He was actually a lot worse during the Clinton Years. He was one of The Villagers, along w Sally Quinn, Andrea Mitchell, Sam Donaldson and David Broder who never got over the fact that Clinton wouldn’t hand them his own scalp.
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The guy who wrote rape fantasy essays attacking Bloomberg? The guy whose campaign is riddled with misogynistic surrogates? He isn’t going to touch that. It just highlights Warren’s hypocrisy that she treats Bernie with kid gloves and goes after Bloomberg with a ferocious anger, when Bernie is just as riddled with problems of misogyny. That’s why she’s not catching on. People see through what she’s doing even if some of her comments about Bloomberg are accurate.
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But how would anyone know the difference?
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LOL…Tweety has finally fallen out of his tree.
I do get what’s going on here though. It happens when deposing people too. You’re trying to pin someone down and make them take a position, and while what they are saying can clearly be understood or interpreted to mean that they’re taking a certain position, you don’t want it in “interpretable” format, but they’re also not coming out and just saying it, so you end up pushing more. So I can see why, “I believe her” wasn’t enough. And Warren clearly didn’t want to use the “L-word”. He should have accepted the “not telling the truth” as sufficient though.
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Which is why I give a small, monthly donation to Pro Publica. Their latest story, which I haven’t seen anywhere in the major news outlets, is about massive fraud and embezzlement in the Border Patrol union. And Trump Inc is one of the best podcasts about Trump’s shady business dealings there is. Actual fact-based reporting!
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The corruption is rampant down there. I often wonder how much of their frantic need to close off the border so that there are only discrete entry points is meant to increase their bribes…because yes, they’re taking bribes left and right for looking the other way on contraband. Tunnels and homemade submarines and cutting through fences…that all decreases the demand for their “services.”
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That certainly jibes with his ca. 2000-05 GWB worship.
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Elizabeth Warren helped Dow Chemical minimize payments to tens of thousands of women for the damage done by faulty breast implants. This was done by taking the Dow Corning subsidiary into bankruptcy and hiding all the money in the parent company. This not only screwed those women over, it shafted the other legitimate creditors.
Last summer, her lawyers contacted one of the women’s advocates to try to put a happy face on it.
Liz doesn’t get to do #metoo. She actively worked to fuck sick women over.
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You’re accusing an extremely wealthy and powerful white man of behaving horribly towards a female employee?
The powerful white man has denied it. Are you accusing a powerful white man of lying?
Are you sure about your accusation?
Are you really, really sure?
So, to be clear, you’re saying a powerful white man is lying?
That is what you’re saying isn’t it? Because, you know, you could go through some things…
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I gave up on Tweety in 2008 when he went after Obama for being completely out of touch with working class Americans because, and I am not making this up, he had orange juice while visiting voters in a dinner instead of coffee.
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Also, he and W bonded over their histories of substance abuse.
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Oh.
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Because she wasn’t trying to frame it as being about him, but about the woman involved. She said it in a perfectly reasonable way: ‘I believe her, so he’s not telling the truth’. When asked ‘why would he lie?’ she answered ‘why would she?’
It’s aimed at Bloomberg because he’s the candidate, but she’s making it clear her position is about the credibility of the victim, and her judgment about Bloomberg’s credibility is a result of that, rather than ‘she must be right because he’s a liar’.
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Honestly, as soon as Chris Matthews opens his mouth, I want to cut him off with ‘Ok, boomer’. He is like, the living embodiment of that concept.
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am not a fan of Mathews. however. its about time someone asked Warren about her NDAs allegations…what right does she have to bring up issues, that she was not involved in, and happened 20+ years ago…did she ask the people involved if they were ok with the exposure and the legal issues that may come about? who is the pregnant woman who told her this? it would be great if she talked about issues that really affect people’s live…i like Bloomberg…the fact that he started with nothing and built a thriving business…that employs thousands of people…wth has Warren created?
I don’t think Matthews has anymore solid evidence the remark is not true than Warren does that it is. In fact there’s nothing but the testimony of one woman. So you have to take a step back and look at the mess. The remark is consistent with Bloomberg’s selfish and crass persona. It’s easy to see him saying it. It’s impossible to think Bloom was sympathetic with the woman. He doesn’t do that. No one knows for sure but like Warren I know Bloomberg is capable of such a remark, that it’s typical of him and I imagine he said it.
That. She created that. As well as helping to educate her students when she was a college professor, and oh yeah…
Warren also created her. Literally, in her uterus. And her brother.
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Apparently, there’s going to be a show on the History Channel next month where two guys open and eat really, really, really old canned food that should have been thrown away before most of us were born. The commercials show them opening ancient cans and exposing the foul, greyed contents.
For some reason, those commercials make me think of Chris Matthews.
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The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau for one.
ETA: Oops, too slow.
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What people sometime forget is that mistrust and betrayal come from seemingly improbable sources:
Let’s take MY favorite candidate, Liz Warren. And the sleaziest man on earth, Donald Trump.
I have no illusions about Trump and every sin he commits, I will look at mainly in terms of how to combat it. The term “betrayal” has come and gone long ago.
But what about Warren?
If she defers to Sanders and trains her righteous-sounding vitriol on Bloomberg and avoids saying much of anything about Sanders (even to the point of stopping the normal chiding which is normal between and among candidates), what do the people who have been working on her campaign feel?
That they are working for a legitimate contender in Warren
Or that they are, after all, only working for Sanders all along
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