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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums24hrs after the Franken resignation rumor and not one accuser all day. Who'd a thunk it?
Republicans have only one thing to say: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!!
Franken and the last "groping" accuser
BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)Maybe its Mueller. Im sure Gillibrand will probably call for him to resign.
delisen
(6,043 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)People don't happily smile during sexual harrassment or assault.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)any groping and look perfectly innocent. In all three photos women are smiling and there is no hint of anything being wrong. You can't see where his hands are in two of the photos, but in one where he allegedly just groped the breast his hand isn't near an actual breast.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,329 posts)Self-preservation and disbelief are pretty powerful.
Fullduplexxx
(7,860 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Or railroaded like Shirley Sherrod. I'd include Sam Seder, but MSNBC actually took a look at that situation and corrected their error (though why they didn't smell a rat about a sudden controversy over an eight year old tweet will forever be a mystery).
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Butterflylady
(3,543 posts)for someone younger, so that leaves me out. Maybe they'll go after Adam Shiff, after all, he's been pretty boisterous.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Dont you know that, according to the victim, Al Franken put his around her waist when the photo was taken? Every time a victim looks at that picture, all the memories of asking a famous person to pose for a picture and then having that person put their hand on the waist in an admittedly nonsexual manner come flooding back.
Her WAIST, people. PTSD city. Sexual predation clearly confirmed.
People should be sickened and outraged by that article, just not at Al Franken. I hope his libel suit is filed in the morning.
DFW
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That tends to happen during a handshake. Occupational hazard, I guess.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Posing with people at fairs and conventions. Nothing would stop anyone 6 years from now to claim oh yeah, he touched my butt. How would you disprove it (you cant). He is in an impossible position, to prove a negative.