A Second Woman Accuses President George H. W. Bush…

I told you earlier this week that an actress is accusing President Bush of “sexual assault” for saying a “dirty joke” and touching her butt during a photo op a few years ago.

My response? Yup… sounds like hanging out with a wheel-chair bound 90 year old man.

I mean, have y’all been to a nursing home lately? It’s butt-touch city.

My take is to brush it off… or if it really bothers you, let them know.  My response would probably be to laughingly scold the “dirty old man.”

Maybe I’m wrong, since apparently that’s a traumatizing event.

Another woman is “bravely speaking out.”

A second woman has come forward claiming former President George H.W. Bush touched her butt during a 2016 photo shoot while making a joke about his favorite magician being ‘David Cop-a-Feel.’

 

New York actress Jordana Grolnick said the alleged incident happened in August 2016 during a photo-op at a theater in Maine while working on a Hunchback of Notre Dame production, Deadspin reported.

 

‘We all circled around him and Barbara for a photo, and I was right next to him,’ Grolnick said.

 

‘He reached his right hand around to my behind, and as we smiled for the photo he asked the group, ‘Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?”

 

‘As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, ‘David Cop-a-Feel!”

 

She said that others in the room ‘laughed politely and out of discomfort,’ and that former first lady Barbara Bush ‘said something along the lines of, ‘He’s going to get himself put into jail!”

Well… at least now we know what the “traumatic” dirty joke was.

Grolnick said, ‘I just thought, ‘Whatever. He’s a dirty old man.”

 

The actress posted a photo to her Instagram page showing her standing next to Bush, whose hand appears to be near her butt.

She wrote: ‘George H.W. Bush has a favorite magician. It’s “David Cop-A-Feel.” He told us so. Barbara has no opinion on magicians. #history’.

 

But in reflecting on the incident, she offered advice to others: ‘What I’ve come to realize is that if we tolerate these small comments and grazes from men on the street or former presidents, they might assume that it’s ok with us, and they may take it as permission to do who-knows-what else.’

 

‘I realize that making light of the situation was the wrong move. It wasn’t ok for him to do that to me,’ she added.

 

Bush spokesperson Jim McGrath responded with a statement that reads: ‘At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures.

 

‘To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner.

 

‘Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely.’

See? She even admits she just brushed it off. She even made a joke about it on social media.

But then, after years of being told that ALL WOMEN ARE VICTIMS, she decided she was a VICTIM too.

Dirty old man…. sure. I wouldn’t hesitate to call him one. You wanna call this sexual harassment… maybe you have a case. But SEXUAL ASSAULTER? Yeah… I guess I just don’t see it that way.

I think calling everything and anything “sexual assault” is going to end up backfiring on those who most need our support: actual victims of heinous actions.

If we’re going to start acting like a butt-touch from a wheel-chair bound pervy peepaw and forced aggravated rape are in the same “traumatic” boat… we’re digging ourselves a world of trouble.