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

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Sarah Silverman Exposes Sen. Gillibrand’s #MeToo Double Standards for Biden, Franken

Actress-comedian Sarah Silverman called out Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) on Wednesday over her apparent #MeToo double standard when it comes to former vice president Joe Biden’s sexual assault accuser and former congressional staffer Tara Reade.

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“But [you] called on ⁦[Al Franken]⁩ to resign w/out the ethics investigation HE asked for??” tweeted Silverman of the senator on Wednesday.

The actress, who attached a CNN piece, entitled, Kirsten Gillibrand on Tara Reade allegation: ‘I support Vice President Biden,’ was referring to former U.S. senator Al Franken (D-MN), who fell under fire in 2017 after journalist Leeann Tweeden accused him of fondling her while asleep and shoving his tongue down her throat without her consent.
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At the time of the accusations, Sen. Gillibrand was part of a cohort of female senators who demanded that Franken resign from the Senate over his inappropriate behavior. Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Patty Murray (D-WA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) had joined Gillibrand in demanding that Franken resign.​
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Now, Gillibrand — and others on the political left — do not appear as interested in the latest sexual assault accusations, which are this time being waged against presidential candidate Joe Biden, who is expected to be the Democrat nominee to face President Donald Trump in November.​

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Even actress Alyssa Milano, who had put herself front and center of the 2018 witch trial against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has remained a supporter of Biden, telling Reade, “I hear and see you,” but stopping short of saying that she believes her.​

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Soon after that, Milano went on to promote a “women’s” town hall campaign event for Biden.​

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It sucks for DIMs when they get eaten by their own rules, but so fun to watch. Suck it scumbags. :)
 
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Biden Refuses to Release Senate Records that Could Shed Light on Sex Assault Claims, But His Operatives Were Sent to Look Through Them

The Biden campaign has called Tara Reade’s claim false but Joe Biden himself has not yet personally responded to the question.

That’s at least in part because the media hasn’t even asked the question of him, despite innumerable interviews with him over the past few months.

Reade alleges that Biden sexually assaulted her in a Senate hallway and had previously sexually harassed her including by inappropriately touching her shoulders. Reade says that she complained to superiors on Biden’s staff about sexual harassment but was rebuffed and nothing was done. After she was allegedly sexually assaulted and spurned Biden, she says she was then removed from her position supervising interns.

Biden staffers, reached out to by various news organizations have denied that there was any complaint. The campaign denied the claims. In March, Katie Bedingfield, Biden’s communications director, said that “women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims. We encourage them to do so, because these accusations are false.”

Reade has demanded he release his Senate records for review from the time. The papers, 1875 boxes full, are being held by the University of Delaware “until two years after he retires from public life.” But the University has refused to reveal the nature of the agreement with Biden and Biden has done nothing to comply with requests to release the papers or clear up the issue, prompting people to question why.


Now there’s more that doesn’t look good for Biden. Turns out not only is he refusing requests to release the papers, but the campaign is clearly curious about what’s in the records and dispatched operatives on at least one occasion to look through the records, according to the Business Insider.
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Andrea Boyle Tippett, a spokeswoman for the University of Delaware, confirmed to Insider that individuals from the campaign have accessed the collection since Biden announced his presidential campaign in the spring of 2019. She added that the University of Delaware’s library closed in mid-March due to the coronavirus, and that no one from the Biden campaign has gone to the library since its closure.​
If he’s innocent and what they claimed was true, why would he have operatives looking through the records? They claimed there were never any complaints so what is there to look for, if their claims are true? This also raises the question if operatives had access to the records if some might have “accidentally disappeared” from the collection.
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[Reade] said that while she didn’t tell anyone at Biden’s office about the alleged assault, she did complain to superiors about harassment and being made to feel uncomfortable. She said she met formally and informally with several Biden aides —including his former chief of staff Ted Kaufman — about her concerns, like allegedly being told she dressed too provocatively and being asked to serve drinks at a fundraiser because Biden liked her legs. She believes notes from those discussions would be in any personnel files the archives might contain.

