AL FRANKEN KNOCKS DOWN DEAN HECKLER (N ot Satire)

“How can you accuse a Murdoch rag of distorting a story?”

“Plutonium found!

Scuds fired!

Al-Qaeda connection revealed!

Hmmm.”

“I DID NOT HAVE TACKLING RELATIONS WITH THAT MAN, THE DEAN HECKLER! (pounding fist on podium)”

“http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=32449

MANCHESTER — Liberal activist and comedian Al Franken helped eject a boisterous heckler from a crowded Howard Dean rally at the Palace Theatre Monday, the theater’s manager said yesterday.

The heckler began yelling from the rear of the theater while the Democratic Presidential hopeful was taking questions from the audience, theater manager Peter Ramsey said.

Two members of Dean’s security team immediately moved in on the man, who shoved and elbowed them, Ramsey said.

“He was screaming. He was out of control,” Ramsey said.

Ramsey said he went over to help calm the situation and also got elbowed and pushed.

“All of a sudden, I looked to my right, and Al Franken was grabbing onto this man’s back,” Ramsey said.

“He (Franken) gave him a hefty Patriots block. He should be a Patriot,” Ramsey said.

“I never met Al Franken before. He is now my new hero,” Ramsey said of the former “Saturday Night Live” writer.

Ramsey said a news photographer later told him Franken reacted to being elbowed by the protester, who knocked his glasses off.

When a second heckler — apparently working in tandem with the first — emerged from the audience, Dean security men and Franken went over to deal with him while the first protester headed to the balcony, Ramsey said.

While Ramsey pursued the first man to the balcony, he said, he saw Franken and three other men escort the second heckler out the stage door.

Once in the balcony, Ramsey encountered a more disturbing sight.

The protester had clambered over two or three people and had perched himself on the balcony railing.

“I thought he was going to jump. He was screaming at Dean. I was scared for a minute that he was going to jump on the stage and attack Dean,” Ramsey said.

One New Hampshire voter sitting in the balcony said the heckler “kind of barreled through like a Patriots fullback.”

“The way he moved, I thought he was going to jump or something,” Wendy Branch of Northwood said. “Even if he didn’t intend to jump, he was setting himself up for a fall. It was a little alarming.”

Ramsey said the heckler left quietly after Ramsey threatened to call the police. But Ramsey figured the more likely reason the protester left was that few television cameras were set up in the balcony.

Ramsey said Dean’s staff told him the protesters were supporters of fringe Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.

Franken told the New York Post he body-slammed the demonstrator to the ground.

“I got down low and took his legs out,” Franken told the newspaper.

Franken said he is not backing Dean, but merely wanted to protect free-speech rights.

“I would have done it if he was a Dean supporter at a Kerry rally,” he told the Post.”

“That certainly makes the thing a little different, doesn't it?”

“It’s pretty funny how our resident gunslingers who deride those willing to rely on police protection now think Al should have meekly watched a maniac beat up two security guards and wait for the police.”

“And unless I read it wrong, he went over to help, got his glasses broken by a flailing elbow and then decided to take the guy down.

A very different story than we had heard.”

“Wow!

That Franken guy is piss-uh!”

“Ya just don't touch crazy people unless you really have to, right Stickman?"
Tom Terrific
08:18:57 AM

Boy, you aren't kidding. I dealt with one once who held his left arm cocked at a ninety degree angle and his fingers in the form of a circle, as if he were holding an invisible cup of coffee. No matter how he moved, that left arm never came down. With his right arm he would bang on his ear and say "What, Louis Freeh? They don't understand! They won't listen to me Louis Freeh!" No matter what way I moved, he absolutely would not let me get behind his back. Had another one once in a cemetery who refused to allow anyone behind his back either.

Moving on, I'd like to meet some of the gunslingers who claim they never rely on police protection. Would be interesting to talk to them.

And I now understand Violin's pitiful attempts at humor with the worn out doughnut jokes...Lord have mercy son, you can do better than that!”

“Is that a cue to bring em on?

My friend who introduced me to my wife is a Newark narcotics detective. He's bald to boot. Ask him if you really want my full line repertoire of cop jokes.”

“The Union Leader!?

Who's gonna trust that left wing rag???”

“I don't see what the outrage is. It sounds like this was Liberal on liberal violence. I'm cool with that. It's kind of like gangbanger on gangbanger violence.”

“Oooops - I should have used my sarcasm font. For those who don't know, the Union Leader is an ultra conservative anti-Democrat paper (endorsed Pat B-cannon. and Forbes in the past), famous for destroying Muskie in '1972.”

“Why did Franken tackle this guy? Because of any physical threat? No. According to his OWN words, Franken tackled this heckler at a public gathering to protect 'freedom of speech'. "Franken said he is not backing Dean, but merely wanted to protect free-speech rights." Hmmm. "Franken told the New York Post he body-slammed the demonstrator to the ground."

Al Franken's motto: "PROTECT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BODY SLAM A HECKLER!!!"

And the libs raise their stein to Franken.”

“LOL Nigal. Larouche folks ain't liberal - they are something weird and funky, but not liberal.”

“Check this out for example"

"Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. is a name familiar to most Illinois
voters since last April when two of his followers scored primary
victories garnering the official Democratic Party ballot slots
for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State.

