Rape can happen to anyone. That's why I don't doubt Kurt Eichenwald's assertion today that he was raped in the 80s. Rape is not about sex. It's about power and it's about doing harm. Anyone can be raped. Yes, even a man as ugly as Kurt can be raped.
I also know that some men who are victimized go on to victimize others. That would explain why Kurt was seeking contact with underage male prostitutes online. Pedophiles are often grown men who were victims.
But what I don't accept is that Kurt is the voice of all rape survivors and that his reaction is the reaction that everyone must have if they were raped.
Sorry, Kurt, just as everyone doesn't have your fat body that somehow still has a flat, pancake ass, it's equally true that everyone who is raped doesn't remember the details that you did.
In fact, Kurt, this might be one of those times where a man and a woman experience things differently.
We get it, Kurt. Because rape happened to you, a man, it suddenly became a real story to you. But long before you were raped, women were dealing with it. And women haven't needed you once, since time began, to explain rape to us. Imagine that, a man's word wasn't needed, his judgment was neither requested nor called for.
I know that's a shocker to you, Kurt.
Poor Kurt. He thought he could come out as a rape victim and that we'd all then allow him to attack Tara Reade. Not happening. Wouldn't happen, Kurt, even if you got honest about what you were really doing online with those boys.
It's equally true that if Kurt actually remembers decades of crying over his rape, he is a piece of human trash to attack Tara Reade. Being raped, Kurt, doesn't give you rape-radar that allows you to know who else was raped and wasn't raped.
Kurt is trash. Kurt was trash before he announced that he had been raped and he's still trash now.
At THE WEEK, Ryan Cooper offers: As I have previously written,
Reade's story about Biden is credible. It would never meet the
courtroom standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt," but given that Reade
is now known to have privately told at least five people what happened
at the time or in the years following, it can't be dismissed out of
hand. Biden has a track record of behaving creepily around women, and
has a long history of ridiculous exaggeration and telling bald-faced lies. At bottom, it is quite similar to many other #MeToo stories. The plain fact is that this accusation is going to dog Biden for the rest of the campaign. Trump has already started talking about it.
The right-wing media will cover the story for purely political reasons.
Fox News does not care about #MeToo, but the story damages Biden,
demoralizes Democrats, and makes liberals look like egregious
hypocrites. The sight of nearly every Democratic-aligned women's rights
group queasily keeping silent about the story is simply delicious for the likes of Sean Hannity (though a few have started speaking out). It's also hard to see how Biden could conclusively "address" the
story, as some liberals have advocated. At bottom it is a case of
he-said-she-said, and Biden does not have a record of scrupulous
honesty.
Many mainstream and lefty journalists will continue to cover it. The
Reade accusation is unquestionably news, and outside of the right-wing
press, there is still a broad ethic of covering stories even if they are
politically inconvenient. It is not always honored, but it's still
there. As The Intercept's Ryan Grim writes,
"I decided early in my career that I would never suppress a story if
the only reason I were doing so was concern about its political
implications. If you do that, you're no longer a journalist." However, Biden still has not been officially nominated. The Democratic
National Convention is not until August 17, and before then he could be
pressured into dropping out. If Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, a critical
mass of the rest of other Democratic elected officials, and all the
various Democratic-aligned activists groups all said in unison that
Biden was unfit to be president, and should drop out for the good of the
party, he probably would withdraw. The primary rules regarding candidates who drop out
are somewhat vague, saying that delegates cannot be "mandated" to vote
for someone else, and "shall in all good conscience reflect the
sentiments of those who elected them." But this would seem to allow
Biden to instruct his delegates to support another candidate, and in 11
states there are specific rules for doing so. Realistically, no unclear
legal technicalities are going to prevent someone else from getting the
nomination if Biden refuses to take it.
The AP's Tara Reade story headline appears to now been changed from
“AP Exclusive: Harassment, assault absent in Biden complaint”
to
“Reade: ‘I didn’t use sexual harassment’ in Biden complaint”
That clumsy initial headline appears to be the reason that we appear to have now entered the news cycle of: Tara Reade now says she didn't file a complaint about sexual harassment or assault.
Survivors of violence are watching and we are seeing what AP is doing. This will not end pretty for the press. They learned nothing from the gender quake of 1992 or from Hill-Thomas.
Krystal and Saagar analyze MSNBC's Joe Biden interview on Tara Reade
allegations, with podcast host Katie Halper, who was the first to
interview Reade and report her account weeks ago.
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— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order today to release
pregnant people who have less than six months in their sentence from
New York prisons.
In response, the ACLU has put out a call for
governors around the country, President Trump, and the Federal Bureau of
Prisons (BOP) to build on Cuomo’s decision and release all pregnant
people from prisons and jails who have less than a year remaining on
their sentence.
Data related to the incarceration of pregnant people is unreliable, but a recent study estimated that nearly 3,000 pregnant people are admitted to state and federal prisons each year, and 55,000 to jails.
Earlier
this week, Andrea Circle Bear, 30 years old of South Dakota, became the
first federally incarcerated woman to die from COVID-19 in a BOP
facility in Fort Worth, Texas, just 28 days after giving birth. Andrea
was serving a two-year sentence for a drug charge.
Cynthia Roseberry, deputy director of policy at the ACLU’s Justice Division, issued the following statement:
“Andrea
Circle Bear’s death this week was a startling wakeup call that shows
the true cost of the U.S. obsession with mass incarceration during the
COVID-19 pandemic. For decades, women have been the fastest growing
demographic in U.S. prisons and jails, resulting in the destruction of
families and communities — disproportionately communities of color.
“The data clearly shows that mass incarceration poses a public health crisis
that will cause more deaths in communities around this country.
Governors around the country, President Trump, and BOP have the power to
build on Gov.r Cuomo’s decision and release pregnant people in their
custody who are due to be released in the next year. Doing so will
mitigate the tragedy we’re facing and will benefit public health around
the country.”
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2020 -- Paralyzed Veterans of America is launching Stories from the Inside,
a national awareness and support campaign, featuring long-time
supporter Ben Affleck and paralyzed veterans sharing their fears and
struggles from the confinement of their homes due to COVID-19.
PVA is taking action during the crisis to ensure the nation's most
catastrophically injured veterans have access to resources they need to
survive.
With underlying health issues, paralyzed veterans, and all people
with serious disabilities, are at the greatest risk for deadly
repercussions should they contract COVID-19. Many in this vulnerable
population use wheelchairs and rely on others for daily care and vital
supplies. They remain trapped in their homes with growing concerns about
exposure, limited supplies, increased anxiety, or depression. A trend
that will continue for their foreseeable futures.
Stories from the Insideincludes
a plea from Affleck to viewers to join him in supporting Paralyzed
Veterans of America. From financial assistance to purchase supplies and
food, to urging lawmakers to prioritize veteran health care, benefits,
and civil rights, PVA represents those who cannot advocate for
themselves during this crisis.
"The specialized care required for someone with a spinal cord injury
or disease is not always available in typical health facilities. It is
crucial that we make sure the needs of paralyzed veterans, and all
people with disabilities, are not forgotten during this pandemic,"
said David Zurfluh, national president of Paralyzed Veterans of America.
"Through the generosity of donors, we can remain the front-line
warriors for paralyzed veterans. Tasks that used to be a challenge, like
going to the grocery store, are now practically impossible. They are
going to need us for months ahead."
PVA national service officers work from within Department of Veterans
Affairs Spinal Cord Injury and Disorder centers and they continue to
work on the front line, ensuring these veterans are getting the care
they need, processing benefits claims and advocating on behalf of
paralyzed veterans and their caregivers.
PVA chapters across the country have enacted emergency relief
programs and wellness efforts. "In this time of crisis, not all help is
medically related," said Zurfluh. "Sometimes just having someone to ask,
'How are you?' can make the difference between feeling alone and afraid
to knowing you're supported. I make calls every day and tell every
member I speak to, 'You are not forgotten. We're here and we care about
you.'"
To support the life-saving efforts of PVA during this crisis, or if you are a paralyzed veteran in need of assistance, visit HelpPVA.org for more information.
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden denied sexual assault allegations against him on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday, breaking his silence after weeks of mounting pressure to respond to claims put forward by former staffer Tara Reade, who says he sexually assaulted her in 1993. In a statement, Biden said, “I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago. They aren’t true. This never happened.” Tara Reade first came forward with her allegations in March, saying Biden pushed her up against a wall and digitally penetrated her. In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, we speak with Reade’s former neighbor Lynda LaCasse, who says that Reade told her about the encounter and described it in detail in the 1990s. LaCasse is a lifelong Democrat and Biden supporter. She says of Tara Reade, “I believe her 100%.” We also speak with investigative journalist Rich McHugh, who first interviewed LaCasse for Business Insider.
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Friday, May 1, 2020. Joe Biden speaks . . . unconvincingly.
Starting with this from Alexis McGill Johnson, Acting President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund:
“At Planned Parenthood Action Fund, we believe women. We know how
important it is that survivors be supported and listened to – survivors
of sexual violence not only seek care at Planned Parenthood health
centers every day, they are also dedicated staff members and supporters. “We believe that survivors should be heard, listened to, taken seriously, and treated with respect and dignity. “Saying we believe survivors doesn’t mean only when it’s politically
convenient. This isn’t a fringe issue, it’s one that affects all of us.
This crosses political party, race, gender, income level, and sexual
orientation. Any person seeking elected office — and especially the highest office
in the land — needs to address allegations of sexual assault and
harassment seriously, both as a systemic problem and with a sense of
personal responsibility. We all have much work to do to make our country
a safer place, free of sexual violence.
“Vice President Biden must address this allegation directly. Our
country is hungry for leadership on this issue. Now is the time to give
it to them.”
As GOOGLE notes, that was issued at 8:40 EST last night. In other words, after the story broke that Joe Biden would be addressing the topic on this morning's MORNING JOE on MSNBC. In other words, after they know Joe is going to address it in twelve or so hours, they can take a position that Joe should address it. They can't pressure him before that. They can't publicly call for him to do anything before that.
If Johnson had issued that call yesterday morning, it might mean something. As it is, it was already known that Joe planned to address it this morning. And, as it is, Tara's been trashed for about six weeks now while Planned Parenthood has never said a word.
MSNBC teased out the Joe interview like it was going to be the Gettysburg Declaration [Address] while at the same time trying to make it clear that MORNING JOE was a frat house. Their on airs are also explaining, ahead of time, that Joe needs to explain (their word) "that it never happened" and say that he doesn't have anything to add and move on. That's what passes for 'news.'
It's great that MSNBC is so impartial, right? It's wonderful that this garbage passes for news.
Why did Joe choose MORNING JOE? What other talk show has a host who had a dead intern turn up in his office and got to pretend like he didn't need to answer questions about it?
If you've assaulted a woman, Joe Scarborough is in your corner.
Leading up to the interview, Joe and Little Willie had to talk football because, well, of course they had to. It's all one big locker room for those pigs. They let Mika provide the skirt ("It's just gonna be you and me") to hide behind.
She asked him at the start "would you please go on the record" and he pretended to. Not since Ronald Reagan hid behind "to the best of my recollection" has anyone repeatedly offered supposedly firm statements repeatedly couched in "that I'm aware of" and similar wording.
At one point, he offered, "No, it is not true. I am saying unequivocally it never, ever happened and it didn't." Moments later? "I don't remember any type of complaint that she may have made, it was 27 years ago. . . . And the fact is that I don't remember."
Which is it? It unequivocally never happened or to the best of your memory and recall -- your memory and recall -- that you don't believe it happened? He was so reliant on weasel words that Mika wondered "are you preparing us for a complaint" to emerge? No he insisted. And "I-I-I-I'm not worried about it at all." I-I-I-I? That speech pattern in that reply would indicate otherwise.
At another point, Mika asked if he had reached out to Tara Reade? He snapped, "No, I have not reached out to her. It was 27 years ago, this never happened."
Mika noted the belief that an assault claim Tara may have filed could be in his papers stored at the University of Delaware. Joe rejected that insisting that the a complaint would only be in the national archives.
Mika falsely claimed NYT had conducted a thorough investigation. No, they didn't. It was Rich McHugh who broke the news on two women coming forward who remember Tara telling them of the assault in the 90s. It was Ryan Grimm who reported on the call Tara's mother made in 1993 to LARRY KING LIVE. There is so much that NYT did not cover. Mika brought up Big Stacey Abrams but failed to note that Stacey was using the campaign's written talking points -- which BUZZFEED published earlier this week. Mika failed to note that Big Stacey also insisted that NYT cleared Joe which even the paper has called a lie.
Joe replied, "To the best of my knowledge, there have been no complaints made against me."
To the best of my knowledge. That's interesting phrasing.
Mika asked if anyone has signed an NDA? Joe replied, "There's no NDA signed -- I've never asked anyone to sign an NDA." He later added, "Period. None."
As he got more short tempered it was hilarious to watch Mika start crouching. She hunched over to plead with him. Joe just got more bellicose, "First of all, let's get this straight."
He also insisted he wasn't going to attack Tara and "I'm not going to question this." He immediately then declared, "I don't know why after 27 years this is being raised."
