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Al Franken

It turns out, Anita Sarkeesian was maybe right

Infamous video game critic and hyper-feminist Anita Sarkeesian has an image on her Twitter page that shows a necklace that says, TRUST NO MAN.

When I first saw the image, I thought she was just trying to be edgy. I thought it was an example of over-the-top hyperbole meant to invoke a reaction. I chose not to take the bait. It’s why I didn’t write about it until now.

With the news that Senator Al Franken acted inappropriately with a woman during a USO tour, I now look at Anita Sarkeesian’s necklace and have to think it’s pretty dead on. If you can’t trust Al Franken not to act like a dirtbag, what man can you trust?

You trust no man, that’s who.

You don’t realize who your heroes are until they do something terrible and you’re left with a heavy feeling of disgust. That’s what I feel when I see the photo of Al Franken pretending to grope Leeann Tweeden while she sleeps, disgust. It’s clear to me now from the way I feel, Al Frankin was kind of a hero of mine. I really liked him.

Not anymore.

You can add Senator Al Franken to the list of pervs

In 2006, now Senator Al Franken, was part of a USO show traveling around the middle east entertaining the troops. One of the members of the show was Leeann Tweeden. She appeared on the covers of FHM, Maxim, and Playboy and was on the tour to act as an MC. She’s currently a radio anchor at KABC in Los Angeles.

She claims Franken groping her and forced her to kiss him several times throughout the trip.

After the trip was over, Leeann Tweeden was going through some photos and found the above photo of Franken posing for the camera while he pretended to grope Tweeden’s chest while she was asleep.

This photo makes me so angry. I used to like Al Franken. Past tense. I’ve read several of his books and I was going to add his newest book to the mental pile of books I need to read. Not anymore.

I’ve had with these men. I’ve lost all respect for Al Frankin. It’s dirtbags like him that make it hard for the rest of him. Fuck him and fuck whoever took this picture.

I hope they both drown in a swimming pool filled with weapon’s grade AIDS.