Watching the last few minutes of Chris Hayes and trying not to vomit.
He is all into being "fair" and urging us to consider Ms Reade's accusation against Joe Biden as "serious" and "credible". We were told to expect a surge of smears against Joe and the Trump campaign has made no bones about that being their primary "strategy". I just never thought that Mr. Hayes would participate in the mud-slinging.
As I understand the accusation, it concerns supposed events in 1993 which, until recently, Ms Reade termed "harassment" if she spoke of them at all. She claims to have filed a complaint with the Senate, but she has no copy, the Senate has no record of it and three of the four people who she said could corroborate that she told them of the event have said they have no recollection of being told any such thing. And, just recently, when the "smear potential" of her accusation was recognized by right wing Trump operatives and she began getting more and more attention, her story changed from "harassment" to "he pinned me against a wall, reached under my clothing and penetrated me with his fingers".
THAT deserves national discussion in an effort to be "fair"?
Every such complaint deserves serious consideration, but that does not mean all such complainants deserve to be believed. Mr. Hayes is, IMHO, bending over backwards in order to be the "responsible adult in the room" but, in the process, is aiding and abetting the Hannity's and Ingram's of this world.
Pull your head out, Chris. When what you say makes Brad Parscale smile, it is time to reconsider your subject matter.
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as a responsible journalist. 
long ago. Good humor illuminates truth, but theirs is almost always extremely dishonest. People think they're supposed to give libel a pass because it's funny, as if humor makes up for character assassination and badly misleading people about who public figures are.
The video reminded me of a piece I read some time ago about an Onion writer of 19 years, so I went looking for it. He regretted creating the bumbling, vulgar Uncle Joe character -- but notably not because it was a very wrong thing to do or because he failed to depict a real person.
As he explained, they created a character who'd be "the sort of guy who’d wink and say, “Don’t let your meat loaf!” as a farewell" and would wash his trash-filledTrans Am shirtless in the White House driveway. Now, since Biden's running for president, he "regrets not taking him more seriously" and creating a very different, more sinister character. Gee, yeah, I'm sorry you missed that opportunity to depict him as a child molester also.
But he doesn't regret the scummy way he made a living for years, and it's obviously never occurred to him that the way his own mind twists might make him incapable of understanding and accurately depicting people of very different character from his. Even if he was interested in trying.
he believes must be urgently addressed.
