In the comedy movie “Anchorman,” comedian Will Farrell advises his TV audience to “stay classy.” On Thursday, former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Al Franken didn’t follow that advice and resigned from the U.S. Senate in a particularly classless way.
Even after eight women told reporters that the Minnesota Democrat had groped or forcibly kissed them, Franken denied he had done anything wrong.
Franken said from the Senate floor that “some of the allegations are simply not true” and that he remembered other accusations differently. He then tried to wrap himself in a feminist flag by vowing he had always been a “champion of women” and saying “I respect women. I don’t respect men who don’t.”
Nonetheless, Franken announced he would resign from the Senate seat he’d held for eight years in coming weeks because he couldn’t defend himself before the Ethics Committee and at the same time focus on being a senator.
Pardon me for saying it, but that’s horsepucky.
What forced him into his sudden departure was the decision by his party’s leadership to sacrifice him so they could spend the next year before the midterm elections painting Republicans as waging a “war on women.”
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YES Democrats will put Kamala Harris as the party favorite. She will campaign on gender and her race. She will say anything and is probably one of the most obnoxious people in congress. 100 percent all this is for her... If you didn't do anything wrong then you have it investigated then sue the people lying but NO he took one for the team. RUSSIA is OVER now they will spend a BILLION on fake news with trump and women.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt about it. Ignore the ignorant...
ReplyDeleteRepublicans need to win really really big in the mid terms.
ReplyDeleteYes they did, and they think we do not know that.
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