![]() Please stop using the abuse of women as ammunition against your perceived political enemies. Should he be forced to resign immediately? Ĭonservative pundits, please stop pretending like you give one shit about women and what men do to them. ![]() CREDIBLE, BELIEVABLE accusation of kissing & groping about liberal Democrat US Senator. Senator Franken accused of sexual misconduct. ![]() If all the conservative pundits could stop assuming we wouldn’t care about this, it might And yes, it is disappointing to see this coming from one of the strongest progressive voices in the Senate. In no way does that shield him from his own despicable behavior. It’s horrible when any man abuses his power and status to assault and humiliate women and shame them into silence. How dare anyone grab my breasts like this and think it’s funny? He groped me, without my consent, while I was asleep. ![]() In it, Tweeden has fallen asleep, and Franken is smiling at the camera, groping (or possibly miming groping as some apparent shadow experts online are arguing–THAT’S NOT BETTER) her chest. Tweeden says she avoided Franken after that and other than their dialogue onstage, she “never had a voluntary conversation with Al Franken again.”Īfter she’d returned home, though, she was looking through the CD of photos they were all given by the tour’s photographer and saw this one, taken on their flight home. That incident occurred during the first show of their tour. Tweeden said she didn’t tell any sort of authorities about the incident at the time, for so many of the same reasons women often feel shamed into silence: she didn’t want to seem unprofessional or like she couldn’t take care of herself, and she didn’t want to risk her future in their shared industry. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth. I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn’t be so nice about it the next time. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth. I said ‘OK’ so he would stop badgering me. He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. He continued to insist, and I was beginning to get uncomfortable. The kiss he wrote into in the script he created for her. She says they were backstage running lines, and Franken said they needed to rehearse the kiss. Tweeden describes the skit Franken wrote for them to perform for the troops, which included a kiss between the two. In 2006, then a model and sports correspondent, Tweeden embarked on a USO tour (her ninth), which was being headlined by Franken, who had not yet run for office but was then a comedian, SNL alum, and radio host. Leeann Tweeden is a radio news anchor in Los Angeles, and today she’s published her story of assault at the hands of Franken. ![]() Today’s accusations against ultra-liberal Senator Al Franken are proof of that. We hear about Roger Ailes and Roy Moore and Donald Trump, but abuse isn’t just perpetrated by conservatives. We hear about men like Harvey Weinstein building careers on abuses of power, but this isn’t just something that film producers do. It’s not limited to any industry or any political standing. As we are all far too aware, the eternal epidemic of sexual harassment and assault is not limited to Hollywood. ![]()
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