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Analysis: Why we trust Donald Trump's accusers but didn't believe Bill Clinton's
WAPO via Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 10/615/2016 | Caitlin Flanagan

Posted on 10/16/2016 3:08:43 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

--SNIP-- When Clinton was confronting serious accusations of abuse, the country had a different attitude toward women who came forward with unverified (and often, unverifiable) accounts of sexual assault. Clinton's inner circle was able to dismiss the women - on the basis of their backgrounds and sexual history - as crazies or trailer trash ; as the accusations piled up, advisor James Carville coined the repugnant and resonant phrase "bimbo eruption." (Clinton employed the "nuts and sluts defense," as Patricia Ireland, then president of the National Organization for Women, eventually called the tactic.) What's more, these stories appeared within a larger and widely held belief system that women would readily lie about sexual assault for purposes of financial gain, romantic revenge or mere attention.

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This is one of those articles when you don't know whether to laugh or cry. The author's premise is that Monica's boyfriend skated because the country had a different attitude about "accusations of abuse" way back in the bad old 90s.

Since Flanagan works for the Washington Post she might have some insight why the 20 Post reporters investigating Trump did not find anything. I guess it takes a Wiki leaks dump to wake up reporters. /S

1 posted on 10/16/2016 3:08:44 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

It’s easy, because you want to on one and don’t want to on the other.


2 posted on 10/16/2016 3:13:18 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Kid Shelleen

Because Bill’s a Democrat and Don’s a Republican?


3 posted on 10/16/2016 3:13:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
At long last - far too late and just in time - something has changed.

"Just in time" for what? For an organized smear campaign designed to harm a candidate to work before it is debunked? The author appears not to recognize that she is admitting to gross hypocrisy and still absolving Hillary Clinton for her public and embarrassing role in smearing Bill' accusers. Apparently "our" standards for that one still haven't changed.

4 posted on 10/16/2016 3:15:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Kid Shelleen

I think it’s because the democrats don’t care about family values. But they are perfectly willing to use it against Republicans knowing that Republicans do care.


5 posted on 10/16/2016 3:16:45 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Kid Shelleen

What a crock.


6 posted on 10/16/2016 3:19:12 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: DannyTN

... noting that Trump was a Democrat when the alleged incidents occurred.


7 posted on 10/16/2016 3:20:48 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Maybe I live in another world. But are there people who read and believe this crap?


8 posted on 10/16/2016 3:21:15 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Just like Joyless Behar once said, she would vote for a rapist as long as he was a liberal Democrat


9 posted on 10/16/2016 3:25:09 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

It is just as Orwell said in 1984. A good party member is able to believe two contradictory things at the same time, and knows instinctively which one to believe at the right time for the good of the party.

Doublethink.


10 posted on 10/16/2016 3:25:49 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: DannyTN

It is called family values are fine for the libs but not for everyone else. The problem though is that generations of broken families have contributed to a great deal of the unemployment, poverty, and crime, which bites a lot of us in the rear while many of the elites live with their armed guards.


11 posted on 10/16/2016 3:33:26 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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The reporter acknowledged that factor, but then went on to say such charges are more believable because times have changes. BasicallY the author uses a sliding scale of morality to ultimately say Trump is likely to be guiltY while acknowledging that Bill got a pass.
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12 posted on 10/16/2016 3:39:39 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Kid Shelleen

What the author seems to ignore was that it was non other Than Billy Goat Clinton as President that signed the Sexual harassment policies in the federal government and forced ALL employees to go thru training.

Which was a couple of years before he played hide the cigar in the intern.


13 posted on 10/16/2016 3:45:17 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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It all comes down to the old saying "when robbing Peter to pay Paul,one can always count on Paul's cooperation."

And *anything* untoward that the one robbing Peter might have done will be forgiven by "Paul".

14 posted on 10/16/2016 3:45:40 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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The Leftists media controls the airwaves and so controls the minds of millions and millions of Americans. 24/7 coverage of Trump as a bad guy is very effective due to this monopoly.


15 posted on 10/16/2016 3:57:47 PM PDT by Crucial
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Libs had 20 YEARS to support BJ Clinton’s sexual abuse victims. Did they? No. They partied hard with the dirt bag.


16 posted on 10/16/2016 4:00:56 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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None of us trust them. Nwo shills.


17 posted on 10/16/2016 4:00:56 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%9)
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To: Tallguy

The reporter acknowledged that factor, but then went on to say such charges are more believable because times have changes. Basically the author uses a sliding scale of morality to ultimately say Trump is likely to be guilty [for pawing women] while acknowledging that Bill got a pass [for violent rape].

Even if you assume both are guilty there is no equivalence.


18 posted on 10/16/2016 4:03:04 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Use of an illicit or uncomfortable sex scenario is a tried and true progressive left tactic to attack their enemies. Remember how the NY Slimes went full page on John McCain and his affair in 2008’s election? Remember Anita Hill versus Clarence Thomas in the Supreme Court confirmation?

What is striking is how the MSM has gone nuclear over a private conversation and called it a sexual assault! Yet, they give Bubba, who has PAID OFF accusers a pass because, like another ‘great’, Ted Kennedy, he is a DEMOCRAT! Both of the latter are documented to have actually done far more than just talk, but that does not count - to the MSM and the progressive left, but I repeat myself, they are the same!


19 posted on 10/16/2016 4:19:20 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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Why we trust Donald Trump's accusers but didn't believe Bill Clinton's

'Cause Bill was giving us free stuff and Trump...we ain't too sure. :)

20 posted on 10/16/2016 4:22:18 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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