Al Franken With Jeff Greenfield On The Political Culture Of A Divided America 

Boy do we miss having Al in the Senate. 😭

I vote for Democrats! I couldn’t fathom voting for the other party, however, Democrats need to get better at messaging! Al should run again!

Al, you are a gift to humanity and a gift to democracy

Al you never should have stepped down

Al Franken should never have quit

Once and future Senator Franken! He's our very own. Unjustly hounded out by kindergartener minds.

A lot has happened since May '22 when this was recorded.

Al Franken, the senate needs u back

Al is a great American 🇺🇸

Thanks

I love Al Frankenstein. Brilliant, compassionate and hilarious. He needs to get back in the senate.

I LOVE them. They make me smile, giggle, and lol. Damnit guys...keep it coming. I feel 😍

Sometimes I get tired of the old white guys and the same tired lines “ like Democrats will lose in the midterms “ Time for new voices and momentum 😎

Thank you.

So I guess Greenberg WAS asking some tough questions, but at first I thought they were adversarials, sparring on a debate stage. I don't think Al dislikes anyone, truly, but knows how far to dig in the spurs. Really wish he'd run again, except that MN needs our current Senators, so I hope they take whatever advice he can give.

What was done to Franken was horrible! Shame on the women that did that!

Franken belongs back in the senate

Al Franken for President 2024

So much has changed since this was recorded. The Jan 6 hearings, Kansas voting to keep abortion rights, Passing of Chips, Pact and now 'Build back smaller" getting done to. I cling to the faith that not all who have voted R in the past will continue to do so in the future. Thinking Republicans are done with the Trump dramas and are ready to move on.

In this one room schoolhouse an Old fashioned remedy would be to take Manchin, Remove him from his committee, Sit him in the corner Wearing a Duncecap

It was funny, a woman who made a career out of being a sex object and being drooled over by men decided she was offended by a COMEDIAN joking about her being a sex symbol. Afterwards she tried to make money on the republican dinner circuit. Al Franken for President and Pete Buttigieg for vice president 2024

The host was wrong about the hearings. They are riveting.

Recorded May 31, 2022!!

Replace Greenfield with another moderator for future guests please.

I wish Al came back to 92nd Street Y now. After all that happened since August 8th.

I love you too Franklin 💖

Please run for POTUS

I Really Wish Al Franken Would Run for Senate Again this Year... Victoria J Lynch Kenney Plymale 8 15 22

Al Franken was an essential part of what was good in government his being forced to step down was a linchpin of The democratic party losing its most articulate voice. Sucks ! And this interviewer seems to be in a competition to be “right“ rather than interview

❗🐦💙🌊🗽❗. Looking from mid August, a lot of good stuff has happened in a few short months.

Kristen G.’s people were told that she would not be getting any donation or vote from me b/c she helped ax our strongest senator.

Recorded 22 May 2022. Outdated.

Jeff Greenfield should have allowed Al to speak and stop paraphrasing points Al was making. Bad interview.

THIS WAS WORKING CLASS BOROUGH BAR QUALITY TAWK. WITH MY SMARTEST UNCLE ❤️

Hey Al, run for President please,

Al for president!

Al Franken and Andrew Yang have the best laughs!!!

FRANKEN for PRESIDENT 2024!!!!

McConnell is responsible for all of this.

Al Franken, The Fondler!

Winning because the other side fields the worst candidate they can find, as a strategy, in chess that is called playing for mistakes.

Al Franken is a comedian 😂😂

The reasons I don't think Kamala isn't the most qualified has nothing to do with her gender or color.

AL FOR PRESIDENT! (Sorry, Al, you'd prob hate that job? But I still wish you were our President!)😁

Alito defcided BUsh 2 shoukld be presidednt notg letting the rest of the suptremed court decide.

That old guy definitely looked like an old Ted Koppel..

Kamala Harris for president of the United States of America and Jon Stewart VP!

Yup, a stupid thing to do. Franken should still be in the Senate.

