re: #76 ObserverArt

I did some cutting of the original post…

The other day I saw another story where it was said Al had ‘the kiss’ in his routine for a long time and did it with other entertainers too. Part of the joke of the routine is he wrote it in to get a free kiss…and they all went with it. The audience (soldiers) loved the prank.

So, Al didn’t do that just once to take advantage of Ms. Tweeden as she said.

I didn’t post that because it was not a good time to be posting much about this. I add it now to add to your post. I don’t think I kept the link, as I didn’t think I would post it.

Found the link!

Here is John Ziegler in a November 30th USA Today Opinion piece. He claims to be a conservative too. Not sure about him, etc.

USA Today Opinion - Facts, nuance should matter more in Al Franken rush to judgement

And I found this one from December 7th looking for the older one. He is talking now about being railroaded with more contentions about the stories.

I’ll post a bit of the newer article. Everyone needs to read both these articles to draw their own conclusions. I’m only posting these because the topic came up. I don’t know what to believe. I figure it will all come out sometime…maybe.

USA Opinion - The Most Mind-Blowing Aspects of Al Franken’s Demise

- Her connections to Sean Hannity, Roger Stone’s tweet foreshadowing her announcement, and her own radio station admitting they strategized the best way to make the story go viral, were never fully analyzed.

- The media, presumably out of fear of “victim shaming” never even mentioned that prior to starting her brand-new career as a “news anchor,” that Tweeden was a nude model, which goes to the context of why she was on the 2006 USO tour, her lack of presumed journalistic credibility, and her willingness to do almost anything for attention/money.

- It was never reported in any major outlet, except my column in USA Today, that Tweeden attended a 2009 USO event specifically to honor Franken and that they were captured on film there joking around with each other in a candid moment. Similarly, it was never reported that in 2011, on the 5th anniversary of her USO trip with Franken, she nostalgically tweeted a photo of the two of them together from the night in question.

- It was never reported that there is compelling evidence that the infamous photo of Franken appearing to mock grope Tweeden while she was dressed in multiple heavy layers was taken on the way to the USO event and not on the way back, as Tweeden had stated.

- That of the six accusers making allegations of clear sexual harassment which trickled out in the aftermath of the Tweeden firestorm, only two did so in their own name and, despite the fact that the events allegedly happened while being photographed with Franken, neither picture remotely provided evidence of what was alleged.

- The final accusation, made in The Atlantic yesterday, alleged that, at a party eight years ago, Franken grabbed the woman’s WAIST while being photographed (the picture was a headshot of her looking thrilled). Somehow this allegation was treated as further proof that Franken is a serial groper, rather than as a “hugger” who might have miscalculated a couple of times out of the thousands of similar photos that he has taken with women over the years.