The New Yorker's Jane Mayer kicked up quite a dust storm last week with her piece detailing the sound and fury surrounding Minnesota Senator Al Franken's 2017 resignation.
Mayer said after her piece ran that Franken was "Railroaded," and tweeted, "Almost NOTHING His Main accuser Said checks out."
Amanda Marcotte, writing in Salon, called Mayer's piece "a truly baffling move" and "a frankly hackish piece defending Franken and giving ammunition to a year and a half of bad-faith arguments coming from his defenders who really ought to know better." Christina Cauterucci, in Slate, writes, "Nothing that Mayer debunks gets to the heart of why Franken resigned, or even really speaks to detractors' interpretation of his behavior."
In modern times, as Mayer points out, only three senators had been forced to resign their seats before Franken.
A bizarre aspect of the story concerns the skit itself, which sought to generate laughs from overseas military troops by showing in jest essentially what Tweeden accused Franken of doing.
It's at least intriguing that Tweeden would employ the precise words of the skit in lodging her complaint against Franken.
What do we make of the woman who stood with Franken at a photo shoot, put her arms around his shoulder, then posted the image on the web with the words, "Totally stoked. So suck it"-and then accused Franken of inappropriately holding his hand on her waist during the picture taking? "It wasn't violent rape," she said, apparently trying to make a fine distinction.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-smearing-of-al-franken/
Mayer said after her piece ran that Franken was "Railroaded," and tweeted, "Almost NOTHING His Main accuser Said checks out."
Amanda Marcotte, writing in Salon, called Mayer's piece "a truly baffling move" and "a frankly hackish piece defending Franken and giving ammunition to a year and a half of bad-faith arguments coming from his defenders who really ought to know better." Christina Cauterucci, in Slate, writes, "Nothing that Mayer debunks gets to the heart of why Franken resigned, or even really speaks to detractors' interpretation of his behavior."
In modern times, as Mayer points out, only three senators had been forced to resign their seats before Franken.
A bizarre aspect of the story concerns the skit itself, which sought to generate laughs from overseas military troops by showing in jest essentially what Tweeden accused Franken of doing.
It's at least intriguing that Tweeden would employ the precise words of the skit in lodging her complaint against Franken.
What do we make of the woman who stood with Franken at a photo shoot, put her arms around his shoulder, then posted the image on the web with the words, "Totally stoked. So suck it"-and then accused Franken of inappropriately holding his hand on her waist during the picture taking? "It wasn't violent rape," she said, apparently trying to make a fine distinction.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-smearing-of-al-franken/
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