Apparently he wasn’t Stephen Colbert
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Let me just say for the record that I've rarely found humorists from Minnesota to be very funny. Al Franken is on the short list. But even aside from the jokes I don't get -- and the politics that I don't much care about one way or the other -- I have a soft spot in my heart for anyone who'll sit in a room full of journalists and tell them the last thing they want to hear. (Are you listening, John McCain?)
Check out today's City Hall Scoop. Unfortunately -- and I wasn't there so I have to take the word of those who were -- of all the things he could have told the press that it needed to hear, a complaint about a story -- or stories -- they wrote about him isn't one of them.
Of course these media dinners are always weird affairs anyway since what draws reporters and media folks to them is the fact that they give themselves a bunch of awards. I think the MPR Web site won one, but I can't recall what the category was. I didn't go to the dinner.
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