...Here's my question: are these people THAT sociopathic that they believe they will NEVER get tagged for this stuff?
Graphic new details are emerging about a newly revealed allegation of sexual assault against Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, as The Washington Post pushes back against Fairfax’s claim that the newspaper found serious problems with the original accusation when it initially opted not to publish the account.
"The Post did not find ’significant red flags and inconsistencies within the allegations,’ as the Fairfax statement incorrectly said," the Washington Post said in a story published Monday, sharply disputing the lieutenant governor's statement.
The allegation against Fairfax, a Democrat, first surfaced on the website Big League Politics, the same right-wing political blog that published the now-infamous yearbook photo showing someone in blackface and someone in a KKK costume on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's 1984 yearbook page. Fairfax has vehemently denied the accusation.
In a pre-dawn denial on Monday, Fairfax tweeted a statement saying he "has never assaulted anyone‐ever‐in any way, shape, or form."
Fairfax said that the accuser, a woman, "first approached the Washington Post" over a year ago, prior to Fairfax’s inauguration in 2018.
"The Post carefully investigated the claim for several months," Fairfax’s office said in the statement. "After being presented with facts consistent with the Lt. Governor’s denial of the allegation, the absence of any evidence corroborating the allegation, and significant red flags and inconsistencies within the allegation, the Post made the considered decision not to publish the story."
In its Monday story, the Washington Post acknowledged investigating the claims and deciding not to publish. But it said the Fairfax statement "incorrectly" claimed the paper found "significant red flags and inconsistencies within the allegations."
"Fairfax and the woman told different versions of what happened in the hotel room with no one else present," the paper said. "The Washington Post could not find anyone who could corroborate either version."
The Washington Post didn’t name the accuser. But the paper said Fairfax and the woman met first met in Boston at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
"The woman described a sexual encounter that began with consensual kissing and ended with a forced act that left her crying and shaken," The Washington Post reported. "She said Fairfax guided her to the bed, where they continued kissing, and then at one point she realized she could not move her neck. She said Fairfax used his strength to force her to perform oral sex."
The statement from Fairfax said that before Big League Politics posted about it, "not one other reputable media outlet has seen fit to air this false claim. Only now, at a time of intense media attention surrounding Virginia politics, has this false claim been raised again."
"The Lt. Governor will take appropriate legal action against those attempting to spread this defamatory and false allegation," the statement read.
Speaking to reporters in Richmond Monday, Fairfax discussed his relationship with the accuser, saying he was 25 and unmarried when they met at the convention. He denied any wrongdoing, calling it a "consensual encounter." Fairfax called it a "totally fabricated story" and questioned the timing.
"Such a shame this is weaponized and used as a smear because this is a very real issue," Fairfax said.
The Big League Politics post that prompted Fairfax's denial published a purported Facebook post from the woman that read, "Imagine you were sexually assaulted during the DNC Convention in Boston in 2004 by a campaign staffer. You spend the next 13 years trying to forget it ever happened. Until one day you find out he’s the Democratic candidate for statewide office in a state some 3000 miles away, and he wins that election in November 2017. Then, by strange, horrible luck, it seems increasingly likely that he’ll get a VERY BIG promotion."
She did not name Fairfax, but the report implied she was referring to the lieutenant governor.
The denial comes amid a political firestorm in Virginia, as a photo of the governor emerged showing a man in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan garb in his 1984 medical school yearbook. On Monday, the president of The College of William & Mary said Northam will no longer attend events on campus Friday because of the controversy.
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Wow. WHo's third in the line of succession in Virginia?
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245 years or so was all it took to mutate from a nursery of exceptional talents to a hotbed of less than mediocres.
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Third rankest, er, ranking, is Herring,
A kipper of skipperly bearing,
A Libra who, ergo,
Is almost a Virgo!
This zebra in pinstripes
With no nasty tintypes
Would never disparage
A gay baby's... carriage.
As learned as Alex
Despite (alleged) ballocks,
In foreign affairs he's unerring!
And honest? He blushes when swearing,
This donkey whose do isn't derring!
[NYP] These are heady days for Democrats. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is flexing her power in the House, state legislatures are sweeping away abortion boundaries and each day brings a new entry into the 2020 presidential sweepstakes.
Far-left newcomers demand massive tax hikes on the wealthy, free health care for all and an end to fossil fuels. Some are even attacking America’s Judeo-Christian heritage.
Yet perhaps the single biggest development of recent days barely made news: Hillary Clinton’s political career is over, kaput, finished.
