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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm fairly certain that the Biden campaign WANTED Mika Brezinski to do last week's interview
The topics and the interviewee were a "get" for any network; Biden's team could have requested any interviewer they wanted. A hard-hitting interview with Mika reinforced by Biden's emphatic denials, and follow-up up by the investigative work she reported on today about inconsistencies in Reade's story over time was the best frame for the story they could have hoped for, and gave material to other opinion makers who appear on MJ and other MSNBC shows.
Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)that is what they got. Not only hostile but a dishonest one as well.
brooklynite
(93,878 posts)Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)Tough interviewers will ask hard questions. Hostile interviewers ask the same gotcha questions over and over.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)to the Brett Kavanaugh case. Repeated gotcha questions about the University of Delaware files.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)Demsrule86
(68,355 posts)Such papers are never sealed until the person leaves office or is dead...certainly not when they are running for office.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)our favor because the deeper investigation of Reade had begun and he would be able to destroy the story this week but would have the "cover" of having taken it seriously initially. Same goes for Joe and Mika. Nobody can say they ignored or tried to cover it up. They covered it right as it was beginning to come apart, and within a few days this story will be decisively blown up.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)Like the emails. However, Biden and his campaign may be able to convince enough people it's bogus.
agingdem
(7,759 posts)Last edited Mon May 4, 2020, 02:03 PM - Edit history (1)
than a couple who were having an affair while married to others...glass houses..
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)What are the various types and origins and how do they differ in handling? How long do they typically run, through what phases, what are the various proven strategies and methods that work best at which points, etc? I'm sure character-assassination detection, manipulation, and control are very well studied by now.
So what phase would your Mika tactic be part of, what purpose would it fulfill, what would it be expected to accomplish, and what would be built on it in succeeding phases?
And, of course, what are the various alternatives that were apparently chosen among?
If you could point me to something to read on this new field of expertise, I'd really appreciate it.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Mika has done the same thing to other men where there was no proof. The author Michael Wolfe was ambushed by she and Susan Del Percio because of a vague allegation. No proof to back up their attack on Wolfe just someone's say so. And where does Mika get off being so high and mighty? She was an adulterer for years. First stone and all that.
brooklynite
(93,878 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)that she always presents herself as Miss Lily White and is willing to judge people without adequate proof. Today, I guess, after the blowback, she started to present the flaws in Miss Reade's case. She also went after HRC with a vengeance because she didn't divorce Bill in 2016.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)on the show about playing hot and cold with Trump, letting him think the attraction was mutual.
And "bragging" is not an exaggeration. She is a beautiful woman, the powers she used on display as she laughed on screen about playing him. This was when they turned on him after helping get him nominated, after visiting Mar-A-Lago multiple times, etc. These are also the people who presented the Kochs as well meaning and misunderstood.
I don't do either of them the injustice to not understand that they're there to keep Republicans, and those they serve, in control, alarmed as they may be with Trump and his base that's out of the leadership's control. THAT is what this is about.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)They needed to do something definitive, they did. Will it have a dime's worth of effect? Not visibly, but it's better than not doing anything.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)I feel satisfied with how he's addressed it so far. The media will be picking at it for a while but I don't get the sense that many people outside the Bernie Bros are really buying into the story. Biden's alleged actions just seem so beyond the pale to me for him.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,487 posts)Unlike Trump, Weinstein, or any other powerful man who wields power over a woman.
Sexual harassment consists of threats, more than off-colored jokes or comments. I have been party to many off-colored jokes, comments about sex. But never of harassment or assault.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)What a loss for us that was.
DFW
(54,057 posts)What they have in common is that their accusers who "came forward" didn't have much to offer in the way of credibility. I have only met Biden Twice, and that was on a very superficial level. But at that, I got (and still get) the distinct impression that two things unite both Al and Biden: complete devotion to their wives (and Franni is just fabulous), and a complete disinterest in chasing other women.
Al and Biden proved it is not enough to know they were innocent--you still have to fight to prove it.
I think we were all blindsided by the attack against Franken. That did start out as something real - the dumb picture from the USO tour. I hope to God we're better prepared to deal with it now.
DFW
(54,057 posts)Al never expected any of his colleagues to fall for it because he knew, himself, that none of it was true. The Republicans counted on the others not knowing that, and not waiting for evidence one way or the other, just the evidence they provided.
Fool me once--all subsequent times, the intended victims were ready for it. Biden's team knew by now what to expect and how to handle it.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,487 posts)DFW
(54,057 posts)I'm SOOO glad Al finally bounced back after what happened to him. He's really lucky to have a dynamo like Franni at his side.
Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)Franken had nine accusers. Biden has had only one.
LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)All accusations are equal. Thats what Pukes are trying to set.
Trump: I know what its like to be falsely accused. (27 times) Admit it on tv..
Then never address in complaint
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)Really give him the business and let him answer without hesitation.
tavernier
(12,322 posts)Because he responded with a very nasty Joe and Mika tweet.