Posted on 04/29/2020 9:45:34 AM PDT by billorites
WHO WILL BE FIRST TO ASK JOE BIDEN THE TARA READE QUESTION? It's more than a little amazing that it hasn't happened yet. There is growing corroboration behind Reade's accusation that then-Sen. Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, when Reade worked in Biden's office. We now have accounts that by the mid-1990s, Reade told her brother, her mother, a friend, a next-door neighbor, and another friend about the incident. We also have the tape of the 1993 Larry King program in which a woman, whom Reade says was her mother, called to talk about her daughter's issues with a well-known senator. In light of all that, it might seem reasonable that at least one reporter -- just one -- would take the opportunity of a Biden interview to ask about Tara Reade. Recommended For You Net neutrality repeal is helping technology companies manage coronavirus boom
Yes, his campaign has denied it -- "This absolutely did not happen," a Biden spokeswoman said -- but there's been no direct questioning of Biden himself. The former vice president has given a few interviews recently, and none of the journalists doing the questioning brought up Reade. Most recently, an interview with the CBS station in Miami skipped over the topic entirely. That can't last forever, can it?
ONE UNDENIABLE FACT: When Democrats chose to challenge the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination the way they did in 2018, they set a new standard for sexual assault allegations. Christine Blasey Ford's charge, more than 35 years old when she leveled it against Kavanaugh, had no contemporaneous corroboration, and no other evidence to support it. The crazier stuff -- like Julie Swetnick and Michael Avenatti's "gang rape" accusation -- appeared to be made up out of thin air. And yet Democrats in responsible positions took them seriously, forced the Senate Judiciary Committee and the FBI to investigate, and adopted a mantra of "believe all women."
One of those Democrats was...Joe Biden. "For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally," Biden said in 2018, "you've got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she's talking about is real..." Now, the most obvious question in the world is: Does that apply to Tara Reade, too? If someone asks it.
THE TRUMP-BIDEN POLL GAP: Biden is a little more than six points ahead of Trump in the RealClearPolitics average of head-to-head polls. It's been that way for a while. Interesting thing is, in recent weeks the two seem to be tracking each other, though a few points apart. Trump goes up, Biden goes up. Trump goes down, Biden goes down.
DeSANTIS FIGHTS BACK: Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis took a lot of criticism, in the national media and especially in the political Twitterverse, for waiting until the first of April to issue a stay-at-home order in the coronavirus crisis. How tough was the criticism? Just google "DeSantis" and "blood on his hands." But now it appears Florida's experience, while serious, has been less severe than DeSantis' critics predicted. And on Tuesday, DeSantis was at the White House, where he had a chance to defend himself.
"What have the results been?" DeSantis responded when asked about Florida's "late" start. "You're looking at some of the most draconian orders issued in some of the states -- and compare Florida in terms of our hospitalizations per 100,000, in terms of our fatalities per 100,000. You go from D.C., Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, you name it -- Florida has done better. I'm not criticizing those states, but everyone in the media was saying Florida would be like New York or Italy, and that has not happened."
No one in MSM is going ask Creepy Uncle Joe about Tara Reade while he is still the Democrat candidate for President.
Trump in the first debate?
Reade did not even have to undergo hypnosis with a psychotherapist to recall the incident!
It will be asked when they come up with a good way to spin this unless they decide Joe can’t win.
Yup. And he’ll ask about Hunter too.
Joe can’t possibly defend himself if asked because of his diminished capabilities. If he gets drawn into more than a two sentence, canned remark about it, he’s done.
I say let them give Joe a pass and have him deal with the questions when millions of dollars worth of ads start showing up on tv before the election.
Right now Joe is busy tying his shoes. He’ll get back to you soon.
“Well... look here. It’s been pointed out to me that I may get too close to people, but that’s the kind of guy I am. In retrospect, I should have respected their personal space more, and, yes, I get that. I get it. But come on, man, I never touched that woman the way she described! She was wearing pantyhose anyway, man, and, try as I did - I couldn’t get in there!
“And even if I did - so what? Trump said a guy like me COULD grab ‘em but the p#ssy... and I did one better - I actually DID grab ‘em by the p#ssy! Look, fat, you dog-faced pony soldier - you want to do pushups?!”
Maybe we can ask Donna Brazile to give StickyFingers Joe a heads up that the question will be asked at the debate! Even if Trump has to ask it himself?
If anyone from the mainstream media does ask Biden, it will be go like this:
Reporter: “Mr. Vice President, are you disturbed by the false allegations the far-right instigators are throwing at you?”
Biden: What is an instigator? Is that like an inspector? *
Reporter: Ah, no. An instigator is a bad, nasty conservative. *
Biden: I see. Yes, I am very disturbed by all their lies.
* These two lines will be edited out before broadcast.
He will call them a wild eyed jelly swilling house mechanic and the news will be all about that.
If anyone does, it will be pre-arranged.
It would be so easy to show Joe using a keyboard.
In newsroom reserve: the meme that she is a nut and/or a slut. It’s worked before.
Joe’s wife
Biden could stand behind a podium for an hour, say nothing, and slobber all over his suit during the first presidential debate and the MSM will declare him the winner.
Normally someone in his position would say that they don’t remember the details of their encounter with the accuser. I don’t think Joe can do that. It’ll reinforce the belief that his memories are faulty and give ammunition to those who accuse him of being senile.
I hope Justice Kavanaugh just DRILLS leftists with his SC votes and opinions
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