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...Franken says that the KSG chooses fellows from both sides of the political spectrum. Before he became a fellow, he was asked to speak at the KSG by President Bush’s Republican cousin—a fellow at the time—whom Franken befriended while working...
...Shorenstein] fellows aren’t [always] liberal,” Franken says. “They knew when they got me they were getting a liberal...
...Shorenstein Center is not like the Carpenter Center,” Franken says. “It’s a pretty academic place. It’s not a run-away-with-your-imagination type of place. I assured them it was a serious book and it would be satirical and funny...
...wave of criticism continued when it became public that Franken had written a prank letter to several conservative leaders asking for personal testimonies about their experiences with abstinence—on Shorenstein Center stationery...
Despite the incident, Franken says, both Jones and the benefactors of the Shorenstein Center have praised his book...