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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy aren't the "progressive" news outlets talking about Franken's military escort & photo metadata?
I read here on DU yesterday some interesting things about the Franken story:
-Franken had a military escort on the trip whose job it was to stay with him every waking moment and report anything inappropriate:
"I even stayed with him in the bathroom...If I saw anything that was inappropriate, it was my job to report it."
Link to tweet
-And as well there are some questions about the timeline of the accuser's story because she says the photo was taken at a certain time and someone found the timestamp/metadata on the photo and it doesn't match what she says
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029857579
I read these articles last night and expected to hear about this on NPR this morning when I had to drive a couple hours.
nothing about it.
so I when I got back home I checked my regular "lefty" news outlets, HuffPost, RawStory, TPM, ....
nothing about it.
WTF? I would think this is newsworthy. You don't have to take sides to report on something factual. You shouldn't be afraid to report something. Isn't that what news and journalism is supposed to be? I mean I could understand CNN keeping distance from this information at first, but shouldn't the lefty outlets be reporting this?
rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)DU?
garybeck
(9,942 posts)if it's true, he knows it's true. and he understands the razors edge he is walking on but he can't just roll over. hopefully behind the scenes he is getting his ducks in order and in the senate "investigation" the facts will come out.
rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)garybeck
(9,942 posts)rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)Drama sells and images of her will keep this going for a while. I won't be surprised if she ends up on Fox News.
garybeck
(9,942 posts)Marengo
(3,477 posts)garybeck
(9,942 posts)Marengo
(3,477 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,475 posts)garybeck
(9,942 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)He posts that a lot.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)The M$M has moved onto today's shiny objects.
former9thward
(32,077 posts)Someone on Twitter claiming to be "Franken's escort officer"? No one is going to be following around someone into the bathroom. It is fake.
garybeck
(9,942 posts)garybeck
(9,942 posts)i was a journalist i would contact this guy and see if there is a story to this.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)If the camera's time wasn't set correctly, the date will be off.
garybeck
(9,942 posts)womanofthehills
(8,761 posts)Why do we not know who the photographer was? is? Was he paid off not to talk.
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)The accuser accepted the apology. If the parties involved in the alleged abuse aren't arguing about it, particularly since Franken isn't arguing about it, what the metadata or the escort has no relevance at all.
The progressive media, and DU as well, should be taking their lead from Franken.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)after all.
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)To the extent there is relevance, it will be if or when there is a commission. Is he publicly asserting he did not do these things, and asking the ethics commission to find him innocent? Hint: self-reporting to ethics bodies are not made by people saying I didn't do it. They are made as an acknowledgement that something happened, and self-reporting is better than being dragged in.
What he is NOT doing is trying this in the press or asking others to do so on his behalf. Follow his lead.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)But he has not explained how he viewed it, denied it happened, or tried to minimize her experience of it.
As I've said before, we need to follow his lead on it.
womanofthehills
(8,761 posts)The accuser accepted the apology because she probably knew damaging photos of her would be coming out.
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)Franken has acknowledged the behavior in the photoshop - if it showed something dramatically different from what occurred, he would have issued a disclaimer as he did to the account of what happenned backstage. Whether or why someone altered it later doesn't really matter if it is an accurate depiction of what happened.
He is not asking us to fight this battle - follow his lead.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)if it had been done before he won?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Yes, Franken has apologized and everyone wants to forgive and forget. However, doing so lets Hannity of the hook a little too easily. So unless there is something else that can be revealed as "sinister" about Franken, why not push the RW agenda behind this story? The only other reason would be to "focus on Dotard's Russia scandal" which is always the fall back excuse, and it's getting to be a rather lame excuse at that.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)I can take a picture taken right now and edit that data using any of hundreds of programs to show it was taken or altered any day I want.
LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)was a gift to service people. Why is that not mentioned?
SandyZ
(186 posts)Franken apologized for the mock grabbing and said differing opinion on the kissing.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)but for whatever reason it appears to be "unseemly" to produce witnesses who seem to be refuting a false allegation against a man. This is the same media that treated Trump accusers as if they must be lying. Anyone heard any updates on the Summer Zervos case in the media without diving deep to find an obscure reporter or blog?