In December of 2006, I embarked on my ninth USO Tour to entertain our troops, my eighth to the Middle East since the 9/11 attacks. My father served in Vietnam and my then-boyfriend (and now husband, Chris) is a pilot in the Air Force, so bringing a ‘little piece of home’ to service members stationed far away from their families was both my passion and my privilege.
Picture of accuser, Leann Tweeden
Also on the trip were country music artists Darryl Worley, Mark Wills, Keni Thomas, and some cheerleaders from the Dallas Cowboys. The headliner was comedian and now-senator, Al Franken.
Franken had written some skits for the show and brought props and costumes to go along with them. Like many USO shows before and since, the skits were full of sexual innuendo geared toward a young, male audience.
As a TV host and sports broadcaster, as well as a model familiar to the audience from the covers of FHM, Maxim and Playboy, I was only expecting to emcee and introduce the acts, but Franken said he had written a part for me that he thought would be funny, and I agreed to play along.
When I saw the script, Franken had written a moment when his character comes at me for a ‘kiss’. I suspected what he was after, but I figured I could turn my head at the last minute, or put my hand over his mouth, to get more laughs from the crowd.
On the day of the show Franken and I were alone backstage going over our lines one last time. He said to me, “We need to rehearse the kiss.” I laughed and ignored him. Then he said it again. I said something like, ‘Relax Al, this isn’t SNL…we don’t need to rehearse the kiss.’
He continued to insist, and I was beginning to get uncomfortable.
He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. I said ‘OK’ so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.
I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn’t be so nice about it the next time.
I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth.
I felt disgusted and violated.
Not long after, I performed the skit as written, carefully turning my head so he couldn’t kiss me on the lips.
No one saw what happened backstage. I didn’t tell the Sergeant Major of the Army, who was the sponsor of the tour. I didn’t tell our USO rep what happened.
At the time I didn’t want to cause trouble. We were in the middle of a war zone, it was the first show of our Holiday tour, I was a professional, and I could take care of myself. I told a few of the others on the tour what Franken had done and they knew how I felt about it.
I tried to let it go, but I was angry.
Other than our dialogue on stage, I never had a voluntary conversation with Al Franken again. I avoided him as much as possible and made sure I was never alone with him again for the rest of the tour.
Franken repaid me with petty insults, including drawing devil horns on at least one of the headshots I was autographing for the troops.
But he didn’t stop there.
The tour wrapped and on Christmas Eve we began the 36-hour trip home to L.A. After 2 weeks of grueling travel and performing I was exhausted. When our C-17 cargo plane took off from Afghanistan I immediately fell asleep, even though I was still wearing my flak vest and Kevlar helmet.
It wasn’t until I was back in the US and looking through the CD of photos we were given by the photographer that I saw this one:
I couldn’t believe it. He groped me, without my consent, while I was asleep.
I felt violated all over again. Embarrassed. Belittled. Humiliated.
How dare anyone grab my breasts like this and think it’s funny?
I told my husband everything that happened and showed him the picture.
I wanted to shout my story to the world with a megaphone to anyone who would listen, but even as angry as I was, I was worried about the potential backlash and damage going public might have on my career as a broadcaster.
But that was then, this is now. I’m no longer afraid.
Today, I am the news anchor on McIntyre in the Morning on KABC Radio in Los Angeles. My colleagues are some of the most supportive people I’ve ever worked with in my career. Like everyone in the media, we’ve been reporting on the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations since they broke, and the flood of similar stories that have come out about others.
A few weeks ago, we had California Congresswoman Jackie Speier on the show and she told us her story of being sexually assaulted when she was a young Congressional aide. She described how a powerful man in the office where she worked ‘held her face, kissed her and stuck his tongue in her mouth.’
At that moment, I thought to myself, Al Franken did that exact same thing to me.
I had locked up those memories of helplessness and violation for a long time, but they all came rushing back to me and my hands clinched into fists like it was yesterday.
I’m still angry at what Al Franken did to me.
Every time I hear his voice or see his face, I am angry. I am angry that I did his stupid skit for the rest of that tour. I am angry that I didn’t call him out in front of everyone when I had the microphone in my hand every night after that. I wanted to. But I didn’t want to rock the boat. I was there to entertain the troops and make sure they forgot about where they were for a few hours. Someday, I thought to myself, I would tell my story.
That day is now.
Senator Franken, you wrote the script. But there’s nothing funny about sexual assault.
You wrote the scene that would include you kissing me and then relentlessly badgered me into ‘rehearsing’ the kiss with you backstage when we were alone.
