cawacko
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I was being facetious because it sure looks like he's groping her to me.
Al Franken MUST GO!!!
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I was being facetious because it sure looks like he's groping her to me.
Your assignment is to stick you head up your ass and smother yourself. You've done the first part. Now leave it there long enough to do the second.
The funniest part to me is that Leeann, along with being beautiful, is so attractive because she speaks so well and just exudes confidence. Deshrub is jealous. LOL Perhaps she should post something about Chelsea Clinton or Lena Dunham being super gorgeous "real" women
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There is enough shadow to give the impression he isn't actually touching her in the photo, but to say that the photo is proof he didn't touch her is ludicrous. The photo shows his hands within a half inch or so at most.
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LOL. He's mad 'cuz I quoted one of his old alts.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...edict-post-their-embarrassing-predictions-ITT
Desh is nuts...... her incoherent posts should make that evident that to everyone
I saw a post today on another site than made me chuckle: Mutually Assured Whataboutism
Desh, even if she were naked, she doesn’t deserve these unwanted advances, she also apparently doesn’t want Franken to step down, she just wants her story told and she seems to accept his apology.
Touched her or not, let examine the "joke":
Ha ha! Look! A vulnerable woman. Let's mock sexually assaulting her. Haha! She can't do anything! Let's laugh at her
What a great prankster that guy is!
It doesn’t excuse his behavior, but, he has acknowledged his actions were inappropriate and he made an apology and has agreed to an ethnics inquiry, that is more than others have done.
Leeann Tweeden, a journalist who anchors the morning news at TalkRadio 790 KABC in Los Angeles, California, is accusing Senator Al Franken (D-MN) of fondling her while asleep and shoving his tongue down her throat without her consent.
At the time, December of 2006, Tweeden had a boyfriend (who is now her husband) and was on a two week USO Tour with the then-55-year-old Franken and others. Included in her article is a photograph that clearly shows the Democrat Senator grabbing her breasts while she is asleep.
According to Tweeden, the unwanted kiss occurred during rehearsal for a USO skit. She believes Franken (who was married) intentionally wrote a skit for the two of them so he would have an excuse to kiss her, something she did not want to do. She says that Franken insisted they rehearse until it got uncomfortable and she relented. This is when she alleges he “aggressively” shoved his tongue in her mouth:
He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. I said ‘OK’ so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.
I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn’t be so nice about it the next time.
I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth.
I felt disgusted and violated.
During the actual performance of the skit, she says she turned her head so that Franken could not kiss her and then avoided him as much as possible for the rest of the tour. It was at this point, Tweeden claims, that the rebuffed Franken became vindictive. “Franken repaid me with petty insults, including drawing devil horns on at least one of the headshots I was autographing for the troops.”
The ultimate act of apparent vindictiveness occurred while she was asleep on the flight home:
The tour wrapped and on Christmas Eve we began the 36-hour trip home to L.A. After 2 weeks of grueling travel and performing I was exhausted. When our C-17 cargo plane took off from Afghanistan I immediately fell asleep, even though I was still wearing my flak vest and Kevlar helmet.
It wasn’t until I was back in the US and looking through the CD of photos we were given by the photographer that I saw this one [the photograph above.]
Tweeden says the discovery of the photograph made her feel “violated all over again. Embarrassed. Belittled. Humiliated.”
“I couldn’t believe it. He groped me, without my consent, while I was asleep,” she writes, adding, “How dare anyone grab my breasts like this and think it’s funny?”
Franken, who has been married since 1975, was elected to the United States Senate in 2008.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...l-franken-of-fondling-her-photographic-proof/
At the time, December of 2006, Tweeden had a boyfriend (who is now her husband) and was on a two week USO Tour with the then-55-year-old Franken and others. Included in her article is a photograph that clearly shows the Democrat Senator grabbing her breasts while she is asleep.
According to Tweeden, the unwanted kiss occurred during rehearsal for a USO skit. She believes Franken (who was married) intentionally wrote a skit for the two of them so he would have an excuse to kiss her, something she did not want to do. She says that Franken insisted they rehearse until it got uncomfortable and she relented. This is when she alleges he “aggressively” shoved his tongue in her mouth:
He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. I said ‘OK’ so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.
I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn’t be so nice about it the next time.
I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth.
I felt disgusted and violated.
During the actual performance of the skit, she says she turned her head so that Franken could not kiss her and then avoided him as much as possible for the rest of the tour. It was at this point, Tweeden claims, that the rebuffed Franken became vindictive. “Franken repaid me with petty insults, including drawing devil horns on at least one of the headshots I was autographing for the troops.”
The ultimate act of apparent vindictiveness occurred while she was asleep on the flight home:
The tour wrapped and on Christmas Eve we began the 36-hour trip home to L.A. After 2 weeks of grueling travel and performing I was exhausted. When our C-17 cargo plane took off from Afghanistan I immediately fell asleep, even though I was still wearing my flak vest and Kevlar helmet.
It wasn’t until I was back in the US and looking through the CD of photos we were given by the photographer that I saw this one [the photograph above.]
Tweeden says the discovery of the photograph made her feel “violated all over again. Embarrassed. Belittled. Humiliated.”
“I couldn’t believe it. He groped me, without my consent, while I was asleep,” she writes, adding, “How dare anyone grab my breasts like this and think it’s funny?”
Franken, who has been married since 1975, was elected to the United States Senate in 2008.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...l-franken-of-fondling-her-photographic-proof/
Doesn't change the kind of person he is...
/never liked him
//I'm totally biased
///Enjoying this day immensely
Even if it’s true that Moore sexually assaulted a 14 year old girl when he was 32?
cawacko
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besides the OP there are enough articles out there about this story without having to go to Breibart (if the goal is what really happened). That site is like rawstory. Spin, spin, partial truth and more spin. Just sayin...
Whataboutism (also known as whataboutery) is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument, which is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda.
I don't agree with this definition....whataboutsoandso don't require directly refuting or disproving anything.....but it can and does certainly high light the hypocrisy of some peoples arguments....
Its not meant to disprove anything, it is meant to point out that a person has excused the same actions of someone because of their support for that person and their condemnation against another guilty of doing exactly the same thing......that is the definition of hypocrisy.....
He recalled writing a skit called "Seamen on Broadway" that was rejected from the Hasty Pudding show "by some preppie so they could take some other preppie's skit." Franken started to smile again, but his tone was serious, too serious. "It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.The smile became so broad it pushed his eyes shut. He couldn't stand it any longer. "Put that in, put that in," Franken laughed, leaning over the desk. "I'd love to see that in The Crimson."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/4/16/live-from-new-york-its-al/?page=1
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/4/16/live-from-new-york-its-al/?page=1