Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken has apologized several times since a 2006 photo surfaced showing him groping a sleeping woman, but Franken walked back a 2008 apology for rape jokes in his latest book.
During Franken’s 2008 campaign to unseat Senate Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, stories about the comedian’s blue humor came out, including a 2000 column he wrote in Playboy entitled “Porn-o-Rama” and a rape joke he made about 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl in 1995.
“The things I said and wrote sent a message to some of my friends in this room, and the people in this state, that they can’t count on me to be a champion for women and for all people of Minnesota in this campaign and in the Senate. I’m sorry for that,” he said at a Democratic-Farmer-Labor state convention while on the 2008 campaign trail.
However, in his new book “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate,” the Minnesota Democrat admitted the apology meant nothing.
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