WAPO dropped it.

And now it's back.

Mission accomplished

My God. What’s next?

Here trying to hear Fairfax speak to press: DPVA staff, Kirk Cox press secretary, Dels. Joe Lindsey, Jennifer Carroll Foy, Cliff Hayes.

Link to tweet

Fairfax. I could not get on the site...I have heard it is a Breitbart operation.

And no, for the hundredth time, I am not condoning racism.

I AM saying that the people on this board and the Party in general fail to recognize the pattern of the attacks, and until we do the fascists will keep on winning and we will keep eating our own and throwing the remains overboard for the sharks.

How many of us wise DUers could stand that kind of RW scrutiny?

Thank you!

in this case. We're experiencing a moment of information warfare, up close and personal. Color me very suspicious on this Fairfax attack.

If people believe the attack.

people. An accusation is not a fact and no one should be ruined because of one.

And where do we find these paragons of perfection and purity, to run for office?

incidents than white men.

Big house publishing...so I wouldn't count on that helping us. I think both stories are BS...35 year old pic and now a convenient accusation against the man who would replace Northam.

Dems: Look at this noble woman who worked her way up from poverty, supported her children, went to college, and now is running for office.

Dems: We get misty-eyed at the fulfillment of the American Dream. We vote for her in a heartbeat.

GOP: Welfare Queen, fatherless home, drives a Cadillac on our dime. Who does she think she is?

GOP base: Rage at confirmation of their ugliest stereotypes about black women.

Hekate: The RW makes shit up. Stop trying to work within their rules. Encourage Democrats of every color and gender and background to run, and have their backs when the inevitable smears are peddled. Period.

Well done Hekate

Admitting to a racist costume and then clearly not grasping the importance of understanding how racist images hurt POC in the ensuing press conference is not a smear. It's an embarrassment, a display of incompetence, and indicative of a total lack of judgment. Northam should resign.

...and I do not condone racism.

Buh-bye.

I respect you, Effie, and never in my 71 years have I condoned racism. Please bear that in mind.

What has infuriated me this past week is not so much that this Gov will have to resign, but that we political junkies here at DU, and Democrats in general, are so surprised each and every time and so willing to toss fellow Dems overboard without doing our own fact-checking first.

Three (3) times last week we were presented with the ruin of a Democratic politician in which the information came from some entity of the Right Wing. I'm sure it was just a coinkydink. But I would have felt a bit better about (for instance) Al Franken's demise if his fellow Senators had actually investigated it first, because last week it came out here that Roger Stone was the probable source. Isn't that special.

As for Virginia, the Lt Gov is now under attack and may also have to resign. What a coinkydink that the state government will revert to the GOP.

No, I don't condone racism, misogyny, etc. in Democrats. But I am also not going to take accusations and rumors at face value until we have done our own due diligence. Too much has come from the Right Wing.

I defy you to find one person on this planet who HASN'T fucked shit up at least once. And if it's not racism, it will be some other issue.

than the original fuckup.

How about redemption. Northam just enacted pro-choice law that is amazing, and if Roe goes down makes sure Virginia women have access to abortion. He expanded Medicaid. He has done good things.

Did the ratfuckers force Governor Coonman to say himself that it was in fact him in the photo? So was he lying then, or now?

Did the ratfuckers take the photo 35 years ago? Did they publish the yearbook? Did they hold the dance competition too?

Damn that's crafty, isn't it?

Admit it early and go from there. If it is out there, and you get elected, you're inoculated.

By the time the GOP got done with him, his reputation was in tatters and half the country believed them and not him.

Don't you get it yet? They'll take your photos of you with your beloved first born child and spread two falsehoods: the kid is the anti-Christ and oh by the way you beat him.

incompetent responses to the discovery of those costumes that show they still don't take racism seriously. Full speed ahead! This guy who was within a second of moonwalking in front of reporters definitely has what it takes to ride this out!

in blackface?

I am saying (again and again and again) that as long as we take every accusation at face value and immediately throw our own overboard without confirming either the source or the facts, then we are stupidly playing the GOP's game, and losing every time.

Ratfucking has many manifestations. The Swiftboating of John Kerry was what is known as an example of one of them, not an equivalency. Ratfuckers lie, but they also tell the truth. Wouldn't you prefer to be sure which it is?

You are better than this.

I wish you luck.

The most galling part of it is that ratfuckers have been doing far worse and getting away with it. And, they'll keep doing it right in front of our very eyes, all while condemning Democrats for something they did (or allegedly did, as in Fairfax case) decades ago.

Thank you.

