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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
All this AND an attempt by Jonathan Alter to defend Toobin by comparing him to . . . Al Franken.
In a situation in which nobody is talking about Al Franken OR Harvey Weinstein, to pipe up to say "I have trouble with the conflation of offenses. I don’t put Al Franken in the same category as Harvey Weinstein" is a hell of a thing.
(Also, analogizing Toobin to Franken isn't a rhetorical move that does either of them any favors.)
Yep. Given what's been described in the NYT, and given what's been circulating through the grapevine for a long time, I have no doubt that this is true.

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