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August 01, 2009
Disgusting Al Franken feuds with T. Boone Pickens
Al Franken feuds with T. Boone Pickens
Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tanked John Kerry’s presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gave T. Boone Pickens a warm welcome at their weekly policy lunch Thursday.
Or at least most of them did.
Kerry skipped the regularly scheduled lunch; his staff said the Massachusetts Democrat “was unable to attend because he had a long scheduled lunch with his interns and pages.”
Sen. Al Franken managed to make time for the lunch – but then let Pickens have it afterward.
According to a source, the wealthy oil and gas magnate and author of “The First Billion is the Hardest” stepped up to introduce himself to Franken in a room just off the Senate Floor after the lunch ended
Franken, who was seated talking to someone else, did not stand when Pickens said hello. Instead, Franken began to berate him about the billionaire’s financing of the Swift Boat ads in 2004.
According to a source, the confrontation grew heated.
Said Franken spokeswoman Jess McIntosh: “It was a lively conversation.”
Pickens was on the Hill to address the Senate Democratic Policy Committee lunch about his plans to use wind energy to lower the nation’s dependence on oil and gas. But the thought of Pickens being invited to a Democratic event angered some on the Hill and in the liberal blogs.
Pickens’ camp appears unmoved by the drama.
“If they have a problem, that’s their problem,” said Pickens spokesman Jay Rosser.
“Boone has clearly moved on and is focused on a mission to solve the foreign oil dependency problem that he believes is a national security and economic crisis that America has to confront. Boone’s grateful for the impressive turnout of Democrats at the Democrat Policy Committee yesterday and for the interest they have shown in helping address this problem.”
Wild Thing's comment........
I had not heard about this, thank you Mark.
Franken is the face of the dem party, vile and disgusting that it is.
T. Boone Pickens... Intelligent, Sharp and Mannerly with a gentleman’s behavior.
Franken ....stupid, dull and ill mannered who wears diapers for laughs. Glad he’s not MY Senator.
And Kerry the coward didn't even show up and what a lame excuse he had. LOL That is so funny.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at August 1, 2009 07:40 AM
Comments
Obviously Franken is already full of self importance now that he is a senator. Most of us will just remember him as the diapered clown.
Posted by: TomR at August 1, 2009 01:56 PM
Tom, yes that is how I think of him when I
hear his name. At first I thought they would
turn aganist him since he was such a sleeze
hahha but all the dems are. Barney Frank,
Pelosi and so many of them. )
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 1, 2009 07:35 PM
