Posted on 05/03/2020 10:39:43 AM PDT by KingofZion
Joe Biden, discussing sexual assault claims in early 2018, told PBS flatly, “Women should be believed.” On Friday, facing his own accusations, he stressed on MSNBC the importance of “taking the woman’s claims seriously when she steps forward — and then vet it, look into it.”
That shift in Biden’s tone reflects the way a former staffer’s claim that he assaulted her 27 years ago is raising new questions for the #MeToo movement. Democrats and women’s activists, eager to unseat a president they consider deeply misogynistic, are facing tough decisions over whether to stick by Biden or distance themselves — and whether to redefine what emerged as a stark rallying cry after centuries of injustice: “Believe women.”
Among those publicly wrestling with such issues is Alyssa Milano, an actress, #MeToo activist and Biden supporter. “How do progressive women choose between the p---y grabber in chief who has done so much damage to our country and a man who has allegations made against him?” Milano wrote in Deadline, which covers Hollywood and entertainment.
She added, “Believing women was never about ‘Believe all women no matter what they say,’ it was about changing the culture of NOT believing women by default.”
Some longtime women’s rights activists warn that downplaying former staffer Tara Reade’s claims could undermine the movement’s credibility by suggesting it only targets men whose policies it dislikes.
“I think that this could potentially signal the end of MeToo,” said Michele Dauber, a Stanford University law professor who heads the Enough is Enough Voter Project and has called for an investigation. “The failure to investigate, and the failure to live by our principles, will become silencing.”
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Is there anyone who didn’t know the “me too” crowd was a bunch of craven hypocrites after giving Hillary a pass for standing by her raping man?
They are a joke.
There is now way for the media to reconcile their treatment and coverage of the Kavanaugh fiasco with their kid glove treatment and lack of inquisitiveness for Joe Biden.
As you say, it is blatant hypocrisy.
They were warned about their “new standard”, but they do not care. Abortion is the holy grail of the liberal left and they showed that they will stoop to any level in defense of it.
They have behaved the same on a whole host of issues. They are the enemy of the truth.
P.S. - most of us on the conservative side are at least consistent.
Biden lacks self discipline and has a very short fuse. Just look at all the times when confronted with a question he doesn’t like he is quick to accuse the one asking the question of being stupid or a lesbian horse faced pony solider.
Therefore I say start up tee shirts, lawn signs, rally chants at his rallys. ....”Pedo Joe. ..He’s Got To Go “ then continue with Burisma and his dead beat son. I would go after the dead beat son hard. Then play up the “fingers Joe” angle. Biden will crack. ...if he doesn’t stroke out first,
The Biden son is legal in America.
The death blow to the biden campaign if he is ever nominated will come from the President of Ukraine. He has all the real evidence of corruption that actually happened outside the USA and beyond the reach of our legal system. That is until he brings it all here.
Rudy brought it all home and it is being used to prepare cases but until it is presented by the President of Ukraine, ti will have little real effect
The democrats know this and will support Biden to protect Obama
Yes! D..E..M..O..C..R..A..T..S.
The MSM presenting Milano as the scapegoat.
Women should be believed” always when the allegators are targeting those deemed to be obnoxious to the Left.
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