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brooklynite

(93,878 posts)
Mon May 4, 2020, 09:53 AM May 2020

I'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.

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I'm fairly certain that the Biden campaign WANTED Mika Brezinski to do last week's interview (Original Post) brooklynite May 2020 OP
If you are saying they wanted a hostile interviewer Dem4Life1102 May 2020 #1
Tough does not translate to hostile brooklynite May 2020 #2
She was hostile Dem4Life1102 May 2020 #5
What about it was dishonest? nolabear May 2020 #3
False analogies Dem4Life1102 May 2020 #7
So morally dishonest and manipulative. Thanks. nolabear May 2020 #9
She was dishonest about the Delaware papers. It is wrong to suggest personnel records are there. Demsrule86 May 2020 #10
After the Chris Hayes segment I hypothesized this would work out in Mike 03 May 2020 #4
I'm afraid this is a zombie story...will never die. wryter2000 May 2020 #20
nothing says self-righteous indignation more agingdem May 2020 #6
Exactly! Me. May 2020 #17
Well, what IS the time line for dealing with scandals? Hortensis May 2020 #8
I'm Not Buying It Me. May 2020 #11
What does adultery have to do with sexual harassment? brooklynite May 2020 #15
My Point Is Me. May 2020 #16
We're talking about her morality. I remember her bragging Hortensis May 2020 #27
I think that's reasonable to assume. ucrdem May 2020 #12
It's better for Biden to have addressed this now instead of closer to the convention/election Proud Liberal Dem May 2020 #13
Joe Biden does not fit the pattern of a sexual predator or harasser.... ProudMNDemocrat May 2020 #14
Neither did Al Franken wryter2000 May 2020 #21
Al was completely blindsided by the scam to nail him. The Biden campaign knew by now to expect it. DFW May 2020 #23
Yup wryter2000 May 2020 #24
We are, because we know who is behind such campaigns now DFW May 2020 #25
Both Al and Franni are friends of mine... ProudMNDemocrat May 2020 #28
Great people, aren't they? DFW May 2020 #29
False analogy Dem4Life1102 May 2020 #26
Trump sides with Joe. LakeArenal May 2020 #18
That's what I'd thought wryter2000 May 2020 #19
I think it hurt trump and I believe he thinks so too tavernier May 2020 #22
 

Dem4Life1102

(3,974 posts)
1. If you are saying they wanted a hostile interviewer
Mon May 4, 2020, 09:56 AM
May 2020

that is what they got. Not only hostile but a dishonest one as well.

 

Dem4Life1102

(3,974 posts)
5. She was hostile
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:16 AM
May 2020

Tough interviewers will ask hard questions. Hostile interviewers ask the same gotcha questions over and over.

 

Dem4Life1102

(3,974 posts)
7. False analogies
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:18 AM
May 2020

to the Brett Kavanaugh case. Repeated gotcha questions about the University of Delaware files.

Demsrule86

(68,355 posts)
10. She was dishonest about the Delaware papers. It is wrong to suggest personnel records are there.
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:34 AM
May 2020

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)
4. After the Chris Hayes segment I hypothesized this would work out in
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:11 AM
May 2020

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)
20. I'm afraid this is a zombie story...will never die.
Mon May 4, 2020, 11:43 AM
May 2020

Like the emails. However, Biden and his campaign may be able to convince enough people it's bogus.

agingdem

(7,759 posts)
6. nothing says self-righteous indignation more
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:17 AM
May 2020

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)
8. Well, what IS the time line for dealing with scandals?
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:25 AM
May 2020

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)
11. I'm Not Buying It
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:35 AM
May 2020

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.


Me.

(35,454 posts)
16. My Point Is
Mon May 4, 2020, 11:16 AM
May 2020

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)
27. We're talking about her morality. I remember her bragging
Mon May 4, 2020, 04:09 PM
May 2020

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)
12. I think that's reasonable to assume.
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:37 AM
May 2020

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)
13. It's better for Biden to have addressed this now instead of closer to the convention/election
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:42 AM
May 2020

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)
14. Joe Biden does not fit the pattern of a sexual predator or harasser....
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:57 AM
May 2020

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.

DFW

(54,057 posts)
23. Al was completely blindsided by the scam to nail him. The Biden campaign knew by now to expect it.
Mon May 4, 2020, 12:03 PM
May 2020

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.

wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
24. Yup
Mon May 4, 2020, 01:17 PM
May 2020

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)
25. We are, because we know who is behind such campaigns now
Mon May 4, 2020, 01:25 PM
May 2020

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.

DFW

(54,057 posts)
29. Great people, aren't they?
Tue May 5, 2020, 02:22 AM
May 2020

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.

LakeArenal

(28,729 posts)
18. Trump sides with Joe.
Mon May 4, 2020, 11:24 AM
May 2020

All accusations are equal. That’s what Pukes are trying to set.

Trump: I know what it’s like to be falsely accused. (27 times) Admit it on tv..
Then never address in complaint

tavernier

(12,322 posts)
22. I think it hurt trump and I believe he thinks so too
Mon May 4, 2020, 11:52 AM
May 2020

Because he responded with a very nasty Joe and Mika tweet.

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