{"id":1384,"date":"2017-11-16T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T16:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2020-04-30T22:49:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:49:19","slug":"sen-al-franken-gets-a-groping-allegation-of-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/sen-al-franken-gets-a-groping-allegation-of-his-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Al Franken Gets A Groping Allegation of His Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story_summary\">\n<div class=\"introtext\">\n<p>Leeann Tweeden, a Los Angeles reporter has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kabc.com\/2017\/11\/16\/leeann-tweeden-on-senator-al-franken\/\">issued a statement <\/a>detailing a pretty disgusting encounter with Al Franken in 2006. Franken was not a Senator at the time. The story ends with a photo of him grabbing her breasts while she&#8217;s asleep on the military plane home from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged incident occurred during her 9th <span class=\"caps\">ISO<\/span> Tour to entertain the troops. (Her father was a Vietnam vet and her husband (then her boyfriend) is an Air Force Pilot.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Franken had written some skits for the show and brought props and costumes to go along with them. Like many <span class=\"caps\">USO <\/span>shows before and since, the skits were full of sexual innuendo geared toward a young, male audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest at the link.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"premium-wrapper\" class=\"media-pass-article\">\n<div class=\"story_body\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buzz.blog.ajc.com\/2017\/11\/16\/sen-al-franken\/\">Franken&#8217;s response<\/a> (though his spokespersons):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[H]e doesn\u2019t recall the rehearsal episode and that the pose he struck while Tweeden was asleep was \u201csupposed to be funny.\u201d \u201cI send my sincerest apologies to Leeann,\u201d the statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like the Bush I responses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<form action=\"\/\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" method=\"POST\" name=\"editstory\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeann Tweeden, a Los Angeles reporter has issued a statement detailing a pretty disgusting encounter with Al Franken in 2006. Franken was not a Senator at the time. The story ends with a photo of him grabbing her breasts while she&#8217;s asleep on the military plane home from Afghanistan. The alleged incident occurred during her 9th ISO Tour to entertain the troops. (Her father was a Vietnam vet and her husband (then her boyfriend) is an Air Force Pilot. Franken had written some skits for the show and brought props and costumes to go along with them. Like many USO shows before and since, the skits were full of sexual innuendo geared toward a young, male audience. You can read the rest at the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/premium.talkleft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}