You knew exactly what you were doing. You forcibly kissed me without my consent, grabbed my breasts while I was sleeping and had someone take a photo of you doing it, knowing I would see it later, and be ashamed.
While debating whether or not to go public, I even thought to myself, so much worse has happened to so many others, maybe my story isn’t worth telling? But my story is worth telling.
Not just because 2017 is not 2006, or because I am much more secure in my career now than I was then, and not because I’m still angry.
I’m telling my story because there may be others.
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Al Franken white knighted for women so hard he was called a “feminist ally”.
https://www.infowars.com/groper-al-franken-lectured-conservatives-on-respecting-women/
A man who publicly speaks out against sexual harassment or assault is 99% guilty of doing it himself. He’s like the woman accusing her man of sleeping around to hide her own cheating.
You have to be pretty fucking stupid to be a feminist and be over the age of 21. Liberalism is a mental disease, and these dudes definitely have it.
None of these pass the smell test. Franken, Weinstein, Spacey, etc. – they’re all scapegoats and sacrificial lambs in the most esoteric sense and meaning. Already I hear liberals saying Moore needs to drop out because liberals gave up Weinstein and Hollywood pervs so fair is fair. Never mind nothing has happened to them yet and my money is they get shamed and that’s all. And they have no shame. Don’t fall for this false equivalency sophist b.s.
They all have hooks in each other. I remember reading that in order for these celebs to move up in the game they need to do something foul so the big wigs have black mail material on them in order to keep them in line. Can’t wait for actual evidence to start coming out. Pictures, etc. Will be hilarious.
I didn’t care much about Judge Moore before the allegations. But I definitely want him to win now. The populist movement would level-up greatly if one of us survived the “pedo” hitjob.
I was hoping Milo would be the one to deliver that level-up. But instead of fighting, he just went into hiding like a cuck.
Weinstein is not a scapegoat or a sacrificial lamb, although according to one source he does see himself as a martyr for the cause of feminism (lol). Spacey too seems guilty at least of perving on young males. Franken isn’t guilty of much except hypocrisy and manipulation, and shouldn’t really be considered in the same breath as the first two
This story is an example of a beta cuck attempting to claim his reward for his white knighting. And of course it backfired. He checked off the boxes; virtue signaling, was agreeable with this chick, probably did some feminist male bashing then when the time was right (at least he thought), he wiped the drool off his chin and said, “hey, whatta ya thay we rehearthhhh the kithhhhhh” (nervously reacts with hyperventilating laughter, awaiting her permission). She said no but he would not be denied his reward. It backfired. Funny to think at his age he is probably confused why this trick didn’t work the way it did in his sisters closet in eight grade.
C’mon (((Al Franken))), (((Harvey Weinstein))), (((Jeremy Piven))), (((Brett Ratner))) and many more. Can you just keep your degenerate hands to yourself and leave these goy women in peace?
No, they can’t. We goyim are inferior, and our shiksas are free for them to abuse whenever they want to.
Btw have you forgotten about the 6000 trillion Jews the Nazis killed? #neverforget
(((Bill Clinton))) (((HW Bush))) (((Spacey))) (((MLK))) (((Moore))) and many more sure all ((( )))
This hatred will certainly help America.
Lewinsky and Haim and Corey Feldman were Jews used pretty badly by the Gentiles.
There is a lot more Man-Boy love going on with Spacey, Sheen and some Takei (Who definitely is not Jewish).
Yeah…it is all because of the JOOOOOS.
Yeah, come on, goys, it’s only about (((ninety percent))).
Jewish twinks like Haim keep getting sodomized by the Christian males like Sheen and Spacey.
Are we surprised? Not me.
What’ more shocking, is that the people of Minnesota elected this literal clown to congress in teh first place, and continuing to elect him back into office. Speaks volumes on Minnesota and her people more than these allegations say about Franken.
I guess in their liberal way they now have an egregious enough social crime (if not literal crime) by Franken to remove him or vote him out of office.
Not to mention the state is being overrun by Muslim and Somali hordes. The Mall of America looks more like “The Mall of Mecca.”
Targeted resettlement by the Clintons, in the 90s, to what was the whitest place in the United States. Genocide.
That picture is priceless.
Word of advice to young men. Stay far away from women until this rape hysteria dies down. It just isn’t worth it. You don’t want it to be 15 years into your professional career when you get a connection request from a girl you might have dated a few times in college thinking “oh this is innocent” then the next day getting a message “reminding” you that a night of otherwise consensual sex is now a rape allegation. Just stay far away. And, yeah, I don’t care if you have game and if it is solid game. That shit might shield you from the fake rape allegation for months if not years after a night a consensual sex. But, it fades after awhile. Think of solid game as a vaccine not a cure. It will confer immunity for a period of time, but isn’t going to actual cure the disease.
