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For this sexual harassment firestorm surrounding Senator Al Franken it should make people question whether or not the American people have gone insane! It is disgraceful beyond words people bringing up this Leeann Tweeden matter and waving it around as sexual harassment because it dilutes the wrongfulness of actual sexual harassment. So many women have suffered real sexual harassment in the workplace where they have either been pressured or physically forced to have sex with a person they work with and it involves their job being on the line which means their ability to pay their bills and live is on the line. The Tweeden matter did not involve this. This Tweeden matter involved a women that did not have the emotional stability and maturity to work on the USO tour. Facts are important and the facts in the Tweeden matter indicate there was no sexual predatory or sexual abuse behavior, people should just go through what transpired responsibly and they will see this!
The facts are Leeann Tweeden was on a USO tour. The reason why Leeann Tweeden was on the USO tour is that she is an extremely beautiful women and is well known. The USO through the years has had countless such women on the tour three names that pop up are: Racquel Welch, Loni Anderson and Ann-Margret. Al Franken was also on the tour as a headliner and Emcee. USO tour shows are often comprised of humorous skits that have sexual innuendo. Mr. Franken wrote one such skit and asked Ms. Tweeden to be in it and Ms. Tweeden agreed and the skit involved a kissing scene. The wrongdoing Mr. Franken is alleged to have done is pressure Ms. Tweeden to practice the scene and when she did eventually consent to practice the scene while doing the actual rehearsal Mr. Franken while kissing Ms. Tweeden held the back of her head and put his tongue in her mouth. This is not sexual abuse USO's skits purpose is to entertain the troops one legitimate type of this entertainment is for the actors to create fantasy to foster in members of the audience wouldn't you like to be me specifically in this case wouldn't you like to be me passionately kissing an extremely beautiful women! A reasonable belief is that putting one's tongue in the person's mouth that one's kissing does indicates passion for that person albeit its an extreme demonstration but that goes with the whole purpose of the comic skit its humorous to go overboard. As for Mr. Franken's continual efforts to rehearse the scene with Ms. Tweeden a prudent person in Mr. Franken's position would do such a thing because you don't want to do such a scene for the first time on stage live in front of a huge audience of soldiers and have Ms. Tweeden freak-out and be hurt by the kiss because if she did so that would put a pawl over the show it would spoil the mood of the show and defeat the entertainment purpose of the show; pushing for a rehearsal was clearly the right call because Ms. Tweeden by her own admission freaked-out she couldn't handle that it was just acting. The only wrongdoing in this whole matter is that Leeann Tweeden should not have been selected for the cast of the USO tour because she obviously did not have the emotional make-up and maturity to do the show!
As for the picture of Al Franken and Ms. Tweeden while Ms. Tweeden was sleeping, there was no sexual abuse involved maybe a little disrespect if you want to construe the situation where a person doesn't have a lighten-up element to their personality! Examine the details of the picture Ms. Tweeden has a bullet proof vest on at the time and Mr. Franken only has his finger tips touching Ms. Tweeden's breast area. A reasonable person would conclude that Mr. Franken was trying to simulate that he was feeling the beautiful Ms. Tweeden breasts at that time it was an effort at humor, low IQ juvenile Saturday Night Live humor but nevertheless humor. This writer here is not making any admission that he found the video picture humorous; in this whole matter involving Senator Franken the American people really need to take a step back and do things like take a deep breath and consider John Belushi's photos of Ms. Tweeden would have been much worse!
The facts are Leeann Tweeden was on a USO tour. The reason why Leeann Tweeden was on the USO tour is that she is an extremely beautiful women and is well known. The USO through the years has had countless such women on the tour three names that pop up are: Racquel Welch, Loni Anderson and Ann-Margret. Al Franken was also on the tour as a headliner and Emcee. USO tour shows are often comprised of humorous skits that have sexual innuendo. Mr. Franken wrote one such skit and asked Ms. Tweeden to be in it and Ms. Tweeden agreed and the skit involved a kissing scene. The wrongdoing Mr. Franken is alleged to have done is pressure Ms. Tweeden to practice the scene and when she did eventually consent to practice the scene while doing the actual rehearsal Mr. Franken while kissing Ms. Tweeden held the back of her head and put his tongue in her mouth. This is not sexual abuse USO's skits purpose is to entertain the troops one legitimate type of this entertainment is for the actors to create fantasy to foster in members of the audience wouldn't you like to be me specifically in this case wouldn't you like to be me passionately kissing an extremely beautiful women! A reasonable belief is that putting one's tongue in the person's mouth that one's kissing does indicates passion for that person albeit its an extreme demonstration but that goes with the whole purpose of the comic skit its humorous to go overboard. As for Mr. Franken's continual efforts to rehearse the scene with Ms. Tweeden a prudent person in Mr. Franken's position would do such a thing because you don't want to do such a scene for the first time on stage live in front of a huge audience of soldiers and have Ms. Tweeden freak-out and be hurt by the kiss because if she did so that would put a pawl over the show it would spoil the mood of the show and defeat the entertainment purpose of the show; pushing for a rehearsal was clearly the right call because Ms. Tweeden by her own admission freaked-out she couldn't handle that it was just acting. The only wrongdoing in this whole matter is that Leeann Tweeden should not have been selected for the cast of the USO tour because she obviously did not have the emotional make-up and maturity to do the show!
As for the picture of Al Franken and Ms. Tweeden while Ms. Tweeden was sleeping, there was no sexual abuse involved maybe a little disrespect if you want to construe the situation where a person doesn't have a lighten-up element to their personality! Examine the details of the picture Ms. Tweeden has a bullet proof vest on at the time and Mr. Franken only has his finger tips touching Ms. Tweeden's breast area. A reasonable person would conclude that Mr. Franken was trying to simulate that he was feeling the beautiful Ms. Tweeden breasts at that time it was an effort at humor, low IQ juvenile Saturday Night Live humor but nevertheless humor. This writer here is not making any admission that he found the video picture humorous; in this whole matter involving Senator Franken the American people really need to take a step back and do things like take a deep breath and consider John Belushi's photos of Ms. Tweeden would have been much worse!
