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Senator James Inhofe recently unleashed on Al Franken the most foul insult a short, liberal Jew from Minnesota can ever hope to hear: he called him a clown. And Franken took it like a gentleman, but you could tell he was mortally offended.
That’s why it was such a relief to the citizens of both Oklahoma and Minnesota that two of their senators decided not to declare war on the other state and instead hugged it out, like men.
Inhofe said he and Franken “physically embraced” in front of a number of people not long before the Minnesota Democrat took the oath of office on the Senate floor.
“He introduced me to his wife, who couldn’t have been nicer,” Inhofe said.
YEAH EVERYBODY SAYS THAT ABOUT THE WIFE.
The question remains: why does Senator Inhofe have such a disgusting clown fetish that he humps the leg of an incoming colleague on the holy Senate floor?
Senators share a laugh, hug [Tulsa World]
It’s hard not to love Franni Franken.
I think this is the actual clown that Inhofe was thinking of…
http://www.ouchytheclown.com/
Physically embraced? Inhofe was trying to pick his pocket. Or knee him in the balls.
Nice how the pic accompanying the article is captioned: Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla.; and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn.
Which would be great except that it’s Inhofe and John Ensign.
Jesus god! That image is gonna haunt my dreams tonight.
I wanna BE Franni Franken.
AAAHH! That picture is the worst…and you are scaring me. What is wrong with my Wonkette? Why do you want to scare your gentle readers?
I think Inhofe thought calling him a “clown” was a form of foreplay. He is a Republican after all.
InsidiousTuna: I think I love Al’s Daughter Thomasin more:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a81/kos102/2009/Franken/al-Franken-daughter.jpg
Send in the clown…..he’s already heeeere.
Nothing scares white hipsters on the Internets as much as the old “scary clown meme.” Inhofe was just tapping into that angst…no, strike that, he was just being a dick.
On “The Bill Press Show” last week, Franken was asked about Inhofe’s comments.
“I don’t know how Sen. Inhofe regards clowns, but it might be an incredible compliment,” Franken said.
Class and wit. This guy might actually make a decent, intelligent legislator.
le petit mort: heh
I’ve noticed that all of these jerkoffs are referring to Franken as a clown rather than a comedian and it’s obviously because they embarrassed that everybody knows that a decent comedian is 10 times smarter than damn near anyone in government. Let’s get it straight - Al Franken is a comedian, Sarah Palin is a fucking clown.
Keep your friends close to your groin…and your enemies closer.
Walter Sobchak: Franken made that? I feel tingly in my touching place.
Well, at least it wasn’t a metaphysical embrace. The thought of Inhofe going all tantric with a Jewish clown is just a bit too much.
I’m terrified of clowns, but not terrified of Al Franken, but I’m scared of Theocrats like Inhofe, who also looks like a mean drunk, therefore;
Inhofe=Shakes the Clown.
they physically embraced, but the attempted mind-meld was an abject failure, sort of like the GOP most days
I think that is the very definition of “bad touch”.
James Inhofe (R-OK): Obstructionist Republican Clown
At least he didn’t call him Senator… no THERE’S an insult!
Wait ’til Al inserts his big clown shoe up Inhofe’s ass.
Today, we are all clowns.
Walter Sobchak: I’d hit that! for Victory! (please don’t ban me)
Let’s see. One candidate held up Minnesota’s voters opportunity for proper representation for 8 month, and wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting what most sensible people thought was a foregone conclusion, while the other candidate waited patiently and maturely for the inevitable outcome. There was a Minnesota senator who is a clown. He lost.
Don’t sell Frannie short, who do you think offed Garret Morris so Al could get his job.
bumfug: That’s interesting. During the Bush administration, Karl Rove would come up with the phrase of the week and all the Repugs would repeat it over and over (Iraq/911/Iraq/911). One of their favorites (constantly repeated by Bush) was “We’re making progress” (re Iraq). No doubt calling Franken a clown is the Repug attempt to marginalize him.
