Politico assists Mayor Bob Filner with (image) rehabilitation effort

Brett T. | 6:27 PM on August 01, 2013

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has said he’ll enter a two-week program of intensive behavioral counseling to deal with his apparent inability to, in his words, “fully respect women.” That course of sexual harassment rehab is expected to begin Monday, but Politico is giving Filner some early assistance in rehabilitating his image. Politico has posted an online quiz on Filner’s life and career, which it has teased with a reference to Filner’s role in the Civil Rights Movement in 1961.

Think you know @BobFilnerMayor? QUIZ yourself: How long did he spend in jail for a 1961 civil rights Freedom Ride? http://t.co/wVsYhDHHsv

— POLITICO (@politico) July 29, 2013

And we thought we were supposed to stop talking about Benghazi because that happened “a long time ago.”

This actually happened https://t.co/lgdPiUERea Lean Forward, @politico

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) August 1, 2013

My god…trying to rehabilitate the sexual assaulter? Really!? MT @LastBrainLeft: This is an actual @politico tweet: https://t.co/z7oEx10WUG

— Lady L. North (@LadyLNorth) August 1, 2013

.@politico Let me help with the Quiz! "Did Bob Filner's dad, the card-carrying Communist, teach him not to grope women in 1950 or 1951?"

— Lady L. North (@LadyLNorth) August 1, 2013

@politico It's difficult to remember when @BobFilnerMayor has his hand on my ass.

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) August 1, 2013

@AceofSpadesHQ I helped an old lady across the street in 1982, so let's drop that whole securities fraud thingie, ok? @politico

— Mike (@ThePantau) August 1, 2013

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