Dunn And Biden-- A Love Story
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Fast forward to today when SKDKnickerbocker, (did they name themselves after Cholly? Are they that self-aware?) PR firm to the stars of the policial firmament, can claim the same mantle-- more powerful than their "clients"-- showing no mercy to their opponents while protecting and enabling their benefactors-- aka, those they have made politically powerful so they can do the bidding of their even more powerful donors. Today's Knickerbocker is much more dangerous because shilling for politicians instead of mere celebrities can make a loser like Biden into the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party-- a candidate who will lose to Donald Trump! The latest ABC/Washington Post poll shows Biden and Trump in a statistical tie.
Case in point-- Anita Dunn, the "D" in SKD. Not only is she "senior advisor" to Joe Biden, but her firm is also the PR arm of the Time's Up movement, so when Tara Reade approached Time's Up for help in exposing Biden's sexual assault on her, the firm held out their 501(c)3 tax status as a reason to refuse to help her, saying that because Biden was a candidate they couldn't get involved. Really? Then all powerful candidates can assault women at will! No tax lawyer supports that claim!
When The Intercept first reported on Time's Up and Reade the details of the assault were not detailed but a subsequent tape and interview withe NewsOne made it clear that this went far beyond "touching" or "hair sniffing"-- it was sexual assault.
Last week, after the details of the assault became public, Krystal Ball interviewed Ryan Grim:
But yesterday she interviewed Tara Reade and followed up with a scathing commentary:
Krystal charges that CNN and MSNBC will "gladly provide a venue for allegations against the outsiders upon whom their status and access do not depend. They've got to be dragged kicking and screaming to do their job when it comes to their own ideological and class brethren." says Krystal Ball. "Why now?" the pundits ask. She's been trying to get her story out for months. Before she reached out to Time's Up, she tried reaching out to Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris but they too are members of the same club as Anita Dunn and Joe Biden.
Krystal again: "If a claim like this had been made against Bernie Sanders, or even Donald Trump, or another media villain like Edward Snowden, do you think the accuser would have any trouble getting press? Do you think it would fall to independent and alternative news to break the story if a woman who worked with Bernie in the 1990s made a credible claim of sexual assault? Do you think CNN and MSNBC would bury their heads in the sand? Every reporter in this town would be breaking down their door to be the first to tell that story." I might add that we could look at what happened to Julian Assange when he took of his condom during consensual sex...
It is beyond time for the Democratic Party to advocate for public funding of elections and get these "foul creatures" as a party insider described them, out of our politics for good!
"Tara is trending on Twitter and all the blue checks and the gender warriors are nowhere to be found," Ball said. "Their principles seem to have abandoned them now that it threatens their access to the Biden campaign and their ability to grift off their coziness and proximity to power." I would add that SDK Knickerbocker is not proximite to power-- I would say they ARE the power and Biden "grifts" off them. More coming.
Labels: Joe Biden, Krystal Ball, Ryan Grim, SKDKnickerbocker, Tara Reade
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 5:00 PM
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Both parties are incredibly self-centered and corrupt. Where is the news here?
To quote Mr. Atomic Underpants: " If the President feels that it is in the best interest of the country that he grab 'em by the pussy, then it can't an impeachable offense."
What Kamala, Liz and the DNC prove, is that they don't need the "too"; as it's always been #ME.
Trump has proven that the US doesn't need a President and that the office is actually detrimental to our democracy & our nation. He's yet to be checked and he's yet to be balanced. That he's interfering with the process of virus containment shows that we gain nothing from the office of the Presidency. It's an obsolete position.
nodding in agreement with 8:14.
"Before (Reade) reached out to Time's Up, she tried reaching out to Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris but they too are members of the same club as Anita Dunn and Joe Biden."
We already knew about Harris, who pulled an obamanation wrt mnuchin and foreclosure fraud. But this seals the deal on warren. party first. just another one of those.
I guess Reade knew better than to try Pelosi.
The question, now that the story is out in the open, is just how and how badly will the democrap party destroy Ms. Reade to keep their fascist jesus atop their ticket.
@8:57
Without the Internet media, the corporatist media would have buried this story long ago. Katie Halper in particular helped to force this story into the corporate media where it is getting Reade's message out, and just may bring about replacing Biden with Cuomo (if they can get Cuomo to agree to take the post).
Anon @10:32 PM.
Cuomo may not have the same personal baggage as Biden, but policy wise he is just a younger version of Biden -- just an absolute turd. e.g. even right now in the middle of a pandemic he is pushing for cuts to the states Medicaid program. He is awful. There was reporting several months ago too that Cuomo was effectively positioned to be Biden's Chief of Staff, so there isn't likely to be a lot of substantive difference. Both are funded by the same interests. Cuomo was also one of Biden's first major endorsements.
The "corporatist" media is still largely ignoring this story. That will likely be the case as long as Sanders is still a declared candidate and there are still primaries to be run. Cuomo is getting favorable media attention now, precisely because he is a status quo politician who puts big corporate interests ahead of working people. He's getting a pass from them the same way that Biden did. What's happening in NY is a scandal -- the problems didn't begin this past week either. In the background of all of this are closures of public hospitals, which have been replaced with luxury condos. Cuomo was also slow to act in terms of calls for physical distancing. He's receiving the same kind of uncritical coverage that Guiliani received after 9/11. Don't believe the hype.
I don't agree with Jay Inslee much on policy either -- he's good on the issue of climate change. In terms of the actual public response, he's been a lot more proactive than Cuomo.
Don't mistake my citing a real news item for advocacy, 12:38. After reading about Cuomo's effort to throw people off of Medicaid in New York State, he couldn't buy my vote with all the money the Congress just gave to corporations.
Why does DWT keep citing Krystal Ball as if she's a credible source on anything? She and her far right wing broadcast partner are clearly forbidden from doing any videos on Trump or any right winger, yet she constantly cries about how MSDNC won't broadcast anything critical of Biden. It's the pot calling the kettle black.
12:38, you make solid points wrt Cuomo. These need to be made, given the hero's coronation he's been granted by media.
But your point absolutely validates 10:32's assertion. If the DNC/democraps are going to try to swap out a demented corrupt neoliberal fascist who will LOSE, they sure as hell are going to replace him with a younger, more vital corrupt neoliberal fascist -- no matter what voters (who vote) want (which, as it turns out, is an "electable" corrupt neoliberal fascist). And today's shiny new corrupt neoliberal fascist is Cuomo.
and, yeah, he's total shit. Any cursory review of his actions shows he also has blood on his hands (but his hands are clutching a lot of corporate money).
But this is America. only the REALLY stupid voters vote.
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