This smells like a stunt, but the New York Post, not the most credible of corporate media sources, is reporting that Al Franken “body-slammed” a Dean heckler at a rally yesterday in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Apparently a Lyndon Larouche supporter began heckling Howard Dean and Franken grabbed him from behind and threw him to the ground. “I’m neutral in this race but I’m for freedom of speech,” Franken told the Post, “which means people should be able to assemble and speak without being shouted down.”
Franken isn’t denying the take-down, instead apparently relishing it: “I got down low and took his legs out…. I was a wrestler so I used a wrestling move.”
Chalk it up as the first full contact event of the 2004 election cycle.
Real story from Union Leader newspaper at
http://www.theunionleader.com/Articles_show.html?article=32449&archive=1
NY Post definitely left stuff out, and some people seem misled by his humorous comments. Anyway, I way “Go, Big Al!!”