Why the fuck anyone would wanna work with Woody Allen is beyond me. Fuck that guy.

I think there’d be a bit of a difference if, when asked in an interview something like “have you ever done something awful on a dare?” and Northam went “well, one time, I actually, all my friends were doing this blackface thing in college and they dared me to do it too, and I did for a few photos, and then I took a…

But he did more than fantasize. He himself says that he went out looking for someone to start something with him and no one would. That’s more than a fantasy, that is acting on those feelings. He was hoping a black man, any black man, would do something so he could take his anger out on them. He wasn’t fantasizing…

right there with you. maybe we can include gina rodriguez too.

It’s... understandable? What? In what well-adjusted, adult world is it understandable to take the horrible thing that happened to your friend out on someone who had nothing to do with it but shares a skin color with?

I’d say it’s understandable that feelings like that can come up in such a situation. He did not act upon his rage, but instead realized how fucked up he was and tried to eradicate that strain of thought from himself.

However, why he felt the need to share this story with the world, is beyond me.

She lifted someone’s story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
And then one day she was shootin off her mouth,
And now she’s all shocked that it’s all gone south.

Well, as someone of Jewish descent, I always find it surprising when people cosign apartheid — but agreed, that’s what the primaries are for. Should be a wild season, hope we all make it out with our relative sanities intact.

Thanks for that!

They did, or at least they claim they claim they did.

Right, of course, that’s basic journalism.

The answer is quite simple. A journalist cannot ethically publish anything without 2 corroborating independent witnesses. If 1 person says something happened in a hotel room and the only other person in the room who could verify it says it didn’t happen, then the publication cannot print it.

Excuse me if I have this wrong, as I was only half-listening when I heard this on the radio in the car, but I heard something that went (maybe) like this. Fairfax could resign, then Northam gets to appoint a new Lt. Gov (presumably a Dem) then Northam can resign. Then the AG can resign.

Their claim is that they were not able to corroborate her story. Whether or not they followed up and tried to investigate it further is not clear to me.

I think a lot of us who have survived sexual assault or abuse often fear this happening. I have an ex that beat me for an hour and also once raped me. He’s just an engineer for some company right now, but if that guy ever changes his path or somehow is in the public eye, I will come forward with my story. These women…

Can the Democrats really do no better than two white men in blackface and a black man who is being accused of rape by a black woman?

I was referring to the identical comments you posted on the Fairfax article in Splinter, so that’s my mistake, but the fuck off still stands.

These stories are an attempt by a right-wing media machine to steal the governorship of Virginia.

Thank you for finally covering this.

So just keep on down the line until you find someone who wasn’t an asshole or an accused rapist.