Al Franken,U.
S. Senator (D MN) former comedy writer and actor, and the author of Al Franken, and Giant of the Senate talks about his improbable path from Saturday Night Live to the U.
S. Senate. Plus the latest on the news on the health care bill and where things are with Trump world and the Russia investigation. On his childhood Franken says,"I felt like the luckiest kid in the world," growing up in suburban Minnesota, and fraction of the middle course. It's what helped him decide to be a Democrat. But people don't feel that way anymore. "In America,they reveal you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. But first you hold to hold the boots." And when it came to his political career, Franken has made a point of not being amusing. How did he make the switch? With the help of "the de-humanizer, and an Israeli-made machine that de-contextualized and took out the irony of every thing I did."
Source: thetakeaway.org