(NSA-Loving) Al Franken A Real Jerk To Work With: Libtalker

MIKE MALLOY (11 June 2013): I knew him tangentially when we both worked at Air America ...

CALLER: All right, when you got along, you know ...

MALLOY: Yeah, and I just, you know, I don't mean to, I can get along with anybody unless they're (sic), you know, a racist or a punk or something, but I just couldn't, couldn't get along with him. You know, when I first met Marc Maron and Rachel Maddow (pronounces it "Mad-dow") and of course I had known Randi Rhodes for a while, but you know, I started meeting these people, and Janeane Garofalo who was part of that crew and Janeane a bigger movie star than Al Franken had ever hoped to be. But they were just nice, common, decent, you know, let's see if we can make this work, kind of folk. But Al Franken wasn't. He, you know, he had attitude and arrogance, you know, sticking out from him like spikes on a cactus and it just, I don't know, we just, you know, when I get around somebody like that it takes about 10 seconds for me to realize, uh oh, they're (sic) much better than I am so I'm just going to go back into my little hidey-hole and not hang out with the superstars, which is what I did.