Word of advice to goy women of all colors. Stay away from shifty soy boy Jews.
The best defense is to just avoid Jewish men altogether. Leave rats to rats.
Sage advice given by our fathers and grandfathers. However SBJ’s have adopted and employed the female tactic of blame and shame, labeling you as anti-Semitic if you embrace the sentiment and pass it on to your children.
…Except Hollywood’s Gentile elite are “chicken hawks” like Spacey, Sheen and now Takei where as Swinestein and the other Jews are just trying to nerdishly paw the Christian women and getting brushed off.
It is the Jews like Feldman and Haim that end up being “twinks”.
Charlie Sheen is a Jew . His mom was yid as per Israeli law he will be considered as Jew
Franken’s ‘sin” is that he is acting Alpha but doesnt appear as one so he will be rejected. If James Dean the jew porno stary with the biggest female fan club walked up to her and started pulling her hair shd blow him on the spot.
Now even Ron Jeremy is being accused of sexual assault.
You can’t make this shit up.
Yeh Michael Dell and Larry Ellison are “soy boys”
Meanwhile James Dean had the biggest women fan club all the women want him to F them…and choke and slap them too.
Yeh, them k!kes are real soy boys…
You’re right, but it’s disgusting that it’s come to this. I hate Al Franken, but this whole thing is kindergarten bullshit. Feminism was a huge mistake. Women have no place in colleges, the workplace, or parties where there are men.
I honestly hate Al Franken, but to me this feels like one big “set-up”. Back in the 90s and 00s, no one gave a damn about this sort of stuff because everything was like one big sex party, but then right after 2012, everything just shifted practically overnight. That pic of Franken looks like part of an act or a skit and it’s probably consensual like that Ben Affleck thing with that Canadian reporter Anne-Marie Losique from over a decade ago; it’s just that when Affleck came under fire with the whole Weinstein scandal, Losique acknowledged the whole affair as being consensual. Yeah, I agree with you about men being careful about women, but as time has shown, this whole drama has come after a crazy shift and mob mentality can convince most anyone to do anything – what’s not to say this sort of panic won’t repeat itself after decades of decadence to a future generation. As a self-identifying feminist, I no longer feel any sort of connection to the word considering how petty women have become, and my fear is with MGTOW becoming the new feminism, a future generation of men may one day subject women to a witch hunt like the one men face today. I just wanted equality of treatment and mutual respect between the sexes in the hot and sexy future we were once destined for, but I fear that a bunch of disgusting women and men are going to end this with finger-pointing, back-stabbing, and sex-negativity. I just want people to be friends and have a lot of awesome sex with each other.
While there exists incriminating evidence against women as well (i.e. Joy Behar groping Robin Williams’ crotch), and men should in fact point this out in an attempt to diffuse this nasty situation and bring back some semblance of normality, my fear is this will just wedge the sexes apart and make the Christian Conservatives who I hate with a passion go “Ha-Ha, told you so!!!” since they seem to be winning hearts and minds like never before in spite of all the evidence that seems to contradict The Bible as a literal text. Stuff like this just makes me wonder whether RadFems and Christians Conservatives were in cahoots to try and end this whole sex culture of the past few decades before one would try to throw the other under the bus in a bid for political supremacy. Conservative and White Nationalist have really taken advantage of every crisis as have their Leftist SJW rivals, whether that be #gamergate, Obama’s incompetence the migrant crisis, etc., and while as a centrist I can sympathize with the grievances of every group, I truly fear the extremism of Identity Politics and political polarization will tear this nation apart.
And yes, there is plenty of “incriminating” evidence out there of both men and women, especially those of the Millennial generation, considering the college party, Instagram, and selfie cultures, but why should it be only men that get railroaded while women get a pass??? That Franken picture looks like your standard run-of-the-mill college prank that people would’ve thought of as “cool” back in the day, and it was probably consensual. This should give any man an idea of just how vile and opportunistic a woman can be in the right social circumstances. I don’t want innocent men to suffer and just want things to go back, but I fear there is just too much damage that has been done to “trust” and “culture” that I feel it’s irreversible. I believe women will be kicking themselves in the heads when they realize how boring of a world they have created for themselves, and if the men go MGTOW, it will pretty much be over for them because they’re going to be on there own for the first time in history.
http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Comic+Relief+2006+6HQB-PgmfxRl.jpg
Advice to men — make all the “F*ck You” money you can, buy a sailboat, innawoods cabin, or a secret underground bunker and USE THEM as soon as things go south!!! The media will just portray you as another predator just like Weinstein regardless whether or not you’re innocent. Sex is awesome and natural, not an “addiction” or a “sin”, and don’t ever feel shame about if you’ve never truly violated anyone. Also, no woman, or anyone for that matter, should tell you your fetishes or sex practices are perverse unless they are harmful or truly disgusting and evil; even if they are degenerate that’s more of a personal or self-improvement matter as opposed to a criminal one.
