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In reply to the discussion: So, here is a picture of Leanne Tweeden grabbing the guitar players ass & dry humping [View all]Denzil_DC
(7,233 posts)You may not have been around when I displayed sufficient understanding of the situation and "what happened here" to put up an OP that helped avoid a bunch of folks going off half-cocked on the basis of the invented claims of a Twitter scam artist and risking making fools of themselves and muddying the water even further than it is already.
But yeah, yeah, yours is the only valid view, you've got your finger on the pulse, man. You can see into the past and project yourself right there into the rehearsal area and tell it like it is, and someone who sees it differently is an idiot. Impressive.
There's been a massive focus on DU from many to seek to protect Franken against the current efforts to smear him.
Many have seen those as a strategy to distract from (far more serious) allegations against Republican figures and disarm an effective voice who could help to call them to account.
If protecting Franken has any value, it's because of what he does with his position and what he stands for. Otherwise he's just another Al.
I've mentioned a key aspect of the work that Franken's been doing - efforts well worthy of defending, now sabotaged. Infuriating.
You've glibly dismissed my description of them and my placing of them in a wider context as "an appeal to emotion".
Well, yes. There's a lot of anger around at the moment. Much of it directed at Tweeden and the Republicans, a little from a small minority at Franken, and a whole bunch at each other.
Yours seems to be reserved for me for daring to stand up to you, and for Tweeden, who may have been a key player in this, but in the grand scheme of things, is passing show and quite possibly ultimately an expendable fallperson.
Kind of a waste of an emotion, really. And words.