{"id":65142,"date":"2017-11-20T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65142"},"modified":"2017-11-29T07:30:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:30:36","slug":"franken-doesnt-feel-like-resigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65142","title":{"rendered":"Franken Doesn’t Feel Like Resigning?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Then…don’t make him.<\/p>\n

Franken might be able to shake this off if he could depend on conflicting memories. But he can\u2019t. Because of that photo. The sex-abuse scandal is becoming, to cultural history, what Watergate was to political history. It is gigantic. It is era-defining. And among the dozens of famous people implicated in it, the Franken photo is the most damning and irrefutable evidence yet to emerge. It\u2019s a tableau of our time. It is the photo of our moment. It\u2019s the kind of smoking gun you couldn\u2019t use in a Law & Order episode because it would be too blatant. It will never disappear from the national consciousness. Powered by Consider the breathtaking way each detail reinforces the horror of the others: A Hollywood celebrity who will soon be a Democratic senator is molesting a woman. While she\u2019s asleep. And in military gear, because she\u2019s traveling to support our troops. In a war zone. And Franken is smiling. While shamelessly posing for the photographer. How can we ever cease to be amazed and appalled by this photo? It is to the sex war what the picture of the summary execution of that Viet Cong prisoner was to the Vietnam War.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And for the future?<\/p>\n

Democrats who just this week were saying they would no longer tolerate Bill Clinton\u2013type behavior can prove it.<\/p>\n

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We\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>getting plenty of Clinton-era\u00a0<\/em>behavior<\/a>.\u00a0 But that’s not the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Then…don’t make him. Franken might be able to shake this off if he could depend on conflicting memories. But he can\u2019t. Because of that photo. The sex-abuse scandal is becoming, to cultural history, what Watergate was to political history. It is gigantic. It is era-defining. And among the dozens of famous people implicated in it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sexual-cultural-revolution","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65143,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65142\/revisions\/65143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}