Not From Around Here

After eight years of "un-American" this and "unpatriotic" that, local conservative blog Minnesota Democrats Exposed pulled a new arrow from the quiver last week, accusing St. Louis Park native Al Franken of being "un-Minnesotan."

Franken earned the rebuke after he mocked a conservative undergraduate student during a flesh-pressing session at Carlton College in Northfield. The young Republican took his ordeal to Strib gossip columnist C.J., whose account of the incident was linked on Drudge Report.

We here at City Pages believe it's time for an offical inquiry into just where this "Mr. Franken" actually resides. When the state Legislature reconvenes in February, it should immediately call him before the House Committee on Un-Minnesotan Activities and ask, "Are you now, or have you ever been a New Yorker?" —Jeff Severns Guntzel