How are we gonna miss ya, Sen. Al?
I told you so.
Just 12 days ago, the headline above my column read: “Al Franken sign-off likely fake news.”
And now, just as I predicted, right on schedule, with the special Senate election in Alabama over, the despicable groper is being, ahem, urged to rescind his reputed resignation.
Here’s how I started my Dec. 8 column:
“Al Franken-slime still doesn’t think he did anything wrong, which is why I won’t believe the vile Democrat pervert is really gone until he actually resigns, rather than just vaguely claiming he’s going to do the right thing, sometime in ‘the coming weeks.’ ”
Now it looks like those coming weeks may never come. Hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think so.
Franken’s “resignation” was nothing more than a talking point for the Democrat operatives with press passes, like Comrade Chris Matthews of MSNBC. PreAlabama, this is what he said about Franken’s finest hour:
“The worst you can say about Democrats is they’re too pure.”
Rather ironic statement, in retrospect, considering that we have since learned that the network had to dish out $40,000 to a victim of Comrade Chris’ own sexual harassment. For those of you keeping score at home, that makes nine — count em, nine — NBC employees busted for impersonating Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy, those two icons of the “pure” party.
Matthews continued: “These guys set too high a standard for public office.”
Riiiight, Comrade Chris! At the time Franken announced his alleged resignation, the pure party was in a bit of a bind. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich,) the founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, was being forced out — something about underwear — so it wouldn’t have looked good to have the rich honky in the Senate skating while the brother went down in flames.
But in the pervarama, events move quickly.
Since Franken delivered his lame goodbye, a horny host of other solons has been outed, from both parties. Most importantly, more members of the Congressional Black Caucus have since been implicated in various permutations on the perv theme — Reps. Alcee Hastings, Gregory Meeks, Al Green and Bobby Scott, among others.
So any potential charges of double standards are now moot. Black perv, white perv, if you’re a Democrat, the standard is the same — no standard. Just like in those halcyon Clinton-Kennedy days.
As Comrade Chris put it before he was outed: “I think it’s important that the Democratic party has at least remained consistent.”
Yeah, that’s one way of looking at it, I suppose. Consistency, thy name is pervarama.
And then of course there’s ex-Rep. Harold Ford of Tennessee. He’s a twofer in this squalid tableau — a former member of the Congressional Black Caucus who after retiring due to ill health (the voters got sick of him) landed a job at MSNBC.
Then came the … allegations … that Ford too had been touching everything but the third rail, and he became the second perv pundit on the deranged Morning Joe show to go down in flames, after Mark Halperin. Seriously, who could ever have dreamed that both Ford and Halperin would be fired before Mike Barnicle?
In the onrushing tide of the pervarama, or pervnado, or whatever you prefer to call it, Al Frankenslime has become yesterday’s news. He thinks our short attention spans will enable him to live to goose another day.
I told you so.