And as we were reminded with Roy Moore, an environment where predators can stalk and groom targets simply under the guise of being a ‘regular customer’

Did it begin with a C?

Also, Donald Trump wasn’t either the president or a reality TV star. He was a rich real estate developer, but had nowhere near the level of public recognition he does now.

And where we learn how to be “cool,” not one of those horrible women who complain. Man, I wish I hadn’t been so cool.

Kelly: “Does it rhyme with bunt?”
Leeds: “Yes”
Kelly: “Is it a slur word that can refer to a body part on a woman?”
Leeds: “...yes....”
Kelly: “Let’s say there was a vowel in the word. Would it be a ‘u’?”
Leeds: “Are...are you being serious right now?”
Kelly: “That third letter. Is it m like Mary or n like Nancy?”
Leeds:…

What do you mean by “actual evidence”? Because testimony with first-hand knowledge of what transpired is actual evidence.

PLEASE let’s keep talking about the restaurant industry. For many of us, that’s where we got our first jobs as teens. And where we first experienced sexual harassment, although if you’re 16 years old you just try to tell yourself that it’s good that the cooks tease you because that must mean they like you and it’s…

Thank you for this - its mind boggling how people have no idea what the past was like.

“Why wouldn’t she have told this story at the time...”

I’m surprised Kelly didn’t ask how many letters. We got it after the C. I’m glad she had them on, but her interviewing skills aren’t getting much better. I hope someone better does a much more in depth interview with all the accusers willing to come forward.

In this thread at least, it feels like the obsession with Clinton starts with Republican hypocrisy (true) and that Bill didn’t even do anything all that bad (wildly false). I wish we would drop that angle on the left as much as I wish the right would drop the fantasy that Reagan was Cowboy Jesus.

That line bugged me to. The hell kind of rebuttal is that? Most of the cases didn’t happen. So like the remaining did

Yeah. that sounds like another Trumpian lie. He didn’t say this at all during the campaign, just that he would present evidence after the campaign that all women were lying.

We’ll never know because the sue-at-the-drop-of-a-hat Trump won’t sue any of them for fear of his bluff being called.

The President just called these women liars, but can’t back it up with receipts. He just opened himself up to a whole new range of defamation suits - and he used the official apparatus of the White House to do it. This should make for a whole lot of billable hours that he’ll eventually refuse to pay for.

Perfectly said. Bill Clinton is not a good person! He was an excellent politician and at least wanted to do the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people (though I believe for completely self-serving reasons), but he’s pretty bottom of the barrel as far as morality goes. The one does not excuse the…

I think the reason 45 has been so successful at reverse engineering politics is he knows in the same way elected republicans know there was never any moral compass to begin with. The morals angle has been window dressing for at least 5 decades.

I have a feeling Batali’s apology has been sitting composed on his computer for a month or so waiting for the inevitable shoe to drop and there are many many more “celebrities” with similar letters ready to go.

He was already a creep before this came out.

Probably as bad as having to be the progeny of fucking Ted Cruz and his weird ass soup fetish.