He growled, "I'm not suggesting she had no right to come forward" but that's exactly what you're saying.
He insisted, "These claims are not true. There's no corroborative -- they're not true."
He stopped on corroborative evidence. He didn't finish that. And he didn't finish it because there is corroborative evidence. That's what her brother, her friend she told when it happened, that's what they're offering. That's what the two women who came forward this week to say Tara told them in the 90s are offering. That's what the video of the phone call Tara's mother made in 1993 is.
No woman in a he-said/she-said has ever had this much to offer.
"There's so many inconsistencies in what has been said in this case," he insisted.
Yes, but most of those inconsistencies are coming out of the mouth of Big Stacey.
"I'm not aware" was a phrase Joe invoked often along with "to the best of my knowledge." These are weasel words.
Mika asked about the records at the University of Delaware and he pretended to be confused. Why can't he call for those records to be released? Why can't he ask that they be searched for any reference to Tara? Joe Biden: I don't understand the point you're trying to make.
I loved the long silence during this discussion by the way, as both waited to see who would blink first.
Joe Biden: Who-who does that search? Mika: The University of Delaware?
While insisting that nothing at the University would support Tara, Joe refused to release those reports or to allow anyone to search them.
Winding down, Mika asked, "If you could speak directly to Tara Reade about her claims," what would you say?
What would he say to Tara? "This never happened. I don't know what's motivating her."
That's what he would say.
It was unconvincing and he came off guilty repeatedly.
Jon Allsop (CJR) offers this on the interview: This morning, we finally heard from Biden, when he appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
To set him up, Mika Brzezinski, the cohost, outlined Reade’s allegation
and addressed critiques that the press had botched coverage of it. She
focused on the criticism that the immediate, vociferous coverage of
assault claims against Brett Kavanaugh, when he was nominated to the
Supreme Court, was evidence of a double standard, compared to the recent
reporting on Biden. Brzezinski then played a lengthy reel of the show’s
hosts insisting, in past episodes, that Kavanaugh was denied due
process by the media. “We were strong on this,” she said afterward. “And
honestly, very few others were.” Brzezinski also spent several minutes
recounting, in detail, the many sexual-misconduct allegations against
Trump. Shortly before coming on, Biden released a statement
strongly refuting Reade’s allegation. “This never happened,” he said.
He appeared on air shortly after 8am Eastern. “Did you sexually assault
Tara Reade?,” Brzezinski asked. Biden reiterated his strong denial.
Brzezinski then asked Biden whether any other staffer had ever
complained about his behavior, and whether any such complaint had been
hidden by a nondisclosure agreement. Biden said no on both counts.
Brzezinski also pressed him repeatedly on remarks he made, during the
Kavanaugh hearings, that women’s voices should be taken seriously.
“Women have a right to be heard, and the press should rigorously
investigate,” he replied. “Why is it real for Dr. Ford and not for Tara
Reade?” Brzezinski asked, referring to Christine Blasey Ford, a survivor
of one of Kavanaugh’s alleged attacks. Biden said that he wouldn’t
question an accuser’s motives, but that the facts were on his side. When
Brzezinski pushed him on what the facts were—and where they might be
found—he spoke over her, then apologized. “The truth matters,” Biden
said. What about Reade’s side of the story? We can now expect to hear from her on TV soon; BuzzFeed’s Rosie Gray and Ruby Cramer reported yesterday that she’s been contacted by every major network.
As far as Reade is concerned, though, the damage is already done. “I
used to think that a Republican talking point was to call the mainstream
media biased. So I used to think, Oh, that’s just a talking point for them,” Reade told BuzzFeed. “But now I’m living it [in] real time, and I see it—like, I see it for what it is.”
The appearance comes as many start to find some sort of voice. There was Planned Parenthood noted above. Daniel Villarreal (NEWSWEEK) notes:
Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, chairman of the House
Democratic Caucus, said in a Wednesday radio interview that he believes
Tara Reade's 1993 sexual assault allegation against presumptive
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should be "investigated
seriously" and that he thinks Biden will have to directly address the
matter. Reade, who was a former aide for Biden when he served as Delaware's senator during the 1990s, claimed that he pushed her against a wall and penetrated her with his fingers in 1993. She has also filed a criminal complaint with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department over the matter. "It's
got to be taken seriously because this is a serious allegation raised
by a serious individual and needs to be investigated seriously. We've
probably got to hear from him [Biden] at some point directly," Jeffries
said Wednesday on WNYC when asked about Reade's allegations.
