Franken Responds To Allegations Of Sexual Abuse

Senator Al Franken has always rubbed me as a creeptastic douchenozzle, so the recent allegations against him weren’t particularly shocking to me.

A woman named Leeann Tweeden is accusing Franken of forcibly kissing her during a USO skit rehearsal and shared a photo of Franken grabbing her breasts while she was asleep.

If you’re not caught up, you should get up to speed here.

You can also see the full picture at the above link.

He has responded… and it’s SO. FREAKING. LAME.

According to Daily Caller:

Tweeden accused Franken of forcibly kissing her during a skit rehearsal and shared a photo of Franken grabbing her breasts while she was asleep.

Franken said that he remembers the skit differently and said the photo was supposed to be a funny joke.

“I certainly don’t remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann,” Sen. Franken said in a statement. “As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn’t. I shouldn’t have done it.”

His accuser isn’t buying that for a second.

“You knew exactly what you were doing. You forcibly kissed me without my consent, grabbed my breasts while I was sleeping and had someone take a photo of you doing it, knowing I would see it later, and be ashamed,” Tweeden wrote in a piece of KABC.

Tweeden said she was only expected to emcee the entertainment tour but Franken had written her into a skit where the two kissed. She says Franken kept insisting they rehearse the kiss before the show and when she finally agreed he “mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.”

“I felt violated all over again. Embarrassed. Belittled. Humiliated,” Tweeden wrote. “How dare anyone grab my breasts like this and think it’s funny?”

So can we just agree what anyone with an ounce of power turns into a pervert?