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Should Al Franken Resign?
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I see he's apologized and she's accepted his apology.
That will be all we'll hear about it, I'm sure. His life will go on as before.
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Originally posted by seer View PostFranken is a cancer
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostBest if you stop there.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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A little more about Franken
Originally posted by rogue06 View PostApparently on the front page of today's Sunday edition the Washington Post is touting Franken as "the perfect senator for the Trump era" who "may be having a breakout moment as a political star."
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Yeah the same guy who talked about how much cocaine he and some of the other writers for Saturday Night Live used to do in order to get the show done and how he used to lie about it because "that was just a funny lie that I liked to tell."
And then there was his trip to Bob Jones University (a place that is a legitimate target for satire) with an actor pretending to be his son where he tried to get them to bend their rules for some major donations as he recounted in his book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." Unfortunately for Franken they didn't budge but he seemed unperturbed by the failure and summed it up as "A good honest day's work done, lying to God-fearing people. We'd sleep well tonight." Kind of an ironic remark considering the title of his book.
And then there was the time, according to a 1995 New York Times Magazine article entitled "Comedy Isn't Funny: Saturday Night Live At Twenty--How The Show That Transformed TV Became A Grim Joke," that while discussing a skit for Saturday Night Live about 60 Minutes curmudgeon Andy Rooney during the 1994-1995 season, Franken suddenly proposed a skit where he suggested that he drugs and rapes CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl.
In the New York Magazine article, dated March 13, 1995, entitled "Comedy Isn't Funny: Saturday Night Live At Twenty--How The Show That Transformed TV Became A Grim Joke" Franken veers off of a discussion of a skit involving Andy Rooney, and proposes a skit involving the drugging and rape of Lesley Stahl.
Franken: And, "I give the pills to Lesley Stahl. Then, when Lesley's passed out, I take her to the closet and rape her." Or, "That's why you never see Lesley until February." Or, "When she passes out, I put her in various positions and take pictures of her."
Real comedy gold there Back in 2008 he actually chuckled about it while "apologizing" for it while running for Senate in 2008 on Minnesota Public Radio:
"Uh, this was a brainstorming session at SNL and you know I said something [snickers] in it that was indefensible and I apologize for that, I’m generally sorry, but it really kills me, as I said, it just – I’m a human being, and it hurts me that some mistakes I made made people feel that uh I’m – I don’t have a dedication to to women and women’s rights and to all Minnesotans that I do have."
Talk about your War on Women.
Having severe problems with computer. I cannot access Google Chrome after a Windows update snafu
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postoopsie.
anyone want to take bets if JimL and Tassy will bother to comment on this event or avoid this thread like the plague?“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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Originally posted by mossrose View PostI see he's apologized and she's accepted his apology.
That will be all we'll hear about it, I'm sure. His life will go on as before.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Tassmoron View PostHe has sincerely apologised to the lady in question and she has accepted his apology...with some class I might add. Would that Roy Moore and Donald Trump do the same, instead of trying to blame their victims.
But Franken knows how easy it is fool liberal idiots like you, which was all his "apology" was meant to do.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostFranken "apologized" for the picture (or rather he deflected from it), which he couldn't have plausibly denied anyway, but he never apologized for forcibly kissing the women against her will and harassing her throughout the remainder of the trip. All he said about that was something to the effect of "I remember things differently," which you'll notice isn't actually a denial.
But Franken knows how easy it is fool liberal idiots like you, which was all his "apology" was meant to do.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Tassman View PostHe has sincerely apologised to the lady in question and she has accepted his apology...with some class I might add. Would that Roy Moore and Donald Trump do the same, instead of trying to blame their victims.
Besides, why can we trust that Franken actually means his apology? He has a long history of inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment. When called out on it in the past he apologized but then later in his own book he said that he only apologized to get more votes and he wasn't sorry at all.
Despite his apology, Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota isn’t sorry for a making a rape joke about Lesley Stahl during the 1994-1995 season of “Saturday Night Live.”
The former comedian published a memoir-style book May 30 in which he reveals that he’s not sorry for any of the crude jokes he made during his long career as a screenwriter.
“To say I was sorry for writing a joke was to sell out my career, to sell out who I’d been my entire life,” Franken wrote in his book, according to the New York Times. “And I wasn’t sorry that I had written Porn-o-Rama or pitched that stupid Lesley Stahl joke at 2 in the morning. I was just doing my job.”
“I give the pills to Lesley Stahl. Then, when Lesley’s passed out, I take her to the closet and rape her. When she passes out, I put her in various positions and take pictures of her,” Franken joked while working as a writer for SNL.
Franken added that he publicly apologized for the jokes after it became clear they bothered women voters in the state of Minnesota. “I learned that campaigns have their own rules, they own laws of physics, and that if I wasn’t willing to accept that, I would never get to be a senator,” Franken said.
His apology paid off. Franken defeated the Republican incumbent by only 300 votes in 2008, an astoundingly close race for a Senate seat. He earned a much wider margin in his reelection effort in the Republican “surge” of 2014.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/12/al...pologized-for/
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It seems like not everybody was fooled by Franken's ingratiating "apology":
Of course we all know that a Senate ethics committee investigatiosn are a sham, so I'm sure Franken is mopping his brow in relief right now that he got off so easy. But I have to wonder, suppose it was Trump in that picture and not Franken... what would the response have been?Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Interesting aside on "Wandering Hands Joe"....
Consider Joe Biden. A few short weeks ago, the former senator and vice president seemed like he would be a leading contender to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 and then the favorite to challenge President Trump's bid for re-election. But now? Biden's polling may look good, but he has a history of wandering hands that is simply incompatible with the new normal. He's a political dead man.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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