Posted on 05/01/2020 6:26:05 AM PDT by USA Conservative
In 2014, The Atlantic wrote a piece by Conor Friedersdorf entitled, “In Defense of Naked Joe Biden.”
Friedersdorf objected to what appeared to be leaks from the U.S. Secret Service about Biden’s behavior when he’s out of the public eye. Author Ronald Kessler wrote in his book, The First Family Detail, that “Agents say that, whether at the vice president’s residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude. Female Secret Service agents find the behavior offensive.”
It’s not okay that Harvey Weinstein did it. It’s not okay that Charlie Rose did it. But when we learned in 2014 that then-Vice President Joe Biden exposed his naked body to women in the Secret Service, the media didn’t care. And the media still don’t care because Orange Man Bad.
In his New York Times best-seller, The First Family Detail, award-winning investigative reporter Ronald Kessler revealed that “Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude. Female Secret Service agents find that offensive.”
Friedersdorf argued that what the vice president chose to do in his own pool on his own time was no one’s business but his own and he asked why skinny dipping in one’s own pool would qualify as a scandal. Then again, there are some in the political journalism realm who would insist that “the Pence Rule” is a real scandal.
Today Biden denied allegations of sexual assault leveled against him by former Senate staffer Tara Reade, personally addressing the claims for the first time more than a month after she went public with the accusations.
“They aren’t true. This never happened,” Biden said in a written statement put out by his campaign.
But as always the mainstream media covers for creepy Joe. For a long time, Democrats benefited from a media mentality that almost always interpreted their traits through the most positive lens. Rahm Emanuel’s stabbing a table with a steak knife or sending a dead fish to some pollster wasn’t seen as a sign of psychological instability or rage issues; that behavior demonstrated he was a passionate, fiery competitor with a relentless drive. Bill Clinton was a passionate extrovert who wanted to connect with people, not a shameless womanizer. Al Gore was a brilliant, detail-oriented technocrat, not a mildly dysfunctional robot failing to fool people that he’s a human being.
This media perspective that almost all Democratic candidates’ traits can only be positive strengths, and almost never glaring weaknesses, makes a lot of Democrats fairly oblivious to the flaws of their candidates Please share this article wherever you can. It is the only way we can work around their censorship and ensure people receive news about issues that Democrats and the mainstream media suppress.
One of my favorite stories about LBJ is how he used to take a dump in the bathroom off the Oval Office, with the door open in full view of the person he was having a discussion with.
Hahahahaha...”Outhouse Johnson”
That said, no matter how you cut it, it isn’t just a “It’s his house” thing. He is on the clock 24x7 for the time he serves, as the assigned Secret Service can attest.
Anyone who would do that, walking around naked in front of anyone other than their spouse, especially someone present in a professional role, and doubly especially when it is someone of the opposite sex...well, they have a screw loose.
As Biden obviously does...
This was a news story many years ago if my ancient brain remembers correctly.
We need pictures.
Ah, like a frightened turtle.
Maybe these female secret service agents should be interviewed by the Senate? Maybe this summer on primetime tv?
Speak for yourself.
Can’t blame a guy for swimming commando.
Sorry, but this is a nothing burger in my book...
It wasn’t all that long ago all men swam naked... if the females were uncomfortable they should have asked for reassignment.
If he was harassing them, that’s one thing, but if he just like to skinny dip, and they were offended by nudity, that’s not his problem. or issue.
well, alcohol and sunshine help keep him safe from the COVID, so he’s drunk and naked outside now.
LOL ... it is interesting to see how many are willing to overlook slojoe’s mentaldeviancies ... yes, congenital lying is a mental deviancy, as well as what motivates a man to expose himself to the opposite sex. Joe Biden is mentally diseased and very senile.
I swear, the posts on this site have gone completely absurd.
#29 It wasn’t all that long ago all men swam naked...
Wha? I suggest both of you keep your clothes on!
Sorry, but get to know your history.
This is a non issue, unless he was directly harassing them, if the dude liked to skinny dip, who cares?
If they were uncomfortable by it they could have asked for re-assignment.
How hard is it to wear a bathing suit?
LBJ had a history of indecent and vulgar behaviour. He liked to show off his "manhood" to people who challenged him.
Sorry, but the SS job is to protect, it is not the protectee’s responsibility to live his life how the Secret Service Agent would prefer them to.
If they were uncomfortable they should have asked for re-assignment...
Unless he was harassing them in some way, the fact he liked to skinny dip, is a non issue.
Biden’s got tons of legitimate problems, and issues, but this ain’t one of them.
I know my history quite well. “Skinny dipping” was always consudered, in my lifetime, a somewhat surreptitious activity. Men didn’t walk up to the pool, around others, and whip down their drawers and hop in. At least not in my upper-middle class milieu. And just like they could have asked for reassignment, which would have likely been a demotion, he could have just worn a swimsuit like a normal person.
swimming nude in front of strangers = perceived pervert
That is a problem when you are VP.
Joe is a pervert, but compared to other things he does, this is small potatoes.
The article implies that the skinny-dipping was in the privacy of his home, maybe in a backyard surrounded by fences, hedges. (And, no, I would never do that. I'm much too shy.)
JFK used to swim in the nude in the White House pool.
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