If you think the ads for the Presidential race are tough, they have nothing on the Minnesota Senate race.

Okay the race for the Senate in Minnesota is between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, and Democratic newcomer Al Franken, of Saturday Night Live and Air America fame.

So the Democrats produce this very effective ad here:



And the Coleman campaign came back with this one:



OUCH!!

That thing is absolutely brutal!

And this is really the problem with somebody who has been filmed and recorded for the last thirty years. There is a lot of soundbites available that, when taken out of context, can look very, very bad.

I know that Al Franken is a brilliant, passionate man who would be a great asset to the Senate. And hell his Senate floor speeches would probably be pretty entertaining too.

But when you have written books like "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot and other observations" and "The lies and the lying liars who tell them: A fair and balanced look at the Right", you have to expect to have made a lot of enemies who are going to pull out the stops to punish you for pointing out their duplicity and lack of ethics. And Franken has made a boatload.


I hope that Al Franken somehow bounces back from this, and my heart goes out to him.

Keep up the good fight Al, I really think America needs you in the Senate.