Al And Christine

The TPM folks have dug up an episode of Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect talk show from 1997 featuring Christine O' Donnell...and Al Franken.

The first topic: A provision in then-President Bill Clinton's welfare reform bill that would fund sex ed, but only if the curriculum taught that extra-marital sex "will have harmful physical and psychological effects."

O'Donnell, who in May 1997 was the director of pro-abstinence SALT, argues that abstinence-only education was the only way to protect kids from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, because "condoms don't work. Condoms fail."

Franken responds, "I think hypocrisy will have harmful psychological and physical effects. Don't you?"

And don't miss Star Parker asking, "Where's the condom for your heart?"

It's good stuff.  Let's not forget that more than a dozen years later after O'Donnell proclaimed abstinence-only sex ed as the wave of the future (and Bush pushed just that) we have ample evidence that it fails miserably at preventing pregnancy and STD transmission, too.

Good to see Al sticking it to this goofball too.