Trump’s latest accuser…
…sounds balmy.
I’m not going to cover this one in any depth, but fortunately others have, and I direct any interested parties to Ace’s.
What’s most interesting about this story is that a NeverTrumper such as David French, who is well aware of the danger of false and/or uncorroborated accusations used as political tools, seems willing to throw away his previous concerns about that if the accused is Trump.
This sort of shift in belief depending on the identity of the accused person isn’t so unusual, and although I’ve noticed it more on the left it definitely also occurs on the right. I try to be (and I think I’ve actually succeeded in being) consistent—same rules for everybody (see this).
ADDENDUM 8 PM:
Hmmmm. Perhaps Trump’s accuser has a future in writing TV scripts. Or a past:
Dear @CNN:
I saw your interview of E. Jean Carroll. Her story sounds a lot like an episode of Special Victims Unit—Episode 11, Season 13
Discussion of a rape fantasy in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman's.
At 42:15…https://t.co/dEKjFSaWIz
— thebradfordfile™ (@thebradfordfile) June 25, 2019
One of the things underlying the whole NeverTrump thing is respect. More precisely, the lack of it. If you respect an opponent/adversary, you’re going to be careful not to make stupid mistakes that he or she can take advantage of. Everything you do, you’ll always be considering what the other side might do in response.
But if you think the other side is not only beneath you cannot conceive of them actually having any kind of power over you, why worry? David French just completely embarrassed himself and he’s completely confident that nothing will happen to him because of it. It’s the sort of pride that always goes before a fall.
Mike
French also bought into the Mueller investigation, something Democrats with a measure of intellectual independence refused to do.
Here’s a hypothesis: French has spent the last 29 months grasping at straws to justify his remarks over the previous 18 months. It’s a function of personal vanity. A real editor would give French his walking papers.
National Review has over the last 15 years consistently failed to recruit and nurture new talent; to some extent that’s just a function of the economics of opinion journalism in our time, but it’s reasonable to hold their capon-editor to some degree responsible for these failures. (As he was for the departure of Mark Steyn from the contributor list). He’s also invested in multiple efforts to retool the publication’s digital site which made it hopeless on one occasion and effected only partial repairs the second. And look at their comment boards, which were dominated by the conventional right four years ago and are now dominated by the opposition. The board needs to fire Richard Lowry before he runs the publication completely into the ground.
Personally, I think she sounds not merely balmy, but barmy.
(I have to quit doing this, heh.)
I’m surprised she hasn’t been attacked by squirrels looking for a quick snack.
I just noted following a lead on twitter that th ere was a Law and Order SVU episode (season 13 episode 20) that went like this:
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Did anyone want to roleplay a rape with you in a public place?
Yes, there was one a bit plain. And it was not her fantasy, it was mine.
Okay.
Roleplay took place in the dressing room at Bergdorf’s while she was trying on lingerie. I would burst in.
Hold on. When did you and she have your date?
Six weeks ago, maybe. She wrote back, wanted to get together.
And two weeks later, you and Meghan started emailing.
Yes.
The day that she posted her profile, I wrote I was intrigued.
Thank you very much for coming in, your honor.
I sincerely hope it’s of help.
Lot going on under those robes.
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We know about you and judge Crane. His rape fantasies. You and him in the Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.
Holly, what are they talking about? That wasn’t anything. I needed money.
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Clip’s on my page if you want to hear it. It begins at 42:15.
http://americandigest.org/wp/drive-by-life-echoes-art-especially-when-it-comes-to-pretending-you-were-raped-by-donald-trump/
Yup. Evidence, no matter who is accused.
French, Lowry, and Goldberg have made me erase NWO from my bookmarks. I can find VDH elsewhere.
First off, her accusation of Trump raping her in a changing room at Bergdorf Goodman is contained in her just published book she is hawking.
Then, there was her odd affect in her interaction with Anderson Cooper, who it appears she was trying to put a move on.
She says she didn’t want to try to prosecute Trump, because it would somehow be “disrespectful ” to all those women being raped on our Southern border?
What the hell kind of logic is that?
From what she’s said and written, her view of sex and the relationship between men and women is definitely odd.
And, finally, she says she’s kept the dress she had on when she was supposedly attacked by Trump for close to 25 or so years, but she won’t let the
police test it for DNA?
