I noticed that there was something oddly familiar about General Wesley Clark’s attack line against Sen. McCain’s military service, it sounded like a joke I had heard from Al Franken, I just couldn’t remember where I had heard it. Luckily we have Google and I could find the quote from a 2000 campaign related interview in Playboy magazine.

OV: Do you like McCain?

AF: I just read his autobiography and I like that a lot. I think he’s admirable in many, many ways. He has certainly been courageous on tobacco and campaign finance reform. I read the book and it has a lot about his time in captivity in North Vietnam being tortured and stuff. I don’t understand why all this war hero stuff. I mean anybody can get captured. Isn’t the idea to capture the other guy? As far as I’m concerned, he sat out the war.

Now obviously, Franken unlike Clark was joking. With that said this isn’t the first interesting Franken thought to come out of a Playboy related article for the comedian who is currently running for the Minnesota Democratic Senate ticket.