"ME, TOO." I have been harassed, groped, and raped.

[Nevernose]

9. He kissed me on my cheek

On stage, while being filmed, while 1000 people were watching us. But it was sexual assault because I secretly knew that he WANTED to kiss me on the lips.

Al Franken and his defenders aren’t the offensive part of that accusation.

There’s politics involved. Laziness and ignorance. Jealousy, too. Mostly I think it’s cowardice. Defending Franken would be hard and would quite possibly backfire among the voters who get their news from CNN, which is also too cowardly to bother any substantive discussion of the “allegations.”

Instead they repeat ludicrous claims from Republican political operatives and anonymous people contacting bloggers infamous for falling for rape hoaxes. Because talking about that might be hard and they’re cowards.