Democratic Senate Candidate And "Comedian" Al Franken Helps Create Anti-McCain Opening 'SNL' Skit

Al Franken, the Democrat candidate running against Senator Norm Coleman in Minnesota, helped craft an anti-McCain opening segment for Saturday Night Live this week. Politico reports that Franken helped create "the opening sketch mocking John McCain that kicked off the NBC comedy show Saturday, according to two well-placed sources inside the network. Franken, who hasn’t been a staff writer on the show for 13 years, 'phoned in' a spoof of McCain recording campaign ads in an edit booth, said an NBC source. Seth Meyers, the show’s current head writer, wrote it, but the sketch was hatched by Franken, a longtime liberal satirist and comedian." Franken's spokeswoman "admitted Franken had a role in Saturday's program."

The skit is not even funny, it is a biased and partisan smear on John McCain that ignores that Barack Obama is running ads every bit as nasty. Did they miss the Spanish ad this week in which Obama took Rush Limbaugh's words very far out of context and then unbelievably linked them to John McCain with the clear message that he was a racist against Hispanics? Yet McCain is the one running ads that use race as an issue? Did they miss the ad attacking McCain for being old and not using e-mail? Give me a break. Apparently the prophet from Chicago can do no wrong. This skit has the mark of Al Franken all over it.



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