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In reply to the discussion: What if "the kiss" was less sinister and more of a tragic miscommunication? [View all]FBaggins
(26,789 posts)15. People don't ever sleep on planes at 5pm?
Long flights don't ever have periods of wakefulness and periods of sleeping?
Cameras in 2006 could reliably keep track of time zones while flying at 30,000 feet?
Yeah... there were witnesses and we've already hear from one of them. Al Franken. HE says that he understands why she felt violated.
Why do you think he's lying? Because some nut on twitter believes that someone hacked the picture metadata to remove the gps and photographer information but magically forgot to edit the time?
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What if "the kiss" was less sinister and more of a tragic miscommunication? [View all]
ecstatic
Nov 2017
OP
There is nothing funny about forcibly sticking your tongue in somebody's mouth against their will
oberliner
Nov 2017
#2
We don't really know he did that - Al said he remembers it differently than she does
womanofthehills
Nov 2017
#6
There's nothing funny about posing women while they'reunconscious and taking pictures of them either
FBaggins
Nov 2017
#7
If you're talking about the photo, we don't know the circumstances. For all we know,
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#17
His hands weren't actually touching the vest -- he was pretending. But even pretending about sexual
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#25
He says he doesn't remember it the way she does. You trust her description 100%. I don't. n/t
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#16
I think that is quite possible. Listening to Tweeden and her acceptance of apology,
Hoyt
Nov 2017
#3
No, it's ridiculous. Franken has been married for more than 40 years
The Velveteen Ocelot
Nov 2017
#10
Not sure that is evidence. Moore has bee married awhile too, as have most adulterers.
Hoyt
Nov 2017
#12
She is a right wing BS artist and a Fox news contributor....it is a hit job so let's ignore it.
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#22
You do know the 'kiss' was part of the show right? She is an actress albeit not a good one.
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#24
Whatever it was/is, one thing is for sure. The story coming out when it did is
rzemanfl
Nov 2017
#26