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Victim Shaming? MSNBC's Kasie Hunt Says Senator Al Franken's Actions 'Not Actually Groping'
Newsbusters ^ | nov 16 2017 1:35 pm | Scott Whitlock

Posted on 11/16/2017 11:51:27 AM PST by drewh

What happened to believing women when they speak out against powerful male accusers? On Thursday, evidence broke of a 2006 incident in which Democrat Al Franken groped and forcibly kissed TV and radio personality Leeaan Tweeden. Photographic proof backs up her claim.

Yet, MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt described the now-Senator's predatory behavior this way: “[Franken] took a picture, which his office now says was of a joke, that showed him potentially — not actually groping — but mock-groping her while she was asleep."

In the noon hour, Hunt repeated her mild description. This time, she didn't cite the Franken staff and made it her own: “Then she also published a picture that was given to her of her asleep with Senator Franken mock-groping her.” This isn’t how Tweeden described the unwanted attention. She didn’t offer qualifiers such as “mock-groping” or “not actually groping”....

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: alfranken; franken; kasiehunt; leeanntweeden; melaniemorgan; minnesota; partisanmediashills
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To: t4texas

Right now, I’d love to be a fly on Putin’s office wall. I bet Vlad has four or five HD TVs on watching all of this hilariously obscene circus, that would be hard to dream up in a drunken midnight RF (use the word “Rat” and add the “F” word) in a fraternity dorm, and LHAO. Our illustrious Congress, DemonRat and GOP, and Media are doing the collective equivalent of disqualifying themselves in a farting contest.


61 posted on 11/16/2017 12:17:23 PM PST by libstripper
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To: dhs12345

Here’s one for you conspiracy mongers out there:

Did Donald Trump and Steve Bannon just sucker-punch the Democrats?

- Appoint Jeff Sessions to AG
- Send Bannon back to run Breitbart
- Get Roy Moore into the AL Senate Race
- Have stuff about Moore dating young girls surface
- Wait for the Democrats to pounce
- Open the vault and release all the sleaze you have on elected Democrats


62 posted on 11/16/2017 12:18:13 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: libstripper; All

BTW a contestant disqualifies herself in the mentioned type of contest by doing a bit more than just passing gas.


63 posted on 11/16/2017 12:19:22 PM PST by libstripper
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Kasie Hunt is a lesbian.


64 posted on 11/16/2017 12:21:38 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: drewh
Republican casually brushes against a women in passing.

Liberal media: SEXUAL ASSAULT! RAPE! GUILTY! GUILTY!

Democrat candidate get caught "in the act" during a foursome with with an underaged girl, a transvestite midget, and a dog.

Liberal media: Well...I'm sure there is a perfectly innocent explanation. It was all in good fun! Comedy or performance art. If you thought it was real, you're the dumb one or a stuck-up prude.

65 posted on 11/16/2017 12:22:23 PM PST by apillar
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To: drewh
This article is a clear example of "liberal white privilege"

When the media talks about liberal white privilege they always remove the "liberal" from "white privilege" and it makes no freaking sense.

This liberal white privilege has been made clear all the way back to Ted Kennedy. With liberal white privilege you can kill people and get away with it.

liberal white privilege has been cemented in stone with the Clinton's.

66 posted on 11/16/2017 12:22:31 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: ClearCase_guy

How does she know? That was a still photo, not a video.


67 posted on 11/16/2017 12:24:03 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: drewh

To be a grope-grope, ones finger has to smell?


68 posted on 11/16/2017 12:24:27 PM PST by IamConservative (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: drewh

No! That’s not me in that picture, it’s another ugly unfunny low life Commie fu¢#.


69 posted on 11/16/2017 12:24:29 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Has Franken offered even a “mock apology” to the victim in the pic? I haven’t seen one.


70 posted on 11/16/2017 12:25:28 PM PST by GAgal
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To: libstripper

Yep! They aren’t even qualified to clean up the farting “mistakes” at contest end. PATHETIC!


71 posted on 11/16/2017 12:26:19 PM PST by t4texas (If you can't run with the big dogs . . . STAY ON THE PORCH!)
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To: caww

“Sexual scandals in politics always gets front page 24/7 because the public loves to feed on such”

I know I do! That’s really true.


72 posted on 11/16/2017 12:26:55 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: drewh

That’s it liberals, get it all out. Get your views on record. By ALL means, defend liberal predators, loudly and proudly.

Best damn election ever!


73 posted on 11/16/2017 12:27:10 PM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: drewh

Of course what Al Franken is doing isn’t actually groping.

Actual Groping only occurs when some conservative is the accused.

Just like racism, which can only be committed by whites and Uncle Tom blacks.


74 posted on 11/16/2017 12:27:52 PM PST by Pelham
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To: libstripper

Morning Joe is another one.


75 posted on 11/16/2017 12:27:57 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: drewh

I’m with her! See, it’s totally different. Al Franken did this to someone RECENTLY and it was PHOTOGRAPHED OUTRIGHT, whereas Roy Moore was accused of stuff 40 years ago without proof.

So Roy Moore must go, and Al Franken must be appointed the Chair of Womens Rights Committee in the Senate.

She’s RIGHT and all you conservative FREAKS are WRONG!


76 posted on 11/16/2017 12:28:22 PM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Morning Joe is another one.

Yep, I'm waiting for that shoe to drop. And can K-Suck be far behind?

77 posted on 11/16/2017 12:30:23 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: I want the USA back

I think the dems will sacrifice Frankenbeans. Then they’ll demand pubs do same with Moore. Why else would Frankenbeans call for an investigation of himself is what I’m thinking.?


78 posted on 11/16/2017 12:32:59 PM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Lou L

Some 95% of the personal woe in this world is self-induced.

But to make a photographic record? And pass it off as a “prank”?

Entitlement and privilege are just too easy a dodge for those who have never really engaged life.

Would they do this sort of thing in Lake Woebegone? Not that Garrison Keillor ever recorded.


79 posted on 11/16/2017 12:39:33 PM PST by alloysteel (The rhetorical question, "How stupid can you be?" is just considered to be a challenge by some.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I understand that Kasie Hunt’s email is KHUNT@MSNBC.COM.

That’s right, she says it outright: Khunt.


80 posted on 11/16/2017 12:46:14 PM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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