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'Full of s**t' is definitely funnier
jonathantilove? @JTiloveTX@alfranken, in Giant of the Senate, recounts @amyklobuchar pre-clearing a Ted Cruz joke she was going to tell at Gridiron with @tedcruz
from the Hill
____ Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday called Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) "obnoxious and insulting" for focusing on Cruz for an entire chapter of his new book...
Franken said he considered Cruz "singularly dishonest and smarmy” during a USA Today interview about his new book, "Al Franken, Giant of the Senate." The Cruz-focused chapter is titled “Sophistry."
»»» A page of the book circulating on Twitter reveals a time when the former "Saturday Night Live" comedian stepped in when Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) was struggling to write a joke about Cruz for a Gridiron event.
According to the excerpt, Franken told a version of the joke in front of Cruz that called him "full of shit" as part of the punchline...
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