Metaphor Madness: Al Franken’s Bizarre Take on Obama’s Ditch

Oct. 27, 2010 8:06am Naked Emperor News

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DoctorRon
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:46am
Obama needs to appoint a Czar for Metaphors. The ACORN-elected Senator went from a car “…careening down an embankment…” to Obama diving in “…just before going over the precipice.”

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ANTIPATHIZER308WIN
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:46am
And then obama threw 5 trillion in the gas tank, lit a match and the whole damn thing caught fire and blew up!

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- We Are Not Alone
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:17am
  Lol
  
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- Shewolf135
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 1:00pm
  Yup, and everyone went to the big marxist commieland in the sky. lol.
  
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Stu Pedaso
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:40am
RIGHTUNITE… I didn’t vote for the Frankenbastard. I am sure there are plenty of libs in your home state too. Just here in Minnesota we are grossly outnumbered. I can only do so much to stop these morons!

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- RightUnite
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 10:46am
  Stu… I’m from Minnesota also, and, yes I am embarrassed to admit it. I’m hoping someday they’ll wake up, I just hope it’s not too late.
  
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Stu Pedaso
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:38am
How do you think I feel? I live in Minnesota where this moron was elected. Who did not see this line of BS coming our way. Maybe we should all just stop driving, and maybe have those dangerous rocks removed, and of course it was our fault those alligators were there first. Damn Liberal piece of insert cursing here!

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PA PATRIOT
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:37am
It is clear that Senator Franken displays no respect and esteem for his office and title of “The Honorable Senator” from Minnesota. As an American, I consider the importance of self control as major criteria for holding such a powerful position. He and others like him including the POTUS show none of these respected character issues.

Have we no foundation for honorable character? The time has come.

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Rickfromillinois
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:36am
I always thought that this guy was an idiot. Now I know for sure that he is an idiot.

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Beckaj
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:35am
This metaphor is silly to begin with. The economy does not have one man driving it. We do not have a dictatorship and the president is not in charge of the economy. To make that metaphor slightly more true, you could say that the democrats in congress and Bush were in charge and the people went along for the ride, but it is still silly.

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- Independantthinker
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 11:41am
  Yes they all seem to forget that they the Dem’s had the majority over Bush for his the last part of his term. But that doesn’t mean anything to them they want more and they don’t want us to dissagree with them.
  
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aeronut44
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:30am
What kind of car are they driving? i have never heard of a Chevy surviving such a beating.

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RightUnite
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:29am
Can I go and throw up now?? Al Franken is a tool. The stupid people of Minnesota voted a fool into office. This isn’t the first time, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. I don’t know what it will take for the folks of Minnesota to wake up and smell the garbage they voted into office.

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- starman70
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:02am
  Did you notice the audience? A group of wet nosed college students who have never held a real job and are being taught by a bunch of liberal far left college professors. Most grew up watching SNL and they think that Franken represents true life. What a sorry state of affairs.
  
  Franken is a total idiot babbling the most idiotic and inane speech I have ever heard. Of course, what more can you expect from someone who crooked his way into office by “Lost” votes.
  
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- Diablo4965
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:47am
  Yea, and don’t forget the inmate votes! That donkey is an ASS!!!
  
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southsik
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:28am
Shut Up Goofy F***

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hempstead1944
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:26am
Making the folks from lake Woa Be Gone proud!

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- JBaer
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:55am
  I’m from the great state you speak of and I did NOT vote for this fool (nor Jesse Ventura)
  I don’t know why my fellow Minnesotans keep drinking the koolaid the progressives put out. This Franken won’t ever even appear on our local talk radio. Coward!
  
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- RightUnite
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 10:41am
  She’s right. Franken is a cowardly fool. He doesn’t have the guts to go on a local radio show, because they’ll ask the tough questions, something he would have difficulty answering. He would sound something like this… Ummm ah, well, ummm…. Kinda like the current slacker in the WH.
  
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CBMiller72
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:24am
The first two times I saw Frenken, SCTV, and tripping on acid as he opened a Dead show with his partner at the time. Yes, I said tripping on acid.
Look, I had my fair share, but Franken is a nut case!!!!

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seeker9
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:24am
Is he saying Obama grossly underestimated the entire situation?

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Valoop
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:22am
This is a typical politician. bs

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Star Spangled
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:18am
WHAT AN IDIOT !!!

By the way , They all keep forgetting that CAR belongs to the PEOPLE !

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- SouthLAConservative
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 10:07am
  The car does belong to We the People. We thought they were responsible. We let them drive, but we have not been watching our teenagers (D’s and R’s) with their driving permit. They have trashed the car and driven it into the ditch. Time to take the keys away from them, ground them for a few years and fix the car so it is drivable again. When we relinquish the keys again it will be under strict supervision.
  
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claymoremacm
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:18am
Fool on the Hill

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FedupinFlorida2
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:18am
You Got to be kidding! He was a better comedian when he was a comedian.

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- RightUnite
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:31am
  Ummmmm, sorry… I would beg to differ.
  
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- KiQuan
  Oct. 29, 2010 at 9:16am
  Al Franken was never a comedian…if anyone laughed at him it was because his tongue seemed to get in the way of his teeth when he tried to talk. Why are we even discussing him?? Let a sleeping brain lie……….
  
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Bluefish49
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:17am
Are you S%&*%$G ME!

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Laus Deo
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:17am
If only I could find a job where I’m paid handsomely for being a total blithering idiot.

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f800gs
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:16am
This is a failed attempt on stand up comedy, Mr. Franken.

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EyebrowsLaMana
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:16am
I think he may have been dropped on his head…

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f800gs
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:15am
You, Al Franken, has lost it.

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- aeronut44
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:28am
  when did he ever have it…
  
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- RightUnite
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:31am
  Unfortunately, Franken never had it… Never once…..
  
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- moonpeace
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 11:40am
  Listen, I am a law abiding citizen, believing in human rights, but…I’m coming more and more to believe that people like Franken do not serve life. If that makes me immoral, I am sorry, but I am nearing my limit.
  
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- pajamash
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 1:49pm
  Moonpeace. Ask yourself this question, “What did people do from the time Europeans came to America up till about 100 years ago?” When someone needed help…we helped each other out. Have you heard, read or seen any information/reports showing thousands dying prior to all of the social programs? No!!! Why? Because we Americans helped each other out. The big difference is we chose to help rather than being coerced or forced to help thru taxes being applied and the government deciding who “deserves” that money rather than us putting our hand out to our neighbor and giving them a hand up.
  
  Could it possibly be that one of the reasons people stand around and do nothing when someone is being robbed, molested, raped, etc. is because of the government taking over more and more aspects of our lives. We don’t have as much of a choice to help during or report a crime any more. We aren’t required to because, well, “the government will take care of the problem and the victim”.
  
  Could it also be that one of the reasons the number of Americans associated with a religion has dwindled is partly tied to this as well. A big part of being a member of a church in years past was giving a hand up. In our church we had a sister parrish in the Apalachian Mountains. We gave money, household items, etc. to help the members of our sister parrish. The priest from our sister parrish would visit us once per year and let us know how our hand up positively impacted the members of our sister parrish. When the government is the one giving all the aid and we don’t have as much to give because of higher taxes, there is one less thing connecting us to our religion. It becomes easier and easier to drift away.
  
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- pajamash
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 1:59pm
  It also doesn’t help religion when your president refuses to include “endowed by their creator” when reciting The Constitution, or when politicians or those heading political meetings refuse to say the “pleadge of allegiance” or a part of the same pledge that makes reference to the creator. We are supposed to be a country with freedom of religion but are so nervous about political correctness that noone is willing to mention ANY religion.
  
