Doodlemaster Al Franken Captures Jeff Sessions
EmailABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: Maybe he was jealous that funny woman and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan stole the show with her jokes and quick wit Tuesday. Maybe he has an appreciation for the human form. Or maybe he was just bored. But an AP photographer caught Minnesota Democrat, Al Franken, better known for his own career as a comedian, drawing a pretty good likeness of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sessions, his glasses hanging low on his nose, went after Kagan at Tuesday’s hearing, demanding to know if Kagan would classify herself as progressive. Despite her work for a line of Democratic politicians, from President Clinton and then-Senator Joe Biden to President Obama, Kagan punted.
Franken's doodling has also been demonstrated in the past. Franken, as demonstrated at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair and on Letterman in 1987, can draw a map of the United States from memory. With all the practice on Sessions, one wonders if he could draw the Alabama Republican from memory too.
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He also was sleeping, but that would not make news.
Posted by: Lizzie | June 30, 2010, 11:27 am 11:27 am
Franken sleeps and doodles while the US crashes and burns…..
Posted by: MNResident | June 30, 2010, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm
AL sleeps while Business goes on,should be the headline,But what would you expect from a Clown,who ran for office in Minn,and won? How Proud you should be Minn.
Posted by: stormerF2 | June 30, 2010, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm
This is how are tax dollars are spent –salaries for a senator who sleeps and draws cartoons.
Posted by: susie | June 30, 2010, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
Ahem, what was he doing with his other hand???
Posted by: CBA | June 30, 2010, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm
The Senator’s priorities have not changed.
Posted by: usmcsmile | June 30, 2010, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm
Those who actually watched the hearings could see Sen. Franken make clowns out of those who tried to denigrate Justice Marshall and try to re-write history, as if Marshall was anything other than a centrist re: Constitutional law. See Franken’s discussion with Kagan re: Carolene Products case of 1938 – footnote four (or is that beyond the scope of the ineffectual blogger).
Posted by: mssound | July 2, 2010, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm