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Tommy_Carcetti

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Wed Sep 11, 2019, 11:16 AM Sep 2019

Piece in The Atlantic on charlatan Clinton accuser/political hack and hypocrite Juanita Broaddrick.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/she-doesnt-believe-all-women/596632/

Snip:

She Doesn’t Believe All Women

Juanita Broaddrick, who alleges that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, has found new life as a Trump defender.

Amanda Fitzsimons
October 2019 Issue

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Broaddrick told me she thinks Carroll just wanted attention. Carroll also acted strangely during an appearance on CNN, Broaddrick said. “I’m sure she knows he’s gay, but it was like she was putting the make on Anderson Cooper.” Ultimately, Broaddrick said, her skepticism comes down to her gut—not just her feelings about Carroll but about all the women who have accused the president of sexual improprieties. “When you’ve been raped, you have a persona about you—it’s almost like you can sense it. I don’t have ESP, but you can almost feel their feelings if these things really happened to them.”

She knows a rape victim when she sees one. It’s hard to believe someone who has been so wounded by having her own rape case rejected (not to mention a person who has worked with abused children) would so blithely dispense with women who make similar claims.

Neyfakh has a theory about Broaddrick’s all-in attitude toward Trump: “She’s found a willing audience in conservative media. She believes what she needs to believe.” In other words, he said, “she’s a partisan hack, like the rest of us.”

Yes, and maybe she’s also embittered that the women now coming forward have been taken more seriously than she was—than she still is, in some quarters. For all the heightened awareness of sexual assault, we are, of course, a polarized nation. It is at once astonishing and predictable that many of us look at an individual and see only her tribe—even those of us with the most cause to avoid that kind of reductive thinking.



Really, Juanita?

Well, I could go ahead and simply I have an ESP sense you are lying about your allegations against President Clinton.

But instead, I'd simply point out that the only time you've ever been put under oath about those allegations, you've denied they ever happened. And you haven't bothered in the 20+ years since to go under oath again to claim otherwise.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/affidavit122398.htm?noredirect=on

Although you know who did have the courage to go under oath, Juanita? Christine Blasey Ford, who you have mocked over and over and over again on your Twitter account, all for the simple fact that the man she was accusing was a conservative:




Go away, you disgusting piece of hypocritical shit.
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Piece in The Atlantic on charlatan Clinton accuser/political hack and hypocrite Juanita Broaddrick. (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2019 OP
Similar transformation of Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe no_hypocrisy Sep 2019 #1
I'm not convinced there was ever a good side to Broaddrick though. nt Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2019 #2

no_hypocrisy

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1. Similar transformation of Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 12:18 PM
Sep 2019

of Roe v Wade). When Flip Benham of Operation Rescue paid more attention to and showed more concern about her than feminists and liberals (in her mind), she joined him on the Dark Side. She renounced abortion including her landmark USSC case and became a born again Christian.

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