Mediaite Contributing Editor Larry O’Connor recently penned an opinion piece on Mediaite.com. An excerpt of his latest article, FLASHBACK: Al Franken Said Anthony Weiner’s Resignation Was ‘Right Thing To Do’, is below:

In 2011 Sen. Al Franken said Anthony Weiner‘s resignation was ‘the right thing to do.”

Franken made the remark in an interview with Think Progress when he was asked about an apparent double-standard in how Weiner had been forced to step down from his House seat while Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana was not, despite his involvement in the “DC Madam” scandal.

Franken acknowledged the “hypocrisy” in how the two elected officials were treated, but declared that Weiner was right to have stepped down

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