Let's play connect the Dots…

 

Russell Shorto Article 2004 re: Al Franken (Al Franken, Seriously So / aka: The Heckler Wrestler)

 

Honorable Mentions in Article

 

John Edwards (rally)

Howard Dean

(H) Clinton (is Poll Driven/Al wants as guest)

Laraine Newman (Al the Jock comment)

Peter Jennings

Tim Russert

Martin Sheen

Stuart Smalley

Bill Clinton (Al wants as guest)

Bush (era)

George W. Bush (helped uplift Fraken)

Bill O'Leilly (O'Reilly) Name Caller

Paul Begala (fmr Clinton Advisor)

Rush Limbaugh (nemisis)

Mark Walsh (Air America CEO)

Terry McAuliffe (friend of Mark Walsh)

Skippy (fmr CofS of Clinton WH)

John Zogby (the Pollster)

Rich Lowry

Ted Kennedy

Bob Shrum (Kerry's Media Advisor)

Tom Brokaw

Ann Coulter

Dennis Miller

Letterman

Frank Luntz (Rep pollster)

Norman Ornstien (Fren of Al's since 1992/vacations with Al's family)

Dick Gregory (Great Political Satirist)

Mort Sahl (Great Political Satirist)

Hubert Humphrey (Al political hero)

Eugene McCarthery (Al political hero)

Paul Wellstone (Al political hero)

Tom Davis (High School Frens/duo writers)

Lorne Michaels (signed Al and Tom D on SNL)

Stuart Smalley (from the Al-Anon experience)

Lenny Bruce (Great Political Satirist)

Michael Moore (talented writer and performer kek/Al wants as guest)

Tom Daschle (Senate Minority Leader)

Hendrik Hertzberg (The New Yorker)

Frank Rich (NYT)

Howard Fineman (Newsweek)

Jonathan Alter (Newsweek)

Jim Kelly (Not the football player, Time)

Jeff Greenfield (Fake News CNN)

Eric Alterman (The Nation)

Richard Cohen (The Washington Post)

Jacob Weisberg (Slate)

Arthur Schlesinger Jr (An éminence grise: is a powerful decision-maker or adviser who operates "behind the scenes", or in a non-public or unofficial capacity. Wikipedia)

Sheldon and Anita Drobny (Chicago Investors)

Jon Sinton (Atlanta Radio Exec)

Mike Malloy (Jon Sinton failed him)

Jim Hightower

G. Gordon Liddy (Al wants as guest)

Shelley Lewis (Networks creative team lead)

Lizz Winstead (co-creator of Daily Show/wants to take away from Howard Stern's audience)

Katherine Lanpher (Franken's co-host/MN Public Radio)

Lorne Michaels (Passed O'Reilly over as the host of Weekend Update)

Norm MacDonald (Led Al to leave the show)

Ben Wikler (Al's producer)

Paul Krugman (Al wants as guest)

Kevin Phillips (Al wants as guest)

Gary Bauer (Al wants as guest)

Bob Elliot (one of Al's radio heros)

Bill Maher (Everyone's a crook says James Downey)

James Downey (SNL writer who worked with Al)

No Name (one of Al's heroes)

Michael Harrison (publisher of Talkers magazine)

Elvis (asks to be a Fed Agent at large/Al's bathroom, Nixon)

Owen (Al's Brother, took Pic of Nixon after Nixon resignation)

Franni (Al's wife, she manages Al's life)

Hugh Hefner (Invites)

Tomasin (Al and Franni's daughter/public school teacher)

Joe (Al and Franni's son)

Dana Carvey

Ross Perot

Paul Wellstone (changed Al, Fren, Memorial, circumstances in death of Fren)

Christopher Caldwell (The Weekly Standard/Rally of Al's Fren's death)

Wellstone, Walter Mondale, Norm Coleman

Paul Begala (offered advice)

 

https:// www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/magazine/al-franken-seriously-so.html