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Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Says He Wishes Al Franken Would Run For Office Again

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Says He Wishes Al Franken Would Run For Office Again

Al Franken has an important former ally in his corner regarding a potential return to the U.S. Senate. The former Democratic senator from Minnesota resigned in 2016 amid allegations that he acted in an inappropriate manner with women, but has recently said he regrets the decision. Now, the former lead Democrat in the U.S. Senate […]

5y ago

Pete Buttigieg On Al Franken: ‘I Would Not Have Applied That Pressure’

Pete Buttigieg On Al Franken: ‘I Would Not Have Applied That Pressure’

Al Franken resigned his U.S. Senate seat in December of 2017 after several women accused him of various degrees of sexual misconduct. Democrats are still arguing about it, even into the 2020 presidential campaign. Some Democrats, including a few major donors to the party, have continued to defend Franken and vowed never to support any […]

5y ago

Bill Maher Calls Upon Al Franken To Return To Politics, Stating ‘Me Too’ Would Remain Intact

Bill Maher Calls Upon Al Franken To Return To Politics, Stating ‘Me Too’ Would Remain Intact

Bill Maher might be a liberal, but he’s never been afraid to push back against the Democratic Party, when he believes they’ve made a mistake. Recently on his HBO show, Real Time, Maher went against Democrats and the American public in general in saying that largely unconfirmed and vehemently denied accusations against Senator Al Franken […]

6y ago

Sarah Silverman Stands Up For ‘Brother’ Louis CK, Says He Deserves Another Chance

Sarah Silverman Stands Up For ‘Brother’ Louis CK, Says He Deserves Another Chance

Sarah Silverman is attempting to battle the other side with a tool which has rarely been used in American political life over the last couple of years: empathy. As Hulu decided to renew her late-night talk show, I Love You, America, for a second season, the comic seems to have adopted a perspective in which […]

6y ago

Al Franken To Be Replaced By Tina Smith For Senate Seat

Al Franken To Be Replaced By Tina Smith For Senate Seat

Former Minnesota Senator, Al Franken, resigned effective immediately from his post. On Wednesday, Tina Smith will become the state’s new senator and mark a dramatic end to a political career for Franken. The resignation came as a result of a series of sexual allegations by more than a half-dozen women who claimed that Franken had […]

6y ago

Sarah Silverman Bikini Pictures Trending After Her Professed Sadness Over Al Franken’s Resignation

Sarah Silverman Bikini Pictures Trending After Her Professed Sadness Over Al Franken’s Resignation

The search term, “Sarah Silverman bikini,” is trending online amid her statement to media sources about her sadness in the wake of Al Franken’s resignation from the U.S. Senate. On Tuesday, searches for Sarah Silverman in a bikini were up in a big way, according to Google Trends, a data-driven algorithm that tracks and ranks […]

6y ago

Joe Biden Ignores Groping Accusations While Promoting Book In Minneapolis

Joe Biden Ignores Groping Accusations While Promoting Book In Minneapolis

Joe Biden has been out and about promoting his new book Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose. This weekend, he attracted big crowds in Minneapolis. The book has garnered some praise, especially the parts that deal with Biden watching his son die of brain cancer. According to the StarTribune, Biden said […]

7y ago

Gayle King Seems To Flirt With U.S. Senator Immediately After Discussing Sexual Harassment [Video]

Gayle King Seems To Flirt With U.S. Senator Immediately After Discussing Sexual Harassment [Video]

Complimenting somebody on their looks at the conclusion of a discussion about sexual harassment seems like an odd juxtaposition, but it happened on CBS This Morning, while the crawl on the bottom of the screen ironically read “double standard.” Co-host Gayle King was interviewing U.S. Senator John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, at the time […]

7y ago

Donald Trump ‘Should Think About Resigning’ Over Sexual Assault Allegations, Bernie Sanders Says

Donald Trump ‘Should Think About Resigning’ Over Sexual Assault Allegations, Bernie Sanders Says

Bernie Sanders had some pretty harsh words for Donald Trump during a recent appearance on CBS This Morning. The Vermont senator believes the president should think about resigning due to the numerous sexual misconduct allegations he faces. “We have a president of the United States who acknowledged on a time widely seen all over this […]

7y ago

Al Franken’s Resignation Speech Morphs Into Fishing Tale With Trump And Moore As The Big Ones That Got Away

Al Franken’s Resignation Speech Morphs Into Fishing Tale With Trump And Moore As The Big Ones That Got Away

Al Frankin stepped up to the podium today and announced he was resigning, but it wasn’t because he did anything wrong as a senator — it was because this is what the people of his state wanted. Franken will resign from the Senate within the coming weeks, he said during his speech today. Franken is […]

7y ago

Democrats Officially Call On Senator Al Franken To Resign Amid Mounting Sexual Harassment Allegations