“Ted Kaufman took notes when I spoke with him,” Reade told Insider. “He’s now denying that we ever had the meeting, and I watched him take notes. Those notes would be in my personnel file, along with sick days or any kind of extra notes that I turn in,” she said, adding that the archives might contain documentation of what she says was an effort to force her to resign after she came forward about the alleged harassment.​
Kaufman, who is helping Biden form his “transition team” (don’t you have to actually win to have one of these mean anything?), said he never met her and denied it.
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“She did not call me, she did not come to me, I would remember her if she had, and I do not remember her,” he said. “Now remember, this is thirty years ago, and she was a very junior staffer from everything that other reporters have told me.”

In March, the Biden campaign released a statement from Marianne Baker, his long-time executive assistant, saying she had never come across any accusations of harassment within the office: “In all my years working for Senator Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period — not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone.”​
This seems highly unlikely, given the multiple women who complain that Biden touched them inappropriately over the years. Several of them came forward last year. But just one more reason we should see the records.

The records cover the period from 1973 to 2009. They were given to the University in 2011 and the agreement at the time said they would be sealed “for two years after he retires from public office.” But then, the day before Biden launched his campaign, it was changed to the later of either December 31, 2019, or when Biden “retires from public life” without defining what that meant. Tippett is now saying “two years” from that point, extending it still further. Michael Crespin, director of the Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma, which houses the archives of more than 60 former members of Congress, says he’s never seen such a revision before.

Business Insider has filed requests with the University for the agreement for holding the collection as well as the sign in sheets for anyone who may have had access to it. The University has turned turn the Washington Post’s requests for the same information.

Reade says she also filed a formal complaint about the sexual harassment with a Senate office. But it’s not clear what happened to that complaint or where the records from such a compliant front that period of time might be. But it too would likely be sealed for 50 years, according to Business Insider.

Biden Refuses to Release Senate Records that Could Shed Light on Sex Assault Claims, But His Operatives Were Sent to Look Through Them
 
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Biden Set to Face Hard-Hitting Questions From Character Witness
Mika Brzezinski

Former VP to address Tara Reade allegations with MSNBC host who defended Al Franken, Mark Halperin, Chris Matthews

Andrew Stiles and David Rutz - APRIL 30, 2020 7:34 PM

Former vice president Joe Biden is finally ready to talk about Tara Reade, the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1993. Five weeks after Reade's allegation was made public, Biden will appear on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Friday and is "expected to be asked" about his former Senate staffer, according to New York Times media columnist Ben Smith.

Biden's campaign, the senior members of which are well-versed in the art of flacking for creeps, could not be happier with the outcome. After sitting for 20 interviews without being asked a single question about Reade's allegation, Biden will get to discuss the issue with MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski, who has been one of the most reliable defenders of prominent men accused of sexual misconduct.

After her former MSNBC colleague Mark Halperin was fired amid allegations of sexual misconduct, Brzezinski suggested that Halperin's accusers were engaged in "hypocrisies" by refusing to meet with Halperin so he could apologize. "They don't want to talk to him," she said. "If we just want to strike people down for political motivation or for anger, we're not going to get anywhere." She was forced to apologize.

Brzezinski and her cohost husband Joe Scarborough were among the few people who attempted to help revive Halperin's career. According to a Daily Beast report published in May 2019, the couple sought to produce an online show with Halperin on the 2018 midterm elections. The plan did not go over well with NBC execs, who were not consulted about the proposed collaboration and had recently dismissed Halperin as an on-air political analyst.

Brzezinski, who has been described by President Donald J. Trump as "dumb as a rock," also lamented the 2018 resignation of Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.), dismissing his accuser—who provided photographic evidence of Franken pretending to grope her as she slept—as a "Playboy model who goes on Hannity, who voted for Trump," and who was primarily motivated by politics.

"In this #MeToo environment, you must always just believe the women, and I think that there’s a lot of reasons why we need to look at the women seriously and believe them," Brzezinski said. "I’m just wondering if all women need to be believed."

More recently, Brzezinski came to Chris Matthews's defense after the longtime Hardball host abruptly announced his resignation in March amid allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior. While acknowledging the "important changes around this so-called cancel culture," Brzezinski wondered if "there might be a better way" to handle situations in which powerful men are accused of misconduct.

Brzezinski has even defended Joe Biden's long history of aggressively touching women and girls, describing the former VP as "extremely flirtatious in a completely safe way." On one occasion, she took particular issue with a woman who said she felt uncomfortable when Biden smelled her hair. "He's not interested in your hair, okay?" Brzezinski said. "He was going on stage, he took a deep breath before he went on stage and you took it deeply personal."

