NAme-CALLing is UGLY, LIBtard scuM.
I hope TPM is proud that they are now among the vanguard of progressive outlets like Fox News in chasing down the creepy Joe Biden angle.
Yeah, this is the ONLY place Iâve seen the âcreepy uncle joeâ memeâŚand itâs being pushed hard.
I am assuming this is because TPM has been enlisted by the Clintons to help quash Joe in the invisible primary - stick a knife in him early with an ugly whisper campaign.
Joe Biden makes Gaffes and can be reasonably teased for being a buffoon sometimes, but even then, itâs because heâs being almost indiscreetly honest about something. Iâm not sure I really consider that a venal sin.
Knifing people in the back with a whisper campaign, is, on the other hand, a pretty ugly and slimy character trait - the kind I expect to see from the GOP.
HehâŚyeah, but the Clintons clearly have long memoriesâŚ
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Is there going to be any TPM response to lech-gate other than we make hideous comments and weâre liberal sexists for bringing up the fact that the piece wasnât backed by any proof and the editorial comments went way beyond the pale?
The TPM-sliming-Biden-for-Hillary thing sounds like absolute tin foil hogwash to me but unless thereâs some sort of discussion of the issues with that piece and the editorial framing of it, itâs going to gain momentum.
I thought the original piece was horrendous myself, but itâs an opinion piece and I could see several of my 20-something feminist cousins sharing. I appreciate the follow up article which reveals how an actual act of kindness and encouragement can be so horribly misinterpreted. I think it shows the original writer may still be too close to her own teenage years to appreciate that teens often react with apparent withdrawl to adults providing unsolicited assistance. Or who knows, perhaps the writer was projecting memories from one of her own teen experiences which she still feels very acutely. It doesnât mean the adult (Biden) was being irresponsible or was sexually harassing the teen.
I am glad that Josh stands up for his writers when theyâve been erroneously called out for what theyâve written.
But in the case of the original article by Alana Levinson, Josh erred egregiously by defending the swill that she passed off as an âopinion piece.â
It was a hit pieceâwithout any questionâand didnât contain even a scintilla of fact to back up her contention.
If Josh is serious about what TPM publishes, he should post an apology for allowing that garbage in the first place, and if sheâs going to stay employed at TPM, Josh should pay for Ms. Levinson to take some classes in responsible journalism, which seems like foreign territory to her, judging by her article.
There was a video from CNN posted to Youtube with a nearly identical header. That seems to be whatâs passing for journalism these days: âOMG lk at ths vid!â
Thanks - I missed that. I honestly just ignored the first piece a bit, but when I saw âmoreâ being made of it (keeping it alive in the cycle), I just had to comment.
And here I thought old quick to judge media had the âapparently cringe-worthyâ market sewn upâŚ
Oh, FFS! Two weeks after the 2008 Presidential election the Huffington Post ran an article reporting/alleging then President-elect Obama was going to dump then Vice President Biden from the ticket in 2012, replacing him with Hillary Clinton. The article further alleged the move was being planned to grease the skids for Senator Clintonâs 2016 Presidential run. That stupid and ignorant article was jeered about, laughed about and HP was ridiculed for even running it. The article disappeared from the pages of HP but for some, âassumingâ the Huffington Post had âbeen enlisted by the Clintons to help quash Joe in the invisible primary - stick a knife in him early with an ugly whisper campaignâ was gospel. Your comment deserves the same amount of ridicule the HP article received back then.
Donât forget that Biden wasnât the only target of the garbage. After failing to back up charges of sexism and sexual harassment of Biden, and after admitting in the piece that nobody has come forward to claim that Biden sexually harassed them, Levinson then accused liberals of giving Biden a pass on his sexism and sexual harassment just because he is on our side.
On TPMâs Facebook page, TPM took the accusations against TPM commenters a step further, stating that our strong objections to Levinsonâs nonsense was proof that she was right. The fact that we offered substantive reasons for our objections (Joe touches males and females alike, the touches are not forced or sexual in nature, sexual harassment has definitions not in evidence in Levinsonâs piece, etc.) was ignored by TPM.
Levinson has gone beyond declaring that Biden (and, therefore, liberals) are guilty as charged. She is declaring that Biden is guilty even though there is nobody claiming to be a victim.
Yeah, pretty much:
Uncle Joe Biden Is Not Creepy, Says Girl Biden Kinda Creeped On http://t.co/ODx7ZnfJEq
â Alana Levinson (@alanalevinson) January 12, 2015
I really canât believe TPM keeps digging.
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Josh has just banned and hidden the comment thread from the first Creepy Lecherous Joe Biden article
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Alana has tripled down on Twitter by writing, "Uncle Joe Biden Is Not Creepy, Says Girl Biden Kinda Creeped On http://jezebel.com/uncle-joe-biden-is-not-creepy-says-girl-biden-kinda-cr-1678839192 âŚ
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And then Alana, accuses TPMâs readers of âtrollingâ her - Alana Levinson @alanalevinson ¡ 6h 6 hours ago what if in ten years iâm stilling being trolled about the biden piece.
So I guess now all weâre all sexist liberal trolls, and not merely sexist liberals. Three, two, one until TPM bans and hides the comment thread from this article as wellâŚ
And for the record, the link to Jezebel Alana tweeted leads to an article that itself is followed by lots of (undoubtably sexist liberal troll) commenters objecting to the premise that Joe Biden is some sort of sexual deviant that weâre all too afraid to confront on his lecherous behavior. And most of those commenters are (evidently self-hating) women. This was my one of my favorite posts by a commenter there (again, I repeat, on Jeze-frikkin-bell), written by a woman:
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Between this and the whole Sia/Elastic Heart controversy, this line from Thou Shalt Always Kill feels more relevant than ever: âThou shalt not think any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a paedophile. Some people are just nice.â
Seriously? Heâs using an excavator instead of a shovel if that is true. <â it isnât.
Edit: he has closed comments, but the thread is still accessible:
The move is unusual and unnecessary, but not nearly as bad as disappearing the thread.
Yeah, awesome. This is the writer who claimed that men canât tell women what makes them uncomfortable. She has no problem telling people who met Joe Biden that their feelings about the encounter are not valid and should be replaced by her feelings.
You got a winner, Josh. Sheâs everything TPM didnât used to stand for.
Edit: to be clear, Iâm not saying men get to define what is and isnât comfortable, just that it is wrong to disqualify them from the conversation.
There is no coordinated Clinton/TPM conspiracy but individual preferences may always be in the mix.
TPM ran a anti-Warren piece by Erin Matson that did not disclose the authorâs efforts in helping Hillaryâs primary campaign in Iowa, nor her previous Clinton-supportive tweets.
How Can Elizabeth Warren Run In 2016 If She Canât Utter âAbortionâ?
Did it ever occur to some of you that theyâre all on the same page? Warren is doing great work in the Senate.
Why the tinfoil hats?
It was definitely gone - I doubled-checked before posting, but I am glad to see its back. There should be some sort of visible historical record that people fought the smear and didnât stay silent.