Al Franken: lynched by bots + unthinking colleagues
Well now... The revelations about bots undermining Franken are both on Newsweek and Raw Story.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/white-nationalists-twitter-bots-fueled-war-al-franken-democrats-fell/
I feel vindicated for helping to sound the alarm last year against what seemed like a Franken lynching. If Gillibrand and the other Democrats want a truly moral Democratic party, they could cite this bot/troll event and hide behind "we didn't know."
Of course they could have also taken Franken's many female colleagues in both congress and Saturday Night Live at their word: the man was a mensch. His acting out a groping on the plane was Vaudevillian bafoonery during a USO tour in which Tweeden slapped the ass and groped a guitar player with her legs – on stage. His crime – and hers –was poor taste. His was also being short and placing his hands on people's waists during many photo ops – instead of shoulders which would have been awkward
Oy vey. Now we know what really drove the Dem leadership into a frenzy: a lack of schooling in 21st century humor, and an army of bots, commanded most likely by the same Russians/Republicans who discouraged black voter turnout and turned uninformed independents against Clinton.
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