Percy writes:
Al was run out of Congress based on some pretty flimsy allegations. The big damage was the Leanne Tweeden photo, of which Al was guilty of posing for a staged (I think probably with Tweeden's active participation) photograph of a bad joke - "Al Franken groping the ungropable". This was followed up by a number of women saying "Oh my God, he touched my butt while we were having a photo taken at the Minnesota state fair".
In the name of a political assassination, might well there not indeed be a number of women willing to lie or at least distort the truth to eliminate a good and powerful democrat Senate voice?
And with all the people with all the cameras at the state fair, wouldn't you think that someone might of captured a photo or video of Al doing something bad?
I believe the women. #MeToo (it wouldn't be too hard to make the software turn hashtags into links)
Especially considering what we are seeing of the "women of the ***** cult" involved in the January 6th affair, and the women of the Republican party in general, I again assert that there is no shortage of women who would gladly lie to assist in a political assassination.
#MeToo can be abused.
I am not at all denying that there is large amounts of male bad behavior directed at women. But I think the charges against Franken were at the minimum badly blown out of proportion, and actually much closer to baseless slander and libel. Or something like that.
Franken was a powerful voice against Republican stupidity and he needed to be rid of.
My understanding is that Senator Tina Smith (D, MN) has done a solid if low key job in the Senate. But what if we now had Franken in the Senate?
Moose
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