[RjkVwPcV]

BTW, that idiot he's talking to was recently named by the Republicans to their Presidential Debate committee.

Why was the committee created? The librul media spreading lies! Not like he does...amiright?
On why the RNC made the committee:
“they thought, why should we expose our candidates to the lefties in the mainstream media who will ask questions designed to put a wedge between each of the candidates and embarrass them, make them look a little bit less than presidential, given the bias of the media?”

[mr.nemo]

Al Franken's a good comedian and a mediocre senator. He's above average for a Democrat in my opinion. You know, he barely won the election.

[Jasonstawnosaa]

Al Franken's a good comedian and a mediocre senator. He's above average for a Democrat in my opinion. You know, he barely won the election.

Yeah... he barely beat the incumbent. That's not really a bad result. But good effort, congratulations on finally making a post that contains a verifiable fact to support your claims.

[Uninkipsyncp]

I haven't followed him too closely, but everything I've noticed has been good.

Clearly we need more entertainers in politics. I heard Fraiser is considering a run for Senate.

[Ubgvuncd]

He's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggone it ... people like him!

[prkddfokic]

I thought it was a joke that he was elected.

But everything I've read about the guy and what he's been doing in the senate seems extremely positive. He seems to actually be doing work...reading studies, etc.

Has he been a good senator? What idiotic things has he done?

I just finished watching this take-down, titled "It Doesn't"

Even though he's 100% right and that dipshit is 100% wrong about the semantics, frankly I'd be surprised if the actual sample of "nuclear" families in that study wasn't entirely comprised of husband-wife pairings notwithstanding a broad definition that they'd assumed would be read in the traditional sense. Leave it to neither of them to bring up the actual sampling details, which any study worth a damn would have put right there in black and white. A truly effective senator would find any actual gays in the sample or at least follow up with a study that was actually directly on-point, of which there must be many by now. Then again, I say this on the basis of no knowledge whatsoever as I despise the social sciences and am not about to slog through that mire any further. Fortunately Franken's there to do it for me.

[Quvwcxqx]

Wow, he accidentally said someone was from Utah when they were from New Mexico and then he corrected himself and apologized. How the heck did some editor decide that was news worthy? It must have been a very slow news day.

[viepedorlella]

The author of the study appeared on MSNBC last night and confirmed Franken's understanding of the study. It only looked at having two parents, not their genders.

I'm not talking about whether his understanding was right or whether they declined to specifically examine the parents' genders because it didn't matter for their study not narrowed to the homosexual issue. Rather, I'm just curious as to what the actual breakdown of the sample was. Even accepting what Franken said and what the author said on MSNBC about what they "looked at," it would still be theoretically possible that 0% of the sample couples was homosexual. If they seriously have no data to address the question, then it's sloppy work at best.

[CamVideoQl]

The entire point the study wasn't of homosexual vs heterosexual parents, which is what the RNC goon was implying. The actual numbers don't matter. Even if the study has 0 gay parents in it, it had no bearing on how well gay parents raise their kids.

Of course his implication was false. I just wish the authors had been so kind as to indulge my morbid curiosity with something making it even more misleading than it already was.

[Serttyfd]

They probably do but since none of those hold water he was likely attempting to find a study done by a reputable source so when he couldn't do that he (no doubt) deliberately misinterpreted a reputable study in an attempt to make his biased point.

[xkQCaS4w]

asher and darius are right

oh ya, its just common sense - 2 parent families will generally have more resources than 1 parent families

[Kdgjhytiy]

I think the ability to draw the 50 states freehand puts him way ahead of the pack.