn’t rich but likes to live large, and he has a long history of taking “favors” from patrons. Including, apparently, men’s suits, utility bills, plane trips, and rent for his DC apartment.
He’s not actually a rent boy, though, in fact he has a long history of womanizing, to the point where his campaign actually had to film a commercial showing his wife and him in the same room together. Their physical interaction was so bizarre, by the standards of cliched political commercials, that some suspected it was done with green screen film tricks (apparently it wasn’t).
I don’t know whether Coleman has a womanizing history or not, but the rumor is that he does a lot of man-izing and that his is a marriage of convenience.
Coleman is one of the most unpleasant-looking Senators, in my opinion. Unhealthy, creepy, and not good looking.
Wasn’t Norm Coleman the Republican that ran to the “left” of Paul Wellstone, running ads pointing out that Wellstone hadn’t been at Woodstock, but Coleman had?
Having gone to a rock concert in 1969 makes you “left”? Did I wake up in the wrong universe today? Actually, why won’t Obama discuss Woodstock? Does he have something to hide?
I don’t know whether Coleman has a womanizing history or not
His ‘skirt-chasing’ is allegedly an open secret in Minneapolis; his wife lives in California. The tenor of the attacks against Franken (the focus on his Playboy articles, for instance) has clearly been a case of ‘the Senator protests too much, methinks’.
I don’t know whether Coleman has a womanizing history or not, but the rumor is that he does a lot of man-izing and that his is a marriage of convenience.
IIRC Minneapolis locals including Garrison Keillor say his overt extracurricular activities are with women. Which of course doesn’t exclude the possibility of men. I’m sure Coleman has been through in Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport quite a few times…
Anyway he had a good role model; his father, Norm Coleman Sr., was notoriously arrested with his pants off at the age of 81, having sex with a presumed hooker in a car parked outside a St. Paul pizza parlor. Not sure whether the cause was dementia or just loneliness.
Coleman is one of the most unpleasant-looking Senators, in my opinion. Unhealthy, creepy, and not good looking.
I will echo that. He’s one of the greasiest politicians around. And his blow-dry is remarkably bad, perhaps from overuse of his wife’s invention, the “Blo-and-Go.”
Is it just me or does Norm Coleman (circa 1971) look like Charles II of Spain?
That’s probably a flattering portrait of poor Charles II–imagine how that nose would look in profile.
It’s not really fair to make fun of Norm Coleman for having been a long-haired dope-smoking rock fan back in ’71–that’s the only likeable thing I’ve ever heard about him. Not quite as outre as Bill Bennett dating Janis Joplin, but still . .
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Jared 10.09.08 at 7:00 pm
Or chop it up into four or five shorter spots and spread them out over prime time. Sort of a compressed version of the delayed release of the Palin-Couric videos.
Marco 10.09.08 at 7:01 pm
There seems to be some context missing — or, at the very least, I am missing it — what does this have to do with Al Franken? Is this a you-kinda-haveta-live-in-the-U.S. thing?
Jon Mandle 10.09.08 at 7:08 pm
Franken is running for the Senate seat from Minnesota against the incumbent Norm Coleman.
theo 10.09.08 at 7:13 pm
The speaker is Norm Coleman’s press secretary — Norm Coleman is the Republican Senator from Minnesota whom Al Franken is running against.
Coleman isn’t rich but likes to live large, and he has a long history of taking “favors” from patrons. Including, apparently, men’s suits, utility bills, plane trips, and rent for his DC apartment.
He’s not actually a rent boy, though, in fact he has a long history of womanizing, to the point where his campaign actually had to film a commercial showing his wife and him in the same room together. Their physical interaction was so bizarre, by the standards of cliched political commercials, that some suspected it was done with green screen film tricks (apparently it wasn’t).
Marco 10.09.08 at 7:58 pm
@theo: Thank you! It’s so hard to keep up, since PR flacks look and sound more-or-less the same.
Donald A. Coffin 10.09.08 at 8:04 pm
But, even for Minnesota voters, it might need some framing.
Michael Drake 10.09.08 at 8:18 pm
One thing I’m not clear on: Has the senator reported every gift he’s ever received?
Colin Danby 10.09.08 at 8:28 pm
I love the silences. It shouldn’t be cut.
Marc Mulholland 10.09.08 at 8:29 pm
Yeah, the Senator’s team didn’t really think the game-plan through for that press conference, did they?
John Emerson 10.10.08 at 12:21 am
I don’t know whether Coleman has a womanizing history or not, but the rumor is that he does a lot of man-izing and that his is a marriage of convenience.
Coleman is one of the most unpleasant-looking Senators, in my opinion. Unhealthy, creepy, and not good looking.
Kenny Easwaran 10.10.08 at 2:42 am
Wasn’t Norm Coleman the Republican that ran to the “left” of Paul Wellstone, running ads pointing out that Wellstone hadn’t been at Woodstock, but Coleman had?
Justin 10.10.08 at 2:45 am
If they ran the whole thing as a commercial, I’d vote against Al Franken for subjecting me to the sheer awkwardness of it. I’ve started playing the clip three times–twice trying to watch it, once showing my fiancé–and in no instance was I capable of watching more than a minute.
Dave Weeden 10.10.08 at 5:31 am
Having gone to a rock concert in 1969 makes you “left”? Did I wake up in the wrong universe today? Actually, why won’t Obama discuss Woodstock? Does he have something to hide?
nick s 10.10.08 at 5:46 am
I don’t know whether Coleman has a womanizing history or not
His ‘skirt-chasing’ is allegedly an open secret in Minneapolis; his wife lives in California. The tenor of the attacks against Franken (the focus on his Playboy articles, for instance) has clearly been a case of ‘the Senator protests too much, methinks’.
theo 10.10.08 at 10:46 pm
I don’t know whether Coleman has a womanizing history or not, but the rumor is that he does a lot of man-izing and that his is a marriage of convenience.
IIRC Minneapolis locals including Garrison Keillor say his overt extracurricular activities are with women. Which of course doesn’t exclude the possibility of men. I’m sure Coleman has been through in Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport quite a few times…
Anyway he had a good role model; his father, Norm Coleman Sr., was notoriously arrested with his pants off at the age of 81, having sex with a presumed hooker in a car parked outside a St. Paul pizza parlor. Not sure whether the cause was dementia or just loneliness.
Coleman is one of the most unpleasant-looking Senators, in my opinion. Unhealthy, creepy, and not good looking.
I will echo that. He’s one of the greasiest politicians around. And his blow-dry is remarkably bad, perhaps from overuse of his wife’s invention, the “Blo-and-Go.”
vkv 10.11.08 at 12:18 am
Is it just me or does Norm Coleman (circa 1971) look like Charles II of Spain?
Norm Coleman
Charles II
rea 10.12.08 at 1:55 am
Is it just me or does Norm Coleman (circa 1971) look like Charles II of Spain?
That’s probably a flattering portrait of poor Charles II–imagine how that nose would look in profile.
It’s not really fair to make fun of Norm Coleman for having been a long-haired dope-smoking rock fan back in ’71–that’s the only likeable thing I’ve ever heard about him. Not quite as outre as Bill Bennett dating Janis Joplin, but still . .
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