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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (8011)	3/30/2004 4:17:11 PM
From: Jagfan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

But people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Especially big muddy public stones, and especially when you're someone who accuses other glass house owners of throwing stones as well. Since Franken makes a focal points out of people he says did not previously practice the things they preach (abstinence, "chickenhawks", etc) his own history with drugs makes him a huge hypocrite if he is not to be held to his own rules -- and an even BIGGER hypocrite since he specifically rails against people being hypocrites about hypocrites and not following their own rules! oy! In an October 1991 interview he did for The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Franken was questioned about Stuart Smalley, a (to be polite) not so much 'funny' character he created for Saturday Night Live. The probing questions about Stuart’s origins seemed to have touched a nerve, as Franken is reported to have said, “There's sort of a personal story behind this that I actually don't want to talk about....I am a member of a 12-step program.” In a Feb. 23, 1995, interview in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Franken said, regarding his use of drugs when he was with "Saturday Night Live": "I did my share of recreational drugs. I was lucky in that I never became addicted to anything. There'd be cocaine around the show, and if it was 3 a.m. in the morning (in midweek) and I wanted to finish something I was writing, I'd do some. But for some reason, toss of the dice, I was not addicted, at least not to drugs." Very interesting. If Franken was telling the truth (which one can never tell) the following is twice as interesting: If Franken was being truthful in saying he didn't get hooked on cocaine when he was hitting it, what did he get addicted to? Alcohol? Masturbation? It's none of our business. Just as Rush's addiction was none of anyone's business. So why does Franken relish in ridiculing Rush's problem, when he's gone through a similar situation and didn't even have the guts to come clean with a full disclosure?