Apparently not having learned its lesson from the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation fight, the #MeToo crowd took aim at Joe Biden and screwed that up, too. Now, the movement is upset that it’s being ignored by the very people who are supposed to care the most about it: Democratic presidential candidates.
An article in HuffPost on Tuesday said #MeToo is so far receiving “very little attention in the Democratic presidential primary — and disappointed activists want leading candidates to step up.”
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I’m sure. But the candidate who is leading them all, Biden, is the one whom the movement unsuccessfully tried to take out last year, drumming up his well-known habit of rubbing women’s shoulders in plain public view as though it’s the same thing as sexual assault.
Kick-starting the outrage, former Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores penned a piece for New York magazine to say that she had been kissed by Biden on the back of the head. It wasn’t quite assault or harassment, she conceded, but he had briefly invaded her space.
Just ask him to back up next time, sis! I do it all the time in the line at TJ Maxx, and it works just fine.
Her column recounted a 2014 campaign stop that Biden made on behalf of Flores and other Democrats running for state office. She said she was “mortified” when Biden backstage ahead of her speech “inhaled” her hair and “proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head.”
Most of us would call the incident weird and move on. But, for the #MeToo crowd, any awkward encounter is an unforgivable transgression and is supposed to come with the penalty of having the offending party’s reputation and career ruined.
This is the party that Biden, Democrats, and the media asked for by insisting that you must believe any woman making any accusation, no matter how unfounded or absurd.
Biden, in response to Flores’s allegation, posted a video on Twitter vowing to adhere to modern rules about “boundaries of protecting personal space.”
You almost felt bad for him. The following day, three more women accused him of misconduct. Sofie Karasek said she was 22 when she met Biden at the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony and shared a story with him about someone who had committed suicide after being sexually assaulted. Biden grabbed the back of Karasek’s head and pulled her forehead toward his.
The moment was caught on camera, and the Washington Post published it at the time, calling the image “powerful.” Karasek herself had the photo framed and placed it on a shelf, but then she said that she decided to take it down after the #MeToo movement began to gather steam.
Oh, I’m sorry. The #MeToo people are upset that their own party is trying to avoid eye contact with them? They should have thought of that before they went nuts.
