Melanie Morgan: Al Franken Stalked Me and Harassed Me

RUSH EXCERPT:
MORGAN: "I’m not surprised at all, Laura. First of all, I would just like to say that I’m here with you tonight without a lawyer wearing a red coat with a box of Kleenex and a bucket of tears. I’m here because a true story that I want to share with you. It is a story of harassment and intimidation that took place 17 years ago in 2000. August 19th of 2,000 is when I was invited to appear on the Bill Maher show politically incorrect before it moved over to HBO ABC. I was one of the panelists one of the guests. I was the token conservative and Al Franken was the liberal along with former lieutenant governor of Colorado and actor Billie Baldwin. I was involved in just kind of a — really a mundane argument over policy numbers about, you know, the budget numbers and making some sort of point about that. But, I will tell you what, Al Franken got right in my face and he just kept coming back over the top and I would challenge him about those numbers, and he would come back over the top. Finally the show was over and, Laura, he trailed me, stalked me back, really, to the green room where he got in my face again. Got very aggressively with me. I felt physically intimidated. And then he followed me out of the studio. I thought the story would end there. But it did not. Apparently he got my phone number from one of the show producers and he started calling me at home and harassing me, trying to prove to me how right he was finally on the third phone call I told him if he didn’t back off that I was going to call the police and make a police report about his behavior. I found it so creepy and so disturbing and obsessively weird."