Member of Congress, campaign staffer, House staffer. We both know if this was a Republican, the newsworthiness would need no explanation.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson
Republicans SHOULD be held to a higher standard, because when they get caught in affairs of any sort it goes against everything they claim to stand for. The issue is hypocrisy. If they didn’t claim to be for family values, it wouldn’t be any more newsworthy.
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Replying to @brianros1 @yeselson
She literally argued during the campaign that electing a woman would avoid sex scandal with subordinates. Is it your contention that Democrats never make assertions about right, wrong, justice, morals, or sexual power dynamics?
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Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson
I’m saying that so long as we have heard not one word from the campaign staffer we have 0 clue if there was any abuse of power. All we know is that a vindictive, controlling man has resorted to revenge porn & that she made an unwise decision that as far as we know violated 0 laws
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Replying to @brianros1 @yeselson
This is the same argument I keep having with Team MAGA. Criticize the original source all you want, but at the end of the day, the job of the media is to ask "is it true?"
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Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson
It’s just a terrible standard. No wonder we have email hacks and revenge porn. And whether the fact that they had an affair is true or not isn’t the full answer. It’s not as cut and dry as non-consensual behavior a la Trump or even Al Franken (who I called on to resign early on).
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Replying to @brianros1 @yeselson
I'm all for more responsible journalism, but if you have to prove open-and-shut absence of consent to even begin publishing a story, you'll end up like NBC deep-sixing the Harvey Weinstein story.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson
To me, there is a huge difference between a case like Weinstein where victims spoke up & this where a 3rd party is out to destroy someone & we’ve heard 0 from the staffer. Had she come forward & made charges, my attitude would be the opposite of what it is.
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Replying to @brianros1 @baseballcrank
Yeah, of course. The fact remains: an apparently aggrieved spouse violated his wife’s privacy and trust (as he had presumably taken the pictures) in order to publicly humiliate her. That’s a far more egregious act than an affair, however inappropriate, with a consenting adult.
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As I said, the ultimate question is always, "is it true?"
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I choose to evaluate the evidence.
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