Posted on 04/30/2020 5:16:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Five weeks and 19 interviews later, presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has not been asked directly about the substantiated sexual assault accusations from Tara Reade.
Joe Biden might not be guilty. But the corporate media is.
Here’s what we know. We know Tara Reade alleges that in 1993 her boss, Sen. Joe Biden, sexually assaulted her, and we know that five people have thus far corroborated her claim she told them about this at the time. We know that, and we know that Vice President Biden denies committing sexual assault, and further, denies his office even received a complaint.
Next, we know that Reade has demanded Biden open his sealed Senate records, which should contain a report if one was filed, and that Biden has thus far refused.
Finally, we know that the corporate media ignored and manipulated this story for weeks and that some still remain silent on it. Just Wednesday morning, one popular Washington newsletter got to the subject after 14 more important stories, choosing to characterize it as “The Story That’s Not Going Away.”
It’s a difficult spot for corporate media to be in. For months, liberal guests, anchors, and reporters at CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and elsewhere propped up Biden’s candidacy against Sen. Bernie Sanders. With a baggage train that stretches to Beijing, and well into a public cognitive decline, he was not the ideal Democratic candidate.
He didn’t embody youth, he wasn’t black, and he’s wasn’t a woman for three, but he also wasn’t gay, broke, or deeply unlikable. Finally, he wasn’t a communist. Or to sum it all up, he seemed the safest bet.
Or was he? Shortly after Sanders was defeated and all declared well, it began to unravel, first with strange interview after strange interview, and then boom: With a five-times corroborated sexual assault allegation. Tough to ignore, right? You’d think so. But maybe not.
The Washington Post interviewed Reade shortly after she made her first, less serious allegation of uncomfortable touching in an essay in April 2019, but didn’t publish the interview. In March 2020, Reade went public with accusations of sexual assault, but still nothing from the Post. The Post did eventually publish — after The New York Times ran a story on the accusations, which was almost three weeks after she went public. The Times editor in chief then admitted the paper quietly edited its story under pressure from the Biden campaign.
A Washington Free Beacon review of all 10 interviews with the vice president in the three weeks after the accusation found nary a question on the charge. On April 16, 24 days after the allegation, a CBS reporter asked Sanders what he thought, but even then couched the question, asking about Sanders ally Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying “she thinks its legitimate and relevant to talk about sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden.”
“Do you agree?”
Biden had yet to face one direct question.
It was still another day before CNN reported on the story at all, couching their coverage as “Democrats [grappling] with questions” about the accusation.
On Sunday, not a single morning show mentioned the news. On Monday, The Washington Post’s story was titled, “Trump allies highlight new claims regarding allegations against Biden.” By Tuesday, five weeks into the story, a Media Research Center analysis found, 24-hour news network CNN had spent shy of 15 minutes on the story, PBS had spent seven minutes, MSNBC had spent less than five minutes, CBS had spent one minute, and NBC and ABC, zero seconds.
Five weeks and 19 interviews later, Biden has not been asked.
The coverage stands in stark, vivid, bloody contrast with the corporate media’s crucifixion of Justice Brett Kavanaugh — a man accused by two woman, one of whom could not prove she’d ever met the judge, and the other, whose accusations were not corroborated by a single source.
In the 12 days after Kavanaugh’s first accuser was revealed, ABC, CBS, and NBC spent nearly six hours on the story, and CNN and MSNBC declared him guilty. The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway chronicled the differences in coverage exhaustively here.
There’s a lesson in this contrast. The corporate news media doesn’t care about women, nor truth. They care about ruling and will sacrifice any offering that gets them closer to it. Victims of sexual assault both real and imagined, they’re just bodies on the altar — unless the accused is in a protected class. Eat your hearts out, Aztecs.
It’s not just Biden and Kavanaugh. It’s the reason anchors, reporters, and executives at nearly every corporate channel, newspaper, and even NPR have been accused of sexual harassment, assault, or rape over the past five years, but only Roger Ailes is the subject of a miniseries and a feature film.
