I’m not going to criticize her too much for it, seeing as she and her husband may’ve actually joined it. But, you know, whatever.

Stepping back into the campaign spotlight, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) came to Minnesota tonight to urge the election of comedian-commentator-candidate Al Franken to the Senate.

“Al Franken was taking on the vast right-wing conspiracy before other people even admitted it existed,” she told a crowd of 2,000 supporters on the University of Minnesota campus, urging them to give her rival, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, a filibuster-proof margin in the Senate. “Al Franken, with your help, can be our 60th vote.” …

“Sure, he’s been a comedian, and occasionally he’s even been funny,” she joked.

As Ed Morrissey points out:

Franken faced a controversy even within his own party this year after opponents discovered that the former talk-show host had written sexually-degrading “satires” of women and Asians in the past, including a piece for Playboy entitled “Porn-O-Rama”.

Classy.