Franken's Critics Agonize Over Senate Victory (VIDEO)

Yesterday, Al Franken, after a protracted Hundred Years War with Norm Coleman that played out in front of every legal body in the state of Minnesota, finally became Senator Al Franken, giving the Democrats a 60-vote caucus and a new set of challenges as to how they will manage to excuse disappointing their constituents going forward. You may ask yourself, "Huh, I wonder how all of Franken's opponents in the media are taking it?" Not very well, as it turns out!

You can watch for yourself, if you like, in this video mashup from Media Matters! Sean Hannity: he still BELIEVES, Y'ALL, that Coleman won! Glenn Beck says it's the equivalent of Glenn Beck being made Senator! Even that brown-haired dude from Fox And Friends, ol' what's his face, has a sad about it! Yes, Al Franken is the New New Reason Democracy Has Died, thus ending the reign of the Huffington Post's own Nico Pitney.

From where I perch, it's like a whole new set of Americans now are angry at the way a recount was decided, and are worried over their belief that Minnesota is represented by a crazy person. There's another group of Americans who know what that feels like, I think! So really, isn't Al Franken just bringing the whole country together, in empathy? Probably not!

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Comments

[Longbaugh]

See, they really ARE fair and balanced.

[ladyvader]

Does anyone know where Beck got his college degree at? From what I'm seeing he dropped out of Yale.

[bowthai]

Whoa, he got IN to Yale?!

[TallyLass]

lol

[gcallaghan]

probably another legacy child

[Gidster]

He and Limbaugh are a lot alike, both addicts, both dropped out of college, although Beck dropped out of a better school, both tell people what is wrong with Democrats, and both think that Hitler was a Liberal!!!

[lysistrata]

That was a special program he dropped out of. He did not qualify for regular studies. That is what I read in his bio.

[GRIMKAG]

What is it about the Republicans hatred of Harvard grads?

[ladyvader]

Because they are not smart enough to get in

[roshni]

Unless Poppy Bush an buy them a degree.

[LemonMeringue]

Glenn Beck WISHES he could be compared to Al Franken but it would be like comparing a jumping bean to a Rhodes scholar.

[Caymus77]

None of these GOP idiots are Brilliant Math whizs who graduated from Harvard like AL Franken is.

They think that anybody who has been a comedian,comedy writer,and Radio Talk show host is somehow not intelligent enough to be a Senator.

Idiots!

[blak n lovingamerica]

Why does Fixed News hate America?

[WorkingClass]

I am not a Democrat. But I have no problem saying that I actually do hate Republicans. So I am glad to hear that some of them are unhappy.

[roshni]

I am a Democrat and I welcome you to the club for thos of us who hate rethugs.

[barra]

Franken is a PERFECT example of another brain dead liberal lemming......he will vote in lockstep unison with the other sheep in a concerted effort to nationalize.........EVERYTHING!......This Euro-Socialist experiment will prove to be an unmitigated disaster....obvious to all....except for the die hard zealots and the underachieving beneficiaries of nanny-state support ...It is difficult to free you fools from the chains you so revere.....but free you we must......in 2010-2012 you will be granted unearned and undeserved liberty............all we ask in return is a promise that you will NEVER-EVER soil a voting booth again.....thank you, for your compliance...onward and upward!!

[citizen of the universe]

I hope you take your own advice and "NEVER-EVER soil a voting booth again."

[KYlawyer]

"This Euro-Socialist experiment will prove to be an unmitigated disaster"

Yeah it has been a real disaster in Norway, with the highest per capita income in the world, and France, with the best health care in the world, a real tragedy in Germany with 5 weeks paid vacation for all workers, and just horrible all over europe which has better quality of life than the US.

But of course for conservatives like you who have probably never been out of the southern swamp you were born in, you wouldn't understand.

[superstition]

"There's another group of Americans who know what that feels like, I think!"

Not quite. From what I've seen, Franken actually got the most votes, unlike Bush in 2000.

[greatlardini]

Boo f__kin' hoo!!!

[treadway123]

Well Voters of Minn. what do ya think of Fox news calling ya all crazy? Yep,Yep Fair/Balance wink,wink.

[mam]

So, the Republican party has given us George Murphy, a tap dancer and C-movie actor; Fred Thompson, who played a lawyer on TV (and found actually conducting a campaign to be just too much work); actor Fred "Gopher" Grandy, who's best known for a role on that great opus, "The Love Boat"; Sonny Bono - um, 'nuf said; *Mrs.* Sonny Bono; the sainted (?) Ronald Reagan, a B-movie actor with a serious handicap when it came to separating fact from his own scripted fiction; and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a body builder and D-movie actor -- all of whom we were supposed to regard as very, very Serious and deserving of R.e.s.p.e.c.t. But *Al Franken* is the clown? Still, love to see all their knickers in a bunch!

[MsEngineer]

The right wing site TownHall loves it when Chuck Norris blogs. Maybe Chuckles Norris should run too.

[bowthai]

No! That would just be an excuse to parade movies like 'Missing in Action' and 'Delta Force' as his foreign policy and military credentials.

[mam]

Oh, and of course we mustn't forget the brilliant mind that is Stephen Baldwin....

[toppermost]

Every time Beck passes his sanctimonious judgment I want to puke. The guy is not qualified to comment on these issues. He is arguably messed up in the head. He is an alcoholic who converted to arguably one of the most extreme right-wing religions out there as part of his "recovery." There is also a very strong family history of suicide. He and his opinions are a joke.

[GunneraGirl]

al franken has a master's in government from harvard. as far as i can tell, this makes him at least as viable a candidate as reagan was for governor. as mccain was for senator. as inhofe. etc. etc.

[xstevejx]

He was also a math wiz in school. Ignoramuses want to hate him and degrade him just because he made fun of THEIR clowns when he's actually a very intelligent person.

[bowthai]

Well, the right's version of a humorist is someone like Glenn Beck, so they're just applying those standards to everyone.

[joedperk]

hmmm -- less see!!!!! we had a republican (GOD) Reagan.... who was a actor - who slept with a monkey -- yep Franken shouldn’t be a senator... go figure

[toppermost]

dont forget Fred Thompson