How will the media handle Bidens sexual assualt allegation? NYT tweet lets us know...just amazing

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Franklin Pierce said:
New York Times says Biden camp's talking points 'inaccurately' describe their Tara Reade reporting

The New York Times rebuked the Biden campaign on Wednesday, telling Fox News that the reported talking points that have been circulated to prominent Democrats "inaccurately" describe the paper's reporting on the candidate's accuser Tara Reade.

"Buzzfeed reported on the existence of talking points being circulated by the Biden campaign that inaccurately suggest a New York Times investigation found that Tara Reade’s allegation 'did not happen.' Our investigation made no conclusion either way," a spokesperson for the Times said in a statement. "As Buzzfeed correctly reported, our story found three former Senate aides whom Reade said she complained to contemporaneously, all of whom either did not remember the incident or said that it did not happen."

The spokesperson continued, "The story also included former interns who remembered Reade suddenly changing roles and no longer overseeing them, which took place during the same time period that Reade said she was abruptly reassigned. The Times also spoke to a friend who said Reade told her the details of the allegation at the time; another friend and Reade’s brother say she told them of a traumatic sexual incident involving Biden."

On Tuesday, BuzzFeed News reported that despite strong denials the campaign has issued to various media outlets, aides for former Vice President Joe Biden are taking Reade "seriously enough behind the scenes to coordinate messaging among other Democrats to try to cast the matter as one that’s been thoroughly vetted and determined to be unfounded."

The "talking points" reportedly read, “Biden believes that all women have the right to be heard and to have their claims thoroughly reviewed In this case, a thorough review by the New York Times has led to the truth: this incident did not happen.”

According to the copies BuzzFeed News obtained from two individual Democratic operatives, the talking points continue, “Here’s the bottom line. Vice President Joe Biden has spent over 40 years in public life: 36 years in the Senate; 7 Senate campaigns, 2 previous presidential runs, two vice presidential campaigns, and 8 years in the White House. There has never been a complaint, allegation, hint or rumor of any impropriety or inappropriate conduct like this regarding him — ever.”

Biden himself has yet to be asked about the allegations.

However, two prominent Democrats who are apparently on Biden's shortlist of VP picks have indeed cited the Times' reporting in their defense of the presumptive Democratic nominee: former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.

“I believe women deserve to be heard, and I believe that has happened here. The allegations have been heard and looked into, and for too many women, often, that is not the case. The New York Times conducted a thorough investigation, and nothing in the Times review or any other later reports suggests anything other than what I already know about Joe Biden: That he will make women proud as the next President of the United States," Abrams said in a statement to the Huffington Post earlier on Tuesday.

Klobuchar, too, cited the Times during an April 17 interview on MSNBC.

"He has said, and I agree with this, you’ve got to get to the bottom of every case and all allegations. I think The New York Times — I haven’t read all the stories. I read that one. Your viewers should read that," Klobuchar told MSNBC anchor Ari Melber. "It was very thorough. They interviewed people. And I have done a lot of work on this. I actually led the effort to change the rules in the U.S. Senate so that it is easier to bring these cases forward and so that we have taxpayers not paying for bad conduct.

"I think this case has been investigated. I know the vice president as a major leader on domestic abuse, I worked with him on that. And I think that, again, the viewers should read the article. It was very thorough.”

Neither Abrams nor Klobuchar immediately responded to Fox News' requests for comments. Fox News also reached out to the Biden campaign for comment.

The Times report did not reach a definitive conclusion on the allegations other than to say there was no "pattern" of misconduct. Rather, it reported that aides Reade purportedly complained to either did not recall the allegations or denied them. Yet a friend reportedly confirmed Reade described "details of the allegation at the time," and another friend and Reade's brother said she had described a "traumatic sexual incident involving Mr. Biden," the article said.

Major developments have also arisen since the Times report, which ran on the morning of Easter Sunday nearly three weeks after Reade came forward with her claims, that further corroborate Reade's 1993 claims.

Times executive editor Dean Baquet defended his paper's reporting on the Biden accuser and even suggested that the Biden campaign urged the Times to change some of the language that was written in the report, which sparked a backlash on social media.

"I want to ask about some edits that were made after publication, the deletion of the second half of the sentence... Why did you do that?" Times media columnist Ben Smith asked his boss.

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Tara Reade is lying....the case she filed with police has been closed.
 
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Joe Biden (Still) Hasn’t Faced A Single Question on Sexual Assault Allegations

5 Weeks, 19 Interviews, and 142 Questions with No Mention of Sexual Assault claim

David Rutz and Brent Scher - APRIL 29, 2020 5:00 PM

Joe Biden has now done 19 interviews spanning nearly 4 hours in the 5 weeks since March 24, the day a former staffer in his U.S. Senate office came forward to accuse him of sexual assault. None of the 142 questions asked by his interviewers have been on the allegations.

