Arianna Huffington: Al Franken no more groped me than I strangled him

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Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington said that a New York Post report about a photo shoot in which Al Franken touched her breasts and buttocks “trivializes sexual harassment.” 

Huffington tweeted a photo of herself pretending to throttle Franken during the same “scandalous” 2000 photo shoot. “I hope the statute of limitations has expired!” she quipped. 

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“The NYPost story about Al Franken groping me in a comedy sketch photo trivializes sexual harassment because he was no more ‘groping’ me than I was ‘strangling’ him in the photo I just tweeted,” she said in a follow-up post. 

The NYPost story about Al Franken groping me in a comedy sketch photo trivializes sexual harassment because he was no more “groping” me than I was “strangling” him in the photo I just tweeted

— Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) November 22, 2017

The Post article cited an unnamed source who said Franken was “groping” Huffington in the photos. The source also told the Post that she asked Franken to stop and pushed his hand away. 

Huffington told the paper that the photos were for “comedic effect” and that they referenced a sketch called Strange Bedfellows Huffington used to perform with Franken, a former comedian, on Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect.

“I think I’m a better judge of how I felt in that satirical photo shoot with Al Franken than the recollections of an anonymous bystander,” Huffington said in a tweet earlier Tuesday. “I thought the point of this moment was to believe women’s accounts of their own experiences.” 

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