Bruce Jenket: Do you think for yourself or do you defer to the media?

May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020 Updated May 15, 2020
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To The Daly Sun,

My last letter pointed out how the left consistently uses FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) to attack president Trump and his supporters (https://bit.ly/2WjVNdF). The examples I used were obvious misinformation by the left and I asked any of the Trump-hating contributors to explain why they continue to “believe” the misinformation put out daily by CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, etc.

They are literally rewriting history to take down a sitting president. The coronavirus is just the latest misinformation campaign. I’m not going to recreate a time line, but those watching the above “media outlets” should recall how they accused the president of being a dictator by acting too early when restricting travel to China and now the same media accuses him of acting too late. It’s deceitful.

I went web searching for old articles to make my point and came across this headline: “MSNBC’s Brzezinski: Trump Thinks He Can “Control Exactly What People Think, But That’s 'Our Job'" (https://bit.ly/3d6BqYg). That article was written on Feb. 22, 2017 by Tim Haines for Real Clear Politics. For full disclosure they are right leaning but the fact is Brzezinski DID make that statement on national TV. Watch the video in the above link!

My last letter pointed to the Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations as the most unfounded political hit jobs since the 2016 election. I challenged anyone to provide irrefutable proof that Dr. Ford was telling the truth and Justice Kavanaugh was not. In this country people are assumed innocent until proven guilty. That right will be lost if Democrats win the next election.

I didn’t know when I wrote that letter that further “evidence” was coming forth about the sexual assault allegation on VP Biden by Tara Reade. Within a week, Mika Brzezinski had VP Biden on MSNBC so he could deny it ever happened. I had flashbacks of President Clinton waiving his finger at the camera declaring “I never had sex with that woman,” meaning Monica Lewinsky if you’re too young to remember.

I’m not saying Joe is lying (like Clinton) but I am saying that it should be investigated with the same earnestness as Justice Kavanaugh. VP Biden is running for the highest office in this country! I will point out that unlike Dr. Ford who had zero corroboration by those she “alleged” were present, Tara Reade did tell people it happened at the time it happened. She should receive equal vetting.

I’ll close with Mika’s quote (paraphrased): “It’s our job to tell people what to think!” She’s doing one heck of a job “protecting” Biden and trashing President Trump with FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) reporting. When was the last time she brought up VP Biden bribing the Ukrainian president to fire the prosecutor investigating the company which his son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of directors? Ignoring an allegation is akin denying it. I will ask again to those on the left. Do you think for yourselves or let the media do that for you?

Bruce Jenket

Moultonborough

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Paul F May 16, 2020 10:57am

WASHINGTON – The attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford have sworn and signed declarations from four people who she told about her claims of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (USA Today, Sept 26, 2018).

See if you can find “sworn and signed declarations” in any of the information below.

(Timeline of Tara Reade accusation, from Forbes, May 8, 2020). On March 25, 2020: In a podcast by Katie Halper, Reade now claimed Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, pressing her up against a wall, kissing her neck and penetrating her with his fingers by prying her legs open with his knees.

April 12, 2020: Reade repeated the assault story to the New York Times, and said she had reported the alleged incident to Marianne Baker, Biden’s executive assistant. She also said she told two top aides, Dennis Toner and Ted Kaufman, she felt harassed by Biden—but did not tell them about the assault. All three former Biden staffers denied to the Times Reade ever told them of any incident.

(Also from Forbes “Timeline) ”The Times interviewed two dozen people who worked with Biden in the 1990s, the lawyers to whom Reade spoke, and the other seven women who accused Biden of inappropriate touching last year, and none corroborated the details of Reade’s allegations. The Times wrote that it ”found no pattern of sexual misconduct” by Biden.

Reade’s brother, Collin Moulton, confirmed to The Intercept she told him of her allegations at the time, but did not speak to the Times. Two friends, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, corroborated parts of Reade’s story. One friend told the Times that Reade told her about the alleged assault in 1993. Another friend remembered Reade telling her in 2008 that Biden had touched her inappropriately, and that she had a traumatic experience while working in his office.

The Post spoke with Moulton, Reade’s brother, who said Reade told her in 1993 that Biden had touched her inappropriately by touching her neck and shoulders—but not the alleged sexual assault. In a text message days after the interview, Moulton sought to clarify his remarks and told the Post that he also recalled Reade saying Biden had put his hand “under her clothes.” The Post also talked to a friend who declined to be named who said Reade had told her she had been assaulted soon after it allegedly happened. Another friend told the Post that in 2006 or 2007 Reade told her Biden had touched her arm and acted inappropriately.

So, I see “condition of anonymity” and “declined to be named,” but not a single mention of a “sworn and signed declaration.” Perhaps that's why the Reade story is getting very little traction.