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Tara Reade abruptly canceled the interview - (Original Post) DURHAM D May 2020 OP
*snap* Ninga May 2020 #1
Not so fast... lame54 May 2020 #3
Drat! Too quick with my snap...... Ninga May 2020 #6
It was a ninja snap. Chellee May 2020 #48
trump has DownriverDem May 2020 #29
Yep PatSeg May 2020 #32
Agreed, Trump won't let go of this one. Miles Archer May 2020 #38
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2020 #2
I suspect that is more like it. Perhaps she wanted to dictate the questions, and Wallace rejected still_one May 2020 #17
Welcome to DU wryter2000 May 2020 #36
Welcome RGinNJ May 2020 #37
Joe Biden never disparaged Reade..... ProudMNDemocrat May 2020 #4
Yes! FM123 May 2020 #11
"Look at her, folks. Look at me, I don't think so". SammyWinstonJack May 2020 #20
The suspect has fled the interview! (nt) mr_lebowski May 2020 #5
You betcha! Brother Buzz May 2020 #23
Margie! ❤️ Happyhippychick May 2020 #39
Read up this reply thread. Interesting! Roland99 May 2020 #7
I like this comment re: clipboard on the fridge in Senate cafeteria DURHAM D May 2020 #15
O---Kay Me. May 2020 #25
Was it on a yellow post it note and orange one, does she remember the color of the frig........... turbinetree May 2020 #45
Thanks for this..may all the culprits be found..this is a good start.. asiliveandbreathe May 2020 #16
Now Who Didn't See This Coming? n/t Indykatie May 2020 #8
Perilously Approaching Defamation? ProfessorGAC May 2020 #9
Kick! mcar May 2020 #10
Which alias was she planning to use in the interview? DIVINEprividence May 2020 #12
She is a grifter...lord wow just wow. Demsrule86 May 2020 #30
Ali Vitali made mention during her session with C Hayes the other night asiliveandbreathe May 2020 #13
they probably never thought Biden would demand release of the Senate archives....... Takket May 2020 #14
She changed her story AGAIN. Now says she never filed the complaint she said she filed. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #18
She's a liar, no credibility sunonmars May 2020 #19
So there is no there, there Captain Zero May 2020 #40
If she hadn't played politics with her accusation, maybe I'd feel different about it. Iggo May 2020 #21
So true! lucca18 May 2020 #31
Oh, my goodness! PatrickforO May 2020 #22
Is Faux interviewing any of Trump's many accusers? OneBro May 2020 #24
She changed her story again BlueLucy May 2020 #26
Next it will be that she DURHAM D May 2020 #28
oh no, left it on a yellow sticky next to supervisors phone. Captain Zero May 2020 #41
That's not a complaint.... paleotn May 2020 #47
Compare and contrast with Christine Blasey Ford gratuitous May 2020 #27
Canceled to meet with the WH plumbers for another sit down.... Bengus81 May 2020 #33
K&R UTUSN May 2020 #34
what a mind-bender this story is... stillcool May 2020 #35
Why cancel on a channel where +99% of the viewers would believe things like pizzagate? cstanleytech May 2020 #42
She's backtracked so much now she's unusable... paleotn May 2020 #49
Oh Tara, I'm trying to think of all the things I've changed my mind about in 27 years... R B Garr May 2020 #43
Biden's accuser cancels Fox News interview Gothmog May 2020 #44
JoeScar is still pimping for Kavanaugh. Boomerproud May 2020 #50
I despise Kavanaugh but ... nolawarlock May 2020 #55
There were no inconsistencies with Kavanaugh. W_HAMILTON May 2020 #51
Down in flames.... paleotn May 2020 #46
Joe Scar Tweet.. Cha May 2020 #52
This guy added a third point for Joe DURHAM D May 2020 #53
I saw that! Thanks, Durham Cha May 2020 #54
underpants May 2020 #61
Well well well... Blue Owl May 2020 #56
You have to give her time to digest dalton99a May 2020 #57
She's waiting for instructions from Putin and the GOP. Goodheart May 2020 #58
That's Bullshit.. I don't believe Reade.. she's Lying Again. Cha May 2020 #59
She's a grifter BGBD May 2020 #60

PatSeg

(47,501 posts)
32. Yep
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:52 PM
May 2020

And with so many allegations, people will just have to assume it is true, right? Just like Al Franken all over again.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
38. Agreed, Trump won't let go of this one.
Sat May 2, 2020, 03:10 PM
May 2020

In a world where satire and irony died months ago, I'm waiting to hear that he's put Bill Barr on the case.

Response to DURHAM D (Original post)

still_one

(92,219 posts)
17. I suspect that is more like it. Perhaps she wanted to dictate the questions, and Wallace rejected
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:00 PM
May 2020

that

We will never know

FM123

(10,053 posts)
11. Yes!
Sat May 2, 2020, 01:53 PM
May 2020

He has been above and beyond respectful toward her, it says a lot about how decent a person he is.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
16. Thanks for this..may all the culprits be found..this is a good start..
Sat May 2, 2020, 01:59 PM
May 2020

So many people willing to put their reputation on the line, for what? - A pos, or a piece of the pie...

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)
9. Perilously Approaching Defamation?
Sat May 2, 2020, 01:52 PM
May 2020

Perhaps legal advice is to avoid public appearances because it's evidence in a defamation suit?
Just looking at possible reasons.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
13. Ali Vitali made mention during her session with C Hayes the other night
Sat May 2, 2020, 01:56 PM
May 2020

that Reade was going on another network for an interview..I have been waiting to see if Reade would cancel..

