PERHAPS SARAH HOYT WILL LET ME BORROW HER SHOCKED FACE ONCE AGAIN: Al Franken Admits In His New Book That He Faked Apologies To Save His Political Career.

In his new book “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate,” released in May 2017, Franken explains that he has managed to keep his head above water with these past controversies by giving fake apologies.

Fox News reports:

Franken eventually apologized for his crude remarks, but he later wrote in his book, “Al Franken: Giant of the Senate,” that he faked the apology to get the necessary support for his election win, according to the New York Times.

“To say I was sorry for writing a joke was to sell out my career, to sell out who I’d been my entire life,” he wrote in the book. “And I wasn’t sorry that I had written Porn-o-Rama or pitched that stupid Lesley Stahl joke at 2 in the morning. I was just doing my job.”

He added: “I learned that campaigns have their own rules, their own laws of physics, and that if I wasn’t willing to accept that, I would never get to be a senator.”

This revelation should be disconcerting to those who are considering giving him another chance in the Senate while the majority believe he should resign.

Which dovetails with this catch from Brit Hume:

Even The New Republic’s Jeet Heer has jumped on board the resignation train.