Biden, from a studio in the basement of his Delaware home, has been interviewed by reporters from major networks including CNN and MSNBC, as well as local stations across the country since Tara Reade's allegation was reported by the Intercept in March. Biden has still not publicly commented on the accusation from Reade, who says the then-senator pinned her against a wall and penetrated her with his fingers in 1993 when she was a staff assistant in his office.

In the past two weeks alone, Biden has sat for at least an additional 97 minutes and 16 seconds of taped interviews, according to a Free Beacon analysis. The sexual assault allegation never came up. MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski asked Biden what he thought about President Donald Trump's daily briefings. CBS comedian James Corden asked him to play "show and tell" with something from his Delaware home. CBS4's Jim DeFede asked if the coronavirus made the case for a $15 minimum wage. KDKA's Jon DeLano asked what he thought of when he thinks of Pittsburgh and whether he'd like Michelle Obama as his running mate.

Though Biden continues to decline interviews on the topic, media interest in the allegation has picked up significantly—though CNN has not asked about Reade during its interviews with Biden, the network now has two stories about her allegation on its website. The uptick in interest comes as new information has emerged that appears to corroborate Reade's allegation. Late last week footage was unearthed of her mother calling into CNN's Larry King Live and alluding to the incident, and Reade's former neighbor told Business Insider that the aide confided in her about Biden's assault in the mid 1990s.

Biden’s campaign has also stepped up its defense against the allegation. The campaign privately circulated talking points to supporters instructing them to use an investigation by the New York Times as evidence that the incident "did not happen." The talking points were met with immediate backlash, with the New York Times telling the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden campaign is "inaccurately" representing its findings and that it was not able to refute Reade’s claim.

Several of the local news segments only posted edited portions of longer interviews. Pittsburgh Action News 4 and Local 4 Detroit, two of Biden's recent interviews, largely edited out the questions asked by Biden’s respective interviewers, but the segments they aired included 10 different answers from the former vice president on topics unrelated to the allegations.

While reporters have avoided the topic with Biden, they have pressed some of his potential running mates. In an interview Tuesday with CNN, Stacey Abrams cited the New York Times investigation published April 12 as proof the assault "did not happen," mirroring the talking points sent by Biden’s campaign. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) told MSNBC on April 16 that Biden was a leader on women’s issues and the Times had done a "very thorough" vetting of Reade's claim.

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) have also remained supportive of Biden when asked about the allegation. Harris said that she believes Reade has the right to tell her story, but went on to praise Biden as an advocate for women.

Joe Biden (Still) Hasn't Faced A Single Question on Sexual Assault Allegations
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This is getting harder for people to deny the longer they go without making him answer the tough questions . If this was a Republican or Trump they wouldn’t have made it past the first interview without being asked and we all know it .
 
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luthervol said:
It's always amusing to see you guys confronted with truth.
Google "media bias".
I now, I know.....you don't need some fancy high-falutin sciency studies telling you what to think.....that's what Fox is for; and they say CNN is the worstest.
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Truth? ********. You wouldn’t know truth if it bit you in the ass. Censorship, and attempts to scrub the internet of anything that attempts to undermine the narrative.

This video report has been scrubbed off YouTube and FB as well as other platforms. Watch it and you tell me why?

 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Ain't gonna lie, probably the ugliest person I've ever seen. But props to her for getting out in front of an sexual harassment or assault before it ever happens to her!..
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Looks like Tiger Woods walked across her face while wearing metal spikes.
 
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Here is the thing about the allegation against Biden. The woman doesn’t remember what mouth day or where the alleged assault took place. She has said she failed a formal complaint with the Senate personnel and ethics office. Yet no one has found one and she didn’t keep a copy of it. The people that she supposedly told about it say that she told the the alleged assault took place in either 1995 or 1996. So which one is it 1993, 1995, or 1996??? And because she can’t remember the date that the alleged assault took place Biden can’t give an alibi. All he can do is deny the assault.
 
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titansvolsfaninga said:
Tara Reade is lying....the case she filed with police has been closed.
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Deny and excuse is the Democrat way when it's one of their own. Sad that you would prioritize politics over actual truth. You probably believed Dr. Ford in the Kavanaugh case, and there was a lot less evidence to support that. But, of course, he was a conservative.
 
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Here is the thing about the allegation against Biden. The woman doesn’t remember what mouth day or where the alleged assault took place. She has said she failed a formal complaint with the Senate personnel and ethics office. Yet no one has found one and she didn’t keep a copy of it. The people that she supposedly told about it say that she told the the alleged assault took place in either 1995 or 1996. So which one is it 1993, 1995, or 1996???
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A year ago, she said what happened wasn’t sexual, and said she left his office because of bullying by his staff, which she said wasn’t his fault but theirs. She lamented that he didn’t know why she left or what was happening to her.

It’s not a good case.
 
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RockyTop85 said:
A year ago, she said what happened wasn’t sexual, and said she left his office because of bullying by his staff, which she said wasn’t his fault but theirs. She lamented that he didn’t know why she left or what was happening to her.

