“I have never been in the room when someone has said, ‘Grab them by the pussy,” Stern said on his Sirius satellite radio show, quoting Trump’s own words caught on a hot mic during a 2005 “Access Hollywood” appearance. “No one’s ever advocated going that step where you get a little bit, ‘Hey I’m going to invade someone’s space.'”
Though Stern built his own career on jokes about mass shootings and raunchy interviews grilling celebrities about their sex lives, he said there was a line between lewdly describing women’s bodies and boasting about sexual assault.
Tuesday Reads: Hillary is Winning and So are Girls and Women
Posted: October 18, 2016 Filed under: morning reads, U.S. Politics | Tags: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton 44 CommentsGood Morning!!
I really wish we didn’t have to live through another debate tomorrow night. I just hope her Secret Service detail stay near the stage to protect Hillary. I know she will be dignified and unflappable, but I don’t want her to have to deal Trump’s insults anymore. In a few short weeks, she will be President of the United States and Trump can try and fail to start a Trump news network. He has ruined his own brand, and I’m glad.
At least it’s difficult to understand how Trump could continue attacking Hillary based on Bill’s behavior with women in the ’90s after Melania went on CNN last night and attacked the women who have come forward to accuse her husband of sexual assault.
The New York Times: ‘They’re Lies’: Melania Trump Rejects Women’s Claims That Husband Groped Them.
Ms. Trump, in an extensive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, said the women who had accused Donald J. Trump of groping and kissing them were lying, and likened her husband to a teenage boy who engages in macho boasting.
She echoed her husband’s complaint that he was the victim of a broad conspiracy between the news media and the Clinton campaign.
“I believe my husband, I believe my husband — it was all organized from the opposition,” Ms. Trump said. “They can never check the background of these women. They don’t have any facts.” ….
Ms. Trump, 46, called the exchange between Mr. Trump and Mr. Bush “boy talk,” and said Mr. Trump had been “egged on” by the host “to say dirty and bad stuff.”
But she stressed that she believed that Mr. Trump was simply being boastful and did not engage in the behavior he described.
“Sometimes I say I have two boys at home: I have my young son, and I have my husband,” she said with a slight laugh. “But I know how some men talk, and that’s how I saw it, yes.”
Hmmm. . . she doesn’t make her husband sound very presidential. She also claims women are constantly trying to attract her husband’s attention
“I see many, many women coming to him and giving the phone numbers and, you know, want to work for him or inappropriate stuff from women,” she said. “And they know he’s married.http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/17/politics/melania-trump-interview/index.html”
Mrs. Trump told Anderson Cooper that her husband is a “gentleman.”
Melania Trump called her husband “real” and “raw” — and said because of his years as an entertainer, he faced an especially tough challenge transitioning into politics, because he has made decades’ worth of controversial comments.
“It’s very hard, especially for him — when he decided to run for the presidency, because he did so many stuff in his life. He was on so many tapes, so many shows. And we knew that — that, you know, tapes will come out, people won’t want to go against him.
“But my husband is real. He’s raw. He tells it like it is. He’s kind. He’s a gentleman. He supports everybody. He supports women. He encourages them to go to the highest level, to achieve their dreams. He employs many, many women,” she said.
She said she wouldn’t describe what Trump said on the tape as sexual assault, even though in the video Trump appeared to be describing his own actions.
“No, that’s not sexual assault,” she said. “He didn’t say he did it.”
Actually he did though. And even Howard Stern doesn’t buy the “boys will be boys” defense. TPM reports:
Shock jock Howard Stern on Monday refuted his friend Donald Trump’s claim that his leaked comments about grabbing women’s genitals were just “locker room talk.”
Fortunately, we won’t have to listen to anyone in the Trump family much longer, because he is not going to be POTUS. Stuart Rothenberg at the Washington Post: Trump’s path to an electoral college victory isn’t narrow. It’s non-existent.
The trajectory of the 2016 presidential race — which will result in a Hillary Clinton victory — remains largely unchanged from May, when Donald Trump and Clinton were in the process of wrapping up their nominations.
But what has changed recently is Clinton’s likely winning margin. For many weeks, even months, I have believed that Clinton would defeat Trump by three to six points. If anything, that range now looks a bit low, with the Democratic nominee apparently headed for a more convincing victory, quite possibly in the four-to-eight point range.
Trump continues to be his own worst enemy, saying or tweeting things that only fuel chatter about his current and past views, values and behavior. His comments about people — from Vladimir Putin and Alicia Machado to some of the women who have accused him of sexual assault — have kept the focus on him at a time when he should be making the election a referendum on Clinton.