"She’s not running for president," John Podesta, the chairman of her 2016 campaign, told CNN. He dismissed an earlier report that she was considering a run as "media catnip," adding for emphasis: "I take her at her word. She’s not running for president."
Now, taking Clinton at her word is the definition of dicey, but this time is different because it’s not as if she has much choice. Clinton quit the 2020 race before she was fired.
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We'll see. If the current crop of far leftist idiots self immolates, then we will see Hillary's bloated and twitching corpse dragged out again as the appointed queen and savior of the demoncrats.
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Hillary does know how to garner a buck or two but I think she's a political goner. There are still many who want to "lock her up"--maybe even some Dems.
#9
Bernie got some real traction in 2016 and, if it hadn't been for Hillary and the DNC's shenanigans, he might have been the nominee. Could be that after all the bullcrap they've heard in school and on the TV, the rank and file is ready for an outright commie.
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Damn! I initially read that as: "Democrats are leaving Hillary Clinton's behind", and nearly threw up
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02/04/2019 14:11 Comments ||
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It would be interesting to see Bernie debate Trump. I think we could see Trump crush him and the left still declare victory because Bernie made them feel warm and fuzzy.
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“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
#14
the debates should be fascinating as the candidates try to out left each other
the convention should be even more interesting, perhaps they'll invite Colin Kaepernick to take the first knee, then have a ceremonial live late term abortion and finish by singing 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free'
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Went to a large SCORE (Service Core of Retired Executives) seminar two weeks ago. The place was packed. 90% of the audience was Blacks under 35 years old. I was very surprised!
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This womyn-child is not ready for prime-time and probably never will be with her weird commie leanings. The Dems have gone left but not all of them have given leave of their senses--especially the money people.
#12
Hillary is damaged goods and probably doesn't have enough influence left within the DNC to cheat the way she did in 2016. Occasional Cortex is too young but watch out for Booker and Harris.
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Michael Moore throws his weight behind Ocasio Cortez? I'm not sure she welcomes the "help."
Depends on the Moderator(s), rj. They 'could' step in to help her, a LOT. Not unlike previous debates in my recollection.
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Mr. Moore: "I mean, I wish -- it's too bad that you have to be 35 to be President. You know, they put that in the Constitution -- the Founding Fathers -- because people died at 38 or 40 back then, you know. We need to lower that. If that was lowered to 30 --"
[FOXNEWS] Sen. Sherrod Brown Dem senator from Ohio who harbors the same presidential ambitions as the rest of his colleagues. At a distance he is indistinguishable from most other Dem politicians, including the females... , D-Ohio, on Sunday decided to take a shot at the president ‐ calling out Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and blaming the president for stirring a racial divide in the country, amid the mounting scandal over Virginia Gov. Ralph Coonman Northam’s Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?... medical school yearbook photo. Now that he brings it up, I've never seen Trump in blackface.
Brown ‐ who is mulling a 2020 presidential bid ‐ said during an interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press" that Trump has built his political career on playing racial politics and that his business empire, and that of Trump’s father, employed widespread housing discrimination.
"We have a president who’s a racist," Brown said. "He built his political career knowing what he was doing, questioning the legitimacy and the birthplace of the president of the United States. I know early there have been all kinds of news reports about what he did early in his career with housing."
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When someone accuses you of racism, the correct answer is "Why yes, I am pro-human, why do you hate them?" Deny any other race exists. Anyone claiming to be otherwise needs to be vivisected on video at a filthy so called 'military undisclosed location'.
[FOXNEWS] Sen. Kamala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former girlfriend, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful... , D-Calif., confirmed on Saturday who will accompany her to Tuesday's State of the Union address. The 2020 presidential hopeful will be joined by a federal employee who was financially affected by the recent 35-day partial government shutdown, Harris tweeted.
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Would that be the federal employee subjected to a forced savings and reimbursement program, medical insurance and retirement credit continuation, unemployment insurance, charity food handouts, store and restaurant discounts, and..... 35 days of trout fishing ?
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It's a pisspanic woman who carries a tribal staff. No lie.
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Some dem finally did a microgram of deduction and realized that Pelosi and Schumer, sharing the narrow lecturn in a rebuttal to a presidential speech was a total flop.
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So the Federal employees had to wait a few weeks for a paycheck? As I understand it, the Feds make more, on average, than the civilian sector. These people couldn't live one pay period without having to resort to food banks, massive charity, etc.?
And the pay check was delayed, not missed, IIRC.
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A woman with a big mouth and carries a big dick, oops, a big stick.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?...
