The latest faux controversy surrounding the Minnesota Senate race is Democratic candidate Al Franken's involvement in the opening skit of "Saturday Night Live," which poked fun at the false ads that John McCain has been running against Barack Obama. The skit had McCain approving of ads that claimed Obama was promising health care to Osama bin Laden, offering tax cuts to pedophiles and had fathered two black children "in wedlock." Pretty fun stuff.
According to his campaign, Franken gave the idea for the sketch to SNL executive producer and former employer Loren Michaels. But the Coleman campaign and the Republican Party have twisted the facts -- stating that Franken was joking about racism and child molesters. Here's the sketch -- you be the judge.
But there is a real reason for outrage that the Franken critics are missing. The opening sketch was the only funny thing in the 90-minute show. Couldn't Franken have given Michaels a better idea than "The Looker" or remake of "Of Mice and Men"?
Or maybe they're just mad because there were no bowlers in the ad.
