Al Franken In Raunchy Playboy Interview

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Franken Shows Playboy Sensitive, Considerate Side




Whether it's something in New York City's tap water or the moon's current phase, the Radio Equalizer isn't sure, but some kind of foot-in-mouth disease is afflicting its radio hosts.

First, it was Don Imus over the weekend, who complained of cocaine dealers who were too slow to supply more drugs, back when he was an addict.

What a grave injustice.

Now, Al Franken sinks to his own fresh low in a new Playboy interview, according to the New York Daily News. Will feminists be able to remain silent this time?

Rachel Maddow, are you paying attention?


Get a load of this:

Leave it to shockworthy "Saturday Night Live" alum Al Franken - the Air America radio host who might run for Senate in his home state of Minnesota - to push the taste envelope in a Playboy interview.

"I've read the Playboy interview for years, and I never realized that the interviewee got to sleep with that month's Playmate. … It's great," Franken jokes, referring to February Playmate Cassandra Lynn (Turnoffs: "Men who are insecure, controlling," while the five people she'd like to meet include former "SNL" star Adam Sandler, but not Al).

Yes, Al, we know: you read Playboy for the articles.

Does this interview reveal The Truth (Without Jokes) about Franken? We wonder what Al's wife Franni thinks about the public unveiling of the alleged comedian's true nature.

Could it be that Franken's looking to take over some of the stations recently vacated by Howard Stern's move to SIRIUS Radio?

After watching conservatives such as Bill Bennett and Bill O'Reilly get raked over the coals for controversial statements (twisted by the media, we might add), it will surprise few when the mainstream media mostly ignores Franken's sewer-mouth episode.

Just imagine anyone on the right making "jokes" of this nature. Careers would be on the line. For Franken, however, fawning media elitists just continue to look the other way.


And he certainly didn't stop with thoughts of sleeping with Playboy centerfolds, either. Also from the Daily News report by Lloyd Grove:

* Fox News television hosts: "Bill O'Reilly talks about traditional values versus what he calls left-wing secular values. He has traditional values? He's a married man engaging in phone sex with a female employee who doesn't want it and has asked him to stop. … Sean Hannity is the worst. He's completely humorless, a total hack."

* Visiting Iraq with the USO: "We were told we were going to do a show at Abu Ghraib. This was well after the prison abuse scandal. … The sergeant major of the Army, its highest-ranking noncommissioned officer, was with us. So the commander of the base said, 'Let's give a warm Abu Ghraib welcome to the sergeant major of the Army.' He said it with no irony, which just struck me as hilarious."

* "SNL": "I like Weekend Update, and I like Tina Fey. I'm disappointed in some of their political stuff. It's more superficial."

Meanwhile, Franken calls Sen. Hillary Clinton and state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer "great leaders" and predicts that Clinton will campaign for him in Minnesota. "She totally gets it. She's got a great, goofy sense of humor."

Hey, maybe she even likes that Playmate joke.

With a straight face, in the same interview, Franken blasts O'Reilly over sexual issues. How do you keep from laughing at them, Al?

And yes, one could imagine Hillary Clinton would like his Playboy "joke", given her bizarre Indian gas station attendant crack in January 2004:

(CNN) The New York Democrat made the remark at a fund-raiser Saturday. During an event here for Senate candidate Nancy Farmer, Clinton introduced a quote from Gandhi by saying, "He ran a gas station down in St. Louis."

After laughter from many in the crowd of at least 200 subsided, the former first lady continued, "No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century."

Yep, Hillary campaigning for Franken, these two are perfect for each other.

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Images: Franken by David A Lunde, Lloyd Grove from the NY Daily News, Clinton/Farmer from CNN