Al Franken

Media Matters Silent on Al Franken Groping Charge

The cat has the Media Matters tongue, apparently. The news comes in from Los Angeles KABC anchor Leeann Tweeden that while on a USO tour in December of 2006 with then-comedian and now-Senator Al Franken “kissed and groped” her without her consent.  Among other things Tweeden says that Franken wrote a kiss into their act and demanded they rehearse. After protesting she finally, reluctantly, agreed. Then, she says: “He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. I said ‘OK’ so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth. I immediately pushed him away with

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