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...Franken, who sent letters to twenty-seven conservative leaders asking for testimonials for a false book about teen abstinence entitled Savin’ It, found himself in hot water earlier this year when it was discovered that such letters were drafted on University stationery...
...Don’t be afraid to share a moment when you were tempted to have sex, but were able to overcome your urges through willpower and strength of character,” Franken wrote in the letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft. “Did a young woman ever think you were homosexual just because you wouldn’t have sex with her? Be serious! Were you ever taunted and made to feel bad or ‘uncool’ because of your choice? But most of all, be real. Kids can sense a phony...
...Franken, at the time a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, sent the April letter to numerous Washington officials, including President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, cabinet members and others, and features the text in his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right...
...missives, Franken claimed to be working on “a book about abstinence programs in our public schools entitled, Savin?...
...scant few replied to the letter Franken sent, but the former Saturday Night Live cast member guessed that assistants were the likely scribes of such correspondence...