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Sen. Al Franken groped Arianna Huffington in 2000 photo shoot, NY Post reports
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., touched Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington on the breast and buttocks during a 2000 photo shoot, The New York Post reported Friday. Huffington said there was nothing "remotely inappropriate" about the photos.
"The notion that there was anything inappropriate in this photo shoot is truly absurd," Huffington said in a statement, according to the Post. "Al and I did a comedic sketch for Bill Mahers Politically Incorrect called Strange Bedfellows, in which the whole point, as the name makes clear, was that we were doing political commentary from bed," Huffington told the Post. "This shoot was looking back at the sketch, and we were obviously hamming it up for comedic effect."
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"Ive been great friends with Al and his wife Franni for over 20 years and there has never been anything remotely inappropriate in our interactions," she said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/11/20/al-franken-arianna-huffington-harassment/883718001/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
B2G
(9,766 posts)Just contemplating this.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)himself.
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)That are ready to believe ANY claim that comes out against Al Franken or ANY Democrat.
I'm shocked that some are not on this thread...RIGHT NOW...claiming that if we dismiss this incident with Arriana Huffington, WE SUPPORT RAPE
and NO, I'm not fucking kidding, or being sarcastic.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)..The End.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Toss all actors in jail.
Rhiannon12866
(205,502 posts)And Al Franken - with his history as an irreverent comedian - is an easy target, not to mention that he's been a terrific senator, has stepped up to the plate in calling them out. If you remember, it took them months to seat him after he first won the seat. They'll try anything to discredit him because he's been relentless in exposing the truth.
BigmanPigman
(51,610 posts)during the 1996 Repub convention in San Diego hosted by Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect. Adrianna and Al were in a bed on TV in front of a huge live audience and TV audience. It was a great series that they did for the few days during the convention. I remember it 20 years later since it was so funny (and Huffington was a Repub at the time). This is such BS!!!!! DISTRACTION...IGNORE IT!!!!
Denzil_DC
(7,242 posts)You put that quote right at the end. Nobody reads to the end.
unblock
(52,253 posts)the republican party has become farce.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)The show she has on HBO is a hoot and even though its made for a British audience Im a hopeless Anglophile so I get almost all of the references. Her Nicola Sturgeon and Merkel are hilarious.
CousinIT
(9,247 posts)There was CONSENT. Open consent. Thus, it was NOT 'harassment'.
Huffington even says NOW there was CONSENT. She is laughing at it still.
NY Post - and Republicans - are ridiculous.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Beartracks
(12,816 posts)... to promote (or reminisce on) their segment on a TV comedy show.
Even if they were supposed to be "playing themselves" in the sketch (and the photos), it was obviously an alternate version of themselves.
And in any case... "OMG, look, he was secretly groping her in full view of the camera in these nationally published photos!!11!1!!" To whomever "discovered" these photos and think they mean something:
The GOP must be very desperate. And desperately unhumorous.
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stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)So Republicans tell us we must hate poor immigrants from Mexico because they are coming to steal our jobs but it turns out that we really have to fear billionaire immigrant family from Australia and England who have come here to sell us fake news so they can steal our freedom.
Turns out the poor are coming to build our country and pay taxes while the super rich are coming to tear down our country, lie and steal.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)And he brought his barely hidden and cancerous Nazi propaganda with him.
tblue37
(65,407 posts)dflprincess
(28,079 posts)just shows
a) who the real sexists are
b) they are desperate
c) this was nothing but a hit job from the start