Today is one of those days when I’m not entirely sure if Russian propaganda on Twitter is worse than Republican and Democratic propaganda on Twitter.
Al Franken has been accused of groping and kissing a woman in 2006, before he became a senator.
“I couldn’t believe it. He groped me, without my consent, while I was asleep,” Leeann Tweeden says, including this photograph in her accusation. https://t.co/iLphI1wiLU pic.twitter.com/kLKSmLwu36
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 16, 2017
The speed at which Republican operatives adopted the Democratic playbook used against Roy Moore Roy Moore Democratic playbook to use against Al Franken has been staggering.
Roy Moore could learn a lot from how Al Franken apologized. Franken could step down too.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) November 16, 2017
Erick Erickson retweeted this:
Adding the bikini photo is a classy bit of victim-blaming here. pic.twitter.com/ACwdRWFy4w
— Jason (@CounterMoonbat) November 16, 2017
Some liberals are now defending Al Franken in the same way Roy Moore supporters are defending him. It's all the woman's fault. She was asking for it or faked it.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) November 16, 2017
I don’t really have any comment on the accusation, the apology, or the counter-accusations, except there is definitely not a moral equivalence between the Al Franken accusation and the Roy Moore accusation.
It occurs to me that in 20-30 years, every elected official will have a trove of YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. material just waiting to get them thrown out of government.
UPDATE:
I didn’t really need confirmation, but the “news” in the tweet from @Faisal_Hagi above is fake, according to research from Snopes.
