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Its interesting to watch how some sexual assaults are treated, while others appear to be ignored by the mainstream press and politicians. Lets look at the case of Tara Reade. She is a former aide to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. She claims that Biden kissed her and penetrated her with his fingers without her consent. ( She is one of 8 women who have come forward to make sexual assault or sexual harassment claims against Biden, the other 7 are Lucy Flores, Amy Lappos, D.J Hill, Caitlyn Caruso, Ally Coll, Sofie Karasek and Vail Kohnert-Yount). Where is the coverage from the mainstream media of these 8 women's story's?
Lets compare and contrast the above allegations with how similar allegations against Trump when he was a presidential candidate and Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated to the Supreme Court were handled by the DNC, Democratic party elected politicians and others. I seem to remember blanket coverage in both the printed media and TV news reporting on Trump and Kavanaugh but I can find almost nothing on the 8 allegations against Biden.
In January this year, she approached Time’s Up, the anti-sexual violence organization established in the wake of the Me Too movement, to help her. It is alleged that Time’s Up told her they could not help because Biden was a candidate for federal office, and if they assisted her they could lose the organization’s nonprofit status.
The same media that relayed every unsubstantiated and tawdry rumor during the Kavanaugh confirmation, is treating Reade’s story quite differently. Why, we might ask, isn’t Reade receiving the same coverage as E. Jean Carroll, a woman who accused Donald Trump of assaulting her in 1995 or 1996 at a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan? Virtually every major news organization let Carroll tell her story. Reade has been trying to tell hers for decades.
To understand how to proceed, the media has only to take the advice of Biden, who only two years ago argued that society had an obligation to presume that women who come forward with allegations of sexual assault should be believed irrespective of how flimsy that accusations may be: "For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it’s been made worse or better over time" (Biden's own words).
Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s chief legal analyst, noted that “40 percent of the Republican appointees to the Supreme Court have been credibly accused of sexual misconduct.” Using this standard, if Biden wins in November, we will be able to say that two of the last three Democrats in office have been “credibly accused of sexual misconduct.”
Lets compare and contrast the above allegations with how similar allegations against Trump when he was a presidential candidate and Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated to the Supreme Court were handled by the DNC, Democratic party elected politicians and others. I seem to remember blanket coverage in both the printed media and TV news reporting on Trump and Kavanaugh but I can find almost nothing on the 8 allegations against Biden.
In January this year, she approached Time’s Up, the anti-sexual violence organization established in the wake of the Me Too movement, to help her. It is alleged that Time’s Up told her they could not help because Biden was a candidate for federal office, and if they assisted her they could lose the organization’s nonprofit status.
The same media that relayed every unsubstantiated and tawdry rumor during the Kavanaugh confirmation, is treating Reade’s story quite differently. Why, we might ask, isn’t Reade receiving the same coverage as E. Jean Carroll, a woman who accused Donald Trump of assaulting her in 1995 or 1996 at a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan? Virtually every major news organization let Carroll tell her story. Reade has been trying to tell hers for decades.
To understand how to proceed, the media has only to take the advice of Biden, who only two years ago argued that society had an obligation to presume that women who come forward with allegations of sexual assault should be believed irrespective of how flimsy that accusations may be: "For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it’s been made worse or better over time" (Biden's own words).
Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s chief legal analyst, noted that “40 percent of the Republican appointees to the Supreme Court have been credibly accused of sexual misconduct.” Using this standard, if Biden wins in November, we will be able to say that two of the last three Democrats in office have been “credibly accused of sexual misconduct.”
How they chose this guy over Sanders is just unfathomable.
