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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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1 posted on 11/16/2017 11:51:27 AM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

It wasn’t rape-rape?


2 posted on 11/16/2017 11:52:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: drewh

Oh, so Democrats are afforded the Whoopie Goldberg explanation, eh?


3 posted on 11/16/2017 11:53:05 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: drewh

Right & Leeann wasn’t really asleep.

This might be an easier sell, if there wasn’t a high quality picture & Franken didn’t have a sh!t eating grin on his face.


4 posted on 11/16/2017 11:53:54 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: drewh

it was just a little tongue, not the whole tongue.....


5 posted on 11/16/2017 11:54:01 AM PST by GotMojo
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To: ClearCase_guy

6 posted on 11/16/2017 11:54:02 AM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

Gee. Trump SAYS “pussy” and the media has a collective cow. Here, we have a photo of a sitting Senator grabbing a woman’s breasts when she’s asleep and they have to make up an excuse for him.

We need these people out of our media.
In fact, we need them out of our country.


7 posted on 11/16/2017 11:54:06 AM PST by Pravious
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To: drewh

No way. This doesn’t pass the smell test. Al Franken must be held to the Roy Moore standard. And under this standard Franken must be expelled from the Senate!


8 posted on 11/16/2017 11:54:20 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: drewh

The lengths that liberals go to cement themselves as hypocrites is astounding.


9 posted on 11/16/2017 11:54:20 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: drewh

So now we need pressure sensors to measure the amount of force lecherous Senators apply when groping sleeping women’s boobs?

Yeah, MSNBC, you just stick with this theory.


10 posted on 11/16/2017 11:54:36 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: ClearCase_guy
My wife explained it to me.

When we started dating we we're young and inexperienced. We groped each other.

With time and practice we learned to fondle.

11 posted on 11/16/2017 11:55:08 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: drewh

But nevertheless... he persisted!


12 posted on 11/16/2017 11:55:17 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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To: drewh

Would they be defending him if he wasn’t a Democrat? To Democrats, the only crime is not being one.


13 posted on 11/16/2017 11:55:24 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: drewh

Told ya.

MSM will always Circle the Wagons when it comes to Democrats.


14 posted on 11/16/2017 11:55:32 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: drewh

So this woman doesn’t believe the women.

Because It’s Franknweenie the Rat of the Senate, right?


15 posted on 11/16/2017 11:55:33 AM PST by Gasshog (When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!)
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To: drewh

Remember the alleged sexual harassment committed by Clarence Thomas? They said he called a hair on a Coke can a ‘pubic hair’. His opponents didn’t give him a pass on that because ‘it was a joke’


16 posted on 11/16/2017 11:55:35 AM PST by fhayek
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To: drewh

The fallout from this strike is going to be highly radioactive.

A lot of damage and casualties in the Swamp and the media are going to occur.

Nice shooting, Bannon. On target.


17 posted on 11/16/2017 11:55:46 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: drewh
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."

If Franken was a Republican, every newspaper would have the same headline tomorrow: "FRANKEN SAYS SEXUAL ASSAULT IS A JOKE"
18 posted on 11/16/2017 11:56:07 AM PST by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: DesertRhino

‘he got expelled’ (from the US senate)


19 posted on 11/16/2017 11:56:14 AM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

Considering Franken didn’t have any pants on at the time, I’d say it was groping.


20 posted on 11/16/2017 11:56:21 AM PST by Vic S
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