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What makes Cory Booker's groping incident different than the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh
CNN ^
| September 21, 2018
| Chris Cillizza
Posted on 09/21/2018 11:43:44 AM PDT by detective
As Washington continues to play a game of wait and see on whether Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, will testify in Washington next week, an old-but-new-again incident involving a prominent Democratic senator -- and potential 2020 challenger to Trump -- has reemerged.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker wrote in the early 1990s -- while a student at Stanford -- about an incident on New Year's Eve 1984 (when he was 15) in which he groped a female friend's breast after the two of them had kissed.
"With the 'Top Gun' slogan ringing in my head, I slowly reached for her breast," Booker wrote of that night. "After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my 'mark.'" The point of Booker's column was how that moment, and his work on the issue after, had changed him -- and his views on women, consent and assault -- forever. "It was a wake-up call," Booker wrote in his Stanford column. "I will never be the same."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
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The hypocrisy of the media is on display.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:43:44 AM PDT
by
detective
To: detective
“D”. Yes, it is that simple.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:44:52 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: detective
Uhhhh….Booker’s is true and the accusations against Kavanaugh have been as disproven as possible. “as possible” because you can’t prove something didn’t occur if you don’t know when, or where, or who was involved.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:46:20 AM PDT
by
grania
To: All
One happened and one didn’t.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:46:32 AM PDT
by
newnhdad
(Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
To: rktman
Groping while black. Simpler yet.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:47:11 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: detective
The main difference is that Booker’s a Democrat.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:49:58 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: detective
When it comes to Democrats..the left ALWAYS makes excuses for them..ALWAYS
To: newnhdad
Neither one happened. Booker never touched a woman in his life.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:51:29 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: detective
He admitted it. Kavanaugh is
accused of it.
(I'm from New Jersey and I have doubts that Booker has touched very many female breasts, at least in the last 48 years (he's 49), but he claims that he did, unlike Kavanaugh.)
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:52:17 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
(Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
To: detective
Predictably bone-headed (Can I still say that?!) editorial.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:53:09 AM PDT
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
To: newnhdad
The falsely accused man in the incident that didn’t happen has impeccable character and integrity.
The man who DID grope is a vile, perverted, scoundrel Democrat.
To: rktman
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:53:25 AM PDT
by
GoodBadUgly
(Action is the soul of progress)
To: pepsi_junkie
Well he was drssed like a woman. Actually, they both were.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:53:50 AM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: newnhdad
One happened and one didn’t.
Repeat
To: pepsi_junkie
Exactly. And now a second attempt at second base is rape? We can’t have this leftist crap in our lives. Booker is rumored to be a pervert. I don’t know but with McGreevy the rumors proved true.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:55:10 AM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
To: rockrr
‘The media don’t choose a side’ - Chris Cillizza.
To: detective
Booker's silly college newspaper column was easily exposed as a fraud.
He claims that the "groping incident" took place on New Year's Eve 1984 while the music from "Top Gun" was playing in his mind ... but "Top Gun" wasn't released until May of 1986.
His Stanford newspaper column was nothing more than a pathetic attempt to establish heterosexual creds for himself.
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:58:28 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will)
To: detective
Leftists will say that Booker didn't wait to be accused before admitting it.
-PJ
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posted on
09/21/2018 11:59:19 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: detective
Booker showed interest in a female? I don’t think either incident happened.
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posted on
09/21/2018 12:05:05 PM PDT
by
cdcdawg
To: pepsi_junkie
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09/21/2018 12:05:30 PM PDT
by
cdcdawg
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