GOP Trashes Late MN Senator Paul Wellstone in Hoax Attack on Franken

Al Franken has just been sworn in as United States Senator, in a ceremony with current Vice President Joe Biden, former Vice President Walter Mondale from Minnesota, and members of the Wellstone family in attendance. The Republican Party has marked this event by producing the video at this link, which actually shows footage of Franken doing a humorous, affectionate impersonation of Paul Wellstone for a Minnesota campaign crowd out of context. Even as the Wellstone family is trying to enjoy a moment of triumph as the Democratic Farmer Labor party regains the Senate seat lost to Minnesotans only because of a tragic plane crash that killed their father, mother, and sister, Wellstone is being mocked in a cheap shot by the Republican Party. It’s downright sickening.