Al Franken Is Cracking Up!

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Click Here to see for yourself.

It's a clip of the last few minutes of an exclusive promotional sales pitch for Al Franken's new book, "The Truth (with jokes)," featured at Amazon.com.

The video skit blurs truth and fiction as a psychotic Al Franken kicks a man potraying a conservative reader in the groin, smashes a stool over his back, and grins as another man playing one of Franken's fans cracks a bottle over the conservative's head.







"Ah, that feels great!" Franken gloats.



Al Franken, we know, is an angry, unstable man. He's got temper-control issues. Remember this and this? He didn't have to stretch much for his Amazon.com role. The skit, however, comes across not as self-effacing or satirical, but creepily, seriously cathartic.

There is absolutely nothing funny about the clip, though I suppose it is somewhat amusing to imagine Franken's obsequious team of overpaid Harvard libs crowded around the set telling their boss what a comic genius he is.

Franken is, of course, baiting us to be outraged. But what you should feel for this man is pathos. The guy needs professional help.

We all know Franken bombed on the Letterman Show last week as he attempted to deflect questions about Air America's finances and joked about the execution of President Bush and top GOP officials.

Dave Pierre at Newsbusters asks:

Would a Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly ever get away with a publicity video like this without an "outrage" in the liberal media?

OF COURSE NOT! Firstly they would never dream of making such a video, and secondly no company in its right mind (or should we say left-mind) would ever host it.

USA TODAY PROFILE ON FRANKEN...does not even mention the amazon.com video.

(Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)