Franken Adds Alaska, Hawaii To Parlor-Trick Map After Begich Begs

Minnesota Independent:

U.S. Sen. Al Franken has acceded to a formal request from Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) that the Minnesota senator add Alaska and Hawaii when he draws freehand maps of the United States as a parlor trick. Franken, whose 2007 campaign-trail performance of the stunt is on YouTube (see it after the jump), promised Begich that "henceforth, my marvelous hand-drawn map of the United States will include the forty-ninth and fiftieth states, which are either Hawaii and Alaska or Alaska and Hawaii."

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Comments

[XME]

Now that is impressive.

[NYC07]

Only a Republican would think that knowing what the US looks like and where all of its states are is a "Palor Trick"

[JScott]

In a college class I took, groups of students were asked to draw on the chalk board a map of the world, and only our group with me mostly could do it with few errors, (we got those straits around Malaysia wrong)

[MNmommy]

He was definitely worth waiting for.

[IhaveaDREAMwhitegirl]

Oh Al (said in my cyber- best, Married With Children, Katey Sagal voice)!

Congratulations again Mr. Senator! Finally.

[PDinCA]

That's no parlor trick, that's a skill.

[filo]

Absolutely !

I couldn't do that !

[Clovie]

Pretty impressive, Al!

[mi]

Al Franken is a great addition to the Senate.

[factotem]

Yes... but can he do it blindfolded?

[rigmoten]

Wow. Why can't we have more smart politicians like Franken. The man has been working hard since being sworn in, knows policy, and won't sell out the people to please the corpor@e ma$ters.

[GunneraGirl]

and who actually knows the geography of the country.

[MJinCanada]

You know what would be really cool -- a Jeopardy or Who Wants to be a Millionaire special for charity with Sen. Franken and a few of the other smart democrats against Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh and Coulter (or Bachmann, Jindal, Foxx etc.) -- and all the questions would be on American history, geography and the constitution.

[Bingolong]

Here is one from Letterman 1987

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn2ofGwDd4A

I love how he starts with great state that elected him !

[VOTER]

Soon Senator Franken will be able to draw the USA minus Texas and Oklahoma.

[alenaspoppa]

We can only dream...

[BillForObama]

Senator Franken, draw me one and I'll contribute $300.00 to your next campaign or to your favorite charity!!!

[UncleJimbo]

I just tried it! I couldn't do it very well....Looked like the Picasso version!