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A good man getting flak from a FOX News employee who said


1. Franken supposedly forced his tongue into Tweeden's mouth when they were doing or rehearsing a skit.
2. Franken took a picture with his hands hovering above Tweeden's breasts.

This is the great Republican false equivalency that is supposed to balance out the fact the Roy Moore was having multiple affairs with underage girls when he was in his 30's.

Look at Tweeden's IMDB page where it is listed she worked for FOX. Also modeling since graduating out from high school. That is OK, but I wonder if Tweeden was honest and had to list all the times she had every been REALLY harassed, where this terrible trauma with Al Franken would rate on the list.

For instance, how many times was she groped by people who actually touched her.

Anyway, the main point is that this is from a Republican friendly operative in a mad dash attempt to neutralize all the Republican monkey business by FALSE EQUIVALENCY.

Also, it is so hypocritical because the Republicans are the ones who always claim the moral high ground, and closeness to God.

I am disappointed that Franken would open himself to such nonsense and give the Republicans the chance to make him the bad guy when he so clearly is not. Can't wait to see what happens and have to hope that Republicans don't get away with this and Americans see them for the lying Republicans have made their trademark.

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OMG, it's those damn Republicans again! Didn't occur to me when I read this:
http://www.kabc.com/2017/11/16/leeann-tweeden-on-senator-al-franken/

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He is nothing but a worm and your weak arguments are pathetic.

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Tweeden's actual words: "You knew exactly what you were doing. You forcibly kissed me without my consent, grabbed my breasts while I was sleeping and had someone take a photo of you doing it, knowing I would see it later, and be ashamed."

Technically, she gave consent for the rehearsal. I'd like to see a video of the skit showing if to be funny it required an over the top kiss. That is the real question, or one of them.

Her photo does not show her breasts being grabbed or groped or touched. So Tweeden is a liar, and she is lying for her employer, FOX News, and we all know how much FOX really cares about women's rights.

It shows Franken hovering his hands over her chest, which is PROTECTED BY A FLAK JACKET. A big fat NOTHING.

I say this women is a political operative. I say FOX is the one using women.

Her claim is not in the same universe as Roy Moore, Weinstein and others. What Republican operative came up with this ... I'd bet Karl Rove who has such a taste for maggoty dirty tricks.

She worked for Hooters, posed nude, has no other skills except her attractiveness, and I don't really care about any of that - good for her, who cares. Except that she also has a total lack of character to sell herself to FOX News.

What this is, is a working girl trying to make a living, and Franken is an exploitable rung she had to step on to rise up the ladder to a more secure bank account.

I wonder how many times in her life she was truly sexually harassed and where this honestly ranked in severity, maybe last?

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Franken took the wrong approach by apologizing, he should have pulled a Trump and called it locker room antics.

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http://www.kabc.com/2017/11/16/leeann-tweeden-on-senator-al-franken/

First hand account by Tweeden for anyone who is interested and a photo of Franken pretending to grab her tits. No, he didn't actually grab her, just pretended, but the photo is pretty damning.

An excerpt...

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.


Unfortunately we can't blame Republicans for this, Franken brought it on himself.

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I can blame repugs for this. Why didn't this woman come out when Franken ran for senator?? Why isn't she also calling out the person who took the photo?? Wouldn't they be complacent as well?? So yes, I believe she coming out now b/c Franken is the only one damning Sessions on his lies! I find it ironic how both her and the Roy Moore victims expect us to believe them, yet they didn't believe Trumps accuses!!! They still voted for Trump. Something seriously not adding up. I say the ethics committee needs to investigate ROY, DONALD and AL! Let's be fair!!

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I meant Republicans didn't take the picture, didn't make Franken do the pose. As for the kiss, we don't know what really happened anymore than we know what with any of the sex scandals.

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