Seems as if there’s a pattern developing with Al Franken that’s been hidden from the public until today. Not only is there photographic proof that Al Franken groped a sleeping Leeanne Tweeden during a USO show in 2006, Franken also is accused by a second woman of harassment back in the year 2000. Now, there’s written proof about Al Franken joking about drugging and raping 60 minutes’ Leslie Stahl in a New York Magazine article from 1995.
As usual, Democrats, liberals and McConnellites will claims it’s just comedy and it was harmless. Here is Franken in his own words back in 199
| Al Franken joked about raping Lesley Stahl |
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“’I give the pills to Lesley Stahl. Then when Lesley is passed out, I take her to the closet and rape her.’ Or ‘That’s why you never see Lesley until February.’ Or, ‘When she passes out. I put her in various positions and take pictures of her,’” Franken was quoted saying.
The article, along with a 2000 Playboy column in which Franken talked about fantasizing a machine would perform oral sex on him, was used to attack Franken during his 2008 Senate campaign in Minnesota. Republican women also gathered to demand Franken explain himself, according to the Pioneer Press.
Franken eventually apologized for his crude remarks, but he later wrote in his book, “Al Franken: Giant of the Senate,” that he faked the apology to get the necessary support for his election win, according to the New York Times.
“To say I was sorry for writing a joke was to sell out my career, to sell out who I’d been my entire life,” he wrote in the book. “And I wasn’t sorry that I had written Porn-o-Rama or pitched that stupid Lesley Stahl joke at 2 in the morning. I was just doing my job.”
He added: “I learned that campaigns have their own rules, their own laws of physics, and that if I wasn’t willing to accept that, I would never get to be a senator.”