Author: Jazz Shaw
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While our liberal cable news outlets and major newspapers have done a heroic job of trying to avoid talking about Tara Reade’s allegations against Joe Biden as much as possible, it eventually became too much of an embarrassment for most of them, so they had to address the subject.
Efforts to discredit her claims and undermine her legitimacy quickly blew up in their faces because “Believe Some Women” was such an obvious reversal of the positions most progressive analysts had taken in previous cases where Republicans or conservatives were being accused. But this week I’ve noticed a rather unsubtle shift in how the press is talking about Reade after digging more deeply into her background. Here’s one example from the Associated Press this weekend. See if you can spot the new tactics and tone based on both the headline and this brief excerpt.
Biden accuser’s life marred by abuse and financial hardship
One thing is clear in the complicated, sometimes contradictory and often chaotic story of Tara Reade: Her life has not been easy.
Her earliest childhood memory was of being abused by her father, she told her former husband, a man she would later leave after he abused her, too…
“If you grow up in an abusive household, where your needs, your basic needs aren’t met and you aren’t taught to appropriately identify boundaries or emotions, then that’s going to impact the way that you develop as an adult,” [forensic psychologist Barbara] Ziv said.
Can you see what’s going on here? Simply claiming that Reade is a liar goes completely against the narrative. But giving her the same level of default acceptance as was shown toward Christine Blasey Ford would breathe far too much life into her story and potentially imperil the electoral prospects of Joe Biden. We certainly couldn’t have that, could we?
So, instead, they’ve dug up all of the travails that Reade suffered over the course of her life. She’s claimed to be the victim of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her father, her husband, and others. She had a “difficult” relationship with her mother. She’s faced any number of runs of bad luck financially. It’s been a hard knock life and surviving a background like that is bound to take a toll on a person.
So rather than dismissing her as a dishonest person with less-than-honorable intentions, Reade can now be safely identified as a victim in her own right. (Though, of course, not a victim of anything Joe Biden might have done.) Whether she believes her own story or knows that she’s being less than honest, it’s not her fault, you see. . . . Full Article @ Hot Air
This AP story isn’t the only article taking this approach this week. And I can assure you that it won’t be the last. here's a Few More ...
New reporting puts focus on Tara Reade’s inconsistencies - Reporters at marquee national news outlets have devoted significant time over the last couple of months investigating Tara Reade and her allegation that former vice president Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, sexually assaulted her in 1993. Throughout their reporting on her, a pattern of inconsistencies has emerged in Reade’s accounts, and several stories in the last week in particular have raised questions about credibility in other areas of her life.
Lawyer drops Biden accuser Tara Reade as resumé questions lead to review of past expert testimony - The news came as California defense attorneys and a district attorney's office said they are reviewing past criminal cases in which Reade testified as an expert witness, following a CNN report that questioned her education credentials.
‘Manipulative, deceitful, user’: Tara Reade left a trail of aggrieved acquaintances - Wrye and her husband knew Reade as Tara McCabe, the woman who had rented a yurt on their 12-acre California property and tended to the couple’s horses — and her own — for about 10 months beginning in 2017. They were well-acquainted with their former tenant, who frequently knocked on the door of their home seeking emotional support, asking for financial help or forgiveness for late rent payments, which they granted.
Bernie aide urges Biden to drop out after damning accuser video surfaces
Bernie Sanders supporters slam Democrats for ignoring sexual-assault allegations against Biden
Bernie Sanders supporters and former aides slammed Democrats for ignoring Tara Reade’s sexual-assault allegations against Joe Biden, especially after a damning contemporaneous CNN video appeared to support Reade’s disturbing accusations.
In a court of law, contemporaneous evidence carries a lot of persuasive weight.
Reade was a former staffer for then-Senator Biden in 1993 when she claimed that he sexually assaulted her.
A month after Reade left her job in 1993, Reade’s mother called in to Larry King’s CNN show and revealed that her daughter had serious problems while “working for a prominent senator.” Read More
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The hypocrisy of Democrats, and their media allies, is on prominent display in their handling of sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden versus their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh. Another example of the hypocrisy relates to the demand, or lack thereof, for documents related to the official government work of the two men. Read More
Here It Comes: The Move to Remove Gropey Joe
How will the Democrats pull a Torricelli and replace Biden on the ticket with someone who can win?
Democratic presidential nominee-apparent Joe Biden got hit with a double-whammy today from his one-time allies in the major media. “How will the Democrats pull a Torricelli and replace Biden on the ticket with someone who can win?” used to be a question limited to the comments sections on the right side of the blogosphere. Now it’s a question debated openly on the op-ed pages of the MSMDNC’s two biggest newspapers. Read More
