Speaker Nancy Pelosi went on CNN to praise former Vice President Joe Biden for his response to the sexual assault allegations by former Biden staffer Tara Reade. Biden however has not personally responded to the allegations and continues to refuse to release his Senate documents being kept under key by the University of Delaware. We previously disclosed the glaring disconnect in the positions of Democrats like Pelosi in prior demands that women “must be believed” when the allegations were directed by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Pelosi also supported Bill Clinton through his various allegations by multiple women ranging from sexual harassment to rape. Update: When confronted on the story, Pelosi snapped “I don’t need a lecture.”
“Well, I have great sympathy for any women who brings forth an allegation; I’m a big strong supporter of the #MeToo movement. I think it’s made a great contribution to our country and I do support Joe Biden. I’m satisfied with how he has responded, I know him, I was proud to endorse him Monday, very proud to endorse him, so I’m satisfied with that.”
Pelosi was praising Biden for his response as even liberal media outlets are running editorials and columns calling for Biden to respond rather than continue his silence. More importantly, Pelosi is not calling upon Biden to release his official papers and the media is not pressing her on these points.
Once again, I have always maintained that women need to be heard and taken seriously in raising these allegations. I have also objected to those who would toss aside due process and simply accept accusations without investigation. Notably, while most are remaining silent and refusing to respond to media inquiries, some Democrats are now adopting that approach for Biden and, rather than saying that Reade must be believed, they are now saying that she must be heard. Biden supporter Alyssa Milano tweeted out “I hear and see you, Tara.” She notably did not say “I believe you,” in sharp contrast with the Ford allegation. During the Kavanaugh hearing, some of us were slammed for not treating the Ford allegations as per se dispositive. Now Pelosi is adopting the same position that accusers deserve to be heard and taken seriously but not categorically believed.
In the meantime, when Chris Hayes asked for a response from Biden on the sexual assault allegation, MSNBC viewers have called for him to be fired. There is nothing more jarring in echo journalism than a dissonant note, even when asking for a simple direct response from a politician accused of rape.
What was that question the Democratic Party shills asked over and over when Christine Crazy-Ford was sobbing and explaining why she had to have two front doors???
Oh, what reason would she have to lie??? Sooo, what reason would Tara Reade have to lie, I ask in all innocence???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Believe women? No, believe only liberal women or when it serves your overall political agenda.
Another reason not to take self-proclaimed feminist women such as Nancy Pelosi seriously. Feminists never criticized those great protectors of women such as Teddy Kennedy or Bill Clinton either. And they refuse to criticize how Islam treats women. What phony hypocrites!
Let’s be honest. Pelosi could care less what Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton or Joe Biden may have done (or not). She supports (or supported) their policies and that is enough. I understand why feminists such as Pelosi overlook such inconvenient matters, but dislike the posturing. I would have more respect, if women such as Pelosi were honest enough to say, I DO NOT CARE WHAT BIDEN (OR CLINTON, TED KENNEDY) MAY HAVE DONE, THEIR POLITICAL POSITIONS AGREE(D) WITH MINE AND WILL PROMOTE MY AGENDA, but won’t hold my breath. And before some leftist accuses me of the same, I WILL ADMIT THE SAME ABOUT TRUMP. Trump is a flawed man and I know of no one with my views who sees him as liberals viewed BHO in 2008. I didn’t vote for a pastor or priest.
And feminists refuse to criticize Islam out of a desire to be politically correct and signal their moral superiority. Your average SJW, upper middle class, morally superior leftist woman (or man) wouldn’t last a week in a traditional Islamic society. And Muslims don’t care if you call them a bad name.
antonio
Biden was just trying to hug her
Ditto for Hunter and his extramarital affairs, porking his brother’s widow, the titties dancer and on and on and on
It runs in the DNC family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho
I’m inclined to believe Tara Reade, given what I’ve heard, to date. Her account has a ring-of-truth to it, IMO.
I believe her too. Her account is consistent and strong and she’s told multiple people. My only problem is: why did she wait so long to tell her story? After all, he was running for VP 10 years ago.
