• Mainstream media dragged 'kicking and screaming' into rapist Joe Biden

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    https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-reade-media-kicking-
    screaming-sexual-
    assault

    The mainstream media had to be dragged "kicking and screaming"
    into the
    bombshell story about Tara Reade’s sexual assault claims against
    presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden,
    critics say.
    And now that they have, calls urging the former Vice President
    to answer
    he accusations himself are getting louder and louder.

    “The dam has finally and belatedly burst,” Fox News media
    reporter Howard
    Kurtz said on Thursday.

    Biden has been holed up in Wilmington, Del., home, out of the
    public eye
    amid the coronavirus pandemic with the exception of virtual town
    halls and
    teleconference-style interviews with friendly news outlets. His
    campaign
    has denied Reade’s claims, but Biden has yet to speak about it
    himself. He
    hasn’t even been asked about it, either, but it appears critics
    on both
    sides of the aisle think that could change in the near future.

    PROGRESSIVE HOST WHO INTERVIEWED TARA READE RIPS MAINSTREAM
    MEDIA FOR
    ACTING AS 'ARM' OF BIDEN CAMPAIGN

    “Over the past week, the press has accelerated its pace from a
    cruise to a
    sprint, which is a good thing,” Politico’s Jack Shafer wrote.
    “Given the
    rising interest in the story, it seems inevitable that he’ll
    have to face
    questions from reporters about the allegations soon.”

    The Washington Post’s editorial board on Wednesday called on
    Biden to
    address the allegations and to "release relevant records" from
    his time as
    a senator that are currently sealed at the University of
    Delaware.

    "Tara Reade deserves to be heard, and voters deserve to hear
    her. They
    deserve to hear from Joe Biden, too," the editorial board began
    its piece
    on Wednesday.

    "Mainstream media has been dragged kicking and screaming to this
    story by
    conservative media. Now the story is unavoidable," Cornell Law
    School
    professor and media critic William A. Jacobson told Fox News.
    "With WaPo
    calling for a release of records and the Times saying the Biden
    campaign
    is misrepresenting its reporting, Biden no longer can hide. If
    Biden loses
    the Times and WaPo, he may not make it to the convention."

    TARA READE RESPONDS AFTER DC POLICE SAY HER SEXUAL ASSAULT
    COMPLAINT
    AGAINST BIDEN IS 'INACTIVE'

    Times executive editor Dean Baquet initially defended his slow
    approach to
    reporting on Biden's accuser and even suggested that the Biden
    campaign
    urged the Times to change some of the language. But on
    Wednesday, the
    Times itself called out Biden’s campaign for "inaccurately"
    describing the
    paper's reporting when providing talking points to surrogates.

    "Mainstream media has been dragged kicking and screaming to this
    story by
    conservative media. Now the story is unavoidable."

    — William A. Jacobson
    The surge in coverage of Reade's accusation came after the
    conservative
    Media Research Center unearthed a 1993 clip of CNN’s “Larry King
    Live” on
    Friday, thrusting the story into the national conversation and
    forcing
    Biden-friendly outlets to finally acknowledge the story it had
    ignored for
    roughly a month.

    The tape featured a woman calling into the CNN show to ask for
    advice
    about her daughter’s issue with a “prominent senator,” who Reade
    later
    told Fox News was her late mother. A few days later, Business
    Insider
    published a story in which Reade’s former neighbor heard about
    the
    allegations years ago.

    CLIP SURFACES OF BIDEN ACCUSER TARA READE'S MOTHER PHONING INTO
    'LARRY
    KING LIVE' IN 1993 ALLUDING TO CLAIM

    Kurtz: New witnesses force media, Democrats to confront Biden
    allegationsVideo
    Despite Reade's claims being a month old, it was those
    corroborating
    witnesses that finally started the avalanche.

    “It’s difficult for survivors to see that a woman who has more
    corroborating sources than most survivors have in similar
    situations is
    being tossed aside and actively being weaponized by cynical
    political
    actors… it would be an incredible moment of leadership for Joe
    Biden to
    show up,” women’s rights advocacy group UltraViolet’s founder
    Shaunna
    Thomas told the Times.

    WASHINGTON POST CALLS ON BIDEN TO ADDRESS TARA READE SEX-ASSAULT
    ALLEGATIONS, 'RELEASE RELEVANT RECORDS'


    Tom Elliott
    @tomselliott
    .@SpeakerPelosi defends @JoeBiden on sexual assault allegations:
    “He’s a
    person of great values, integrity, authenticity, imagination … He
    understands the kitchen table issues of America’s working
    families, his
    father lost his job when he was a boy …"

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    CNN’s S.E. Cupp even penned an opinion piece for the New York
    Daily News
    asking: “Are we going to talk about Tara Reade?”

    TARA READE’S JOE BIDEN ASSAULT CLAIM GIVES JUANITA BROADDRICK
    DÉJÀ VU: 'I
    BELIEVE HER'

    “The media coverage of Reade’s allegations has been noticeably
    muted
    compared to its handling of claims against other high-profile
    political
    figures, from Brett Kavanaugh to Donald Trump,” Cupp wrote,
    despite her
    own network initially being among the biggest culprits.

    After weeks of silence, ABC News' "The View" caught viewers up
    on the
    allegations with a lengthy segment on Thursday.


    The View
    ?
    @TheView
    ALLEGATION AGAINST BIDEN: @ABC News’ @marykbruce joins with the
    latest on
    the allegation of sexual assault against Joe Biden - which his
    campaign
    has denied - and how it could play into the race for president. http://abcn.ws/2VQ4v4n

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    Media Research Center director of media analysis Tim Graham told
    Fox News
    that CNN and other mainstream outlets had been “suppressing
    accusations
    against Biden,” and MRC’s NewsBusters found that liberal
    networks spent
    significantly more time covering Vice President Mike Pence not
    wearing a
    mask at the Mayo Clinic in just 24 hours than Reade’s claims
    were given
    for an entire month.

    NEW YORK TIMES SAYS BIDEN CAMP'S TALKING POINTS 'INACCURATELY'
    DESCRIBE
    THEIR TARA READE REPORTING

    But times are changing and CNN’s Don Lemon grilled Stacey
    Abrams, who has
    openly campaigned to be selected as Biden’s running mate, about
    the
    allegations.


    Daily Caller
    ?
    @DailyCaller
    CNN's Don Lemon grills Stacey Abrams on Tara Reade's sexual
    assault
    allegation against Joe Biden:

    “I believe Joe Biden... I know Joe Biden and I think that he is
    telling
    the truth, and that this did not happen.”

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    MSNBC’s far-left Chris Hayes finally decided to cover Reade’s
    allegations
    on Wednesday night, upsetting the network’s liberal audience in
    the
    process as #FireChrisHayes began trending on social media after
    he
    reported the story.


    Ibrahim
    @ibrahimpols
    Chris Hayes covering Tara Reade’s allegations against Biden

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    The liberal HuffPost even asked Biden’s potential running mates
    about
    Reade’s claim, something that would have been unimaginable only
    a few
    weeks ago.

    Peter Beinart, a professor of journalism at the City University
    of New
    York, penned an op-ed in The Atlantic calling for Biden to
    release his
    senatorial records that could contain evidence relevant to
    Reade’s
    accusation.

    As the media embraces the story, House Speaker Pelosi and other
    prominent
    Democrats have now been asked about Reade’s claims by liberal
    outlets.

    Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.  

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