Perhaps C Hayes and A Vitali could now issue their apology for being two young twits pumping up a fabricated story...waiting..

Thanks for this DURHAM D

Takket

(21,577 posts)
14. they probably never thought Biden would demand release of the Senate archives.......
Sat May 2, 2020, 01:57 PM
May 2020

they probably expected him to act like drumpf....

Iggo

(47,558 posts)
21. If she hadn't played politics with her accusation, maybe I'd feel different about it.
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:20 PM
May 2020

But she did.

She weaponized her accusation by waiting until it would hurt the most people, not just Biden, but you and me and the whole country.

And fuck her for that.

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
47. That's not a complaint....
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:21 PM
May 2020

the only thing you write on clip boards in the cafe are things to drop in the suggestion box. She's full of shit.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
27. Compare and contrast with Christine Blasey Ford
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:44 PM
May 2020

Reade chickened out on a Fox interview, an opportunity to tell her story. Christine Blasey Ford appeared, under oath, before a hostile Senate Committee and answered every last question asked.

Can we draw any conclusions about the veracity of the two women?

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
33. Canceled to meet with the WH plumbers for another sit down....
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:59 PM
May 2020

No real traction so far, got to get this even more graphic................

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
35. what a mind-bender this story is...
Sat May 2, 2020, 03:02 PM
May 2020

She's had 27 years to get her story together, and now she's talking about her complaint being on a clipboard in the cafeteria?

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
49. She's backtracked so much now she's unusable...
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:47 PM
May 2020

It's probably not about Faux core viewers anyway. They'd believe years old stale crap and wouldn't vote for Biden if Trump sacrificed real infants to baal on national TV. I bet the checks from the Trump campaign have come to an abrupt halt as she's no longer reliable and they deemed her unable to sway middle of the road voters or cast any serious disparagement on Biden. She may be more of a liability now than an asset. Heck, she may have even threatened to blow the whole scheme if they didn't fund whatever her demands are. The possibilities are many.

But what we do know...she's backtracked on filing an official complaint and backtracked on the type of alleged encounter.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
43. Oh Tara, I'm trying to think of all the things I've changed my mind about in 27 years...
Sat May 2, 2020, 03:18 PM
May 2020

It's hard being so indecisive!

nolawarlock

(1,729 posts)
55. I despise Kavanaugh but ...
Sat May 2, 2020, 07:24 PM
May 2020

I questioned this approach even then. And I despise Kavanaugh, but am not willing to sacrifice the bedrock of the presumption of innocence for cheap political again against anyone. Those spearheading the #metoo movement should have realized that careening from the horrible default position of disbelieving women to the, quite frankly, equally horrible default position of believing women would always end this way. It reminds me of the far, far-left types who doxx right-wingers while screaming about doxxing being bad when right-wingers do. You set the rules of engagement for your enemy when you set them for yourselves. #metoo should have always been about listening to alleged victims of assault, hearing them out, being compassionate, and then evaluating their story. That we set the standard as they are "automatically telling the truth," absolutely sets up. The article Scarborough links to is right. With the current standard, #metoo is little more than a hit squad when it should be representing a standard of protecting victims while also protecting the accused, as the latter is the very standard of innocent until proven guilty upon which our country is based.

W_HAMILTON

(7,869 posts)
51. There were no inconsistencies with Kavanaugh.
Sat May 2, 2020, 05:34 PM
May 2020

Blasey Ford recalled what she could and didn't add to nor embellish on what she couldn't.

Blasey Ford was an imminently credible witness, in direct contrast with that sobbing, angry, lying mess that was Kavanaugh.

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
46. Down in flames....
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:20 PM
May 2020

she's backtracking on filing an official complaint, since apparently none exists. Word is she's backtracking on what kind of contact she supposedly had with Biden as well. Two lies. Down in flames. 15 minutes of fame over in 3...2...1....


Oh, and those Donald J. Trump checks? Not worth the paper they're printed on. Sorry, Tara, but you've been rolled.

dalton99a

(81,516 posts)
57. You have to give her time to digest
Sat May 2, 2020, 10:44 PM
May 2020
Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who alleged that former Vice President Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 while she was working on his staff, said Saturday that she isn't ready yet to respond to Biden's denial of the allegations.

“I’m digesting and processing everything he said,” she told The Wall Street Journal. “I will respond.”

Reade said that she had planned on doing a sit-down interview with Fox News on Sunday, but canceled it due to threats she received aimed at her and her adult daughter.

In 2019, Reade was one of several women who came forward and said that Biden’s alleged public touching made them uncomfortable. In late March, Reade alleged publicly that in 1993, the former vice president sexually assaulted her in a corridor on Capitol Hill.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/495836-tara-reade-says-she-is-not-ready-to-respond-to-biden-denial
 

BGBD

(3,282 posts)
60. She's a grifter
Sun May 3, 2020, 02:48 AM
May 2020

As soon as her story starts falling apart she immediately falls to to "I'm being attacked" or "I'm being threatened."

When asked why she didn't tell her assault story last year when she told her harassment story she said the reporter she was talking to was shutting her down. Please. This was a reporter who was actively looking for stories about Biden harassing people. I'm sure he would have just hated hearing an assault story.

As for the "reporters"...

Katie Halper, Ryan Grimm, Nathan Robinson, Glen Greenwald.....

they are all propagandists, not journalists.

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