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Mika Brzezinski: Kellyanne Conway Should Tell Her Own Story Of Sexual Assault
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| 10/05/2018
| Allahpundit
Posted on 10/05/2018 7:41:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When I saw Mediaite’s original headline for this clip earlier today, I thought Brzezinski was suggesting that Conway might have lied about being sexually assaulted in order to lend a little moral authority to the White House’s criticisms of Christine Blasey Ford.
But that’s not what she’s saying. Nor is she saying, as some critics have implied, that she thinks Conway should somehow be “forced” to describe the details of her sexual assault.
What she’s saying is that Conway shouldn’t complain about how delicately Ford’s been treated if she’s unwilling to put herself in Ford’s shoes by describing the details of her own assault to a skeptical world. But … that’s goofy. Why shouldn’t Conway or any other woman feel free to question the merits of someone else’s allegation without feeling pressure to disclose their own trauma? Millions of Republican women, I’d guess, have been sexually assaulted at some point and are nonetheless furious at what’s been thrown at Kavanaugh. Some doubtless agree with Conway that Ford’s been treated not just respectfully but delicately by the Republican establishment, up to and including Trump until he finally decided to start mouth-tweeting about her at his rally a few nights ago. After the hearing last week he went so far as to say that her testimony was “very compelling” and that she seemed like a “fine woman,” an almost unprecedented show of graciousness towards someone positioned to do him real political damage. Even his riff about her at the rally boiled down to the same criticism everyone else has: She has gaps in her memory so large that you’re led to wonder how much you can trust her recollection about the identity of her attacker.
Offhand I can’t think of one prominent Republican who’s accused her of outright lying, despite the high political stakes involved her, or who’s thrown at her the sort of casual smears that a woman in an earlier age would have had to endure. In fact, which Republican said this the day after the Post’s original story about Ford appeared in print, while Senate Republicans were still mulling how to handle Ford’s accusation?
This woman should not be insulted and she should not be ignored, [X] said during an appearance on Fox News Monday morning. I think the Senate is headed to a reasonable approach in that it seems to be allowing this woman to be heard in sworn testimony, allowing Judge Kavanaugh to be heard in sworn testimony.…
This woman will be heard, [X] said…
That was, of course, White House aide Kellyanne Conway, setting expectations right out of the chute that Ford deserved the opportunity to tell her story and shouldn’t be attacked for doing so.
If you can spare the time, watch the second clip below with Conway’s “Faberge egg” remarks in full context. If Brzezinski wants to be mad at people for mistreating Ford, why isn’t she mad at Ford’s sleazy lawyers for apparently not making clear to their client that Grassley had offered her the option of testifying privately to spare her the ordeal of a public hearing? Why isn’t she mad at whichever Democratic scumbag leaked the letter Ford had sent to Feinstein, sparking a media wildfire that ultimately flushed Ford out into public view? The left didn’t treat Ford like a Faberge egg. They treated her like a football, more so than Conway or Republicans did. Yet guess which side Mika’s mad at. I wonder why.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blaseyford; kellyanneconway; mikabrzezinski; sexualassault
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To: SeekAndFind
Doesn’t feminism claim to protect Conway’s right to decide?
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posted on
10/05/2018 7:43:47 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: reasonisfaith
Is progressivism stupid, or what?
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posted on
10/05/2018 7:44:27 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: reasonisfaith
Feminisim only protects liberal women.
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posted on
10/05/2018 7:48:16 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: SeekAndFind
Howard Beale: [laughing to himself] But, man, you’re never going to get any truth from us. We’ll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We’ll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker’s house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don’t worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he’s going to win. We’ll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in *illusions*, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We’re all you know. You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here. You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even *think* like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God’s name, you people are the real thing! *WE* are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I’m speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF...
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posted on
10/05/2018 7:48:56 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Steely Tom
Feminism destroys liberal women.
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posted on
10/05/2018 7:49:37 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
10/05/2018 7:50:04 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: Steely Tom
Their lives are overrun with envy, resentment and regret.
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posted on
10/05/2018 7:51:15 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: SeekAndFind
If Mika is living with Joe Scarborough, she can tell her own tale of sexual assault.
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posted on
10/05/2018 7:51:18 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Steely Tom
There’s a reason we never hear anyone stand up and declare how fulfilling it is to live a life of promiscuity.
No men do this. No women do this.
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posted on
10/05/2018 7:53:10 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: reasonisfaith
Theres a reason we never hear anyone stand up and declare how fulfilling it is to live a life of promiscuity. Just like you never hear anyone say "I wish I had had a couple more drinks last night."
Then, they transfer their feelings of failure and emptiness onto their friends, or society, or America, or Western Culture. It's less unpleasant than putting the blame where it really belongs.
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posted on
10/05/2018 7:56:40 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: SeekAndFind
Some woman called Rush’s show yesterday telling the complete story of her own sex assault. It was psycho the way she was cold about it and it was impediment to the subject.I am sure the screener was not aware she was going to do that. She was cold. Then she brought God into it.
I am sure these things happen. As a trauma professional, I know very well they happen
I don’t want to hear about this all day long. I don’t want the public exposed to all of this. Some people will perpetrate these crimes no matter what. We had a president- Clinton- who took advantage of a very young person while supposedly on government business in a government office.
When the media is outraged by that I’ll consider that they care But they do not
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posted on
10/05/2018 8:01:05 AM PDT
by
stanne
To: SeekAndFind
What shes saying is that Conway shouldnt complain about how delicately Fords been treated if shes unwilling to put herself in Fords shoes by describing the details of her own assault to a skeptical world. Only MSNBC progs would consider this a valid comparison. If/when Conway sees her attacker on TV and drops a dime to her congressman, then she can face the kind of questioning that Ford did.
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posted on
10/05/2018 8:02:36 AM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: SeekAndFind
I’m sure Lori Klausutis wishes she could tell her story.
To: SeekAndFind
What shes saying is that Conway shouldnt complain about how delicately Fords been treated if shes unwilling to put herself in Fords shoes by describing the details of her own assault to a skeptical world. Horse crap! What has been historically proven, repeatedly, by democrats and the liberal media is that liberal women will always be believed and treated with kid gloves while Conservative women are immediately called liars and treated vilely!!
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posted on
10/05/2018 8:09:02 AM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: SeekAndFind
Read a rumor on another website that the reason she hasn't tied the knot with Joe yet is that she wants a bigger cut of the
Morning Joe show and Joe isn't having it.
I report, you decide.
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posted on
10/05/2018 8:10:54 AM PDT
by
CaptainK
("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
To: SeekAndFind; Steely Tom
I turn on Morning Joe periodically, just to see them wallowing in their misery. Has anyone noticed they all have been wearing dark colors, as if they are in mourning? Mika in all-black two Fridays in a row and Joe Scarborough in dark gray or dark blue with gray or black ties. Their guests are dressed that way, too. I don’t think that’s an accident. Turn over to Fox and they are wearing bright, happy colors.
To: SeekAndFind
Preferably in a Senate Elevator, right Mika?
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posted on
10/05/2018 8:14:23 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
To: SeekAndFind
Color me tainted, but somehow...
Ford (in an upstairs bedroom, with two teenage guys, when she’s 15, and one of the boys gets on top of her, covers her mouth when she starts to yell etc and they stop for whatever reason) is not equal to having someone penetrate you, copulate, etc. against your will.
To: SeekAndFind
None of your businessm Mika, you big bully!
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