“My only problem is: why did she wait so long to tell her story? After all, he was running for VP 10 years ago.”
Fear, shame (though irrational…), denial? She’s older, too, and may feel like she has nothing left to lose. Just a few possibilities.
It’s been extremely dangerous for women to go public even with all the truth on their side. Remember how the media vilified Tyson’s wife, Robin Givens, and only allowed there was something wrong with him after he bit somebody’s ear part way off on live TV? Remember Mel Gibson? Me#Too, for all its nonsense, changed some of that.
Then there was Jake Lamotta but let’s not help Deniro gin up any more royalties
In all fairness if someone had accused Barack Obama of similar behavior I would not have believed it, would have been out of character but this fits with Biden’s past behavior. And I say this as someone who was not an Obama supporter.
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye
shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh
findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
– Matthew 7:7–8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V6SokexKqQ
Larry Sinclair stated that Obama smoked crack cocaine, had homosexual relations with him and implied that Obama had homosexual relations with a “Donald Young” who was murdered on Dec. 23, 2007, and was the openly gay choir director for Reverend Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Is this true? Did CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PMSNBC, HLN or other outlets of the MSM report this? Why has America not heard this news? Why was the photo of Obama enjoying a visit with Louis Farrakhan not displayed in the MSM?
Ignore the accuser, give weight to the best evidence, the record.
Biden is guilty as charged.
@george
DITTO on above! But I am afraid our leftist friends do not really care for the best evidence or any evidence.
antonio
That’s ox being gored.
If all of us were really honest and didn’t let politics taint our values, none of these guys would get elected to public office. If we were truly honest about how these guys treat women then not only would they not get elected to public office they would all be prosecuted for their treatment of women. But I guess it all depends on who’s oz is being gored.
A great many people’s political choices are idle, or they’re insensitive to events, or they’re responsive to multiple vectors, of which character is just one. And, remember, you run from some place you have to run to someplace.
Improving the quality of politicians is largely the work of people on the supply side – donors and other influentials. Their work would be easier if manifest turpitude would induce a critical mass of people to abandon a candidate they might otherwise cast a ballot for, of course. There was a member of Congress from Delaware tossed out of office in 1982 due to character questions. Well, there was certainly ample reason to do the same in regard to Biden in 1990; he won a landslide.
Cruella has spoken and lowly commoners can review the stone tablets etched with her utterances if they have any questions.
Deplorable Kulak Untermenschen have no right to question her eminence.
She has built a golden glorious utopia in San Francisco and the flyover rubes don’t know what a paradise on earth it is because they are not welcome there.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
– William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987
(music to tune of Pretty Women)
Bitchy woman….
Just walk on by.
Bitchy Nancy…you make men lie!
Nancy Pelosi compares Joe Biden to Brett Kavanaugh. Nancy says, “there’s a lot of excitement over the idea”. Women who can’t remember how they got there or when they left.
Pelosi started out with a good point, against Metoo there is also the issue of due process.
it all went downhill after that, I could barely understand her rambling grammar
They call her Palsi Pelosi for a reason.
At times Pelosi seems not far behind Biden in senility.
Ahh, the party of youth!
Reade’s story has changed many times, and now her story is coming straight out of her late daddy’s book. She has praised Biden many times, and she has been accused of cheating a non-profit. The National Women’s Law Center won’t touch her because they said she wanted PR instead of legal representation. These are are facts, so Trump supporters will not read or listen to them, their mind is, what’s left of it, is made up. And when it all falls apart, Trump supporters will have Biden in a basement with alter boys.
How dare you not believe her? All women “must be believed.”
Just using the Republican playbook.
No, actually you are not.
Fishy, you know that last month Tara Reade filed a formal criminal complaint against Biden? One of the penalties for filing a false complaint (lying) is prison.
And Fishy, you know that Tara Reade is seeking out scrutiny and asking for investigation while Joe Biden is in hiding and not being asked a single question about the allegation?
And whereas Chrissy Baby Talk was to be “believed!” as she had the entire media in her corner, defending her, making her a ‘hero’ while we watched the media run daily wall-to-wall non-stop attacks on Kavanaugh?
