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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:09 AM Nov 2017

Now this is just getting ridiculous! From Murdoch's Post

Last edited Tue Nov 21, 2017, 08:55 AM - Edit history (1)

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 Maher’s 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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"I’ve 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
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Now this is just getting ridiculous! From Murdoch's Post (Original Post) octoberlib Nov 2017 OP
I lost 30 IQ points B2G Nov 2017 #1
They're trying really, really hard to take him down. octoberlib Nov 2017 #2
Yep, and I think it has to do with his spot in questioning of Jeff Sessions and proving he perjured iluvtennis Nov 2017 #14
It's not just FAUX and the Reich-Wingers. There are plenty of folks on DU maxrandb Nov 2017 #18
lol That is so bad it is funny. nt DURHAM D Nov 2017 #3
Two Things, Roy Moore/ Bob Mueller.. Grassy Knoll Nov 2017 #4
That's it! Dem2 Nov 2017 #5
They're desperately looking for something, anything, to counter the very real Moore and Trump abuses Rhiannon12866 Nov 2017 #6
I saw 1996 "Strange Bedfellows" BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #7
"Huffington said there was nothing 'remotely inappropriate' about the photos." Denzil_DC Nov 2017 #8
consenting performing adults getting to first base? expel from senate and vote for the pedophile! unblock Nov 2017 #9
Because Murdoch's such a family guy Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2017 #10
I love Tracey Ullman BannonsLiver Nov 2017 #21
Evidently, NY Post has NO CONCEPT of what CONSENT means. CousinIT Nov 2017 #11
If it's consensual, what's the problem? uppityperson Nov 2017 #12
They do seem to struggle with the concept of "consent," don't they? Pacifist Patriot Nov 2017 #19
Lemme get this straight: they're in character in these photos... Beartracks Nov 2017 #13
nice hitjob but it was a fail like the last one ....... stonecutter357 Nov 2017 #15
Why do the Murdochs hate America? delisen Nov 2017 #16
Murdoch is the most despicable immigrant to ever bribe his way into America. Fred Sanders Nov 2017 #20
Going this far into idiocy to damage Franken could end up defanging the original claim. nt tblue37 Nov 2017 #17
The fact they pulled these pictures out and apparently never thought Arianna would call them out dflprincess Nov 2017 #22
This overreach suggests that Franken is being targeted for political reasons. yardwork Nov 2017 #23

iluvtennis

(19,863 posts)
14. Yep, and I think it has to do with his spot in questioning of Jeff Sessions and proving he perjured
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 02:16 AM
Nov 2017

himself.

maxrandb

(15,334 posts)
18. It's not just FAUX and the Reich-Wingers. There are plenty of folks on DU
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 08:38 AM
Nov 2017

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.

Rhiannon12866

(205,502 posts)
6. They're desperately looking for something, anything, to counter the very real Moore and Trump abuses
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:26 AM
Nov 2017

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)
7. I saw 1996 "Strange Bedfellows"
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:27 AM
Nov 2017

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)
8. "Huffington said there was nothing 'remotely inappropriate' about the photos."
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:27 AM
Nov 2017
Terrible sub-editing.

You put that quote right at the end. Nobody reads to the end.

unblock

(52,253 posts)
9. consenting performing adults getting to first base? expel from senate and vote for the pedophile!
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:29 AM
Nov 2017


the republican party has become farce.

BannonsLiver

(16,396 posts)
21. I love Tracey Ullman
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 02:57 PM
Nov 2017

The show she has on HBO is a hoot and even though it’s made for a British audience I’m a hopeless Anglophile so I get almost all of the references. Her Nicola Sturgeon and Merkel are hilarious.

CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
11. Evidently, NY Post has NO CONCEPT of what CONSENT means.
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 02:02 AM
Nov 2017

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.

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)
13. Lemme get this straight: they're in character in these photos...
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 02:03 AM
Nov 2017

... 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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delisen

(6,044 posts)
16. Why do the Murdochs hate America?
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 02:45 AM
Nov 2017

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)
20. Murdoch is the most despicable immigrant to ever bribe his way into America.
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 02:37 PM
Nov 2017

And he brought his barely hidden and cancerous Nazi propaganda with him.

dflprincess

(28,079 posts)
22. The fact they pulled these pictures out and apparently never thought Arianna would call them out
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 10:40 PM
Nov 2017

just shows
a) who the real sexists are
b) they are desperate
c) this was nothing but a hit job from the start

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