He's a Gem, Isn't He?

And these clowns want to tell us what to do with our Internet.

From Jim Harper at TechLiberationFront, we have this amazing gem from the glittering facet on the crown jewel of ignorance that is Minnesota Democrat Senator Al Franken.

A favorite PR maven pitched me (and probably many of you) Senator Al Franken’s (D-MN) email suggesting that WiFi is threatened by the Google-Verizon “deal.”

“The Google-Verizon ‘framework’ was written so as not to apply to wireless Internet services,” says Franken. “If you use wi-fi or access the Internet on your phone, this is a serious problem.”

Kindamaybenotsomuch. WiFi is wireless, yes, but it’s not what they’re talking about when they say “wireless.”

In other words, Senator Franken doesn’t have any idea what he’s talking about.

But he’s more than willing to capitulate in his role as a member of Congress – Congress who is supposed to write the laws that give the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the authority to do ANYTHING – and beg the Commission to unilaterally reclassify and regulate the Internet.

All so we can have federal Internet regulatory regimes and Network Neutrality shoved down our throats.

In fact, as we’ve pointed out Senator Franken is a featured speaker for Media Marxist outfit Free Press at a meeting tonight calling for all of this to be done as rapidly as possible.

Rarely do we get to see such a stunning combination of brilliance and understanding of – and leadership on – the issues. But then, we’ve never before elected someone from Saturday Night Live.

So I’m starting the push right now – Joe Piscopo for anything in 2012.