Outspoken left-wing Democrat Al Franken – who just so happens to be jewish – was yet another public figure struck by the sexual harassment/rape scandals triggered by the revelations about the conduct of jewish Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.
To wit:
‘US Senator Al Franken has apologised to a woman who alleged that he groped her as she slept and "forcibly" kissed her in a rehearsal for a comedy skit.
Radio host Leeann Tweeden says both incidents happened in 2006 when she and Mr Franken, who was then a comedian, were on a tour for US troops overseas.
He "aggressively" kissed her while they rehearsed a scene, she wrote.
Mr Franken apologised for his actions, but said he had a different recollection of the kissing incident.
"I certainly don't remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann," the Minnesota Democrat said in a statement.
"As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn't. I shouldn't have done it."
Mr Franken later issued a second, longer statement following a ferocious backlash from critics who accused him of a non-apology and demanded his resignation.
In an article for KABC, a Los Angeles radio station where Ms Tweeden now works, she recalled feeling victimised by Mr Franken during her ninth tour of the Middle East.
"When I saw the script, Franken had written a moment when his character comes climbing at me for a 'kiss'," she said.
"I suspected what he was after, but I figured I could turn my head at the last minute, or put my hand over his mouth, to get more laughs from the crowd."
On the day of the performance in Kuwait, she said he was insistent they rehearse the skit.
But when the moment came he "put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth".
"You knew exactly what you were doing," she wrote. "You forcibly kissed me without my consent, grabbed my breasts while I was sleeping and had someone take a photo of you doing it, knowing I would see it later, and be ashamed."
The Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, called for the chamber's Ethics Committee to investigate Franken, saying: "Sexual harassment is never acceptable."
The Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell echoed the call for an ethics investigation. Mr Franken said he would "gladly co-operate".
In his second statement, he said: "I respect women. I don't respect men who don't. The fact that my own actions have given people a good reason to doubt that makes me feel ashamed."
Of the photo, he added: "I look at it now and I feel disgusted with myself... It's obvious how Leeann would feel violated by that picture."
But he still begged to differ on her portrayal of him forcing his tongue down her mouth.
"While I don't remember the rehearsal for the skit as Leeann does," he said, "I understand why we need to listen to and believe women's experiences."’ (1)
Further we read that:
‘As a senator for Minnesota, Mr Franken has cultivated an image for himself as a champion of women's issues.
Ms Tweeden said she was inspired to come forward more than a decade later after California congresswoman Jackie Speier was interviewed on her morning radio programme.
Mrs Speier told about being sexually assaulted as a young congressional aide in Washington.’ (2)
Franken then faced another seven separate allegations of similar behaviour by seven different women (3) and then an additional two also came forward. (4) Rather than a face a formal ethics probe in the US Senate (5) Franken simply and unapologetically resigned. (6)
Jane Mayer – who is herself jewish and the great-great-granddaughter of Lehman’s Brothers founder Emanuel Lehman – (7) attacked the allegations claiming to have uncovered ‘substantial inaccuracies’ in the ‘New Yorker’ in July 2019 (8) – edited by Mayer’s jewish editor David Remnick (9) and owned by ‘Advance Publications’ which is owned and run by the Newhouse family who are also jewish– (10) none of Mayer’s charges to my knowledge have been formally substantiated but simply just made and this was enough to ‘rehabilitate’ Franken in the eyes of many of those who had quickly abandoned him as a fallen political star. (11)
Franken was – and is - guilty as sin as far as I can see and unsurprisingly it is another case of a male jew treating non-jewish women (i.e., shiksas) as sexual objects to be used, abused and discarded as the whim takes them, which rather speaks to Judaism’s generally dim view of women and significantly worse view of non-jewish women as de facto whores desperate to have sex with members of Yahweh’s chosen people which fits into the fact that both the ‘powerful men’ fingered by the #MeToo movement (2) and the ‘powerful men’ fingered by the Pizzagate movement have been predominately jewish while their victims predominately non-jewish. (13)
Coincidence?
I doubt it.
References
(1) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42018154
(2) Ibid.
(3) https://www.foxnews.com/politics/al-franken-hit-with-groping-allegation-from-second-woman/
(4) https://www.timesofisrael.com/sen-franken-faces-ethics-probe-after-accused-of-groping-woman/
(5) https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/al-franken-two-more-women-groping_us_5a15a455e4b09650540ec295
(6) https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/al-franken-resignation-calls-senate-address-live-stream-updating/
(7) https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/27/style/weddings-jane-m-mayer-william-hamilton.html
(8) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken
(9) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-remnick-israel_b_836800
(10) https://web.archive.org/web/20130422033621/http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=187430
(11) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken
(12) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/harvey-weinstein-and-the-rape-of
(13) See my articles: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/pedowood-hollywood-and-its-jewish and https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/john-travolta-and-the-homosexual
Wasn’t Al Franken(stein) also part of the D.C. Pageboy Prostitution Scandal?
As a renowned sodomite and notorious politician, it’s no great surprise to learn of his antics regarding the sexual harassment, of those noted.
But alas, he was allowed to fade into obscurity as he slithered away from the spotlight!
The New Yorker article provides missing context to the harassment charges. I'm no fan of Franken as either a comedian or politician or ugly Jew, but the charges really boil down to 2 unproven incidents - he touched her tits while she was asleep and he tongue-kissed her during a rehearsal. The first contact isn't shown in the photo. It's shtick/staged not real. She's wearing a flak jacket. And the second wasn't reported to anyone else during the tour. There seems to be a feminist agenda that supersedes the Jewish one is this case. People lie to take political advantage. Both sides do it.