Exactly what you said!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211770822

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/northam-yearbook-photo-was-unearthed-by-outlet-associated-with-white-nationalists/

Big League Politics was founded in 2017 by a group of former Breitbart Newsstaffers, who decided that the nationalist media outlet previously run by Steve Bannon had gotten too mainstream. BLP started as the media arm of a pro-Trump, “populist nationalist” political action committee, which bills itself as the “attack dogs” for the American First Agenda. The site is now owned by North Carolina political consultant Reilly O’Neal, who worked for Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate whose run was derailed by child molestation charges, and Corey Stewart, a Republican from Virginia popular with white supremacists for his support of Confederate monuments. Last year, Stewart unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and the site covered his race extensively.

The man who first posted the Northam yearbook photo is BLP editor-in-chief Patrick Howley, a former reporter and provocateur for Breitbart and Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller. Howley has made news in the past, but for more (sic) ignoble reasons. In 2014, he and Carlson were forced to apologize to reporter Rosie Gray, then at BuzzFeed, after Howley tweeted a pair of gross, sexist comments about her. Breitbart also suspended Howley in 2016 after he publicly questioned whether one of his co-workers had lied when she said she’d been manhandled by Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski at a press event.



https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-lt-gov-fairfax-denies-sexual-assault-allegation-amid-political-storm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fpolitics%20%28Internal%20-%20Politics%20-%20Text%29

The allegation was first posted by Big League Politics, the same political blog that published the now-infamous yearbook photo showing someone in blackface and someone in a KKK costume, from Northam's 1984 yearbook page. ,,,,

The blog, in the post that prompted Fairfax's denial, claimed that a fellow at Stanford University said a man sexually assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Mass.

“Imagine you were sexually assaulted during the DNC Convention in Boston in 2004 by a campaign staffer. You spend the next 13 years trying to forget it ever happened. Until one day you find out he’s the Democratic candidate for statewide office in a state some 3000 miles away, and he wins that election in November 2017,” a post from the reported accuser said, according to the blog. “Then, by strange, horrible luck, it seems increasingly likely that he’ll get a VERY BIG promotion.” ….

“The (Washington) Post carefully investigated the claim for several months,” Fairfax’s office said in a statement. “After being presented with facts consistent with the Lt. Governor’s denial of the allegation, the absence of any evidence corroborating the allegation, and significant red flags and inconsistencies within the allegation, the Post made the considered decision not to publish the story.” ....

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resign in a box doesn't it? Charges of sexual assault are a lot more serious than a stupid photo in a college yearbook.

How about that?

to dance as Michael Jackson.

And the charges against Fairfax could not be substantiated after months of reporters digging into the story. No one said Fairfax had ever behaved like that and she'd told no one before she went to the Post.

I know the name of the woman who made them. She's a political science professor, Stanford fellow and HuffPo contributor.

The Post wouldn't print the allegations at the time because the incident occurred in a hotel room at the 2004 DNC in Boston and there were no corroborating witnesses. The Post also dug into Fairfax's past to see if any similar allegations had been made. There were none.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-denies-sex-assault-allegation-from-2004/2019/02/04/05fb0f6c-272b-11e9-ad53-824486280311_story.html?utm_term=.784ec7a2c788

this now.

care because it's doing the right thing. It's called unilateral disarmament.

...which Republicans felt was insufficient reason to deny him a life time appointment to the Supreme Court.

Northam left a smoking gun in his past. I don't see that here.

it. A 35 year old accusation ...a pic in a college yearbook ....should not force Northam to resign and give the GOP an opportunity to redo the election. That is what this is about.

Kavanaugh's accuser had substantial contemporaneous corroboration. There were also witnesses who stated they saw him engage in similar behavior in other circumstances.

At this point, all we have is a literal he-said, she-said, with no witnesses and no corroborating evidence at all. There could be more that comes out, and if there is, we could be talking about a serious allegation. But at this point, there's nothing except an unsupported allegation with very odd timing under some very suspicious circumstances.

Northam's pictures and babbling lies and backtracking are in a category all to themselves and even if we were to believe his OWN account (or should I say "accounts" since his story keeps changing) he needs to go.

And they won't gain control of the General Assembly. That's my prediction, anyway.

and until convicted of a crime

Use the GOP standard.

good job. The Democrats are poised to overturn the legislature for the first time in 40 plus years. The Republicans have been trying to force Attorney General Herring out too...saying he needs to resign if he plans to run for governor next election. This is a ratfucking coup ...an attempt to replace a Democratic governor with one of their own.

Made a mistake, who has not. He seems to be a different person now. I would say the same if he were belonged to another party.