Biden Set to Face Hard-Hitting Questions From Character Witness Mika Brzezinski
 
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I'll make you a deal. The following people are not President in February 2021: Trump, Pence, Biden.
 
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Biden Set to Face Hard-Hitting Questions From Character Witness
Mika Brzezinski

Former VP to address Tara Reade allegations with MSNBC host who defended Al Franken, Mark Halperin, Chris Matthews

Andrew Stiles and David Rutz - APRIL 30, 2020 7:34 PM

Former vice president Joe Biden is finally ready to talk about Tara Reade, the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1993. Five weeks after Reade's allegation was made public, Biden will appear on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Friday and is "expected to be asked" about his former Senate staffer, according to New York Times media columnist Ben Smith.

Biden's campaign, the senior members of which are well-versed in the art of flacking for creeps, could not be happier with the outcome. After sitting for 20 interviews without being asked a single question about Reade's allegation, Biden will get to discuss the issue with MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski, who has been one of the most reliable defenders of prominent men accused of sexual misconduct.

After her former MSNBC colleague Mark Halperin was fired amid allegations of sexual misconduct, Brzezinski suggested that Halperin's accusers were engaged in "hypocrisies" by refusing to meet with Halperin so he could apologize. "They don't want to talk to him," she said. "If we just want to strike people down for political motivation or for anger, we're not going to get anywhere." She was forced to apologize.

Brzezinski and her cohost husband Joe Scarborough were among the few people who attempted to help revive Halperin's career. According to a Daily Beast report published in May 2019, the couple sought to produce an online show with Halperin on the 2018 midterm elections. The plan did not go over well with NBC execs, who were not consulted about the proposed collaboration and had recently dismissed Halperin as an on-air political analyst.

Brzezinski, who has been described by President Donald J. Trump as "dumb as a rock," also lamented the 2018 resignation of Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.), dismissing his accuser—who provided photographic evidence of Franken pretending to grope her as she slept—as a "Playboy model who goes on Hannity, who voted for Trump," and who was primarily motivated by politics.

"In this #MeToo environment, you must always just believe the women, and I think that there’s a lot of reasons why we need to look at the women seriously and believe them," Brzezinski said. "I’m just wondering if all women need to be believed."

More recently, Brzezinski came to Chris Matthews's defense after the longtime Hardball host abruptly announced his resignation in March amid allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior. While acknowledging the "important changes around this so-called cancel culture," Brzezinski wondered if "there might be a better way" to handle situations in which powerful men are accused of misconduct.

Brzezinski has even defended Joe Biden's long history of aggressively touching women and girls, describing the former VP as "extremely flirtatious in a completely safe way." On one occasion, she took particular issue with a woman who said she felt uncomfortable when Biden smelled her hair. "He's not interested in your hair, okay?" Brzezinski said. "He was going on stage, he took a deep breath before he went on stage and you took it deeply personal."

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You got that from the Bee, right?
 
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Biden Refuses to Release Senate Records that Could Shed Light on Sex Assault Claims, But His Operatives Were Sent to Look Through Them

The Biden campaign has called Tara Reade’s claim false but Joe Biden himself has not yet personally responded to the question.

That’s at least in part because the media hasn’t even asked the question of him, despite innumerable interviews with him over the past few months.

Reade alleges that Biden sexually assaulted her in a Senate hallway and had previously sexually harassed her including by inappropriately touching her shoulders. Reade says that she complained to superiors on Biden’s staff about sexual harassment but was rebuffed and nothing was done. After she was allegedly sexually assaulted and spurned Biden, she says she was then removed from her position supervising interns.

Biden staffers, reached out to by various news organizations have denied that there was any complaint. The campaign denied the claims. In March, Katie Bedingfield, Biden’s communications director, said that “women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims. We encourage them to do so, because these accusations are false.”

Reade has demanded he release his Senate records for review from the time. The papers, 1875 boxes full, are being held by the University of Delaware “until two years after he retires from public life.” But the University has refused to reveal the nature of the agreement with Biden and Biden has done nothing to comply with requests to release the papers or clear up the issue, prompting people to question why.


