Chromehorse56

What if it becomes apparent that part of the usual interaction of young adults at parties and festivals may involve both sexes making unwelcome advances on the other gender, but men and some women tend to pass it off as incidental or part of the experience, while others treat it as a traumatic, victimizing incident? Politically, it's a hard sell if you have to explain why many women do it also, if you are going to allege that sexual harassment is a systemic aspect of male culture. You also have to explain why some women undermine the politics of it by engaging in a bit of groping themselves. These are obviously-- or is it-- not the same women as the ones who claim to be victims of it, but it still weakens the argument that unwelcome touching and groping needs to be forcefully punished.

The idea that PBS tried to sway public opinion on the issue is really, really hard to credit. Not all of those claims about Christine Blasey-Ford were adequately investigated by people who brought them forward. More often, PBS news does not report half-baked stories that do get reported on other outlets, or stories that through selective bias distort the character of the larger story. But this is silly-- do you seriously-- seriously!-- believe that PBS didn't report fairly on Kavanaugh? Tell me, who do you think did report fairly?

"those who want to win the most"? Do you mean, those who put the interests of the voters ahead of those of the party? The problem is, I believe, too many districts in which it does not pay for the candidate to brag about how willing he is to work out solutions together with the other party.

I cannot believe that any reasonable person would accuse PBS of any bias. Unless you are slowly coming to the realization that facts and information do tend to favor people who respect facts and information. Your government also gives billions-- billions!-- of dollars to profitable oil and coal companies, sports teams, Foxconn, and so on. Should people who object to these Corporate Welfare Bums have to pay the share of taxes that covers these golden favors?

Jerry Brown vs. Meg Whitman.