SayItWithWookies: They do have Franken in a separate, tiny picture, standing with Harry Reid, so it’s sort of like they’re together. Kind of like Fred Astaire dancing with a Dirt Devil in that commercial.
Which makes me wonder if Inhofe is really dead, and they’re just using photo trickery to make it seem like he’s alive.
This isn’t the first time we’ve almost had to go to war with another state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Bridge_War
Someday we will elect a sane senator, most likely long after I’ve moved away though.
That’s the news from Minnesota, where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the senators are way above average.
According to the Tulsa World headline, there was a “happy ending” to the hug so it’s a good thing they had a picture of those others guys.
If Sen. Franken is the clown, Sen. Inhofe is the guy with a shovel and a can on wheels, following the elephant parade…
bumfug:
…as evidenced by her large family.
bumfug:
Most clowns will take offense at your Sarah Palin reference.
He’s got it ass backwards as usual. Sen. Franken’s a professional comedian. It’s the other 99 who are a bunch of clowns.
hockeymom: Why do you want to scare your gentle readers?
Both of them?
Native of SL UT: So this means there were massages involved?
Native of SL UT: I don’t need the image of that happy ending stuck in my brain.
Amateurs are often jealous of professionals.
freakishlystrong: You do a disservice to alcoholic clowns everywhere when you make the baseless assertion that Inhofe=Shakes the Clown. You take that back! There can be little doubt that Oklahoma would be far better served were they represented by the fictional Shakes the Clown rather than the all too real, head in the sand, backwards ass, anti-science fucktard that is Sen. Inhofe. Inhofe is not only an embarrassment to the Senate, but to human beings generally. Hell, Senator Shakes the Clown & Senator Binky the Clown (”the dolphins are in the jacuzzi”) would be far preferable to the two real clowns currently embarrassing Oklahomans on a daily basis. Not that they don’t deserve it, seeing as how they voted for Inhofe and Coburn.
Oh ho, ho, ho - that Senate! Such a cozy little club. Soon Al Franken will abandon his stance on single payer health care, withdrawing from Afghanistan, and regulating hedge funds. Ahh, the collegiality - it’s killing me. Literally.
I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
CrunchyKnee: Are you sure? I have it from many seniors that the ever present threat of robot snatching is what keeps them up at night. (search for SNL robot insurance for cultural reference)
InsidiousTuna: You take that back! Franni is a good and honorable woman. …oh you didn’t mean in the biblical sense. Never mind.
“He introduced me to his wife, who couldn’t have been nicer,” Which is like a confession, right? Like Inhofe is saying “I’ve been such a dick for so long that when ever anyone is nice to me it’s just astounding”
And is it possible that “clown” is just republican for “rational”?
hobospacejunkie: Shakes The Clown truly is one of the greatest alcoholic clown movies ever made.
SayItWithWookies: So in Okie land picture of braindead Inhofe and penis-too-live Ensign is HUGE and picture of Reid and Franken is wee tiny.
Is there some sort of message in that?
Obviously, Inhofe’s hug is the “biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
hobospacejunkie: Any Shakes the Clown reference is welcome (”How’s your liver?” “Fine- how’s your disease-ridden cock?”)… but Inhofe definitely does not deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence.
Hug it out Bitch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZvarRe-XVQ
In the past, ‘Clown’ was a time-honored and noble profession. Right up until the invention of tying balloon animals.
InsidiousTuna: Dude, that line is totally out of the Barney Frank playbook. Let’s hope he speaks dismissively to Bill O’Reilly or another right-wing cockgoblin soon!
OKLAHOMAjesus?: Hey, thanks for the link. I always love a story that ends in a bridge being dynamited.
They don’t do that in my part of the country anymore, all that namby-pammby protecting the salmon habitat and somesuch.
Jim Inhofe, the clown who called Sci-Fi writer Michael Crichton to testify that the theory of global warming is all ca-ca and poo-poo.
http://jiminhotwater.blogspot.com/2006/09/calling-michael-crichtonjim-inhofe.html
Senator Inhofe needs a big red balloon.
hobospacejunkie: Easy Hobo! One of my favorite movies ever, just pointing out that if anyone is a clown and probably a drunk it’s that asshole Inhofe. Say “asshole Inhofe” a few times, it’s fun!
