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The Democratic Party needs to stand with women who have been harassedand not defend the politicians who abused them.
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TINA DUPUY 2:40 PM ET
In mid-November, a Los Angeles radio host named Leeann Tweeden stepped forward to claim that Senator Al Franken had shoved his tongue down her throat under the pretext of a rehearsal for a sketch hed written. The coup de grace was a photograph of a sleeping Tweeden and the now-senator pretending to grab her boobs for the camera.
There was an instant cognitive dissonance with Democrats on Twitter. People like Franken. Democrats need Franken. See, the accuser had been on Sean Hannitys show. She must therefore be a right-winger. She could have been put up to this, they speculated. Roger Stone had tweeted that the touchy Franken was about to be exposed six hours before the story dropped. Thats fishy, they surmised. They all sounded paranoid, irrational, and conspiratorial. But thats how we all sound these days.
I assumed Franken would step down later that day. Tweedens story rang true to me. Id told myself I was the only one. Id been groped by Franken in 2009.
It happened at a Media Matters party during the first Obama inauguration. It was a great time to be a Democrat. Not only had we just elected the first African American president of the United States, but Frankens race had triggered a recount, leaving lefties giddy that we would soon have a supermajority in the Senate.
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)probably get a lot more to make sure he resigns. I do not believe any of this. My opinion and I'm sticking to it.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)that makes her.
AJT
(5,240 posts)and that seems to be Al Franken. What he did was not assault or harassment, it was affection. I guess he needs to not assume other people are as open and affectionate. To equate this to assault or harassment is wrong. I've been assualted and harassed, his familiarity would be off- putting but I do understand that a lot of people are more physical than I am.
IADEMO2004
(5,566 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Besides being a racist and a bigot he is a sexual predator of the first order. He also loves the murderer Vladimir Putin. What the hell do they need to ask for this piece of shit to resign?
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)clasped his hands a couple of times on her waist as they got close for a photo? That is NOT groping! That to me would be playful!
What a 'snowflake'!