My unofficial diagnosis?
The woman’s a nut job.
It’s all about the BOOK ! $$$$$$$$
You and me OldTexan; someone’s hawking a new book.
1996 was quite the year for women preserving clothes with presidential forensic evidence.
I thought ‘balmy’ was a typo, but when I looked it up I learned that neo is correct, the second definition is about foolishness.
“Balmy.” What a perfect description for this woman!
E. Jean Carroll is an improbable figure. She is known as “E. Jean” and she runs an advice column for Elle magazine, a position she has been training for since the age of six, when she first started reading “Dear Abby” and “Dear Ann Landers” columns. She lives in a cabin in the woods which she calls the “Mouse House.” She has painted the nearby tree trunks and creek stones blue.
“E. Jean Carroll Shares the Most Shocking Advice Questions She has Received”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldP8YNAPlTw
My take is she’s a real-life Manic Pixie Dream Girl past her sell-by. As wiki, informs us, the MPDG never grows up. It’s a problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl
a position she has been training for since the age of six, when she first started reading “Dear Abby” and “Dear Ann Landers” columns.
Carroll would have been six years old in 1949 and 1950. ‘Dear Abby’, written by Pauline Friedman Phillips, began publication in 1956. ‘Ann Landers’ wasn’t widely syndicated in 1949 and was then written by Ruth Crowley, a nurse who favored letters on medical questions; Esther Friedman Lederer didn’t take over the column until 1955.
Art Deco: As usual, credit my words if you going to use them. Or leave me out of your comments entirely.
I’m going by her YouTube, which I suspect may not be entirely factual.
“Art Deco: As usual, credit my words if you going to use them. Or leave me out of your comments entirely.”
No, I’m not going to footnote my posts. Those are Italics, huxley. They indicate a call to which I’m offering a response. In 14 years of participating in fora like this, I’ve received many complaints on many matters, but yours is unique. It will be ignored.
I can’t find the reference now, because I think it was a commenter at Treehouse or suchlike, but someone suggested that “she’s doing the interviews to sell her book” is actually the reverse: her book is being published in the first place (by the Shadowy Left Wing Conspiracy, of course) in order to get her the interviews, the rationale being that few people would ever buy her memoirs, and learn about her accusations, just because they like E. Jean, but now many will hear the dirt about Trump without having to buy the book.
Look at the video.
Poor ol’ stuttering Anderson Cooper caught, like a deer in the headlights, as a sexual Semi bears down on him.
He, I’m pretty sure, just wanted to get the hell away from this woman.
Say, by the way, what has happened to other prominent “accusers,” who just seem to have dropped from the public eye?
What happened to “victim” Christine Blasey Ford, after she collected that boatload of money—reportedly more than $130K—from that GoFundMe page? Another new addition to her house? Trip to Europe?
What about gang rape accuser Julie Swetnik? Where is she now, and what is she doing?
Is she at some place station—this very minute—relating her sad, sad tale, and swearing out a warrant against now Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh.?
Perhaps Swetnik’s joined in the recently released O.J.’s “hunt for the real killer?
Art Deco:
Actually—although I certainly don’t require it—it makes the point of a comment much more clear if you explicitly address it to the person you are writing to or about. A request that you do that isn’t a rude thing to ask nor is it an unreasonable one.
Snow on Pine:
Cooper is visibly and understandably uncomfortable and just can’t wait to go to break. He almost can’t believe what she just said about rape, and then she starts to flirt with him.
Something a bit new on the vagaries of her accusation, from Byron York.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/06/26/tv-drama-episode-has-plot-feature-resembling-rape-allegation-against-trump/
Perhaps what supposedly happened to Carroll wasn’t exactly “rape-rape.”
Methinks you meant ‘barmy’. Okay, I stand corrected – can also mean ‘foolishness’.
1) Whether or not she was raped, without due process we cannot make a judgement (at least not a judgement of consequence – i.e., a judgement that holds public or legal consequences).
2) The person to trigger that process is the accuser and the accuser alone. Not the media and not the court of public opinion.
Note: The above has zero bearing on whether one thinks that she was assaulted or not.
Mimi:
“Balmy” has this meaning if you’re not talking about the weather or a salve: “crazy; foolish; eccentric.”
Similar to “bats.”