Sexual assault is serious business. It shames victims, destroys families, and ruin lives. Unfortunately, for too many in politics and the corporate media, sexual assault is serious business as usual.
Joe Biden might not be guilty. But the corporate media damn well is.
depravity=democrat.
“...we know that Vice President Biden denies committing sexual assault,...”
Wrong, Biden himself has said absolutely nothing. His campaign has issued a rather weak kneed denial.
The dems always pretend that they are interested in the well-being of women, but all they do is use them as cannon fodder in whatever the media/dem complex is pushing at any one time. They also have a long history of dangling women as bait to attract men into their perverted and twisted “causes”. They are in fact the primary exploiter of women, unfortunately way too many women have fallen for their lies.
REpublicans need to stay out of this fray, and allow Joe Biden to seal the nomination. Then after they have nominated their candidate, THEN unless the news, the tidbits, the soundbytes and crank it for all it’s worth.
No Joey Fingers IS guilty. End of story.
BS Title. Should be,
“Joe Biden is guilty and so is the Media for covering it up!”
Yeah...pretty sure he is guilty.
He's also a doddering, senile pervert with pedophilic tendencies...and an abject failure and just about the worst damned candidate the DNC could put forth.
But I'm all for him!
And I'm hoping he taps that walking can of Crisco fat ass, she of the greasy blue dress, Stacy Abrams, currently the governor of Georgia, to be his running mate.
Which, of course, will fly very well in nearly ALL of the southern states and a few of the northern ones.
What a friggin' joke!
Fortunately, Stacy A. is not the governor of Georgia. She is the failed Dem candidate for that position. After she gets down to her fighting weight she’ll only obese instead of morbidly obese.
Oh, yes she is!
Just ax her!
She won by over 50,000 votes!
She be's the rightful and lawful Gubnor of the State of Georgia.
Ax her...she'll tell you!
(The dumb fat ass cow has yet to concede.)
(Not that it matters, nor does anyone but her give a rat's ass.)
“REpublicans need to stay out of this fray, and allow Joe Biden to seal the nomination.”
Exactly! GoJoe! Please don’t throw us in that briar patch! Joe will tear Trump up in the debates.
JB might not be guilty but. . .
July 25, 2018 The New York Times opinion piece
“Why Does Congress Make Taxpayers Pay Hush Money”
H.R.4494 - Congressional Accountability and Hush Fund Elimination Act - This bill amends the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA) to (1) prohibit the use of public funds for payments of awards and settlements resulting from violation of certain CAA rights and protections if the violation consists of sexual harassment or sexual assault, (2) prohibit an imposition of a nondisclosure agreement as a prerequisite for CAA procedures to consider the violation, and (3) permit an individual to publicize any information relating to such a prior award or settlement if it was conditioned on a nondisclosure agreement - Introduced in the House and referred to the House Committee on House Administration on 11/30/2017
Exactly! GoJoe! Please don’t throw us in that briar patch! Joe will tear Trump up in the debates.“Republicans need to stay out of this fray, and allow Joe Biden to seal the nomination.”
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake” - Napoleon
Biden is most certainly guilty of molesting children!! There are scores of photos of him doing so!
BACKSTORY Scott Green, a 'national security lobbyist formerly served a staffer for Sen Joe Biden.
Green made a deal with a Biden brother paying $150,000 for land tax assessed at only $38,000.
“In effect, James Biden got his money back while keeping most of the land—recouping his investment in just 12 months.
Ex-staffer Green was the front man ---- seemingly losing money to enrich James Biden.
But VP Joe Biden repaid his ex-staffer Green bigtime for doing the Biden family a financial favor.
Green’s ties to Biden merited him a financial windfall (on the backs of taxpayers).
<><> members of Green's (cough) lobbying firm, the Lafayette Group, were frequent visitors at the Obama-Biden White House.
<><> On April 11, 2010, the ex-staffer's Lafayette Group was awarded two taxpayer-funded FEMA contracts worth a total of $5.8 million.
Where'd those millions go? Anybody know?
<><>How many other Biden staffers got federal monies?
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