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Beebo Brink

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Sen. Chris Dodd was well known as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s wingman during the 1980s. The Almanac of American Politics described his “reputation as a party boy and a partner-in-nightlife-crime” of the former senator.
LOL! This is worthy of the Onion. Doddering old white men being taken to task for bad behavior 40 years ago. Can someone please burn a candle? The reek of desperation is a little too pungent.
 

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As a reminder, a Clinton lawyer without clearance searched through Clinton's emails and deleted the non-work-related ones.
Yes, and it can be argued that that led to her demise.
 

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So, for the last several days the same gang of untrustworthy pseudo-journalists that have been interfering and promoting the Tara Reade allegations were pushing another Biden allegation. According to this one, Biden was supposed to have made an off-color remark about the young woman’s breasts when she was 14 at an event. Halper, Grim, Robinson all promoted it and made the usual statements about Democrats being hypocrites and not caring about women, etc, just as they’re doing with Reade.

When one of the hacks from ABC jumped on it and began reporting it from an actual news source, however, the campaign responded and with evidence and multiple witnesses that Biden was not actually in attendance of the event because he was at home recovering from surgery. An aide went in his place. He did appear in a video that was shown at the event because it had been recorded previously.

Oh, and it turned out the young woman was the niece of Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnell.

The ABC reporter has since removed her tweets and clarified, but, of course, none of the others have apologized, despite promoting headlines that Biden sexually harassed a 14-year old girl without even doing some basic vetting of the claim.
 

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To understand something, American Mainstream Media is owned by maybe 6 companies, and then a lot of stations are owned by one; Sinclair, which makes Faux look more progressive than DailyKOS
 

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So, for the last several days the same gang of untrustworthy pseudo-journalists that have been interfering and promoting the Tara Reade allegations were pushing another Biden allegation. According to this one, Biden was supposed to have made an off-color remark about the young woman’s breasts when she was 14 at an event. Halper, Grim, Robinson all promoted it and made the usual statements about Democrats being hypocrites and not caring about women, etc, just as they’re doing with Reade.

When one of the hacks from ABC jumped on it and began reporting it from an actual news source, however, the campaign responded and with evidence and multiple witnesses that Biden was not actually in attendance of the event because he was at home recovering from surgery. An aide went in his place. He did appear in a video that was shown at the event because it had been recorded previously.

Oh, and it turned out the young woman was the niece of Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnell.

The ABC reporter has since removed her tweets and clarified, but, of course, none of the others have apologized, despite promoting headlines that Biden sexually harassed a 14-year old girl without even doing some basic vetting of the claim.
I don't see how it is in any corporate owner's interest (except for FOX) to report such a story. I go with the soap opera theory for this incident, "Dirty Laundry" as it were. They have shit up their nose ... and they love it.
 

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Just a reminder that we are a month away (Jun 2nd) from Biden having accumulated the necessary delegates to win the nomination. Due to virus-induced primary delays, it has become another super-Tuesday. Many states didn't want to delay their primaries more than that, because it would then delay whatever passes for the national convention this year. They almost certainly are not going to gather thousands of people in an arena.
 

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Andy Lack is suddenly resigning.
Suddenly. LOL. Note actual source, not icon.

Or it was NBC's own handling of sexual harassment complaints, and their passing on covering Harvey Weinstein.


About damn time we saw the back of Andrew Lack.
Yeah.

If NBC is actually upset with Chris Hayes (and I wouldn't doubt they are) he'll be gone in a month or so. How about Mika Brzezinski? Are people upset with her, too? But in any case, NBC handles off-message anchors on a personnel level, not a managerial level. Two at once, though? They'd never admit that requires a managerial shakeup. That would imply their message is, well, managed. LOL.
 
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Mika Brzezinski is like that person who doesn't get invited to the party and then spends the next lifetime bitching about how the party was terrible.
 
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Wow. That picture really shook my faith - in the President of Mexico.

[The man in the photo is Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. ]

AP
 
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She fell for and married Joe Scarborough. So am I upset with her? No, but I certainly feel sorry for her.
I don’t feel sorry for her. They deserve one another. And I loathe that she is opportunistically using the Reade situation to rehabilitate Kavanaugh, attack Dr Ford, and absolve herself for her cool girl history.