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In reply to the discussion: I'm so disappointed, sad and a little angry to see so many people not only defend Northam [View all]AdamGG
(1,289 posts)The photo was taken with Tweeden's phone because it was a prank. Franken wasn't actually touching her, he was pretending to touch her. Tweeden was a Playboy centerfold whose role on the USO tour was to joke with sexual innuendo, as Playboy bunnies had done on USO tours for many decades. Within a day of the prank photo that Franken took, Tweeden posed for another photo where she was grabbing a male musician's ass on stage. Franken's prank photo was within the context of the environment that Tweeden was mutually participating in.
That's not at all tbe same as posing in blackface, standing next to someone wearing Klan robes. They're entirely different situations and in this case, we should fire on one of our own and replace him with his Lt. Governor as quickly as possible to remove focus from this and keep it fully on Trump.