21 years ago, alleged “comedy” writer and performer Al Franken, having recently departed from Saturday Night Live, in protest over losing the role of Weekend Update anchor to Norm Macdonald, conjured up a book oh-so-cleverly-titled Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.
On Thursday, however, some long-overdue comeuppance came now-Senator Franken’s way, in a fashion that went way, way beyond being mocked on The Rush Limbaugh Show (the nation’s most popular radio talk show), with creepy details emerging about his groping and forcibly kissing TV host and model Leeann Tweeden during a USO tour in 2006.
And Rush Limbaugh certainly did not miss an opportunity to “pluck the low-hanging fruit.” In fact, he titled — in the extensive transcripts section of RushLimbaugh.com — one section of the Thursday show “Democrats Have a Problem: Al Franken Is a Big Fat Hypocrite Pervert.”
During that part of the broadcast, Limbaugh happened to make an important
