THE FUR CONTINUES TO FLY BETWEEN HAGTRESS ALYSSA MILANO AND HER FORMER BESTY MICHAEL AVENATTI.
REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS, ALYSSA FIRST SPENT 30 MINUTES WHINING ABOUT A RECENT CRITIQUE THAT POINTED OUT SHE REALLY COULDN'T ACT. THROUGHOUT THE 30 MINUTES, ALYSSA WOULD INSIST, "I'M SO UPSET, I'M CRYING!'' THEN SHE SAY, "WAIT! WAIT! GIVE ME A MINUTE. OKAY, I CAN'T WORK UP THE TEARS JUST YET. . . ."
AFTER 30 MINUTES OF BEING UNABLE TO CRY OR EVEN ACT SEMI-SAD, ALYSSA GAVE IT UP AND INSISTED THE PROBLEM WAS ALL MICHAEL AVENATTI'S.
"LOOK AT ME!" SHE YELLED. "NO ONE WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND. NOT SHANNEN DOHERTY, NOT ROSE MCGOWAN, NOT HEATHER LOCKLEAR, NOT DANNY PINTAURO, NOT JES MACALLAN, NOT YUNJIN KIM, NOT ROCHELLE AYTES, NOT DAVID CHARVET, NOT JAMIE PRESSLY, NOT KIRSTEN DAVIS. TO KNOW ME IS TO HATE ME! ARE YOU REALLY SURPRISED THAT I CAN'T MAKE FRIENDS?"
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Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Bad Biden" went up on Sunday.
The press appears to misunderstand the event. So does Bob Somerby. Joe's latest moment in the negative spotlight is about people seeing him as too close to segregationists because, let's be honest, Joe can't stop boasting about how closely he worked with segregationists. It's not as though the press was pursuing this topic and it's not as though his campaign hadn't told Joe to stop talking about it.
For Bob Somerby, for example, it has nothing to do with Biden's response to the flair up, it's all about -- you know this is coming -- Al Gore. Yes, gather round kiddies, as Bob pulls out the big book one more time to tell us that, in the beginning, God created Al and Gore.
Starting in 1987, Phoebe Snow was telling you it's a different world than where you come from -- later Aretha Franklin would sing the same message and still later Terrence Forsythe would join with Boys II Men to make the same point -- somehow it all escaped Bob Somerby.
Bully Boy Bush and company thought they grasped the change. They were under the impression that reality was what they said it was. It's the same belief that Joe Biden holds on to.
He doesn't have to apologize when women are bothered by his treatment of them. He doesn't have to apologize when people of color are bothered by his repeated efforts to glorify his own work with segregationists.
For Joe, any event is what he says it is.
It's called entitlement and, yes, it's called White privilege and Joe's operated under it his entire life.
And in the 20th century, you pretty much could do that and get away with it.
In this century?
Not really.
In fact, when this website started, we had comments. There's a point, bear with me. My attitude is always: I've had my say, have your say. If a journalist wanted to respond here, it's posted as they've written it and that's really that.
But we closed off the comments and did so early on.
Keesha e-mailed shortly after this site started and said she'd prefer it not have the option to comment. I was confused by the request and we exchanged e-mails on the topic. She was a women of the left, a person of color and she was tired of not going to websites that were Democratic or left because she'd been ripped apart or someone else had.
You saw that, by the way, take place again last week but not at a website.
Keesha felt (and I agree with her) that she was welcome at this or that site as long as her Blackness or her womanhood didn't conflict with whatever DNC message was currently being sold. If she raised issues of the way certain policies effected people of color, she would be told -- in very crude terms -- to not talk about it.
When Joe Biden's issue with women first got serious attention, along comes Alyssa Milano telling the world it didn't matter and Joe was friendly with her and blah blah blah.
Last week, along came many people insisting that outrage felt by some people of color over Joe's remarks did not matter.
It's the same thing that was gong on at the various big sites of the early '00s. They fell from grace for a reason. They're whores. That's all they are. In 2008, they purged Hillary supporters and told the world Hillary was racist, was hoping Barack would be assassinated, was this and was that. Eight years later, they told their audience to vote for her -- but never explained how she had changed.
Kos-Kos has no ethics. He just wants to make money off you. So when the DNC, says X, he repeats X. He's like a Stalinist in that way.
But the left isn't the left he once thought he could control. Women of all races and men of color have rejected the top-down control that these people thought they could impose.
And what the press and Bob Somerby are missing is that Joe doesn't get to impose upon others. In fact, it's Joe that needs them, not the other way around. Joe Biden holds no public office currently. He wants to be president but, at present, he's just another former politician.
He needs voters, he needs support. And telling people that what has upset or bothered them doesn't matter? That's really not the way to garner support.
Joe's running a play it safe campaign. He thinks that will work in the primaries. And, with so much of the press propping him up, it may work -- in the primaries.
But when it's head to head time with Donald Trump in the general election, Donald's not going to back down. As some idiotic Kos-Kos hisses, "We need to get along!," Donald Trump's not going to say, "Oh, okay, then I won't emphasize this stupid thing that Joe just said."
As history demonstrates, over and over, Joe Biden always says some stupid thing.
His supporters and enablers last week did him no good. Many people were outraged by his statements. Bob can quibble over what the wording was. US House Rep Tulsi can say his rivals are making political hay out of the situation. None of that matters.
What matters is that people had a serious response to this and they were ignored. The candidate dismissed them and so much of the opinion shaping public did. (Which, pay attention, is how you lose the ability to shape opinion.)
Joe Biden already suffered from an enthusiasm gap. Everything that took place last week only ensured that the enthusiasm gap grew.
The message that's shaping up from Campaign Biden is that Joe's not Donald Trump.
Got it.
And We The People got that message in 2016 when Hillary campaigned on not being Donald Trump as well.
The first day of 2016, we looked back at the previous year with "2015: The Year of the Ass." And that piece concluded with:
2015 will lead into 2016. So is it any surprise that, as the year ends, it appears very likely that the two major party candidates who'll be competing next year will be Hillary and Donald Trump?
What else, honestly, what else could The Year of the Ass produce but a match off between each major party's biggest ass?
That 2020 will offer an ass on the GOP side is a given. That it will do the same on the Democratic Party side? It doesn't have to go that way.
But if Biden gets the nomination or if Joe doesn't change real quick, that's what it will be.
Forget everything else from last week except for Joe Biden demanding an apology from Senator Cory Booker.
Do you not grasp how insulting that is?
Sorry, Kos-Kos-ers, this isn't 1992. Joe's Sista Souljah moment is not going to play his way. In 2019, we all saw an African-American object, in very nice terms, to the glorification of segregationists and instead of acknowledging that some could find the remarks objectionable, Joe -- an elderly, White man with a lot of money and a lot of power -- demanded that Cory Booker apologize.
This is not how you build a solid base of support. It would work in 1992 but that's 27 years ago. (Check my math, always.)
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