CHUD's Devin Faraci recently spoke with Al Franken and the former SNLer-cum-political commentator revealed that Anne Coulter is forcing him and Bill Dowd, the co-director of his upcoming film, AL FRANKEN: GOD SPOKE, to remove a scene of a public debate at The Connecticut Forum in 2004. Although this was indeed a public event, the filmmakers for some reason or another require the permission of Coulter to use the scene, which she is course denying them since Franken handily embarressed the shit out her in it. It's a fairly moot and petty decision on her part, though, since the events of the scene in question have been public knowledge for the last couple of years: When asked which historical figure they would like to be, Coulter's response is that she would like to be FDR so that she could have withheld the New Deal. Franken, pretty much putting politics aside to make the point that Coulter is an irritating moron, retorts that he'd be Hitler so he could have stopped the Holocaust. For the full story and some of Franken and Dowd's own words, head HERE.
Extra Tidbit:
Al Franken left Saturday Night Live in 1995 after his request to be the Weekend Update news anchor was denied.
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10:19PM on 08/30/2006
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