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- Max jones
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 2:51pm
  Jude:verse 4….For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
  Jude:verse 16…These are murmurers, complainers,walking after their own lusts: and their mouth speakest great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
  
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Taquoshi
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:14am
The Bush Administration removed the seat belts? George Bush jumped out of the wreck? BO dived in through the window? BO managed to stop a vehicles flipping over as it went down an embankment towards sudden death by rocks and alligators by grabbing the steering wheel?

I haven’t had my morning coffee yet, but clearly SNL crew wrote Al’s speech for him.

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- Flagwaver
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:25am
  Amen… Last time I checked, you don’t “grab the wheel” to stop a car on its roof.
  
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- teddie888
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 10:58am
  And then the cars gas tank started leaking and Obama threw more gas on it (stimulus) thinking it would help stop it…and the whole car blew up!
  
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Noodle
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:12am
The guy couldn’t tell jokes, why would we expect him to be able to spin a proper metaphor?

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- Oversat
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:09am
  This metaphor is entirely too played out. I’m sick of hearing it.
  
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- untameable-kate
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 11:56am
  SNORE, gosh I can’t stand to hear that car metaphore anymore. Can’t somebody shut these guys up? I know you all are going to say November, but I am pretty sure they are going to screech louder after that.
  
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- pajamash
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 1:21pm
  OVERSAT – For the metaphor to be correct the car would have to be one of those student driver cars that have two wheels. Both the democrates and republicans had their hands on the wheel. The democrate fell asleep while pulling the car to the left. The republican tried to correct and right the car. The democrate woke up and realized the car was going farther to the right but didn’t look to see the car was going back to center. The democrate freaked out and yanked the wheel to the left, sending the car into the ditch and THAT is where Mr. Obama begins his story. As usual leaving out pertinant information to the story to show what really happened and that the Democrates were just as responsible for sending the car into said ditch.
  
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snowleopard3200
Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:10am
Al Franken…need I really say more about how this really sounds?

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- Maybe the GEESE Know More than the BEES Know
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:15am
  all i want to know is what kind of car are these politicians driving?
  
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- snowleopard3200
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:28am
  @Maybe the Geese…
  
  I would guess based on the one electric car Mr Obama drove some 10ft, that it was a typical type of government project start with Over (add here time, money, studies, etc…). And it obviously would have failed any true safety assurance tests, so it had to be one of Government Motors fiasco cars for the masters of the company.
  
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- justanamerican
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:36am
  YES, the repubs were driving the car off a cliff,…..this is true… And that is because they were TRYING TO BE DEMS……… But the dems took over the wheel, , wrecked the car, poured gasoline all over it , and set it on fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What remains now is a skeleton frame of a burned out shell of what ‘used’ to be America…………… THIS, is the proper metaphor
- Dirty Harry
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:38am
  Please put Franken back in the car and send it on its careening way.
  
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- dabbo
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:49am
  zzzzzz…..Oh I’m sorry I fell asleep…..It was weird….I dreamed that Al Franken was in a car that plunged off a 2000 ft cliff…..I woke up happy.
  
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- Areyoukiddingme
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:49am
  I am fine with saying Rep.s drove the car in the ditch. because it can be pulled out. unlike what the Dems did:
  
  sold are child’s future -Health care
  destroyed our homes -housing market
  destroyed our jobs
  and much more.
  
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- mara123
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:50am
  Diaper man is at it again i see , Progressives are so lame.
  
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- Hokiedad
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:03am
  These people are ALL nuts. From my perspective here in Pennsylvania, sure things weren’t that great two years ago, but they’re even worse now and still going downhill and I can’t even see the bottom.
  
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- Maybe the GEESE Know More than the BEES Know
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:06am
  @dabbo, lol!
  
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- ninock76
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:21am
  I may be wrong, but isnt this the guy that ran a radio station (although a bad one) out of business because he wouldnt take a paycut? HE is lecturing about running a car off the cliff?
  
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- JBarr73
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:46am
  Clearly out of touch. Since when does being an unfunny, goofy looking moron qualify you to be a senator? Isnt there something in the Constitution about this, the anti-moron clause?
  
