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Creepy Cory Booker Admits To Sexual Assault In 1992 Stanford Column

Billybadass69 said:
https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar...r-admits-sexual-assault-1992-stanford-column/

Leftist hero exposed as creepy weirdo

disavowal needed immediately
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From the linked article:

'Sen. Booker is attempting to derail Brett Kavanaugh’s entire career over an unsubstantiated allegation from 35 years ago involving a teenage party where everyone was imbibing and no one really knows who, exactly, was at the party, or when, where, or if it happened."

A reader might drown in the logical morass of that sentence. Putting aside that what Booker is attempting to derail is a Supreme Court appointment, the inference is that if the allegation were substantiated instead of "unsubstantiated" such derailment might be called for, but then it was "from 35 years ago" and involved "a teenage party", in which case why does it matter if the allegation is substantiated, but then "no one really knows" anything about the party in which case it can't be substantiated even if you wanted to try to substantiate it.

The nonsense underlying the argument's Alice in Wonderland reasoning in that the main effort from Kavanaugh's supporters has been to prevent a serious inquiry into the allegation that possibly could substantiate it and thereby prove that, even if it was an excusable teenage misdeed, he's a man now and he's lying.
 
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Not a Booker fan, but that, IMO, was not sexual assault.
 
Billybadass69 said:
https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar...r-admits-sexual-assault-1992-stanford-column/

Leftist hero exposed as creepy weirdo

disavowal needed immediately
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I wasn't betting that a website named 'Red State' which sites Fox as a source would be very impartial but I read the rubbish anyway. First, and most importantly, the reason we know about the groping incident involving Booker is because Booker told us about it. He wrote publicly about it -- and used it as a way to explain how he evolved as a person. He never lied about it, he never denied it and he's not a SC nominee either. It's the conservatives attempt to deflect again, the 'whataboutism' they're famous for. There's a vast difference between a sexual assault and attempted rape and two teenagers kissing and the guy touching her breast. It absolutely makes for a very different situation than faces Kavanaugh.

Nevertheless, we understand the desperation on the right and the long-standing history of fake news and conspiracy theories that they resort to when they refuse to acknowledge the facts.
 
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HumblePi said:
Nevertheless, we understand the desperation on the right and the long-standing history of fake news and conspiracy theories that they resort to when they refuse to acknowledge the facts.
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Got an example?
 
Fletch said:
Got an example?
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LOL! oh wait... this is a joke, right?

I've got an idea, let's put every single member of Congress under oath, attached to a polygraph and ask each of them in front of the entire Senate if, when they were in high school, they indulged in any type of sexual touching (petting) or even (gasp) intercourse. I would give a 24 carat solid-gold trophy to any one of them that passed the polygraph.
 
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Instead of going forward with a Grassley Kangaroo Hearing to hear Dr. Ford testify under oath, I propose on Thursday a 3 Round MMA-style bout between Booker and Kavanaugh. Let Dana White choose the referee.

If Cory wins, Kavanaugh withdraws. If Brett win, Kavanaugh takes a seat on the USSC.

Many of us would find this far more entertaining than the current circus!
 
Fletch said:
Got an example?
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I just want to be certain that what you're asking for are examples of 'fake news' put out there by the conservative media such as Fox News, Alex Jones, Brietbart, etc. I don't want to use up too much of this sites broadband with one single comment so I'll just give you an abbreviated list of fake stories, phony conspiracy theories and outright lies. MIT has actually done a study on how hard-right conservatives have shared more fake news stories than any other group. The University of Oxford project also found that Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’ on Facebook and Twitter

Let's begin;

Trump's birther issue claiming Obama was an illegitimate president because he was born in Kenya and is Muslim.

Trump's claim that immediately after 9/11 there were thousands of Muslims standing in New Jersey watching and cheering.

When she was a Fox contributor, Sarah Palin claimed that Democratic government committees --'death panels' -- would decide whether or not you deserved to receive the health care you needed to live.

In May 2017, Fox News reported that Rich’s murder may have been ordered by powerful Democratic Party insiders. “This blows the whole Russia collusion narrative completely out of the water," Fox News personality Sean Hannity said. A week later, Fox quietly retracted its story, but Hannity kept pushing it.

Hannity, described by Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist Bret Stephens as Fox News’s “dumbest anchor,” has harped on the idea that members of the so-called Deep State -- entrenched liberal bureaucrats in the federal government, especially in the U.S. intelligence services -- are undertaking a “soft coup” against President Donald Trump. Former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner said Hannity, went over to the “dark side” and is not coming back.

Charlottesville. Sean Hannity, questioned the whole event, passing along a conspiracy theory that there weren’t even actual protesters at the rally -- they were “actors hired by a publicity firm.”

Uranium One: Trump recently the Uranium One deal a “modern-day Watergate.” Sean Hannity offered a Fox News headline: “Hillary Clinton's ties to Russian uranium deal largely ignored by anti-Trump media, and other media disasters.” The conspiracy theory was entirely and irrefutably debunked. What Uranium One was a deal that nine members of The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved unanimously. None of them was Hillary Clinton. There was a donor who separately gave Hillary Clinton donations at a time when she was not Secretary of State. The two things cross in the night -- they have no relation to each other. The members of CFIUS have been very clear Hillary Clinton had nothing to do with approving that deal.

Sebastian Gorka and 'lone wolf'. Former Trump White House aide and regular Fox News talker Sebastian Gorka has blamed liberals and “fake news” for making terrorist attacks more likely in the U.S.“[W]e have to jettison this idea of a ‘lone wolf,’ Gorka said on Fox News. "‘Lone wolf’ was invented as a phrase, was made popular by the Obama administration, to make Americans disconnect the dots." The Obama administration did not invent, or make popular, “lone wolf” as a phrase.

The right depicted the outspoken student survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as mouthpieces of the FBI, pawns of left-wing activist billionaire George Soros, stooges of the Democratic Party — or all of the above. Fox conspiracy theories claimed that David Hogg was a 'crisis actor' that took advantage of tragedy for political gain.

Then of course one of the most disgusting conspiracy theories ever was that of ultra right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones who claimed that the Sandy Hook murders of 20 kids under the age of 7 and six adults was a hoax, made up as a political tool against gun rights activists. This was the one of the most despicable things any human could do except be the shooter himself because it cause so much pain to the already grieving parents that some received death threats and had to move out of their homes and out of the state several times to escape harassment from right-wingnuts who believed the story.

I'm out of time and room, that will have to do for now, but there's plenty more.
 
Billybadass69 said:
https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar...r-admits-sexual-assault-1992-stanford-column/

Leftist hero exposed as creepy weirdo

disavowal needed immediately
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Do you have any other source for this. Redstate.com appears to be an unreliable source, I'm not worried about the bias, but the lack of fact checking.

Red State bias

RIGHT BIAS

These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy. See all Right Bias sources.

Factual Reporting: MIXED

Notes: Red State is a news opinion blog run by Erick Erickson, a TV and radio commentator. The information on the blog has loaded language and is right biased based on story selection. Erick Erickson does not have a great track record with fact checkers. (7/19/2016) Updated (4/6/2017)
 
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