Feminist
We’re going to hear next about a bunch of Hollywood’s Queens of Yesterday making unpleasant power-advances on young males who were wannabe actors. My money is on Glenn Close, who played the role to convincingly in Fatal Attraction.
A bunch of middle-aged guys that were hot wannabe actors in 1986 will come out and claim that such-and-such a female star touched their butt.
It has been all male up to this point but soon a few women will be exposed.
Truth
https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-65859-post-1684692.html#pid1684692
Oh yeah, I forgot that one time Madonna groped a female fan onstage at one of her concerts something like a year before she threatened to bl*w up the Wh*te H*use during the Women’s March; nothing was done about either incident by the media or the police — PATHETIC!!!
The fan was underage too.
Keep writing good posts like these. I know you get a lot of shit from some guys here but I appreciate any commentator that helps push the dialogue forwards (even if you’re a self-confessed feminist).
Chaps, I think it’s high time we stopped alienating women who get it. Thanks to bat-shit crazy feminists like Ashley Judd screaming about being a “baaaad girl” or whatever the fuck she garbled, a tonne of women are waking up to the toxicity of the modern day feminist narrative. We should be pushing them in the right direction if for nothing else, but the sanity of our children. Sure, our generation’s mostly lost but that doesn’t mean the next one has to be.
A bunch of yesterday’s male models and wannabe actors from the 1980’s are going to step forward and start dishing the dirt on yesterdays big female Hollywood players.
“She touched my butt in 1986.”
We’ll hear about that next, I’m sure.
My money is on Glenn Close. She was just TOO CONVINCING in the 1980’s films.
thats why this is an interesting time, esp for ROK readers. this is cannabalism at its finest: pitting feminazism (i.e. man hatred) vs. leftist karma (i.e. these men deserve it). thats what im so interested in. which camp are ROKers in?
i tend to be in the former camp. even tho the “perps” are leftists themselves, i feel bad b/c its essentially a crusade against ALL MEN, re: of whether they’re left vs. right.
Projection. Anything they come down on as being omg so terrible.
They’re doing it themselves.
Also hypocrisy. tons of that too. democrats can’t exist without it.
Is he part of the republican war on women?
Everytime a politician goes down I shriek and clap my hands with joy. Still, lets not lose sight of where this going. For every ass-hat Senator, there are 10 smucks working and trying to feed their kids who are going to swept out of their jobs and professionals by a “looked at her funny” allegation.
The skirmish is over boorish beta behavior; the war is against everything male.
The communist death cult known as liberalism won’t rest until normal relations between men and women are nearly impossible.
Accusations against true believer comrades on the left will be innocent until proven guilty, not so much for those on the right.
Al Franken will be sacrificed so they can say see we aren’t hypocrites.
Al’s pussygrabbers are tired now and the writing is on the wall with that gropey picture up on Drudge for hours.
>hypocrites
Why not call out Joy Behar for what she had done to Robin Williams??? I posted a pic of it on another one of my messages in this thread.
>liberalism
No, it’s leftism sweety – don’t conflate the two unless you want to live in some sort of a fascist state.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOoM2ICXkAAvEud.jpg:large
Yeah though cultural marxism is now inextricably tied to liberalism; it implanted itself like a cuckoo.
I consider myself a liberal; I can only identify with Trump, he is the first truly liberal president I have ever seen.
Terrorists, NAMBLA, Hollywood pedos = Leftist voting block
One word: MGTOW.
That isn’t a word. It is an acronym.
Weimerica is a real place.
Its not America, and its a problem.
That’s grabbing and groping her breasts??? My goodness, I cannot take the cuckery from both women and men. I thought these women are all so strong and independent!?
Women are weaklings and should be banished from places where men are trying to work and study.
He’s not even touching her, he’s hover-handing over her tits like the beta he is. This is like saying any type of photo bomb is an assault.
Much as he deserves it, NOTHING will happen to Frankenstein over this.
So a porno model (that is what she is guys) is complaining about what exactly? To quote the great Camille Paglia: “If you want to advertise, be ready to sell.”