Oh Al Please run Victoria J Lynch Kenney Plymale

Anybody who talks about guns and hunting doesn't understand the 2a and the Bill of Rights. Get with it Al. You are too smart for that blind spot.

Oops I meant Franken!

At 46:00 what Greenfield is saying is a toxic false equivalancy. Colbert makes me laugh about terrible events. Tucker makes them angry and afraid. Not "the same problem on both sides." Hard No. Also, Colbert, Meyers et al. do not purport to be 'News.'

Interesting....Franken did not seem phase AT ALL if Kamala wouldn't be nominee. He was politically tactful in his response but seemed clear if he was a champion of Kamala, he would have come out with a stronger response. He must be very lukewarm on her which is relevant because they were on Senate Judiciary Committee together so would have worked together often.

The French revolution came after the American, so you provide a great example of why interviewers should not be answering, but asking questions...

Starts at 03:45.

The Lesser of Two Bad Choices ???

Much as I love Al Franken, I couldn’t get past the introduction. Tick-tock is killing my/our attention span.

'Al Franken Kissed and Groped Me Without My Consent' Leeann Tweeden, a Los Angeles radio host and former model, says Senator Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat, kissed her against her will and groped her during a 2006 USO trip to Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In a post on the website of KABC, where she is a morning anchor, Tweeden writes that she was in a skit with Franken in which his character tried to kiss her. She writes that she expected a stage kiss in which she turned her head, but that backstage he insisted they needed to practice the kiss. She demurred, but he insisted, she said. He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. I said ‘OK’ so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine, and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth. She said she pushed him away and warned him never to do it again. “I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth,” Tweeden wrote. “I felt disgusted and violated.” She said she decided not to make a big deal of the incident so that the tour could go on, but that she was angry and told a few other people on the tour. Then when she returned to the U.S. and received a CD of photos from the trip, she saw one that depicted a grinning Franken either groping or pretending to grope her breasts as she slept on a flight. “I’m still angry at what Al Franken did to me,” Tweeden wrote. “Every time I hear his voice or see his face, I am angry. I am angry that I did his stupid skit for the rest of that tour.” “I certainly don’t remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann,” Franken said in a initial statement. “As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn’t. I shouldn't have done it.” After that statement, backlash mounted. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called for a Senate Ethics Committee investigation, and several of Franken’s Democratic colleagues joined in. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York labeled Franken’s apology insufficient and supported calls for an investigation, and Claire McCaskill and Patty Murray did the same. Franken then released a second, longer statement. “The first thing I want to do is apologize: to Leeann, to everyone else who was part of that tour, to everyone who has worked for me, to everyone I represent, and to everyone who counts on me to be an ally and supporter and champion of women,” he said. “There’s more I want to say, but the first and most important thing-and if it’s the only thing you care to hear, that’s fine-is: I’m sorry.” Franken has previously faced criticism over things he said during his comedy career, and has dismissed critics for taking his words out of context and misunderstanding comedy. A bawdy column in Playboy titled “Porn-O-Rama,” dealing with online bestiality material, became an issue during his first run for office in 2008. Republicans criticized Franken, a former Saturday Night Live star and comedian, for the piece, but he defended it as merely satire, and defenders said he’d been taken out of context. “I learned something, which is you can't litigate comedy,” Franken said in an interview with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross earlier this year. “You can't litigate a joke. And in politics, when you're explaining, you're losing. So I had to let that go. And that was hard for me because I'm very proud of my career in comedy. And I had to just, at a certain point-I mean, I tried-I learned it by trying to litigate jokes. And it just-it's-you can't do it. You've got to let go.” During a hearing on Wednesday, Franken scolded Don Willett, a nominee for federal court, for an old tweet about marrying bacon. “I don’t get it,” Franken said. “But sometimes when you don’t get a joke, it’s because it wasn’t a joke.” A 2005 NPR story suggests that unwanted kisses from Franken were a staple of his USO shows. Describing a skit with Traylor Howard of the show Monk, he said: We do this thing where, you know, I have written up this audition piece for me for Monk, 'cause she's-'cause I want to be on the show, and it's all an excuse to kiss her. And then I kiss her and the guys, like yell, and she says, “Wait a minute. If I were going to kiss anybody here, it'd be one of these brave men.” And everyone goes, “Whoo, whoo,” and then she goes, “Or women.” And then they actually get louder. And then we pick a guy from the audience and he ends up kissing her. You know, that kind of thing. Not too many years ago, Franken’s actions might have been forgiven. Bill Clinton set a precedent for politicians riding out scandals, since followed by other officeholders, like Senator David Vitter of Louisiana. But there is now much lower tolerance for this sort of behavior, and the senator will be hard-pressed to laugh it off as just comedy.

