Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[smeags]

been nice knowing you, al

what da farg ? he's done. no way he survives this politically.


I couldn't believe it. He groped me, without my consent, while I was asleep.
I felt violated all over again. Embarrassed. Belittled. Humiliated.
How dare anyone grab my breasts like this and think it's funny?
I told my husband everything that happened and showed him the picture.
I wanted to shout my story to the world with a megaphone to anyone who would listen, but even as angry as I was, I was worried about the potential backlash and damage going public might have on my career as a broadcaster.
But that was then, this is now. I'm no longer afraid.
Today, I am the news anchor on McIntyre in the Morning on KABC Radio in Los Angeles. My colleagues are some of the most supportive people I've ever worked with in my career. Like everyone in the media, we've been reporting on the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations since they broke, and the flood of similar stories that have come out about others.
A few weeks ago, we had California Congresswoman Jackie Speier on the show and she told us her story of being sexually assaulted when she was a young Congressional aide. She described how a powerful man in the office where she worked 'held her face, kissed her and stuck his tongue in her mouth.'
At that moment, I thought to myself, Al Franken did that exact same thing to me.
I had locked up those memories of helplessness and violation for a long time, but they all came rushing back to me and my hands clinched into fists like it was yesterday.
I'm still angry at what Al Franken did to me.
Every time I hear his voice or see his face, I am angry. I am angry that I did his stupid skit for the rest of that tour. I am angry that I didn't call him out in front of everyone when I had the microphone in my hand every night after that. I wanted to. But I didn't want to rock the boat. I was there to entertain the troops and make sure they forgot about where they were for a few hours. Someday, I thought to myself, I would tell my story.
That day is now.
Senator Franken, you wrote the script. But there's nothing funny about sexual assault.
You wrote the scene that would include you kissing me and then relentlessly badgered me into 'rehearsing' the kiss with you backstage when we were alone.
You knew exactly what you were doing. 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.
While debating whether or not to go public, I even thought to myself, so much worse has happened to so many others, maybe my story isn't worth telling? But my story is worth telling.
Not just because 2017 is not 2006, or because I am much more secure in my career now than I was then, and not because I'm still angry.
I'm telling my story because there may be others.
I want to have the same effect on them that Congresswoman Jackie Speier had on me. I want them, and all the other victims of sexual assault, to be able to speak out immediately, and not keep their stories –and their anger– locked up inside for years, or decades.
I want the days of silence to be over forever.
Leeann Tweeden is morning news anchor on TalkRadio 790 KABC in Los Angeles

[Sgt PSN]

Yup. This one hurts. Total kick to the sack. See ya Al.

[MDS]

notice how there is pretty much 100% of people calling for franken to go for groping someone where as most republicans are ok with moore being a pedophile

franken can come back from this professionally but needs to go now. he will likely be replaced by a dem in 2018 so this wont really hurt anything

[rjs246]

Here's his statement, for what it's worth:

The first thing I want to do is apologize: to Leeann, to everyone else who was part of that tour, to everyone who has worked for me, to everyone I represent, and to everyone who counts on me to be an ally and supporter and champion of women. There's more I want to say, but the first and most important thing—and if it's the only thing you care to hear, that's fine—is: I'm sorry.
I respect women. I don't respect men who don't. And the fact that my own actions have given people a good reason to doubt that makes me feel ashamed.
But I want to say something else, too. Over the last few months, all of us—including and especially men who respect women—have been forced to take a good, hard look at our own actions and think (perhaps, shamefully, for the first time) about how those actions have affected women.
For instance, that picture. I don't know what was in my head when I took that picture, and it doesn't matter. There's no excuse. I look at it now and I feel disgusted with myself. It isn't funny. It's completely inappropriate. It's obvious how Leeann would feel violated by that picture. And, what's more, I can see how millions of other women would feel violated by it—women who have had similar experiences in their own lives, women who fear having those experiences, women who look up to me, women who have counted on me.
Coming from the world of comedy, I've told and written a lot of jokes that I once thought were funny but later came to realize were just plain offensive. But the intentions behind my actions aren't the point at all. It's the impact these jokes had on others that matters. And I'm sorry it's taken me so long to come to terms with that.
While I don't remember the rehearsal for the skit as Leeann does, I understand why we need to listen to and believe women's experiences.
I am asking that an ethics investigation be undertaken, and I will gladly cooperate.
And the truth is, what people think of me in light of this is far less important than what people think of women who continue to come forward to tell their stories. They deserve to be heard, and believed. And they deserve to know that I am their ally and supporter. I have let them down and am committed to making it up to them.

[Diomedes]

if only someone had warned us about this...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/us/keystone-pipeline-leak/index.html

[General_Failure]

Dio, there was no way this could have been prevented. I mean, who could even imagine such a thing happening?

[ice grillin you]

this tax bill is the most disgraceful thing ive ever seen in all my years of following this shtein...heres a list of all the vulnerable house pubs who voted for it and also whether they voted for healthcare bill as well....a whole bunch of these should be gotten next year

[ice grillin you]

guess another constituency who gets a tax break in this bill....not making this up....private aircraft owners and lessees

[PhillyPhreak54]

Sickening

[MDS]

cant imagine this has a good shot in the senate, especially in its current form

i may be feeling over confident after trumpcare but collins and murkowski at least in the good zone. both az senators despise trump.

[ice grillin you]

this is epic....



https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-nationalists-delusion/546356/

[Tomahawk]

I had to quit reading after the article claimed that Duke's supporters felt like the leader of the farging KKK wasn't really racist, but painted as such by the media.

farg this world

[smeags]

yeah because nothing proves racial harmony like wearing a Nazi uniform to rallies.

[SD]

Probably posted earlier but this rant on tax cuts was legendary


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJFjNtPWvWw

[smeags]

not sure if this mentioned here beore or not but .....

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/politician-wes-goodman-anti-lgbtq-looked-gay-men-craigslist-us-ohio-christian-conservative-a8064526.html