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Al Franken accuser says disgusting USO tour grope photo was an 'in your face' parting shot [TR]
Daily Mail ^ | 17 November 2017 | David Martosko

Posted on 11/18/2017 5:04:39 AM PST by McGruff

The radio host groped and forcibly kissed by now-Senator Al Franken during a 2006 USO show says the now-infamous photo of the Democrat's hands on her breasts while she slept wasn't meant as a joke: It was an 'in your face' parting shot after nearly two weeks of being 'belittled and humiliated.'

The lawmaker issued a third apology to former Playboy model Leeann Tweeden on Friday afternoon just before she appeared on 'The View,' a sign that he may feel support slipping among advocates who want him to weather the storm and refuse to resign

Tweeden said hours earlier on 'Good Morning America' that she 'had to endure being with him for almost two weeks' after 'he stuck his tongue in my mouth' as Franken mocked her with one passive-aggressive gesture after another.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: franken; uso
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41 posted on 11/18/2017 9:15:32 AM PST by bushpilot2
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42 posted on 11/18/2017 9:17:46 AM PST by bushpilot2
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43 posted on 11/18/2017 9:20:28 AM PST by bushpilot2
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44 posted on 11/18/2017 9:23:36 AM PST by bushpilot2
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To: bushpilot2
Appears to be consenting and awake adults! This isn't!

The Tweet below by Valerie Jarett will probably be called the "Kill Shot Tweet" that took out Al, the pervert, Frankenstein.


45 posted on 11/18/2017 9:38:19 AM PST by Grampa Dave (It's over for the NFL. They have stage 5 Colin brain cancer, and it's terminal.)
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To: themidnightskulker
I would like to apologise to anybody who reads my previous comment.

This thread is still growing.

There is plenty of room for a second and a third apology...

46 posted on 11/18/2017 12:08:18 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: McGruff

Am I the only one who’s noticed the woman is wearing body armor? Al isn’t feeling up her boobies, he’s feeling up her ceramic plate (SAPI). If she were awake I doubt she could feel it, and I don’t think it’s giving his bells a jingle (unless he has a ceramic fetish).

Don’t get me wrong, if a meteorite crashed through the roof of his mansion tonight and blasted him and his bedroom into oblivion, I’d call it evidence that God does exist. And if he were convicted of capital groping and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered, I’d buy a ticket to watch the event.

But this looks like nothing more than a comic gag to me.


47 posted on 11/18/2017 12:38:49 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: alexander_busek

Those are very astute observations — I believe you’ve nailed it.


48 posted on 11/18/2017 12:54:35 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: McGruff

Her husband should stroll into his office and beat the living $#*+ out of him. What jury would convict him?


49 posted on 11/18/2017 1:05:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Paal Gulli

Let me get all PC here.
“IT’S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS”.


50 posted on 11/18/2017 1:28:17 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: HotHunt

It is something most women have to deal with and the better looking you are the more likely men are to hit on you and a certain percentage of these are jerks.

Times have changed so I don’t recommend slapping men because they may hit back these days, but loudly and sharply calling them out is still the best way to stop future attempts. Word gets out to the rest of the mashers that this one doesn’t take crap.

If you tolerate it because you don’t want to make a scene, well they will continue and other men may decide that you are okay with it.

It’s basic predator/prey interaction. If you are difficult prey, they move on and hunt elsewhere.

But not all women have the temperament to deal with mashers and these are the ones that get victimized over and over again. Same as with people who get bullied, this is just sexual bullying and you can’t just tell victims to stand up to the bullies because some just can’t. That is why those of us who can stand up to bullies need to step up and speak up when persons who like to bully others do it in front of us.

Silence is consent.


51 posted on 11/18/2017 1:50:23 PM PST by Valpal1 (I am grown weary.)
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To: Valpal1
I just told my wife what you said about not slapping men nowadays.

She responded by saying, "Okay then, I'd kick 'em in the nuts instead!"

That's my wife. She doesn't take any shit from anyone.

She's a firecracker.

52 posted on 11/18/2017 1:58:54 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: Bon mots

God Bless President Trump!!!

Love the twitter blasts.

The Left HATES it. So it must be good...


53 posted on 11/18/2017 2:00:09 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: HotHunt

LOL. Still wouldn’t advise it in the under 30 crowd. The “bitches n hoes” thug culture has crept pretty deep into the Millenial generation and a good portion of them raised by single mothers and a series of indifferent boyfriends/stepfathers will react badly.


54 posted on 11/18/2017 3:10:47 PM PST by Valpal1 (I am grown weary.)
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To: Valpal1
Have you ever been in the military?

Any average DI could get those thugs whipped into shape in a few short weeks.

He'd have them crying for their mamas in no time, or at minimum, clean underwear. :-)

55 posted on 11/18/2017 4:33:47 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: miss marmelstein
I'm sorry that happened to you. Happened to me, too, with the company's owners (a husband and wife) telling me a man I knew only as a colleague walking up behind me and playing with my hair and neck, or cupping my rib cage, was just being "friendly," and my bad attitude toward him was ruining everyone's morale throughout the company. A year after they drove me off, they ran themselves into the ground, and that guy ended up with a warrant out for his arrest for looting the assets they were trying sell to pay off the creditors.

I hope between the #metoo campaign and so many of these mass shootings perpetrated by men with histories of abusive behavior, people start seeing the link between misogyny and other unwanted behaviors.

56 posted on 11/18/2017 6:10:16 PM PST by Kanakabaraka
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To: Valpal1

It’s true some women aren’t strong enough to stand up to the bullies. It’s also true that in a lot of workplaces, especially small businesses, women are actively punished for standing up for themselves; the dudes are the ones who complain when women say, “You may not touch me,” and the owners call the women out for not being able to get along with their coworkers. Despite the laws, most women know a lawsuit is a permanent black mark on your record that can destroy your career, so in toxic companies, they have to decide whether to put up with it or leave quietly. It happened to me, and I left quietly because in that workplace my only other choice was to allow it to continue or be fired then savaged in references. I’m not sure even allowing it to continue would have let me keep that job once the bosses decided I was pathologically unable to play nice with others, even though there were no other complaints about me, and many, even from customers, about my harasser. But I was careful looking for the next job; where I am now, there’s still a lot of jocularity, but I know if someone did cross the line, I’d be expected to push back. If after that he thought of complaining, he’d be calling the boss’s wrath down on himself.


57 posted on 11/18/2017 6:37:52 PM PST by Kanakabaraka
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To: Valpal1

By the way, I appreciate your last paragraph. Once there are social (and economic, if it happens in the workplace) consequences for any kind of bullying, we’ll see a lot less of it.


58 posted on 11/18/2017 6:40:46 PM PST by Kanakabaraka
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To: Steely Tom
Yup. Them as are bad almost always get worse.

Nah, these politicos have their entourages and handlers who are there to a) minimize the fall-out (deny, deny, deny); b) help steer them towards at least an appearance of proper behavior.

Regards,

59 posted on 11/19/2017 3:19:48 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ETL

So he used the auspices of a ‘skit’ that he wrote....


60 posted on 11/19/2017 10:37:03 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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