In repudiating the LaRouche candidates, Adlai Stevenson
removed himself as the Democratic Party's candidate for Governor
saying he could not in good conscience run on the same ticket
with neo-Nazis. Stevenson's startling characterisation of the
LaRouche ideology soon faded amidst the cacophony of typically
shrill Illinois electoral campaign rhetoric.

With widespread media coverage of the LaRouche network's
legal difficulties and unusual political theories, most Illinois
voters propbably think they already know all they need to know
about Lyndon LaRouche. Yet the picture most people envision when
they hear of the "LaRouchies" is a caricature of a complicated
and troubling phenomena which appears more sinister than comical
when the details are sketched in with information emerging from
court records, interviews with former members, and a careful
reading of LaRouche's theoretical writings."

http://www.skepticfiles.org/rumor/lr-hist.htm”

“Also relevant:

"Currently, with the Green Party looking like it might sit out the next Presidential election, supposed Linden LaRouche supporters (you remember him - used to run as a Communist, did time for credit card fraud) are showing up to interfere with rallies in support of Democratic Presidential hopefuls. Though they try to give the appearance of being innocent, independent young activists, they are clearly professionals, timing their appearances just perfectly to interfere at the last minute, giving no opportunity for a counter-plan to be made. They come complete with materials, megaphones, and strategies for demoralizing, intimidating, and interfering with the people at the rallies. At a recent rally at UCLA in support of Presidential hopeful John Kerry, the "LaRouche" people actually got their materials directly into the hands of both Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry (John, adeptly, offered his signature and handed it back - Teresa held onto hers.)"

http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i6elections2.htm”

“Buck - you are too much. Just because he felt he was protecting free speech, it doesn't mean he didn't see it being attacked with physical force.”

“This manufactured outrage is too much. Will you guys stop whining?”

“I have to agree with Violin. Who cares, really. It's the same thing as if the dems were whining about Bush's free speech zones.”

“QUIT TRYING TO SUPPRESS MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH! Ha ha!

Actually, I'm not outraged at all, I find it all rather humorous! You can't make stuff up better than this! :^D”

“I think the real story here is that Bazooka Joe did not c&p something from the onion or scrappleface.”

“...and finally got more than two or three posts on his/her thread.”

“Sorry BJ's story blew up on him --- just when he thought he had something juicy on Al Franken....

It kinda reminds me of the "WMDs under the Rose Bush" routine.”

“So all of sudden everyone tries to say Al did nothing wrong? Just like the stain on your blue dress: no matter how much you rub it and try to make it look like mustard, it’s still a cum stain…just like Franken.


Face up to your tactics boys...He's an hypocrticial Ahole and he's one of yours.”

“"...........the worn out doughnut jokes..."
Stickman, you gotta special relationshilp with that doughnut?

Nigal, that's pitiful, you can fart better than that.
Franken is a freakin' hero!”

“He might be a freaking hero to a freak like you. He's a liberal hypocrite and one of your brothern.”

“I've yet to see anything on the "majors", out side Fox owned NY Post about this. Seeing as Franken is a wanted man, I would think this would be big news. Where's the beef?!?!”

“The beef is wearin' panties.”

“He's a LUMBERJACK!?!”

“The picture has a mustache.”

“Franken is considering calling his new radio program "The O'Franken Factor" so FAUX will sue him again and give him a huge ratings boost.”

“I don't know what a "brothern" is but it must be good.

Hypocrite?
Show me the beef!”

“Have you hugged a heckler today?”

“Spin, spin, spin.
The thug is a hero.
You libs are so cute.”

“Oh, now he's a thug for assisting security?”

“Ha ha! Franken "assisted" security like Clinton "assisted" the cigar industry!”

“Nigal... (and anyone else who thinks Franken messed up big time) did you read the Union Leader article?

Do you doubt it?”

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“You neo-cons are in la-la land.”

“La la laaaaa la laaaa la laaaaa la la la laaaaa.”

“Christ! Stay on topic! If the Republicans on this board have evidence of Franken commiting a crime, phucking show it. If not, shut the phuck up!”

“Help!
I'm being oppressed by Dems!

I'm not a Repub, I'm a troll.”

“Hey laqtis, this is all in fun, man, loosen that collar! Who cares about freakin' Al Franken! It's no big deal either way! But Franken himself said he was supported free speech so he body slammed a heckler! Obviously the heckler doesn't care as nothing came of it! Peace, bro! Smile!”

“So did he or did he not physiclly attack someone?”

“Last I heard, Franklin actually shot the heckler in the head with a shotgun, then stabbed the lifeless body multiple times, tossed the body onto his shoulder, raced back to his house, hacked the body into little pieces and stuck it in his freezer, where Franken was later apprehended by police while he was cooking heckler stew. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to protect freedom of speech in this country.”

“Buck, it's Franken, not Franklin. That's what you get for Benj posting like you were.”

“"So did he or did he not physiclly attack someone?............"

Great question....

Well!?!? y'all been real silent. Look's like y'all wrote a check that yer ass Republicaint cash.....”

“Let's review:

1)The heckler attacked two security guards who couldn't subdue him.

2)The fifty year old Franken went to help and got elbowed in the face, breaking his glasses.

3)Franken used a wrestling move to take the guy down.

Conclusion: The rabid right is fearful when they realize liberals aren't a bunch of pussies.”

“I love it when libs quarrel with each other like this!

LIBERAL AL FRANKEN BODY SLAMS LIBERAL HECKLER AT A LIBERAL DEAN RALLY!

Ha ha! Okay, carry on...”