Send in those soulful and doleful clowns by the bowl-ful.
Speaking of bowls, I’ve got a large one right here, Senator Inhofe. Guess what it’s overflowing with, just ready for you to eat?
We’re all Bozos on this bus.
Lascauxcaveman: Oh, and for the record, in regard to yesterday’s conversation behind my back, it was not meth. Jesus, I’m not white trash. I hope that much was obvious from the pic with Joe the Plunger.
TGY: The clown industry went the way of the world of puppetry which got all corporate and shitty.
El Pinche: You also can’t discount the role of mimes, those silent motherfuckers, in the demise of the clown industry. But at least one clown is fighting back and attempting to re-establish the primacy of clowns in the entertainment industry.
I would rather have seen them “metaphysically embrace.”
hobospacejunkie: Haha..I wonder what Ouchy’s safe word is.
hobospacejunkie: A couple of us did try to defend your honor, such as it is.
Come here a minute: …and the sheep are nervous.
Jeebus, that pic is scaring the hell out of me.
Extemporanus: Hey! I am an honorable man. What other kind of man could get such an interview with Joe the Plumber? Anyhoo, I thank you over on the Uighur thread. And here. Thank you, for sort of sticking up with me. Now, if I ever get my hands on Bearbloke or Lauscauxcaveman…
Oooweeowwww: Maybe this was the Senate welcome-clown republicans meant:
http://gridskipper.com/assets/resources/2007/01/0clownfe.jpg
Us again. Shit. I’ve been kept away from wonkette for fear my 16 year old Jehovah’s Witness grandson who’s always looking for “clean” entertainment would find out what I actually do for entertainment in my other life.
And just as well I should have stayed away. Inhofe (R-Oil) is such a fucking embarrassment.
bumfug: also,also!
Inhofe may call Franken a clown, provided he does so as a mime.
And then stays in mime character, ever after.
Mahousu: “Which makes me wonder if Inhofe is really dead, and they’re just using photo trickery to make it seem like he’s alive.”
Oh, wonkeratti Mahousu: Why do you taunt me with such delicious dreams?
OKLAHOMAjesus?: Let’s get something straight on the Red River bridge war: If Alalfa Bill had been given the chance to whip Texas’ ass and give those douches a touch of humility, we’d all be better off.
It was AB, wasn’t it? I didn’t bother reading the article.
Payaso!
Is it just my webtubes, or are the internets slow for everyone today? I think the North Koreans maybe stuffed rolls of toilet paper in the tubes that Ted Stephens (R-Senile) explained to me.
Inhofe claimed Global Warming was a ratings ploy of the Weather Channel. Betcha’ didn’t know TWC was on top of a cabal of 95,000 global scientists who lied in the Oxford Study so we would all go watch TWC–wait just a gol’ darn minute. Now that I think about it, that doesn’t make any sense.
Let’s see….
Who’s more intelligent? Al Franken or Sonny Bono? Al Franken or Arnold? Al Franken or anyone from Oklahoma?
What the fuck is wrong with Oklahoma anyway? They have TWO clowns in the US Senate.
What is wrong with Oklahoma? Too many damned Talibangelical churches that is what is wrong!
I live here. I know!
If the United States were Pakistan then Oklahoma would be Waziristan. They are both home to their own special kind of Taliban.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan
“The Wazir tribes are divided into sub-tribes governed by male village elders who meet in a tribal jirga. Socially and religiously, Waziristan is an extremely conservative area. Women are carefully guarded, and every household must be headed by a male figure. Tribal cohesiveness is also kept strong by means of the so-called Collective Responsibility Acts in the Frontier Crimes Regulation.
Taliban presence in the area has been an issue of international concern in the War on Terrorism particularly since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.”
Inhofe will be really redeemed once Ms. M. Bachmann-Turner-Hyperdrive calls Franken “the DSCC’s golem”or somesuch…it’s inevitable.