Posted on 05/03/2020 5:05:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar -- self-styled feminists who bought every flimsy claim made against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh -- have chosen to stand by Joe Biden in the face of a sexual assault allegation made against him by a former staffer.
The MeToo movement, which followed a New York Times' expose on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's abuse and degradation of women in the entertainment industry, was supposed to prove that the feminist movement was a moral entity committed to fair treatment of women, even when big Democratic figures stood accused.
Biden's preferred treatment shows what a sham the accusation industry has become.
When Kavanaugh faced moldy stories of misbehavior going back as far as his high school years, the bedrock American principle of due process and the notion that the burden of proof should fall on an accuser, not the accused, was conspicuously absent.
With Tara Reade's allegations against the presumptive Democratic nominee, the news media are reporting the story with a different set of rules.
When you look at the frenzy to report new bogus claims against Kavanaugh and compare it to the lack of urgency on the Biden front, you get the sense that Big Media stooped to cover the Reade story only in a half-hearted feint to discredit conservative critics who saw liberal bias.
The New York Times delayed more than two weeks to report on Reade's allegations. Executive editor Dean Baquet framed the news value of accusations against Kavanaugh as part of "a running, hot story" of a figure who was "already in a public forum in a large way." Be it noted, that "running, hot story" did not apply to Reade's claims against Biden, who just wants to be president of the United States.
Reade's allegation of Biden sexually assaulting her when she was a Senate aide aired on March 25. On April 30, The Washington Post went out on a limb with an editorial calling on Biden to provide documentation to refute Reade's troubling accusation.
At least Post reporters have tried to ask Biden about Reade's accusations. No reporter, including CNN's Anderson Cooper, asked Biden about Reade during recent TV interviews.
Having failed to ask Biden about the matter earlier, MSBNC's "Morning Joe" had Biden back Friday morning to address the allegations. First "Morning Joe" showed clips of the show's cast calling for due process for Kavanaugh. Then host Mika Brezinski cataloged all the sexual harassment charges made against President Donald Trump with no caveats.
Brezinski alone asked Biden about Reade. Biden denied the charge. Brezinksi did not follow up with questions about reports that corroborate Reade's accusation.
On Wednesday, Reade told the Times' Ben Smith, who has covered this story like a pro, that the only network which had offered her an on-camera interview was Fox News.
Let me make this clear. Unless Biden killed someone in the 1990s, I don't care what he did with a staffer decades ago, as creepy or loathsome as his behavior might have been. Maybe it's true, but the time to talk was when the offense occurred. What matters now is how officials treat members of their staffs today.
Back to the media and the feminists with pitchforks.
Kavanaugh's accusers were able to smear a man with unsubstantiated charges that crumbled under scrutiny -- and still cable news aired and re-aired the smears. Many Democrats still speak as if Kavanaugh were guilty.
Now there's newly released footage of a woman Reade has identified as her mother calling CNN's Larry King to complain about her daughter's mistreatment by a "prominent senator." That is substantiation, not the kind that should hold up in court, but enough to generate a torrent of stories against a conservative.
Does that mean big media should cover the charges against Biden as ruthlessly as they regurgitated the dirt thrown at Kavanaugh? No. The benefit of the doubt Biden has been enjoying is due to every figure who stands accuses of something decades old and is impossible to disprove.
As for Cortez Masto, Gillibrand, Harris, Klobuchar and Warren, all potential Biden running mates, they've shown who they really are. They don't care about what happens to women who may have been ill-used or assaulted -- unless they can use their story against a rival. Then they get really indignant.
The fact that the MSM is avoiding all this shows that the accusations are true.
The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.
Different rules apply to Democrat politicians. What could be a better example of this?
We see this time and time again from the mentally ill left nothing new here. If anyone thinks that Mika has shown some clarity and morals
you are mistaken, she was told to hammer joe and start the process of getting rid of him
Only republican men look at and touch women undoubtedly .... one supposes this means all democrat men prefer to look at and touch something other than women ???
Let me make this clear. Unless Biden killed someone in the 1990s, I don't care what he did with a staffer decades ago, as creepy or loathsome as his behavior might have been. Maybe it's true, but the time to talk was when the offense occurred. What matters now is how officials treat members of their staffs today.
I have to agree with Saunders. Somehow, we need to put a stop to this practice of dredging up decades-old incidents unless murder was involved. What happened to Kavanaugh was despicable. Granted, the case against Biden is more credible than Blasey Ford's claims. Still, if we don't want nominees like Kavanaugh to be subjected to such abuse, we shouldn't press an accusation too much about an incident that happened over twenty years ago.
And her point that the Democrats are hypocrites is well taken.
TOXIC, agenda-driven femininity. What’s hiding behind your mask, lass?
I have said for a long time that the democrats are hypocrites, and by hypocrites I mean those that are in government, like the the Congress in DC or the States Congresses.
Example:
For other examples see Michelle, Hillary, Huma, Pelosi, Feinstein, etc., etc.
Asymmetric war. We’re in it for the rest of our lives, whether we like it or not. There are untold battles to be lost ahead, deplorables.
Asymmetric is the key. Although I think old claims are a little silly, we know the Democrats will ALWAYS dredge up old claims against any and all Republicans. That part of it will never go away. So, it just becomes stupid for Republicans to unilaterally decide that old claims are beneath us and that we won’t play the dirty game, and we won’t pursue old allegations against folks like Joe Biden. Why hamstring ourselves? The charges need to be pursued.
For me, the war stops when everyone officially decides that a police report needs to have been filed within a week of the assault, medical evidence of a sex assault has been obtained, and photographs of the bruises received by the victim as she strenuously attempted to fight off her attacker are on file. If you have all that, then let’s press charges. But, for now, it’s just politics, and everyone can play, and let’s all make baseless charges. Because why not?
We knew #metoo was a fraud. Thanks for clearing that up lefties!
It's all fun and games until virtue signalers become violence signalers
Name the names, bring the evidence, list the grievances. FF were smart radicals
Good clear case, guy. Thanks.
Bet he’s even into arm pit hair.
-PJ
Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar -- self-styled feminists who bought every flimsy claim made against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh -- have chosen to stand by Joe Biden in the face of a sexual assault allegation made against him by a former staffer.
I do hope Trump shows in commercials all the photos and videos of Biden groping and molesting women & little girls that any search turns up on the internet.
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