Watching the last few minutes of Chris Hayes and trying not to vomit.

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Atticus (7,709 posts)
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Watching the last few minutes of Chris Hayes and trying not to vomit.
He is all into being "fair" and urging us to consider Ms Reade's accusation against Joe Biden as "serious" and "credible". We were told to expect a surge of smears against Joe and the Trump campaign has made no bones about that being their primary "strategy". I just never thought that Mr. Hayes would participate in the mud-slinging.

As I understand the accusation, it concerns supposed events in 1993 which, until recently, Ms Reade termed "harassment" if she spoke of them at all. She claims to have filed a complaint with the Senate, but she has no copy, the Senate has no record of it and three of the four people who she said could corroborate that she told them of the event have said they have no recollection of being told any such thing. And, just recently, when the "smear potential" of her accusation was recognized by right wing Trump operatives and she began getting more and more attention, her story changed from "harassment" to "he pinned me against a wall, reached under my clothing and penetrated me with his fingers".

THAT deserves national discussion in an effort to be "fair"?

Every such complaint deserves serious consideration, but that does not mean all such complainants deserve to be believed. Mr. Hayes is, IMHO, bending over backwards in order to be the "responsible adult in the room" but, in the process, is aiding and abetting the Hannity's and Ingram's of this world.

Pull your head out, Chris. When what you say makes Brad Parscale smile, it is time to reconsider your subject matter.

Star Member BigmanPigman (34,632 posts)

1. Why is he contributing to another distraction?!?!?

Star Member SharonClark (4,941 posts)

3. He had on Rebecca Traister who I thought

had disavowed Reade after reading the NYT article about the accusation. After Hayes’ program I’m not so sure.

I noticed the accusation is being promoted by FOX, Mother Jones, Common Dreams, and Jacobin. The far right and the far left are on the same page.

certainot (6,534 posts)

36. as with all this shit they depend on democraats to stupidly continue to ignore talk radio as

we have the last 30 years

how sad that in this case it might not work to swiftboat another democrat and completely upend any sense of proportion or hypocrisy merely because of the cancer that's blowing up the biggest liar on the planet - limbaugh. in other words we will not avoid another swiftboating to elevate orange sack of shit over biden because dems and the left finally pulled their earbuds out of their asses and stopped getting their asses kicked by a few hundred russian fed limbaugh wannabes on 1500 radio stations, but rather by pure luck that the talk radio monopoly's leader may croak on his own. pure luck.

talk about pitiful. worse yet, he could survive 4th degree lung cancer. i'm sure they're infusing him with however much blood from virgins they can find.

Star Member brush (27,872 posts)

5. Remember, Hayes is a Sanders supporter. Many of them were actively pushing...

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Reade's story before Sanders dropped out. Some probably still are, sort of like Hayes is doing by airing this scurrilous bs, and AOC did so last week as well, claiming they're being fair in considering it while ignoring all the constantly changing inconsistencies in her story.

Star Member uponit7771 (65,779 posts)

7. What about the neighbor

 

Star Member SharonClark (4,941 posts)

12. The neighbor who was likely told a lie

by Reade? That is not evidence of anything.

Star Member uponit7771 (65,779 posts)

16. True, if Reade had been consistent the neighbors story would be more credible. Its Reade that's not

... credible no matter when her neighbor was told.

Star Member Demsrule86 (42,784 posts)

24. Or is a liar herself.

Steelrolled (522 posts)

20. I don't think this will hurt Biden that much

These accusations now seem to just be more political noise.

 

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Atticus (7,709 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213368126

Watching the last few minutes of Chris Hayes and trying not to vomit.
He is all into being "fair" and urging us to consider Ms Reade's accusation against Joe Biden as "serious" and "credible". We were told to expect a surge of smears against Joe and the Trump campaign has made no bones about that being their primary "strategy". I just never thought that Mr. Hayes would participate in the mud-slinging.

As I understand the accusation, it concerns supposed events in 1993 which, until recently, Ms Reade termed "harassment" if she spoke of them at all. She claims to have filed a complaint with the Senate, but she has no copy, the Senate has no record of it and three of the four people who she said could corroborate that she told them of the event have said they have no recollection of being told any such thing.

Which party was in control of the senate in 1993?