I recently attempted to come to Senator Franken's aid by pointing out the photograph of him leering at the camera while pretend-grabbing a woman's breasts was clearly meant to be a (stupid, adolescent) joke and that no actual contact was made.
I stand by that assessment.
But now we have a report from a woman who says Franken latched onto her butt for three or four seconds during a photo op at the Minnesota State Fair. Franken says he takes a lot of such photos and doesn't remember this particular one.
He's missing the point. We're not asking him to remember the photograph. We're asking him to address the butt-squeezing aspect of the incident. Perhaps he could say something like: "I never grab people's butts without written permission."
If the "photo with the butt-grab" doesn't ring a bell, I think we can only conclude grabbing butts is so common an activity for the man that in the end it's all a blur.
He says, "I feel badly [she] came away from our interaction feeling disrespected."
The take-home message: When Senator Al Franken grabs your butt he does so with the deepest possible respect.
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