She was fine posing nude for Playboy, having makeup and “wardrobe” guys touch up her breasts, but this gag shot is groping?? She’s wearing a Kevlar vest and he’s not even touching anything. She’s just another opportunistic whore looking for another 5 minutes of fame.
…Except Hollywood’s Gentile elite are “chicken hawks” like Spacey, Sheen and now Takei where as Swinestein and the other Jews are just trying to nerdishly paw the Christian women and getting brushed off.
It is the Jews like Feldman and Haim that end up being “twinks”.
Keep saying that, that will make it true.
The media has, but they are run by “the tribe”.
As soon as it came out that Weinstein tried to force himself on some Gentiles the “tribe” had to come up with Spacey and Sheen in order to look like they were not the only guilty ones, right?
so that means my ex wives will #metoo me because I divorced them and they got virtually nothing from me and my 2nd ex will show proof of nonconsensual sex by attaching pics of the kids…..right?
this is where we are going. this is why feminism and cultural marxism has to be destroyed.
How did you manage to get out of the divorces and keep your money??
i wish people could see the logical progression of where this is all going. you would wish that such nonsensical bullshit would get the full ridiculous treatment it deserves, but by catering to women and fags dredging up this shit years later for political purposes no matter if it happened or not, flung the doors wide open for the destruction of the USA, by allowing targeting of powerful people but unlroven and un supportable and unprovable “he said she said” prosecution in the court of public opinion. it is a complete mockery of any justice system and has deligitimized the established justice system entirely and the laws behind it. if they didnt come forward when it happened, IT DIDNT HAPPEN. END OF STORY. No recent events where recent acts have happened NEED to properly investigated and prosecuted, 30 and 40 year old allegations should be ignored if they do not press appropriate criminal charges and investigations leading to convictions or exonerations and are nothing more than vicious smear public campaigns. the insane stupidity must end. put up the proof or shut the fuck up, but that is not how femnism works…its all innuendo and smear in order to allow women unearned power through beta men and white knight fuckers.
i wish people could see the logical progression of where this is all going. you would wish that such nonsensical bullshit would get the full ridiculous treatment it deserves, but by catering to women and fags dredging up this shit years later for political purposes no matter if it happened or not, flung the doors wide open for the destruction of the USA, by allowing targeting of powerful people but unlroven and un supportable and unprovable “he said she said” prosecution in the court of public opinion. it is a complete mockery of any justice system and has deligitimized the established justice system entirely and the laws behind it. if they didnt come forward when it happened, IT DIDNT HAPPEN. END OF STORY. No recent events where recent acts have happened NEED to properly investigated and prosecuted, 30 and 40 year old allegations should be ignored if they do not press appropriate criminal charges and investigations leading to convictions or exonerations and are nothing more than vicious smear public campaigns. the insane stupidity must end. put up the proof or shut the fuck up, but that is not how femnism works…its all innuendo and smear in order to allow women unearned power through beta men and white knight virtue signalling fuckers.
Franken is an idiot. The story describes a betas sloppy attempt to get a piece. Women lie most of the time but this chicks story is believable. But I have a question: how does someone get their tongue inside your mouth when you don’t want it there? I can say with one hundred percent confidence that if I don’t want someone’s tongue in my mouth, it won’t even make contact with my lips, let alone inside my mouth.
… and look around. The left is saying the claims are fake and he is innocent, even tho he admitted to it…
Apparently, the usual “Always believe an accuser” does not apply when a lefty allegedly assaults someone. How odd.
The main point of this new Feminist kike mindfuck, this whole #metoo “sexual harrassment” BS, is to aggravate the already existing approach anxiety of todays young (and not so young) males.
What worries me is that, instead of declaring “fuck this Feminist kike shit”, there actually are lots of guys who say they indeed will go along with the program and refrain from approaching women altogether. Sad!
Yeah because a Play Boy model has never been oogled, kissed, gropped.
Personally I think Franken is a turd, but I heard this woman talking about the incident and pleazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzze. My god what would this woman do or how would she live if she actually had to experience something truly horrific. I’m not saying what dickhead did was right. I’m just saying its been blown out of proportion.
Not talking about this instance, but why is it assumed that if a woman makes an allegation she’s telling the truth and the man did it?
not to condone his behavior, but this Horrible act, as that pussy on Fox calls it, appears to be what used to be called a Frat prank. I keep asking people is Franken really touching her, and all I hear, is that the picture is an example of how horrible men can be. Also, if he had squeezed her, would she not have awakened? May be maybe not, but this part of the incident, has been blown way out of proportion to the deed.
Al Franken Is A Big Fat Groper
Jews just seem to think they can do what they want