Democrats Officially Call On Senator Al Franken To Resign Amid Mounting Sexual Harassment Allegations

Seven Democratic senators, some of the highest-ranking women on Capitol Hill, have called on Senator Al Franken to resign following another allegation of sexual harassment that surfaced earlier this week. According to a report by Politico, a former congressional aide for the Democratic Party had alleged that three years before Franken became a senator he […]

7y ago

Al Franken Staunchly Defended By Some Liberals And Progressives

Al Franken Staunchly Defended By Some Liberals And Progressives

Al Franken is a good person, but his accuser, Leeann Tweeden, is a “bi***.” At least that’s what some progressives, who normally complain about “rape culture,” are saying. Leading the pack is Alissa Johnson, from Medium, in an article that has already garnered almost 30,000 views. “And I am sick that people like Leeanne [sic] […]

7y ago

Women Of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Release Statement To Show Support For Sen. Al Franken

Women Of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Release Statement To Show Support For Sen. Al Franken

It has been a rough week for Sen. Al Franken, as two women have now come out with sexual misconduct allegations against the former Saturday Night Live cast member. Despite those groping allegations, some women of Saturday Night Live, 36 of them to be exact, have released a statement to show their support for their […]

7y ago

Another Woman Accuses Senator Al Franken Of Sexual Misconduct, Could End His Career [Breaking]

Another Woman Accuses Senator Al Franken Of Sexual Misconduct, Could End His Career [Breaking]

A second woman says Senator Al Franken inappropriately touched her in 2010. According to CNN, the woman claims that Franken grabbed her buttocks while taking a photo at the Minnesota State Fair. This is the first allegation of improper touching by Franken while in office. It comes days after LeAnn Tweeden, a local news anchor […]

7y ago

Democratic Party Divides Itself Over Bill Clinton And Sexual Harassment

Democratic Party Divides Itself Over Bill Clinton And Sexual Harassment

Despite his scandals, Bill Clinton has become to the Democratic party what Ronald Reagan is to Republicans — an absolute icon. Not only did Clinton get the gay rights bandwagon rolling in the early 1990s, but he was often referred to as our “first African-American president” before we actually had one. However, in a post-Weinstein […]

7y ago

Trump Mocks ‘Biggest Loser’ Hillary After Clinton Questions 2016 Election Legitimacy, ‘Give It Another Try’

Trump Mocks ‘Biggest Loser’ Hillary After Clinton Questions 2016 Election Legitimacy, ‘Give It Another Try’

Donald Trump is encouraging rival Hillary Clinton to run against him in the 2020 presidential election. This remark, via Twitter, comes after Clinton gave a couple of interviews on Friday questioning the legitimacy of the Trump presidency and the lack of accountability with regards to sexual assault allegations thrown against the POTUS. Trump also called […]

7y ago

Public Lambastes Donald Trump Who Is Accused Of Rape And Sexual Assault For Hypocrisy

Public Lambastes Donald Trump Who Is Accused Of Rape And Sexual Assault For Hypocrisy

Amongst the furor of seemingly endless allegations of sexual assault that have been dominating the news in recent weeks, President Donald Trump has called for swift action to be taken against the men who have been accused. However, members of the public and the political and celebrity elite have rebuked Trump for hypocrisy as he […]

7y ago

Trump Blasts Al Franken On Twitter, Virtually Mum On Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Roy Moore

Trump Blasts Al Franken On Twitter, Virtually Mum On Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Roy Moore

Donald Trump has largely remained neutral and silent regarding the allegations of sexual misconduct levied against Alabama Senate candidate (and former chief justice) Roy Moore since an explosive Washington Post report was released over a week ago. In the shocking expose, several women accused Moore of touching them in sexually inappropriate manners and/or pursuing them […]

7y ago

Seth Meyers Calls Out Fellow ‘Saturday Night Live’ Alum Al Franken After Sexual Abuse Allegations

Seth Meyers Calls Out Fellow ‘Saturday Night Live’ Alum Al Franken After Sexual Abuse Allegations

It has been a rough week for straight, white male late night hosts this week. Not only did they have to cover sexual abuse allegations against fellow comedian Louis C.K., but now they had to take on coverage of sexual abuse allegations against Democratic senator Al Franken. Seth Meyers seemed to follow in the footsteps […]

7y ago

Donald Trump Al Franken Tweets: Twitter Rips Accused Sex Assaulter POTUS For ‘Frankenstien’ Sex Assault Tweets

Donald Trump Al Franken Tweets: Twitter Rips Accused Sex Assaulter POTUS For ‘Frankenstien’ Sex Assault Tweets

After allegations surfaced on Thursday that Minnesota Democratic Senator Al Franken, a former comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member and writer, had sexually assaulted radio host and former Playboy model Leeann Tweeden, Donald Trump took to his Twitter account to attack Franken over the allegations. But Trump’s pair of tweets only sent Twitter users, […]

7y ago

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