Now there’s more that doesn’t look good for Biden. Turns out not only is he refusing requests to release the papers, but the campaign is clearly curious about what’s in the records and dispatched operatives on at least one occasion to look through the records, according to the Business Insider.
​
Andrea Boyle Tippett, a spokeswoman for the University of Delaware, confirmed to Insider that individuals from the campaign have accessed the collection since Biden announced his presidential campaign in the spring of 2019. She added that the University of Delaware’s library closed in mid-March due to the coronavirus, and that no one from the Biden campaign has gone to the library since its closure.​
If he’s innocent and what they claimed was true, why would he have operatives looking through the records? They claimed there were never any complaints so what is there to look for, if their claims are true? This also raises the question if operatives had access to the records if some might have “accidentally disappeared” from the collection.
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[Reade] said that while she didn’t tell anyone at Biden’s office about the alleged assault, she did complain to superiors about harassment and being made to feel uncomfortable. She said she met formally and informally with several Biden aides —including his former chief of staff Ted Kaufman — about her concerns, like allegedly being told she dressed too provocatively and being asked to serve drinks at a fundraiser because Biden liked her legs. She believes notes from those discussions would be in any personnel files the archives might contain.

“Ted Kaufman took notes when I spoke with him,” Reade told Insider. “He’s now denying that we ever had the meeting, and I watched him take notes. Those notes would be in my personnel file, along with sick days or any kind of extra notes that I turn in,” she said, adding that the archives might contain documentation of what she says was an effort to force her to resign after she came forward about the alleged harassment.​
Kaufman, who is helping Biden form his “transition team” (don’t you have to actually win to have one of these mean anything?), said he never met her and denied it.
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“She did not call me, she did not come to me, I would remember her if she had, and I do not remember her,” he said. “Now remember, this is thirty years ago, and she was a very junior staffer from everything that other reporters have told me.”

In March, the Biden campaign released a statement from Marianne Baker, his long-time executive assistant, saying she had never come across any accusations of harassment within the office: “In all my years working for Senator Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period — not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone.”​
This seems highly unlikely, given the multiple women who complain that Biden touched them inappropriately over the years. Several of them came forward last year. But just one more reason we should see the records.

The records cover the period from 1973 to 2009. They were given to the University in 2011 and the agreement at the time said they would be sealed “for two years after he retires from public office.” But then, the day before Biden launched his campaign, it was changed to the later of either December 31, 2019, or when Biden “retires from public life” without defining what that meant. Tippett is now saying “two years” from that point, extending it still further. Michael Crespin, director of the Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma, which houses the archives of more than 60 former members of Congress, says he’s never seen such a revision before.

Business Insider has filed requests with the University for the agreement for holding the collection as well as the sign in sheets for anyone who may have had access to it. The University has turned turn the Washington Post’s requests for the same information.

Reade says she also filed a formal complaint about the sexual harassment with a Senate office. But it’s not clear what happened to that complaint or where the records from such a compliant front that period of time might be. But it too would likely be sealed for 50 years, according to Business Insider.

Biden Refuses to Release Senate Records that Could Shed Light on Sex Assault Claims, But His Operatives Were Sent to Look Through Them
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If there was a complaint the complaint would be with the Senate Personal office and the ethics office not Biden’s office.
 
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So what is it you want? He is answering questions about it tomorrow. You said he wouldn't. His remarks will be dissected and commented on for weeks. You said they wouldn't. So what is it you are looking for here?
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Interviewer: Mr. Biden, are Tara Reade’s allegations true? Did you use your position of power to sexually assault her.

Biden: Well, in Delaware, we only have 3 counties and all three border the Atlantic Ocean. I like socks, but Jill says I can’t wear them outside without shoes. President Truman, err, Trump is a meanyhead. Have you seen my juice box and bicycle helmet?
 
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So what is it you want? He is answering questions about it tomorrow. You said he wouldn't. His remarks will be dissected and commented on for weeks. You said they wouldn't. So what is it you are looking for here?
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The same fervor as with Kavanaugh.
 
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I'll make you a deal. The following people are not President in February 2021: Trump, Pence, Biden.
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Add Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, and Bernie. Then we'll have a starting point for further discussions.
 
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Add Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, and Bernie. Then we'll have a starting point for further discussions.
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Hillary? lol Your HDS is showing. Maybe it's your DDS since none of the ones you listed is even a possibility. They are not running for President.
 
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