Unpleasant as it must be, the former vice president must be willing
to answer questions about Reade’s accusations posed by reporters or
members of the public. (He is expected to speak about the allegations in
a television interview on Friday.) More
important, his campaign should commission an independent investigation
of Reade’s allegations by a lawyer or law firm without clear partisan
leanings. Investigators should be given access to papers from his career
that Biden donated to the University of Delaware,
a potential source that journalists haven’t been allowed to inspect.
And their report should be made public. It’s not guaranteed that such an
investigation will resolve the contradictions, but it could dispel
suspicions that important documents were being concealed.
The message of the #MeToo
movement was that an accusation of sexual impropriety by a powerful man
should be taken seriously — including by the subject of the complaint.
Even as he protests his innocence, Biden needs to honor that principle.
Related, Chris Hayes is being attacked for covering the Tara Reade Story. Branko Marcetic (JACOBIAN) reports: After being studiously ignored
for weeks, Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against presumptive
Democratic nominee Joe Biden is finally breaking through in earnest into
mainstream news coverage. On cable news, her accusation got one of its
most extended and sympathetic airings last night thanks to MSNBC anchor
Chris Hayes’s brave decision to cover it. “There have been moments I think for many of us, all of us, where we
have heard about accusations against someone that we find ourselves
desperately wanting not to believe,” he said, opening the segment.
But part of the difficult lesson of the MeToo era is not
that every accusation is true and everything should be believed on its
face, but that you do have to fight yourself when you feel that impulse.
You have to do that in order to take seriously what is being alleged
and what the evidence is and to evaluate it. And that is the case with
the accusation by a woman named Tara Reade against Joe Biden.
Hayes’s treatment wasn’t exhaustive. He left out that two people
close to Reade had told reporters who broke her story that they recalled
her telling them about it at the time; he didn’t mention the phone call her mother made to Larry King Live
at the time about unnamed problems her daughter was having in a
senator’s office; and he mentioned that Reade’s official paper complaint
can’t be located, but didn’t explain that one potential location —
Biden’s senatorial papers — will be locked to the public for years by
the University of Delaware. (The Washington Post and others have called on Biden to release them). Nonetheless, Hayes informed MSNBC viewers about a pivotal new
development in the case: that Reade’s former neighbor, a Biden
supporter, has come forward to say Reade told her about the allegation in the mid-1990s.
Hayes invited on journalist Rebecca Traister, the author of an important new piece
on what the allegations mean, who affirmed the story’s rising
credibility and called on Biden himself to personally address it. And he
pushed viewers to move past their own unconscious biases and to take
the story seriously. The segment is worth watching — though as MSNBC
mystifyingly hasn’t put clips of it up on either its official website or YouTube channel and a transcript isn’t yet available, you’ll have to do so in pieces.
Why was this brave? After all, this is Hayes’s job. And if anything, coverage of Reade is still falling short
of the woefully underplayed accusation last year against Trump by
columnist E. Jean Carroll, who was quickly personally invited onto MSNBC
then CNN in the days after her allegation went public. (At the time,
Carroll’s allegation had the same level of corroboration as Reade’s; it
now has far less. Reade has only appeared on TV on Hill.TV’s Rising and on Democracy Now!).
We'll note this from DEMOCRACY NOW! today -- this interview aired this morning.
Tara Reade's former neighbor says she clearly remembers Reade telling her about an alleged sexual assault by Joe Biden. "We were talking about violence, because I had experienced violence myself," says Lynda LaCasse. "She started telling me about Joe Biden and what he had done."
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During April, at least 208 people were killed, and 185
were wounded. Last month, 128 people were killed, and 180 were wounded. The
number of civilian casualties remained low, probably due to the coronavirus
lockdowns. However, casualties among security personnel and militants ticked
higher.
At least 20 civilians, 48 security members, and 98 militants
were killed. Another 38 civilians, 103 security personnel, and three militants
were wounded. At least two protesters were killed, and 34 were wounded despite
quarantine orders.
Along the northern border, in the long-running conflict
between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (P.K.K) and Turkey, at least 33 PKK
members of the were killed, and four more were wounded. Two Turkish soldiers
were killed, and three more were wounded. Three Iraqi civilians and two Iranian
civilians were also killed. These casualties all occurred within Iraqi
territory.
But remember, we're all supposed to believe that the war ended long ago. And that all US troops came home.
