See: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/360810-democrats-scramble-to-contain-franken-fallout
Although let’s be TRUTHFUL and FACTUAL.
You can tell by the shadows in the photo that he was NOT touching her.
He did NOT “grab her breasts”.
(remember when truth and facts and reality were kind of important things?)
The photo by itself is a stupid, immature, school boy prank that is relatively harmless.
(EXCEPT for the fact that he was basically “at work”, so it is VERY unprofessional? the question mark is there because he is a comedian, and comedians generally have a different sense of humor than other people, especially if they are “edgy” and push limits and that sort of thing, which Franken does do)
Is anyone else surprised that ANY comic is “immature”? (male OR female)
(or ANY person, really, male AND female, pretty much across the board)
With the other stuff, it takes on a potentially more sinister tone. That is, “getting back at her”, which is known as “retaliation” in the world of sexual harassment and the like.
And why isn’t anyone talking about him being married at the time??
I haven’t read everything about this in detail, skimmed most of it, but I don’t remember him apologizing to his wife.
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