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Originally Posted by Botnst
I guess so. I like it better if these folks go and don't tell. Not to impugn Franken, his are probably the right reasons (who wouldn't want a comedian in a hospital?), but I could imagine that some people might show-up at the rehab hospital or at some soldier's funeral, just to make public political points by doing it. "See how compassionate he/she is?"
When they do it without fanfare or publicity, then I believe it unquestioningly.
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Do you know if Franken brazenly blew his own horn about that or was he publicly lauded by others? I'm not certain either way but I know I've read articles about his USO work and it could very well be that those were written and published by people without any input from Franken.
OK, I found one article I read and Franken wrote it. Oh well. Maybe I'm full of it, but it was a good article and good information to get out, IMHO.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/03/02_400.html
Besides, do you begrudge Bob Hope all the publicity he got for his USO tours? Did he do it with fanfare intentionally? I think the fanfare was unavoidable.