Posted on 06/26/2019 9:24:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
On June 21, New York Magazine published a shocking cover story, an excerpt from the new book by author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll titled "What Do We Need Men For?" Carroll described suffering sexual assault in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. The alleged assailant is named Donald Trump. When did this occur? She vaguely guesses it "has to be in the fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996" because of what they were wearing.
In her telling, Carroll and Trump playfully talked about lingerie until he talked her into trying something on, and they walked back to a dressing room. She claims that he then pushed her into a wall, unzipped his pants and inserted his penis into her, all while still wearing his overcoat. "The whole episode lasts no more than three minutes," she says. And she dramatically concludes, "I have never had sex with anybody ever again."
That sounds horrible. We should all agree we want to have a president who is not a rapist. The liberals and the Trump haters turned the page back to when Juanita Broaddrick accused Bill Clinton 20 years ago, insisting that conservatives made her a cause celebre.
Yes, that's true. But there's at least one important difference: the speed of the journalism.
Carroll's allegation, made after roughly 24 years of silence, comes with no photos or videotapes. There is no date for the encounter. No one could say whether Trump was in New York on whatever day that was. She says that at the time, she told two unnamed girlfriends in TV news about being assaulted. It would be nice if someone among them could find an actual date of this alleged attack. Carroll also alleges she was assaulted by former CBS boss Les Moonves after she interviewed him in 1997. Moonves also denied her allegations.
New York Magazine released the story on Friday, June 21, shortly after noon. It was launched on "NBC Nightly News" ... after about six hours. Who needs time for vetting the evidence?
But when NBC News reporter Lisa Myers interviewed Broaddrick back in 1999, NBC sat on the story for more than a month, insisting it was undercooked, not ready for broadcast. The timing was transparently political. It aired on Feb. 25 on "Dateline NBC," 13 days after the Senate acquitted Clinton in its impeachment trial. Clinton critics had printed buttons reading "FREE LISA MYERS" in the interim
Even when it finally aired, Tom Brokaw's "NBC Nightly News" remarkably refused to air its own Broaddrick scoop.
Myers thoroughly investigated the allegation and had placed both Broaddrick and Clinton at the alleged location on that day -- April 25, 1978, at the Camelot Hotel. Three female friends said Broaddrick had told them of this assault, and that she had a black and swollen lip. Liberals energetically attempted to ignore or knock Broaddrick's story in 1999. They disparaged her again as being part of a "Soviet show trial" of Bill and Hillary Clinton when she appeared with Trump before the second presidential debate in 2016. Then, in 2017, when the Clintons were no longer useful, the left suddenly discovered that Broaddrick's story was credible.
The Broaddrick-dismissing media outlets are now flagellating themselves for not playing this unproven Carroll story even bigger. This is why most Americans think the "news" media are partisan hacks who define what is "news" and what is not "news" based on how it can advance (or inhibit) the left's crusade to fundamentally transform America.
She is clearly loony tunes. The whole story is laughable.
What this proves is the way the media drools over anything to hate Trump.
The media is stupid to run this story and obviously soil themselves in front of their own choir.
Even Trump haters are going to wonder when the media is going to pay off with something of substance.
Lock her up.
Rush to judgment?
For the media, judgment is the first stop — “Orange Man Bad” — after that, you go looking for someone who is willing to make a claim. Any claim. Any claim at all.
Comcast, Disney, and ATT helped to propel this lie.
Don’t patronize these malicious operations.
Probably the only Clinton protest I ever attended was one I read about here on FR. Took a bus across the GW Bridge and made it down to Rockefeller Center as quickly as I could to protest not airing the Brodderick interview.
Stayed a while and had to make my way back. Luckily my lunchtime was a little flexible since I stayed late most nights anyway.
Wanna bet the NY DA office is looking at indicting President Trump for this?
Brent’s off base here. The media pretty much ignored the story.
The NYT ran it in their book section - not exactly screaming headlines.
True
I watched one of her interviews and, yeah, she seems to have gone ‘round the bend.
Someone tell mittens. He’s felony reckless driving with it.
That woman has “issues”.
Her interview with Anderson Cooper, where she spoke of rape fantasies, can only create doubt about anything she says.
Did she take her Rape claim from an episode of Law and Order?
NPR had the story on Tuesday maybe Monday. Did not get to hear the whole thing but they were not treating it as a hoax.
She is clearly a lying nutcase. She thinks most everyone believes rape is sexy! Watch very short clip here (37 sec). Gotta see this to believe it.
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/weird-moment-cnn-trump-accuser-says-most-people-think-rape-being-sexy
Look, I cannot STAND ... say... Jim Comey. But even him, if some dame told a story like this about him, I'd be like... "Hon, that doesn't sound like rape. That sounds like a quickie that you changed your mind in the middle of."
I was once told by a “sex therapist” (not sure that was a real medical profession) that a large number of women fantasize about powerful men and having sex. At the time, it seemed to just be an excuse for BSDM. Now, I am not so sure.
LOL! She's such a loose cannonball, by this time next week no one will ever have heard of her.
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