Franken: I Didn't Body Slam Anybody

Al Franken is really mad - but not mad enough to go World Wrestling Federation on a Howard Dean heckler.

Franken - according to the N.Y. Daily News - has decided to declare war on the N.Y. Post and reporter Vincent Morris for misreporting his actions regarding what happened at a Howard Dean rally in New Hampshire, among other similar misrepresentations, according to Franken.

Morris wrote that the former "Saturday Night Live" comedian "body-slammed a demonstrator to the ground after the man tried to shout down" Dean.

Daily News scribe Lloyd Grove writes that Franken told him: "I didn't body-slam anyone to the floor. The Post's story makes me look like a nut, and it has been circulated all over the world by the right-wing echo chamber."

Franken said he asked permission to help Dean's security staff with restraining the gentleman, and says they used leverage, which he learned as "a mediocre high-school wrestler," to hoist the man off his feet so they could take him away.

In other words, the floor never entered into the equation.

Franken goes on to accuse Morris and the New York post of other infractions against him, but failed to mention admitting that he is guilty of having concocted a phony study when he wrote to Attorney General John Ashcroft for his upcoming book.

The Franken-Post war of words should be interesting.

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