Al Franken Does Kansas City

by Pa Rock

Missouri Democrat

 

Kansas City has a long history of empty-headed celebrities walking out onto the local stages and telling audiences how happy they are to be in Kansas.  "Kansas" City - so it must be Kansas, right?   One of the biggest geo-political blunders involving the city happened in February of 2020 when the Kansas City Chiefs football team won the Super Bowl by defeating the San Francisco 49er's.  When that happened the President of the United States, a low-intellect, obese grifter by the name of Trump, issued the following congratulatory tweet:

"Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on a great game, and a fantastic comeback, under immense pressure.  You represented the Great State of Kansas and, in fact the entire USA so very well.   Our country is Proud of You!"

Whoops! 

Last night when former US Senator Al Franken took the stage before a packed house at the Uptown Theatre in Kansas City, MISSOURI, he knew exactly where he was - and he drove the point home early and often by making fun of Missouri's junior US Senator, Josh Hawley - and the crowd, of course, loved it!

Franken, who is also a professional comedian and a former writer and performer for Saturday Night Live back when the show was in its infancy, bills himself as "the only former US Senator currently on tour."  He spoke for nearly two hours in what looked to be an off-the-cuff manner, and enthralled the audience, a group of basically middle-aged-to-older Democrats from the Kansas City area - and one straggler from West Plains, Missouri - with stories revolving around Saturday Night Live, life in the Senate, and his takes on life in contemporary America.  In addition is his sharp political and social insights, there were jokes aplenty!

Besides poking Josh Hawley at regular intervals whenever the audience seemed to need a little firing-up, Franken also connected with the Kansas City scene when he began talking about promoting local charities at each of his tour stops.   He brought a young man named "Leftowitz" onto the stage to promote his organization, "Accountants Without Borders."  After Franken and Mr. Leftowitz verbally sparred for awhile about the work of "Accountants Without Borders," Franken summarily dismissed his guest as a fraud.  The skinny young man then pealed off his fake mustache and revealed himself to be Missouri's favorite Democratic political activist, Jason Kander!

Franken and Kander spoke about the Veteran's Community Project, a charitable outreach program for veterans that Kander runs, which, among other things, works to eliminate veteran homelessness by getting our neglected and forgotten heroes off the streets and into "tiny" houses.  The program began in the Kansas City area a few years ago and has spread into other urban areas across the United States.

At the end of his performance / presentation, Al Franken did his famous parlor trick of drawing a very detailed freehand map of the United States from memory while answering questions that the audience had pre-submitted.  He then signed and dated the map and said that the Veteran's Community Project would be auctioning it off as a fundraiser.

Al Franken did Kansas City quite nicely, and it was an honor to have him here!