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Advice for Franken: Satire is key to your Senate skill set, so use it

By Chris Steller | 07.10.09 | 8:36 am

gerson-franken-navaskyWhat a difference a year makes. Last summer, Al Franken got a stern lecture on satire from Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, who asserted that Franken’s abuse of the genre disqualified him from service in the U.S. Senate.…