The Al Franken molestation charges
I have no opinion yet as to whether or not Al Franken molested Ms.
Tweeden in 2006. But if the claim is based on his posing in front of her
and pretending to grab her breasts--while not actually touching
anything--while she wore a flack jacket that has a ceramic breast piece,
well, then I'm not buying into it. The Hulk could not have felt
anyone's breasts through that ceramic piece in the flack jacket. You
might claim he was trying to feel up the flack jacket, but that's about
as far a anyone could possibly go--IF that photo is the proof. To me,
it's just proof of why I was never the biggest Franken fan--until he
entered politics, where he's fantastic--: He simply went for the easy
joke too often. Pretending to feel up a flack jacket is one of those
dumb jokes. This is not the same as "grabbing them by the..." or a
32-year old trying to force a 14-year old to touch his privates. It's
just not in the same ballpark--at least from what she's told us so far.
I do like that he immediately called for an Ethics Commission review of his actions. That's stand up.
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