A second RW radio personality getting ready to smear Sen. Franken.

[icymist]

Link to tweet

This is happening way too fast and coordinated.

[Beaverhausen]

1. Franken wasn't accused of "stalking and harassing" by the first victim

This is much different and I'll wait.

[Beaverhausen]

2. here are more details

http://heavy.com/news/2017/11/melanie-morgan-al-franken-harassment-senator/

I'll let you decide.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. From reading that, it sounds like a political dispute that got out of hand,

Not something sexual.

It also looks like she's very much got an agenda.

[Kaleva]

3. Woman said it was a political dispute

[HipChick]

9. Sounds like a political issue..nothing sexual..

[Kaleva]

10. Yes

[HipChick]

11. Co-ordinated Bannon/Roger Stone Smear hit..

[BannonsLiver]

4. She's got an interesting backstory.

Former gambling addict who had a TV movie made about her, and a Michelle Malkin lackey.

This is getting rich. I'm actually glad. Surely the gullible folks who bought into this on its surface will see that they have been had now.

[Shrike47]

5. This seems to be a complaint not of sexual inappropriateness but excessive anger and argument.

I suspect I've expressed some anger rather forcefully in my time. Poor 'victims.'

[Kaleva]

7. A heated political fight about budget numbers

[BootinUp]

8. Lol.

[Hortensis]

6. Tannity's Ms.Tweeden is right wing lite next to THIS one.

After The New York Times published a story regarding U.S. government tracking of terrorist funding, Morgan said that editor Bill Keller should be tried for treason and "If he were to be tried and convicted of treason, yes, I would have no problem with him being sent to the gas chamber."

Melanie Morgan's comments about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... "We've got a bull's-eye painted on her big, wide laughing eyes." Morgan said the statement was a political metaphor that had been distorted by critics in order to appear violent.

In 2007, Morgan claimed during a broadcast on KSFO that Hungarian financier George Soros worked with the Nazis "in order to further his own career;" Soros was age 13 when the Nazis entered Hungary. During the broadcast, the station manager came on-air to deny the accuracy of the statements and to say KFSO "regrets that they were broadcast." This incident and others led to Morgan twice being named "Worst Radio Host in America" by MSNBC talk show host Keith Olbermann

These are grabbed from Wickipedia and I haven't actually checked them out yet. These're rather old.
She was banned from appearing on PBS for lying on air and fired from her radio job a long time go. Her Twitter site is an anti-Democrat sewer, though.

[Nevernose]

12. Conservative radio host

Claims on the conservative website that she owns that, seventeen years ago, another public figure called her, and said...

...Stuff about her incorrect federal budget numbers.

Evil! Evil, I say!

[OnDoutside]

14. The story I heard was that Al was going to tell her Mommy that she smoked....

[RussBLib]

15. calling her home repeatedly could be harassment

Perhaps she didn't know if Al was capable of violence or not.

This is a different animal from the USO stuff, but it doesn't look good here either. Sounds like an argument carried a bit too far, and there we enter a relatively gray area. Did she feel threatened? Then it's bad. If it was just a good-natured argument that would be different.

Sorry to hear this about Al. That USO thing I could almost excuse as a comedian horsing around but going too far.
This one sounds like an argument carried too far.

[pat_k]

16. What does political argument have to do with inexcusable photo?

Horror of horrors, Al followed up after taped debate on Bill Maher to make his point and demonstrate he could prove it. Of course, he should have saved his energy, because he was hitting his head against a brick wall of ignorance, but we've all been there... believing that if present the facts more clearly, or in some other way, the truth will be acknowledged. What is truly incredible is that anyone would try to connect this sort of "harassment" (overzealous promotion of the truth) to sexual harassment.

Nope. This is not some other "shoe dropping."

If this is the best "me too" they can come up with, I'd say Al's inexcusable conduct on the USO tour (even if just the photo, it's inexcusable -- as he has stated) is not the tip of some "iceberg" of offensive and abusive conduct.


I agree 100% with Al. He should feel disgusted with himself over his treatment of Ms. Tweeden.

"...There's no excuse. I look at it now and I feel disgusted with myself. It isn't funny. It's completely inappropriate. It's obvious how Leeann would feel violated by that picture. And, what's more, I can see how millions of other women would feel violated by it—women who have had similar experiences in their own lives, women who fear having those experiences, women who look up to me, women who have counted on me."