Blasey Ford had little to no press scrutiny of her story that did not hold up, at all. It actually completely fell apart under only slight examination. But that did not stop the media, the Dems, and Hollywood from glorifying and giving “hero” awards to Chrissy Baby Talk. Nope. Not even a slight hesitation. And Baby Talk got a million dollar payoff via the Go Fund Me campaign for her. It is sickening to most normal people.
Now we have Joe Biden being propped up and protected by the same media that went wall-to-wall attacking Kavanaugh. Is Tara Reade being scrutinized and torn apart? Or is she being held up as a hero for her courage and her bravery in coming forward to tell her story?
If you cannot see the obivous, glaring, red flashing lights all over the place rank gross disgusting hypocrisy then you are freakin’ blind. And stupid. Which is of course what the Democrats and their media allies count on — your stupidity. Well done, Fishy. Well done dum dum.
You proving your willful ignorance every day, does not surprise me anymore.
Back at cha, Fishy.
Hmmm. I am a Trump supporter and my mind isn’t made up. I have often said that a woman who waits 20 or 30 years to complain about assault, or even men who raped by homosexual priests, I have little use for you. Like the 50 ho’s who complained about Bill Cosby. Whom, I am sure was a horndog, and I would bet the ho’s were there for that exact reason.
So, I tend to believe Tara Reade and Juanita Broaddrick. I think Christine Crazy-Ford was a lying ho, and Democratic cultist, and attention ho. Because her story sucked. Tara Reade’s story does not suck. Nor does Broaddrick but to heck with both of them for waiting so long.
FWIW, if I was on Joe Biden’s jury, I would find there was reasonable doubt based on the evidence so far. I believe Tara, but she put her own case at jeopardy by waiting so long. She could just be a disgruntled ex-employee or an attention-ho.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Very few people ever claimed to have been raped by a clergyman. All but a single-digit minority claimed seduction or fondling.
Squeeky – according to Tara, she followed the chain to command to complain. Her complaint is in some black hole either in Biden’s papers or some vague Senate office.
My GUESS is The National Women’s Law Center won’t touch her case because the outfit is run by Democrats. A lot of these so-called non-profit public interest places are just DNC front organizations.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeak, that’s no guess. She said as much as that in her interview. Flat out. Not just anybody either but some of Joe’s people
Reade is credible, and this will eventually hurt Trump, because Biden will ultimately be dropped from the ticket.
Biden is a worse candidate than Hillary, if that’s even possible.
That’s what I am afraid of. Joe is a great candidate to run against! He will have to borrow some coke and meth from Hunter just to stay awake during the debates.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeaky, don’t worry. Biden doesn’t need meth. They are going to sew his eyes open and he will lip synch his answers.
America needs a Congressional investigation, a special prosecutor and a trial now, before Biden’s campaign advances one more step. Where’s Obergruppenfuhrer Mueller when you need him?
Wait! You mean leaders of a political party are not demanding a response from their leader to charges of sexual assault? Say it ain’t so!!! I am shocked and I’m sure JT is shocked to hear this. This must not stand!! Oh, the humanity!!!!!
It seems to evade you that Biden held himself out as a “champion of women’s rights.” As Tara Reade said. Hence the attention is even more well merited.
it is also his turn in the spotlight. Trump ran for POTUS and his dalliances and allegations were all examined under the microscope 3 years ago. Now Biden is up at bat. Let him take a swing at this curveball and see how he does.
I think you all are trying to just let him walk to first on this but it remains to be seen will he make it home.
Kurtz, he not only held himself out as a champion of women’s rights, he was one.
I fully expect him to come to bat on this. It won’t go away, though Trump’s did – some being paid to disappear – and were not fully vetted. Maybe Biden can call her not his type and that will be tjhe end of it. You think?
Damn tootin! My father taught me everything I know about how to treat women!
“Kurtz, he not only held himself out as a champion of women’s rights, he was one.”
So was Cosby.