Al didn't really shoot down the idea of running in New York

HWBush legacy

I believe Biden needs a different VP.

its...a......little......s..l..o..w...

Greenfield was totally WRONG!

I’m thrilled my Dad didn’t take me out to kill animals for sport.

Candidates for the Senate can be drafted, can’t they ? Write him in !

The Bill of Rights is about protecting the people against government tyranny. The Bill of Rights is not about giving the government more power. The Second Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights. The Second Amendment is not about hunting. The Second Amendment does not say the right of the "State" nor does it say the right of the "government". It says the "right of the people".

Harder to load armed people on to boxcars

Dump her because she is not the best. She would be a terrible candidate.

#Franken2024 Isn't it obvious

Who's this Jeff Greenfield hack? I want to hear from real thinkers like Elbourne Whippet Jr.

And I thought George Will was a boring windbag. Greenfield makes Will look animated. Yikes!

1 supreme coourt jjustice is why we had bush two. He wanted Bush two keepimg the rest of the supremde coufrtg gfvfrlo mm votikng.

Al Gore won the presidency!

Please run for President. At least run for Senate against Hillabrand.

Look at Al Franken. He is sluring his words. He looks and acts loaded. Look hard at him!! Listen to him. He even sounds loaded!!

It's not the Gun It's the user and how the user uses the gun. I use mine on Range. I have had it for 35 years. It's not for you to say the gun should be band.

If Al doesn't run again then I frankly don't want to hear it. Pass

Judge Joe brown should run for senate

I bought tickets to his show just to troll and heckle him. I can't STAND creepers like Franken!

Greenfield is trying to be funny, he's not. He's trying to inject conflict where none exists. The best thing he could do is to shut up and let the interesting, interested person, as in Al Franken, talk as much as possible. Too bad the 92nd Street Y couldn't have gotten a live interviewer. Greenfield, like Bill Maher, is no longer relevant. Sad. I'll listen to Al on his podcast but this is torture. (Greenfield's little joke about the tree in the forest and the deaf man was pathetic. If I had time, I'd feel sorry for him.) RETIRE Dorothy, you've already surrendered.

America has always been divided

I’m offended by the fat word

No women rising stars?! What about AOC, Porter, Cori Bush!

Please come back, AF! The Senate needs more members willing to put their hands on a sleeping woman- without her knowledge or consent! 🙄🙄🙄 Go away, creep, and NEVER come back. 🤮🤢🤮

He needs to find another job

"Al Franken - Five Time Enemy Award Winner"

Al Franken needs to adress Cuomo assault claims

Manchin should run for President on a campaign to pass ALL of Build Back B.

No to the neoliberal mascot (Mayor Pete). Obama was the black mascot, Pete would be the gay mascot-- NO. You can't trick us with identity pandering anymore. We want REAL progress.

Oh yeah you are the Craigslist guy that made sexual hook ups and free puppy love “rescuing” so much easier all around the world! Let’s give a hand clap for all of the folks that got clap and rescued a puppy !

Manchin is funny. Very similar to al Franken

Franken shows his racism

Manchin is a rising star

Will Cosby be interviewed

Will cosby be given this platform since Franken had a platform

Manchin 2024

Biden lost my vote