Al Franken Loves to Hire African-Americans

In a fit of pique, Al Franken writes the National Review to tell them that he has too hired African-Americans. One wonders why he bothers. Doesn’t he have people who do this for him?
Wondering what brought this on? Cathy Seipp wrote a piece about hypocrisy and the hip, and she mentioned Do As I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, by the Hoover Institution’s Peter Schweizer, who takes Al (and others) to task for not walking it like they talk it.

Al writes that he’s hired hundreds, well, dozens, okay–a couple of black people–over the course of his career.

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