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Botany

(70,501 posts)
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 02:28 PM Dec 2017

It was a hit job

WMDs in Iraq, Obama eats arugula, the IRS is after conservatives, Al Gore said, "I invented the
the internet.", Hillary did nothing to save those people in Benghazi, John Kerry was not a war
hero, Ohio 2004 was clean, coal jobs are coming back, Dan Rather faked the story about W
going AWOL. and on and on.

This is a right wing hit job. “It’s my right as an entertainer.” Please! Who the hell
talks like that? (outside of Russian trolls)


Another woman says Franken tried to forcibly kiss her

Source: Politico

A former Democratic congressional aide said Al Franken tried to forcibly kiss her after a taping of his radio show in 2006, three years before he became a U.S. senator.

The aide, whose name POLITICO is withholding to protect her identity, said Franken (D-Minn.) pursued her after her boss had left the studio. She said she was gathering her belongings to follow her boss out of the room. When she turned around, Franken was in her face.

The former staffer ducked to avoid Franken’s lips. As she hastily left the room, she said, Franken told her: “It’s my right as an entertainer.”

“He was between me and the door and he was coming at me to kiss me. It was very quick and I think my brain had to work really hard to be like ‘Wait, what is happening?’ But I knew whatever was happening was not right and I ducked,” the aide said in an interview. “I was really startled by it and I just sort of booked it towards the door and he said, ‘It’s my right as an entertainer.’”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/al-franken-accusation-sexual-harassment-2006-281049

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It was a hit job (Original Post) Botany Dec 2017 OP
"It's my right as an entertainer" is a clumsy paraphrase of Trump's line enough Dec 2017 #1
boy, that is fucking weak sauce ProfessorPlum Dec 2017 #2
IKR? Absolutely shameful Kimchijeon Dec 2017 #4
Another poster call this one credible flotsam Dec 2017 #3

enough

(13,259 posts)
1. "It's my right as an entertainer" is a clumsy paraphrase of Trump's line
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 02:42 PM
Dec 2017

"When you're a star they let you do it." I agree this is some barely disguised trolling.

ProfessorPlum

(11,256 posts)
2. boy, that is fucking weak sauce
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 03:51 PM
Dec 2017

someone thought someone else was trying to kiss them, but they didn't kiss?

wtf. we are throwing our best congresspeople on the pyre for this weak shit?

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
3. Another poster call this one credible
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 04:00 PM
Dec 2017

and said the news service had vetted it. I asked how they vetted it with two people in the room. That was an hour ago and still no answer...

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