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Al Franken urges New Yorkers to yell ‘fuggedaboudit’ during Bush nomination
By Sam Dolnick
NEW YORK (AP) — Al Franken wants you to get up out of your chairs, open your windows, stick your heads out and yell ... fuggedaboutdit?
Well, yes.
In the spirit of Paddy Chayefsky’s classic movie monologue from Network, the liberal comedian Wednesday urged New Yorkers — and other Americans — to simultaneously scream the all-purpose local wisecrack at the moment that President George W. Bush accepts the Republican party’s nomination.
“This is a form of protest that is very non-disruptive,” Franken said at a press conference in the Park Avenue office of Air America radio network, where he hosts a talk show.
Franken said the Sept. 2 protest, called the Great American Shout-Out, will not “tax our public safety system at all.”
“This is our way of venting,” Franken added. “It will be a catharsis.”
Franken said he expected the shouts to last less than five minutes. Out of “respect for the office of the presidency,” he asked that participants quiet down once Bush begins speaking so “people can hear him give a bad speech.”
Franken said he expects 100 million people countrywide to participate, adding: “Anything less would be a horrific failure.”
Unlike the movie version — “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” — this protest has been tailor-made for regional dialects, Franken said.
In his native Minnesota, people are to yell “Oh no ya don’t!” in an exaggerated accent.
In California, the suggested shout is: “No way, dude!”
Air America has created a website, www.thegreatamericanshoutout.org, where participants can plan “shout parties” or let their solo shout be counted.
Air America began on five stations around the country March 31 as a left-leaning political alternative to conservative talk radio. It now airs on 23 stations countrywide.

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

DUMB.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

is this more to your liking?

Mother and daughter charged with making fake winning sweepstakes forms
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A mother and daughter were indicted on mail fraud charges for allegedly swindling a Pittsburgh TV station by doctoring winning sweepstakes entry forms.
Sonya Rosenberger bilked Pittsburgh station WTAE-TV out of $95,500 US by using her computer to make bogus entry forms for the station’s Watch 4 Win More contest after winning contest numbers were broadcast, according to Tuesday’s indictment.
Rosenberger, 27, created the bogus winning forms for herself, her friends and relatives from April 2002 until May, when station officials discovered the scam, authorities said.
Also charged in the scam was Rosenberger’s mother, Alanna Ridenour, 45, who allegedly used the bogus winning forms to get about $12,000 from the station.
It was unclear if either woman had a lawyer.
“I applaud station employees for detecting suspicious activities and bringing them to the attention of the authorities,” said WTAE-TV president Rick Henry. “The station will continue to co-operate with the investigation and subsequent prosecution of this case.”

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

In his native Minnesota, people are to yell “Oh no ya don’t!” in an exaggerated accent.

It would be more accurate to shout "Have some more hot dish, why don'tcha?"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Franken sorta bugs.

― andy, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

That Franken idea is stupider than most email hoaxes I've seen. "Put a candle in your window so the space shuttle can see you as it flies over!"

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Franken is taking this way less seriously than anyone who has posted on this thread.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You're right, sorry I took it so seriously by responding with the word "DUMB."

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

When the left is represented by Al Franken urging people to shout catchphrases as a humorous means of protest, I start to think the left needs a Bill O'Reilly type bully

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

because corn is a greater threat to our beings than evil

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Like Michael Moore?

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see how making a joke about "Minnesota nice" could be seen as taking this super-seriously.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

no no I mean they need a mean-faced bastard who doesn't let other people talk and who never cracks jokes

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

some doof did say we should light up NYC, though. Because wasting energy would really show those Republicans.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

no no I mean they need a mean-faced bastard who doesn't let other people talk and who never cracks jokes

Like Michael Moore?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean like the Punisher?

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly like the Punisher.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Franken adopts Yiddish accent and indeterminate gender; is more concerned about Florida condo than 9/11 Report

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Except the Punisher is a fascist, right? Him and Batman?

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Batman and the Punisher, together at last, yes. I would vote for them.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

crypto-fascist.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Krypto-fascist.

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

no, that's Superman.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course, any talk of a Punisher/Batman ticket assumes that they can find some middle ground on their disparate views on gun control.

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Best line...

Franken said he expects 100 million people countrywide to participate

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Franken said he expects 100 million people countrywide to participate, adding: “Anything less would be a horrific failure.”

Lollers to that

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't think of any situation where I would be able to say "Fuggedabout it" without wanting to shoot myself in embarassment afterwords.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

New York and its Jews, Italians, etc. apologize for their existence.

He had Vincent Pastore and Edie Falco on today to provide audio samples.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Vincent Pastore realize he's not actually a mobster?

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

What, mobsters can't be in TV shows and movies as mobsters? It's the perfect cover!

― Huck, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha. I've got a lot of time for Al - even when being wilfully dorky - he went to my school and his brother, a globetrotting photographer, brought 'liberal' speakers back to speak to students about relevant issues of the day, which was fabby until he got in stand-up shouty arguments with Ariel Sharon's niece about how he was a self-hating Jew for bringing us an anti-Zionist to talk to.

The Minnesota yell out the window, however, should be 'ohh, fer dumb!'

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

suzy, you're cool and all, but do you realize how often you mention that certain celebrities went to your school/knew a friend of your parents/etc.?

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry i don't know why i posted that. gut reaction. end of the day. sorry.

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but implied gripes about who I may have met along the way in the course of my normal daily life are BORING and create the impression of WHINING. I am quite bemused at the smallness of the world and the many ways this manifests itself.

Frankly I love that a normal public school in a suburb of Minneapolis has produced so many people who at least TRY to bring the political noise (even if one of them is Thomas L. Friedman). Al's brother Owen made a real difference to my education and deserves all the props there are for that (Owen sometimes lurks here, BTW).

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

owen tell your brother i might be partially responsible for the local walmart stocking his book!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Also if anyone here knows Sandra Pagano could you tell her I tested positive for HPV and thought she should know?

― ocsiban (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

No way dude!

― Keanu Olsen Twin (Leee), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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