Posted on 11/20/2017 8:06:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Despite calls from his Republican and Democratic colleagues alike to step down after allegations of sexual misconduct, Sen. Al Franken is reportedly refusing to go anywhere.
When his hometown paper The Star Tribune asked over the weekend whether he planned to resign, a spokesperson for the Minnesota Democrat said, “no.”
“He is spending time with his family in Washington, D.C., and will be through the Thanksgiving holiday,” the staffer told the paper by text, “and he’s doing a lot of reflecting.”
Sports broadcaster Leeann Tweeden accused Franken of forcibly kissing and groping her without her consent. She even tweeted a photo of the groping incident from a 2006 USO tour in Afghanistan. The then-comedian appeared grabbing her breasts over her flak vest while she was sleeping on a military aircraft.
I’ve decided it’s time to tell my story. #MeToohttps://t.co/TqTgfvzkZg— Leeann Tweeden (@LeeannTweeden) November 16, 2017
She also said while they were practicing a sketch he kissed her despite her protesting.
Franken himself and his Senate colleagues have recommended a Senate Ethics Committee investigation of his behavior.
“I understand why we need to listen to and believe women’s experiences,” Franken said in a statement. “I am asking that an ethics investigation be undertaken, and I will gladly cooperate.”
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Republican Sen. Tim Scott agreed an ethics investigation should begin.
“We certainly should start the process,” Scott said. “This is absolutely the right starting point. All sexual harassment is inexcusable. And everyone should be punished at the same level.”
Well, I “care”, but only in how it affects their ability to do their job. The only one that really bothers me is the wiener photos. And he’s in prison, as he should be.
The rest is, to me, at the level of people magazine or good old fashiond gossip.
I see all of the following headlines as “dog bites man”:
Movie producer has casting couch.
Manager caught banging secretary
Salesman caught supplying “ladies of the night” to clients”
Congressman caught in posh hotel in threesome.
Man caught paying woman for sex.
It is as if our culture has forgotten all the implications of human beings being sexual creatures - and how power affects both men and women.
JFK and Marilyn Monroe are rolling in their graves, they are laughing so hard.
Just to be clear, I think all this stuff is immoral. But as a Christian I’m to judge actions inside my church, not outside.
Never mind. You gots yours. You don’t care.
It’s why I keep saying the smart jews left. People need to choose their battles.
If people like you "cared" Frankin wouldn't be able to resign - because he'd be under arrest.
But, since we have a Banana Republic where the I Gots Mine herd doesn't give a shyte about little things like morality any more...
...Al and his ilk will feel perfectly safe doing/groping bidness as usual.
If people like you “cared” Frankin wouldn’t be able to resign - because he’d be under arrest.
SMH.
What does SMH mean? I’ve never seen it before.
Yep, who cares if Mr. Robroy pops up in an image with HIS hands on the breasts of some sleeping, non-consenting, member of the U.S. Military under his purview.
That's no big deal, RIGHT?
Morality. Meh, that's so last millennium.
And how'd that happen again?
[The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism]
Uhuh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Theorists
Good luck with that SOFLAM thing when POTUS/Chairman Frankin popularly green-lights your KYhut.
I’m in and not of this world. All these allegations are the equivalent of saying, “Oh no! I went to a hockey game and there was a fight!”
This is just the world being the world. It’s what it does.
>>I’m in and not of this world
Yeah right. What a load of rationalized, apathetic, excuse manure.
At exactly what point you s’pose Deitrich Bonhoffer was “allowed” to start contradicting the Nazi Military Industrial Establishment’s Governmental ERRORS instead of bleating Romans 13:1-7 in submission to their profitable "authority"?
Were America's founders bleating Romans 13:1-7 when they were mutually declaring their LIVES, FORTUNES, AND SACRED HONOR?
NO.
Marilyn Monroe and JFK. Really?
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
--John Adams.
FAIL
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
—John Adams.
The US is doomed. This is not about if. It is about when. And, truth be told, I suspect the founding fathers believed that the day we became a nation.
I’m coming at this from a LOT of different angles. Religious, social, cultural, financial, etc. We are a dead country walking. But take heart. Misery loves company. We’re not the only one. All of civilization is at the cusp.
My faith is in Jesus, not men.
Why?
Because:
"I don’t want to know and I don’t care."
Whoohoo - Bidness as usual Frankenfans -- Robroys woman is "tired" and "don't care" - So it's open season on sleeping, non-consenting members of the American Military!
It’s a posed gag pic, like the pics with Huuffington. Poor taste and boorish, but not sexual assault.
I have no idea why conservatives are so outraged about this in particular.
The photo is the comedian’s ordinary boorish sthick. (sp)
It is what Al does for a living. He mocks the anti harassment feminist with a routine that is fundamentally harassment.
>>He put his hands on a girls breasts while asleep for a photo. Certainly inappropriate, but worth resigning over?
Non-consenting sexual contact.
He should be UNDER ARREST.
But, since we live in a Banana Republic...
Not my state.
>>It’s a posed gag pic,
The message Comrade Frankin is giving is == Hey, go ahead and grope the sleeping, It’s funny!
How’s that workin’ at the USAFFootball Factory these days?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rape+Drugged+Gridiron+USAFA&t=hg&ia=web
http://cryptome.org/2014/08/brandon-enos.pdf
Bidness as usual if Comrade Frankin’s posed “humor” sets the standard.
Shean Hannity ran those Huffington pics like he had uncovered The Pentagon Papers. It’s absurd.
who is Shean Hannity?
>>Not my state.
Not my state.
Not my yob.
I’m in the world.
I don’t care.
Used to have a 1st Sgt who was fond of saying - “Excuses are like a certain part of anatomy, everybody has one and they all stink”.
Guess what. {Sniff sniff}
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