It’s not a good case.
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That may very well be. The problem everybody has is that it's a blatant double standard that nobody is asking Biden to even comment about it when just months ago Democrats were trying to ruin a Supreme Court nominee based on an allegation that was even shakier than this one.
 
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carlos86 said:
Here is the thing about the allegation against Biden. The woman doesn’t remember what mouth day or where the alleged assault took place. She has said she failed a formal complaint with the Senate personnel and ethics office. Yet no one has found one and she didn’t keep a copy of it. The people that she supposedly told about it say that she told the the alleged assault took place in either 1995 or 1996. So which one is it 1993, 1995, or 1996??? And because she can’t remember the date that the alleged assault took place Biden can’t give an alibi. All he can do is deny the assault.
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lmao Biden's records are under seal at the University of Delaware who are refusing to release them. Not sure why you're trying to compare this to Ford/Kavanaugh with your misinformation, but there's a lot more corroborating evidence in this case than there was in that one. Still, I have no idea if he did it or not, but given how the left told everyone they needed to believe Ford, it's very hypocritical that with more evidence they're saying we shouldn't believe Reade. Politics over morality.
 
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GAVol said:
That may very well be. The problem everybody has is that it's a blatant double standard that nobody is asking Biden to even comment statement about it when just months ago Democrats were trying to ruin a Supreme Court nominee based on an allegation that was even shakier than this one.
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Exactly, my problem isnt with the allegation as with once again the MSM showing their true colors. This is a decently credible allegation of sexual assault by a woman on a top Presidential candidate during an election, and not ONE media person will even ASK the question to him?
 
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RockyTop85 said:
A year ago, she said what happened wasn’t sexual, and said she left his office because of bullying by his staff, which she said wasn’t his fault but theirs. She lamented that he didn’t know why she left or what was happening to her.

It’s not a good case.
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Stronger than the Ford/Kavanaugh case.
 
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carlos86 said:
Here is the thing about the allegation against Biden. The woman doesn’t remember what mouth day or where the alleged assault took place. She has said she failed a formal complaint with the Senate personnel and ethics office. Yet no one has found one and she didn’t keep a copy of it. The people that she supposedly told about it say that she told the the alleged assault took place in either 1995 or 1996. So which one is it 1993, 1995, or 1996??? And because she can’t remember the date that the alleged assault took place Biden can’t give an alibi. All he can do is deny the assault.
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Now where have I heard this before?

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The only reason I point this out.....double standard.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Exactly, my problem isnt with the allegation as with once again the MSM showing their true colors. This is a decently credible allegation of sexual assault by a woman on a top Presidential candidate during an election, and not ONE media person will even ASK the question to him?
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It's mindblowing. I think the whole #believethewomen thing is nuts, but how on earth do you just gloss over an allegation when neighbors come forward AND there's CNN archive footage of Reade's Mother talking to Larry King about the incident 25 years ago? There may be absolutely nothing to this, but doesn't somebody need to at least make a campaign surrogate go on record about it?

Hillary has to be absolutely salivating right now.
 
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The problem with cases like this is time has obliterated any realistic chance of conclusively knowing the truth without admission. It's he said/she said. But Reade's case is absolutely stronger than Ford's case was, yet Democrats were insistent on believing Ford. Now they want to poo poo and ignore Reade's accusations because it's politically inconvenient. And no one has the balls to directly confront Biden.
 
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And Carlos was taking liberty with his comparisons. From what I've gathered, Reade's story has been consistent in terms of year and where it happened. Where her story has been inconsistent is in first alleging harassment, then saying assault.
 
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Weezer said:
The problem with cases like this is time has obliterated any realistic chance of conclusively knowing the truth without admission. It's he said/she said. But Reade's case is absolutely stronger than Ford's case was, yet Democrats were insistent on believing Ford. Now they want to poo poo and ignore Reade's accusations because it's politically inconvenient. And no one has the balls to directly confront Biden.
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Other than the obvious benefit of taking the economy away from Trump, Covid-19 has allowed Biden to basically disappear and not take any tough questions or have to be in front of anybody to gaffe his way through a campaign like Biden has done every other time he ran for President. Biden might as well be a cardboard cutout at this point.
 
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Weezer said:
lmao Biden's records are under seal at the University of Delaware who are refusing to release them. Not sure why you're trying to compare this to Ford/Kavanaugh with your misinformation, but there's a lot more corroborating evidence in this case than there was in that one. Still, I have no idea if he did it or not, but given how the left told everyone they needed to believe Ford, it's very hypocritical that with more evidence they're saying we shouldn't believe Reade. Politics over morality.
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Please.......you know the exact same is true of the right.
Where is your whole they are equally guilty mantra? Selective use?
The difference is the public will ultimately decide how it effects Biden.
The public had no such say with Kavanaugh, and he's a lifetime appointment.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Exactly, my problem isnt with the allegation as with once again the MSM showing their true colors. This is a decently credible allegation of sexual assault by a woman on a top Presidential candidate during an election, and not ONE media person will even ASK the question to him?
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Where is all the right wing media? Are they not doing their job?
 
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