“The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) was a United States federal law (Title IV, sec. 40001-40703 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, H.R. 3355) signed as Pub.L. 103–322 by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994 (codified in part at 42 U.S.C. sections 13701 through 14040). The Act provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress in cases prosecutors chose to leave un-prosecuted. The Act also established the Office on Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice.
VAWA was cosponsored by Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) in 1994 and gained support from a broad coalition of advocacy groups.[1][dead link] The Act passed through Congress with bipartisan support in 1994, clearing the United States House of Representatives by a vote of 235–195 and the Senate by a vote of 61–38, although the following year House Republicans attempted to cut the Act’s funding….”
except she was very attractive in her day. there’s a beautiful picture of her at the time out there. tara reade was gorgeous and anybody could see so.
her Biden organization underboss had scolded her for “dressing too provocatively”
personally i favor modest dress for women, especially in public and on the job, but, it does not give a man license to slam a woman up against the wall and finger her at will.
you think?
Kurtz, if addressed to me, my comment was a joke mocking Trump’s of made excuse.
PS Yes, we agree Reade was good looking in 1993.
yes i got it
if i recall, trump made that remark about two different women, one of whom was Jean Carroll, who also did not report anything, even though she was a person of sophistication and prominence herself at the time it supposedly happened, not quite the sort of woman at the time who could easily be intimidated into silence.
women need to understand, that a failure to timely report generally indicates that an unhappy incident was at best, not clear cut. sometimes there are rebuffed advances that do not amount to sexual assault, they are just mixed messages and misunderstandings, and women know that, so they don’t report, and then later when the man rises to further prominence, they reconsider and bring it forwards.
Ms Reade understands, apparently, that people have this reservation about her story.. I have that reservation about it too. But, she’s proceeding with it nonetheless.
I have to give Reade more benefit of the doubt than i do Jean Carroll. Reade was a young girl working in a political office for a political candidate, with stars in her eyes.
Ms Reade is not aging gracefully, but in her day she was beautiful., this is one of the pictures I’ve seen
https://www.laprogressive.com/tara-reade/
https://images.app.goo.gl/VT2yH1m7YruJUNH58
her looks are not the issue, anyways. women can be and are victimized all over the place without too much regard to looks. usually the mental question inside the perp’s head, is does the perp think he can get away with it?
here’s the best picture of her
https://twitter.com/ReadeAlexandra/status/1248105993369616384?s=20
tara reade may not have had guts when she was young, but she does now
as a woman’s looks fade, her courage and wisdom often grows
older women are gems of wisdom compared to girls. who are usually at best diamonds in the rough. if you have seen diamonds in the rough, usually not impressive.
intelligence and wisdom are not the same sorts of cognitive assets, related but not really all that close.
i know some people that are not intelligent, but are wise.
i tend to give men the edge on intelligence and women the edge on wisdom
you’ll notice that women also tend to live longer than men. maybe wisdom is part of the why– i am not sure.
sorry folks, you can call me sexist if you like but that’s how i see it
and he won’t go to bat on it. maybe a recorded statement only will be forthcoming….. the problem with biden as a candidate is not really tara reade, it something else far more significant. mental acuity or the lack thereof. which you guys obviously are in denial about
and the lack of it which makes Biden particularly unsuitable to make a public comment on these allegations. he would put his foot in his mouth. i would bet 100:1 odds he does not even remember her!
Trump by contrast has just subjected himself to an amazing amount of live questioning by hostile reporters in the past month setting a new record for “accessibility” which has been totally unacknowledged by an ungrateful press corps
should biden win, and I suspect he will be pushed aside in favor of someone else at the convention, but should he win, there will be no such level of accessibility whatsoever
well, either you guys find a way to shuffle him aside in favor of someone else like Cuomo or the Dem party will likely lose the POTUS again
maybe that’s why the real focus now is on the abstentee ballotting stuff, because a new narrative of “election cheating” is being fabricated in anticipation of the almost inevitable loss come November
Well Kurtz, that was a self gratifying post, ending with Trump’s re-election. I hope you enjoyed it.
