Let’s say this Franken thing was happening in a political vacuum during a lull in the newscycle of Hillary Clinton’s presidency. Let’s say the most opportunistic wealth grab in the history of American income taxes hadn’t just passed through a republican controlled senate… Let’s say there weren’t anything at stake politically: how would I feel about Franken resigning then?
I still wouldn’t like it, but it wouldn’t feel as suicidal as it does right now. Right now, it feels like when Roger Stone pulls a string, Kirsten Gillibrand’s gavel comes down. Right now, I feel like America has lost it’s collective mind.
Franken deserved a hearing. He didn’t get one. Instead, he got trampled by Kirsten Gillibrand calling an audible. I know a lot of smart, feminist women who were on the bubble about Franken, but who ended up falling in line because they didn’t want to look like Kellyanne Conway. And now I have to shut up and hope for the best. I’m going to tow the line like a good male liberal, and agree that we’ve swabbed the decks of sexist hypocrisy in time for 2018.
But when it comes out in the Post that Roger Stone engineered this, and all the pieces were in plain sight, and Leann Tweeden admits that she was actually awake in that pic, and fully playing along with the gag, it won’t be forgotten that “believing the women” came at the cost of examining the evidence.
I mean, it hasn’t been a full week since O’Keefe got busted, and you people are pretending that a foxnews employee with ties to Sean Hannity is an unimpeachable witness? You’re going to take her word over Franken’s just because she’s a woman? I don’t even know what to say...