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- TogaR
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:48am
  What is a pesepuss? (at 1:23 in)
  
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- Cemoto78
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:51am
  So Nancy, Harry, Odumbo, and Al have been driving the GM or Chrysler since 2007 and wrecked it in the ditch. Now they want to replace this fine mobile with an electric Chinese vehicle. Sellouts, all of them. Why do these politicians dislike Americans so much? Guess we just keep getting in their way to fame and fortune, at our expense. These politicians, both democrats and republicans, are all skating on very thin ice with the American people. They better get used to looking over their shoulders cause WE are coming.
  
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- drbage
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 9:53am
  I would ask what the good people of MN were thinking when they elected this “comedian,” but then I remembered the people didn’t elect him, ACORN did!
  
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- 2BME
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 10:27am
  “…we,the American people were in the back seat…” but Obama had to jump into the car. HMMM. What is Al saying?
  
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- Muslim in Chief
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 10:28am
  Fraken knows that smoking crack is against the law right. He also seems to forget who was in charge of Congress, and the Senate at that point. I love Liberal selective thinking
  
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- v.o.t.e.
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 10:47am
  hey –i hear the car has an obama sticker –the one that says the hopey changey stuff
  
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- v.o.t.e.
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 10:53am
  and the left makes fun of o’donnell– geeeeeeezzz this guy is a real baccala– shadrool
  
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- SnapTie
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 11:33am
  And it had a Obama bumper sticker on it with hope and change.
  
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- itasca
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 11:49am
  Beware the Jewish media complex.
  
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- pajamash
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 12:29pm
  And the Tea Party is the group trying to instill fear?
  
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- pajamash
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 12:30pm
  Al! I’ll say it again. It is hard for the Republicans to drive the car, and keep it on the road, when the Democrates keep yanking the wheel far to the left!!!!
  
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- jzs
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 1:20pm
  Nonsense. Bush did what he could, signing the TARP legislation into law and bailing out the banks. Got to give him credit for that. He tried.
  
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- Max jones
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 2:33pm
  JUSTANAMERCAN…..Bro ..your metaphor is sooo right on. I, too know that it is NOT the repubs or the dems, but the evil and corrupt elite class of progressives that we fight,now. Whether they were aware of it or not, all our modern presidents have worked toward the same goal of a “New world order”.
  Most of our liberal politicians are complete idiots, (and yellow cowards),and most of our conservative politicians are naive. The big money is on the globalists’ side. The take over is inevitable (bliblical, also),
  There are many of our leaders, of all stripes, who are selling us out for a bit of safety. Offering future generations into servitude, ad infinitum, for what? For peace? For security? Don’t make me laugh!!
  
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- Beckofile
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 4:11pm
  Who posted yesterday that the fact is….The government is supposed to maintain the car and not drive it at all. The Private sector is the driver and the govenment maintains the road and car. Making the road fair for all cars and all cars maintained well enough not to run other cars off the road. Yes Bush hijacked the car and took it for a drunken joy ride resulting in getting it stuck but that does not justify Obama getting in and pushing the Nitros Oxide button and heading off the cliff???? As of now we would be lucky if we could get both of them thrown in the pokie while we keep the car high centered until we can find the real driver…..the private sector. They can’t drive if we don’t send the gas money???
  
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- Beckofile
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 4:16pm
  Can you just imagine seeing the Tea Party person standing behind the car while two drunken men fight over the keys and who will drive the private sector car….all while he is removing the Obama and W bumper stickers.
  
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- cruisemates
  Oct. 27, 2010 at 4:45pm
  “The Car Analogy” is getting like a Penn Jillette movie – let’s see who can tell this story in the longest and most boring and nauseating form possible!
  
  And what’s the name of this act?
  THE ARISTOCRATS!
  
  Once a comedian, always a comendian. No, we will never be able to look at you without seeing Stuart Smalley.
  
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