PS Trump’s desperation does have him taking a few questions before going off and shutting it down and his lying self back slapping and scapegoating is shorter than the earlier telethons.
well if you guys can just get Biden off his horse at the right moment, at the convention, you could elevate Hillary.
we know this is what y’all really want, right?
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/clinton-waiting-in-the-wings-for-her-close-up/video/79d95833fa599ad9f1f300fc4202d0da
I am shocked…..Oh the humanity
What is Book’s reward for lying as she does? Day after day she populates this legal blog with imagined scores, slamming, skewering, creating faux arguments to which she replies with an imagined self-congratulatory roar. Is it noncompliance with her anti-psychotic meds or is it …..wait for it….. she knows more than her psychiatrists?
Book is a window in how the catholic church centuries ago killed, tortured and burned heretics whilst claiming divine mandate. Nazi Germany did too, and Bill Clinton’s defenders
He, Peggy.
I link more fact based post here than almost anyone, including the host. That you don’t know the difference is on you.
It is understandable why you smile so much
Who paid that bill?
Answer: The taxpayers, with the “White Man’s Money” – $22 trillion on the affirmative action/generational welfare state of the Great Society since 1965.
The Need Grows!
Dang!
I wonder if actual Americans are gullible idiots, susceptible to mortal guilt complexes.
I link more fact based post here than almost anyone, including the host.
Aha! It’s all about operational definitions. The only logical explanation is you’re using the part of the definition for factual under the heading Antonym: fictional, fictionalized, fictitious, nondocumentary, nonfactual, nonhistorical, unhistorical.
peggysue may not be aware of your history here, but many of us do. The archives have all your contributions, at least under your most recent user name after being kicked out of the blog. Regardless of your user name, you have been consistently wrong and proven a liar. You and Biden choosing truth over facts. Pathetic.
It is and always was about political messaging and gamesmanship. Of course she praised him. The whole point is to make it go away, and if he’s making the right moves, it will. She can offer words of encouragement.
A generation ago, people like Michael Kinsley were alternately amused and dismayed by the amount of humbug you’d see in the newspapers. What we’ve learned in the intervening years is that things can always get worse, and they have. No clue if Kinsley has noticed, or would admit it if he did.
We actually need a better professional-managerial class, ones who respect the rules at least as often as did my father’s contemporaries. We also would benefit from a more discerning electorate. The Delaware electorate accepted this clown for over four decades, and, as far as I can tell, the Delaware Republican Party never put much effort into persuading the Delaware electorate to do otherwise. Now, Democratic voters tell the world he’s the optimal candidate to sit in the President’s chair (which Andrew Yang, Michael Bloomberg, John Delaney, John Hickenlooper, and Steve Bullock are, we are assured, not).
TIA, have you heard who the minority GOP electorate accepted as their presidential candidate in 2016? Unbelievable isn’t it?
The economy lost 4.8% GDP in the last quarter and is expected to lose as much as 40% in the 2nd quarter and we don;t have enough tests to reopen the economy. Hellllooooo JT??
Yesterday I was reading a sports blog. They also were not discussing the economy.
It was shocking.
Again I ask, why would any sane, decent White person vote for a Democrat?
Nancy is just spewing out feel good words that will help Democrats get elected and connection to reality is purely coincidental.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
I’m not sure whether it is Nancy or Joe, who have worse mental problems. But, it is not very heartening to know that Nancy is third in line to be President, and Joe wants to be President. That would mean two out of three who could lead our country, could easily wind up in a mental facility.
We are still amazed at the glaring difference in how doggedly Jonny pursues Biden and leaves a letch like Trump go with hardly a comment. No Jonny, you will not get the appointment to the SCOTUS you so obsequiously desire.
Your heroes pursued Trump non-stop for four years, it is time to change the investigations to someone on your side of the aisle. I guess that in your eyes, it is never time to stop the Trump derangement sickness.
Prof. Turley is a fan of truth and fairness, something that few Socialists appreciate.
He uses that SCOTUS trope regularly with new and different avatars
Weak
Democrats pick and choose their victims carefully.
Democrats pick and choose their victims carefully.