emptywheel

That's what I mean by "began" and "drowned out." We're probably not going to agree on "mattered."

You're asking for the media to be not-the-media. And for norms about sexual assault to be not-our-norms for sexual assault.

BREAKING: Serial sexual harassment enabling outlet Fox News doesn't much care that others engage in sexual harassment.

Harvey Weinstein's changing everything.

He may, finally. If he and Cosby and Fox suffered some consequences, it might. It may finally matter that more women have power.

Alas, that comes too late for us to avoid Trump on it. (And Trump's anti-Bill campaign was actually fairly effective.)

In fact, I would argue that Assange fucked up bc by competing w/Access Hollywood, speech experts didn't get any focus.

I think there are other questions worth asking: how much each campaign/WL knew about what the other (and IC) had coming.

But as someone noted earlier, it is silly to be surprised that both sides released dirt before debate.

What's surprising is that one of the "sides" that released dirt before the debate was, you know, a long-time adversarial foreign country.

Assange's Ecuadorian closet is a long-time adversary?

Russians steal emails. Russians give emails to Assange. Assange publishes emails. Yeah, that sounds like an Ecuadorian closet to me.

See my follow-up post. And RU did not republish them a zillion times in the most credible outlets.

Also - politics is a blood sport that determines life and death, and any avenue of attack on Trump is a good one. Rs wouldn't hesitate!