Buttigieg Wouldn't Have Pressured Franken to Resign w/o More Info

On MSNBC the crawler stated, "Buttigieg wouldn't have pressured Al Franken to resign without more information."

Buttigieg said he wouldn't have pressured Al Franken to resign without more information?!

Eight women came forward to credibly accuse former Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) of unwanted sexual touching and I'm sure there were more.

First, doubt is a slam on Buttigieg's fellow presidential candidate, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who is credited (and blamed by misogynists) with helping to force Franken to resign from the Senate when he unrealistically tried to ride out the storm.

So I'm crossing Mayor Pete, so zealously promoted by male media anchors ahead of more qualified female candidates (Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are higher in the polls than he is), off my list. Yes, gay men can be misogynists. You would think that bigotry would make allies of us all on the discrimination list, but alas, no.

I went to hear Pete Buttigieg in Iowa City when he spoke here. He said all of the right things, but I wasn't inspired like I was when I heard Sen. Elizabeth Warren speak. She has a passion for reforming government and breaking up monopolies that I didn't hear in Buttigieg's voice.

Come to think of it, he said, "I couldn't get far enough away from Indiana, but I realized I was from somewhere and I wanted to go back."

You're back, baby. And how. Vice president Mike Pence wouldn't embrace you, but he'd approve of your doubting eight women's testimony of sexual assault.

Don't get me wrong. I bought Al Franken's books, laughed my head off throughout, and sent him money for his campaign before the allegations of multiple women revealed his appalling behavior. Years earlier I'd worried about his rape jokes prior to my embrace of his liberal comedy, particularly his detailed rape joke about ABC anchor Diane Sawyer. That joke seemed particularly hostile (rape is about power, not sex). I should have paid attention to my first instincts.