Al Franken? Told ya so! Told ya so!

As Debra Messing’s Grace would say: “Told ya so!  Told ya so!”

From Saturday:

   

 

 

As for Al Franken?

He's grabbed women for years.  He can't keep his hands off.

This took place on the set of SNL for years.

It's nothing new.

What's different is a woman is finally speaking out and she's got photographic proof.

He should resign immediately.

He doesn't "adore his wife."

 He certainly wasn't adoring her when grabbing women's asses or trying to grope the woman in the photograph.

He is a predator.

And when he offends, he does that stupid snickering nonsense.

Al has always been a predator and always will be.

I've known Al for decades.

The recent allegation is true and it's who he is.

Today, M.J. Lee (CNN) reports:

   

A woman says Sen. Al Franken inappropriately touched her in 2010, telling CNN that he grabbed her buttocks while taking a photo at the Minnesota State Fair.

It is the first allegation of improper touching by Franken, who is a Democrat, while he was in office. It comes just days after Leeann Tweeden, a local radio news anchor in California, said that Franken forcibly kissed and groped her in 2006, when Franken was a comedian. 

Wow, who could’ve seen that coming?

Uh, me.

Please note, I’ve had 45 minutes sleep, otherwise I might be nicer.

But I’m getting real damn tired of “We like him! We’re going to bury our heads in the sand!”

Al’s behavior is what it is.

I’ve known him for decades.

I did not contribute to his campaign because of the assaults.

He has always behaved this way.

I refused to do his show – he is an ass and to cite one example consider the way he trashed Meg Ryan (on air!) after she had finished her segment and left the studio.  He is horrible to women.

And Jane Curtin can kiss my ass.

Ava and I covered her nonsense at THIRD.

                                

Women who beg for crumbs will never get anywhere.

Equality and respect -- you don't beg for them, you don't ask nicely, you demand them.

Amber Phillips (WASHINGTON POST) notes:

But they didn't ask for him to resign. That could change with Menz's allegation. Here are a few reasons it is even more damning for Franken right now:

1. This second allegation raises questions of whether this is a pattern of behavior for Franken: It's possible that Franken could have successfully navigated the Tweeden allegations with his political career intact. He said he didn't remember the kiss backstage on a USO tour the way she did, and he said he was joking when he grabbed her breasts for a photo. At the time, he was a comedian. A tasteless joke, but a joke. He eventually apologized, and Tweeden accepted it.

These Menz allegations get a lot harder for Franken to navigate that way. He wasn't on a USO tour acting up to cheer up the troops. He was meeting his constituents at a Minnesota State Fair. And if he did indeed grab a woman's buttocks whom he didn't know on one of the most routine events for a politician to attend, how many times did it happen?

2. Menz alleges this happened while Franken was a sitting U.S. senator: Franken got elected two years after Tweeden says he forcibly kissed and groped her.

This is number two.

More may be coming forward.

(This would be a good time, serial grabber Dick Cavett, for you to get honest as well.)

And let me note Mika Brzezinski (from THE HILL) who stated on MORNING JOE (MSNBC) today, "Hillary Clinton needs to stop, she needs to stop talking about this topic unless Bill Clinton wants to come forward and apologize for being a sexual harasser, for settling with women. [. . .] You, the politician, and your wife, the politician, need to not talk about these issues.  Just don't, unless you want to come to the table with some honesty."

Exactly.

And don't give me the nonsense of, "She's not responsible for what her husband did."  She, along with the whole world, knew what her husband was accused of (rape, in the case of Juanita Broadderick).  She didn't leave him.  So she owns what he's done.

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