The Politico tells us:
"Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tank John Kerry’s presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gave T. Boone Pickens a warm welcome at their weekly policy lunch Thursday....
"According to a source, the wealthy oil and gas magnate and author of “The First Billion Is the Hardest” stepped up to introduce himself to [Senator Al] Franken in a room just off the Senate Floor after the lunch ended.
"Franken, who was seated talking to someone else, did not stand when Pickens said hello. Instead, Franken began to berate him about the billionaire’s financing of the Swift Boat ads in 2004.
"According to a source, the confrontation grew heated."
What surprises me is that Sen. Franken was the only publicly paid representative who called out Mr. Pickens for having falsely smeared a bona fide Vietnam combat veteran, simply to keep a draft-dodging, corporate lapdog in the White House.
D-Day comments:
"The saddest part of this is how Franken's the only Senator to even find a luncheon between Democrats and T. Boone Pickens to be weird."
Pamela Leavey comments:
"Hello? What the hell was Pickens doing there any how?
"Maybe the memories are short with the rest of the Senate Democrats that were at the luncheon, but at least Al Franken remembers and wasn’t willing to sit by and play nice with the man responsible for swift boating John Kerry.
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"Treason doth never prosper. Aye, and what's the reason?
When it doth prosper, none dare to call it Treason."
Posted by: MR Bill | August 01, 2009 at 08:42 PM