Friday May 30, 2008 at 13:58

“I have to ask myself, can I explain it to my 11-year-old daughter? I’d have considerable difficulty.”

— Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), talking about Al Franken’s satirical piece “Porn-O-Rama!” in Playboy, published eight years ago (source, via)

I’d like to see the difficulty you’d have explaining to your wife why you were trying to discuss the pornographic contents of a Playboy article with your 11-year-old daughter.