"“Al, hurry up,” said Michael Harrison, publisher of TALKERS mag, the convention sponsor.
“It’s freedom of speech,” said Franken, referring to the Freedom of Speech Award he’d just been given by the magazine.
“It’s not freedom to kill everybody’s evening, so why don’t you wrap it up,” Harrison argued.
“I’m talking about the war in Iraq and I have about two pages left, and I think the people in Walter Reed [Army Medical Center] who’ve been injured deserve the last two pages of my speech,” Franken countered.
“There are people walking out,” said Harrison. “We gave you the award and it’s time to leave.”"
Ahhh... the stuff ya can't make up.
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