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Charles M. Blow | Joe Biden Is Problematic
 Charles M. Blow, The New York Times Blow writes: "No amount of growth or good intentions will change this fact."
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This issue exposed itself again Thursday during the presidential debate in Houston. Moderator Linsey Davis put a question to Biden:
“Mr. Vice President, I want to come to you and talk to you about inequality in schools and race. In a conversation about how to deal with segregation in schools back in 1975, you told a reporter, ‘I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather, I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation, and I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.’
You said that some 40 years ago. But as you stand here tonight, what responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?”
Biden could have taken responsibility for his comments and addressed the question directly, but he didn’t. Instead, he gave a rambling, nonsensical answer that included a reference to a record player. But, the response ended in yet another racial offense in which he seemed to suggest that black people lack the natural capacity to be good parents:
We bring social workers into homes and parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t want to help. They don’t — they don’t know quite what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the — the — make sure that kids hear words. A kid coming from a very poor school — a very poor background will hear four million words fewer spoken by the time they get there.
 Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Our Dumbass President Can't Even Spell 'Libel'
David Boddiger, Splinter Boddiger writes: "We're living in an era in which the president of the United States is openly encouraging people to sue members of the news media and ordering the Justice Department to serve as his personal attack dog."
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Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to complain about the new report, writing, “Brett Kavanaugh should start suing people for liable, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue.”
“Liable.”
It took Trump, or someone helping him, nearly an hour to fix this typo.
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Trump has even previously threatened to sue The New York Times and others for libel! One of the times he did was back in 2016, when the newspaper published the stories of two women who said Trump had sexually assaulted them. What a coincidence.
 Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
New York Times Apologizes for 'Inappropriate and Offensive' Tweet About Kavanaugh Sexual Misconduct Allegation
Allyson Chiu, The Washington Post Chiu writes: "When the New York Times revealed a new allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh this weekend, the political world was again thrown into turmoil."
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Backlash against the Times came shortly after the publication’s opinion account tweeted out the story with a message that read in part, “Having a penis thrust in your face at a drunken dorm party may seem like harmless fun.”
“This is.... such a profound lapse in judgment and common sense,” tweeted author Roxane Gay. “What the hell is going on at the NYT?”
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Though the Times swiftly took down the tweet Saturday night and apologized, the mea culpa did little to quell the blowback, which continued well into Sunday with other prominent figures, and even the Merriam-Webster dictionary company, weighing in.
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“As someone who’s still opening up about my experience with sexual assault, it angers me to the bone,” Chasten Buttigieg, husband of South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, tweeted.
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The tweet also earned a rebuke from Christine Pelosi, the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
“Who thought an act of sexual assault was ‘harmless fun’ @nytopinion?” Christine Pelosi tweeted. “For the safety of their colleagues @nytimes HR should investigate.”
Like many others, Pelosi’s criticism went beyond the tweet as she called attention to the article’s content and presentation. Commentators wondered why the headline lacked any mention of the new allegation and instead appeared to frame the piece as an examination of Yale’s campus culture in the 1980s. Stier’s account, critics noted, was first mentioned in the article’s 11th paragraph.
“You buried the lede: @FBI failed to investigate credible charges of assault by a Supreme Court nominee,” Pelosi tweeted.
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Others zeroed in on the headline.
“The whole framing of the NYT article - as a story about a middle-class girl struggling to have a place among the rich privileged kids at Yale, instead of we found corroborating evidence that a Supreme Court ‘Justice’ is a serial sexual abuser - is odd and infuriating,” one person tweeted.
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Another person wrote that it seemed like the Times was trying to “diminish” its “bombshell reporting” with “soft cultural context.”
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The backlash prompted the Times to issue tweets from its official public relations account Sunday afternoon explaining that the news was part of book excerpt published in the Sunday Review, a section that “frequently runs excerpts of books produced by Times reporters.”
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“The new revelations contained in the piece were uncovered during the reporting process for the book, which is why this information did not appear in The Times before the excerpt,” the Times tweeted.
In another post, the Times reiterated its apology for the tweet.
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Late Sunday, an editor’s note also appeared at the bottom of the article informing readers that part of the book’s reporting on the new allegation against Kavanaugh had been left out.
“The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident,” the note said. “That information has been added to the article.”
That update fueled criticism from conservatives who had slammed the article as a “smear” on Kavanaugh.
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In recent months, the Times has faced scrutiny over editorial decisions and its staffers’ social media interactions. The newspaper amended a front-page headline about Trump following mass outcry in August. That same month, the Times’s Washington editor, Jonathan Weisman, was demoted after sparking controversy with tweets that were denounced as racist, and columnist Bret Stephens was widely panned for his role in the now-infamous “bed bug” exchange.
 Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Mnuchin and Jean-Luc Brunel. (photo: The Daily Beast/Photos Getty/Handout)
Steven Mnuchin's Mysterious Link to Creepy Epstein Model Scout
Emily Shugerman, The Daily Beast Shugerman writes: "The Treasury secretary's name shows up on official records for a company formed in the 1980s by Jeffrey Epstein's close friend, the model scout Jean-Luc Brunel." READ MORE  Hank Skinner and his wife, Carol, are no strangers to pain, having collectively experienced multiple illnesses and surgeries. Hank relies on a fentanyl patch but is now being forced to lower his dosage. (photo: Salwan Georges/WP)
Opioid Crackdown Forces Pain Patients to Taper Off Drugs They Say They Need
Joel Achenbach and Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Chronic pain patients form a vast constituency in America, and millions of them take opioids for relief. Changes in medical guidance covering opioids have left many of them frustrated, confused and sometimes howling mad." READ MORE  Lula Da Silva: 'The only crime I've ever committed was showing Brazilian elite that is possible that the common people eat beef; travel to Bariloche, Buenos Aires or Miami; it's possible for them to have a home, go to University, have access to culture, entertainment, theaters, cinemas or restaurants.' (photo: Telesur)
Lula Da Silva: 'They Thought Lies Were Going to Win'
teleSUR Excerpt: "In his first exclusive interview since he was imprisoned 526 days ago, former Brazilian president talks about prison, Latin America's future and Operation Lava Jato." READ MORE  Honey bees pollinate cherry blossoms at Orchard View Farms in The Dalles, Oregon. (photo: Oregon Dept. of Agriculture/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Neonicotinoid Pesticides Have Caused a Huge Surge in the Toxicity of US Agriculture
Tara Lohan and Dipika Kadaba, The Revelator Excerpt: "Scientists are warning about a second Silent Spring after a new study found that U.S. agriculture is 48 times more toxic to insects than it was 20 years ago." READ MORE Update My Monthly Donation |
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