No, Trump’s supporters have not turned on him. But he trails badly with only a few weeks to go until Nov. 8, and he must broaden his appeal to have any chance of winning. That is now impossible.
Read the whole thing at the link.
Eric Levitz at New York Magazine: New Polls Show Clinton on Pace for a Landslide.
On Monday, CNN’s new “poll of polls” — an average of the four most recent national surveys that meet the network’s standard — put Clinton ahead of Trump by 8 percent.
One of those surveys was George Washington University’s Battleground Poll, which also found Clinton leading the GOP nominee by eight points. The same poll had Clinton up by only 2 percent in early September. In that earlier survey, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein were collectively polling three points higher than they are now, with the Libertarian claiming 8 percent and the Green Party nominee just 2 percent.
A Politico/Morning Consult poll out Monday finds Clinton leading Trump 42 to 36 percent in a four-way race. After the vice-presidential debate, Trump had climbed to 39 percent, but grab’em by the pussy-gate and last week’s wave of sexual-assault allegations have pulled the GOP nominee back to where he stood after he bragged about tax evasion at the first debate. Clinton’s support has hovered around 42 percent in the poll for all of October.
As of this writing, FiveThirtyEight’s Polls Only forecast gives Clinton an 87 percent chance of taking the Oval Office next January.
More polling info at the link. And check this out from Peter Daou at Share Blue: Boys will be boys…and women will be presidents.
Some feel-good stories to check out:
New York Magazine: Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Has More Black Women Than Any Presidential Campaign in History.
CNN: Baby elephant is so concerned about her ‘drowning’ friend.
Raw Story: Ex-homeless mom pays off lunch tabs for poor kids after little boy’s ‘two lunches’ story goes viral.
What else is happening? What stories are you following today?
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Morning Memo: Why North Carolina Democrats Would Never Bomb Orange County GOP Office
Did you hear they had some filled out early ballots in that office?
Dak,
NBC news has now issued a “correction” stating “The North Carolina Republican Party and its county organizations do not collect completed absentee ballots”. Not, please note, “a representative said” or “Emily Weeks said we misquoted her”. Just that statement presented as fact.
Either Weeks lied to the reporter or NBC got it wrong, but if the latter, they should say so. There’s speculation they meant sample ballots, but there would be no reason for special mention of these by either the Republicans or the media. Their story changed after that Tweet Delphyne49 posted was published, making it clear storing ballots is a felony.
from this link:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nc-republican-office-firebombed-nazi-gopers-threatened-graffiti-n667316
in the post here:
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/north-carolina-republican-party-caught-hiding-completed-absentee-ballots-in-firebombed-office/26335/
The Democratic Party office was also firebombed at the same time.
Here’s a link to the Rawstory story courtesy of Bob Harrison at MadInTheMiddle:
http://madinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2016/10/dem-offices-also-attacked.html
Bob kindly says it “slipped by unnoticed”. I would be meaner: I’d say suppressed.
tRump’s allegation that Democrats had bombed his office was on mainstream national and international media hours after it was made. I have yet to see any coverage of the Dem office bombing in that same media.
I read that the Democratic Party office was vandalized not firebombed.
Oops, sorry – read the Rawstory link too fast. Thanks for pointing that out.
Still, I think that the vandalism, and especially the wording “Death to Capitalism” occurring at the same time as the GOP attack, indicates a deranged far left person of the same type that attacked Clinton during the primaries and attacks her now.
And the vandalism should have been mentioned in that oh-so-fair-and-balanced media that let Trump stage this as an attack solely on Republicans.
Thank you so much bb for those two videos regarding the elephant and her friend along with the Mom who fixed an extra lunch for her son’s schoolmate. Each brought tears to my eyes that in a world slipping off its axis there are people who simply go through life caring about others. These are people Hillary has worked for all of her life.
I got out of bed this morning with a feeling of dread knowing that Trump will be doing his damnedest to bring her down. As much as I want to believe the polls I still won’t accept the results until we know full well she is declared the winner. The suspense is almost unbearable.
Again, thanks for those uplifting videos where just plain everyday goodness goes on about its business and can on occasion capture a little bit of our hearts.
It was a wonderful tonic in an otherwise day of unremitting hate that has engulfed our daily existence.
You’re welcome. They made me happy too.
Ditto, I had to share the story of the little boys at their school cafeteria. What a wonderful mother, and friend, and the greatest attitude ever. I luv that they can all sit down and have a lunch. All of them. She gives us hope, and soon enough Hillary Clinton, will give all children in poverty hope, and food, and a home, with good educational opportunities.
This brief analysis by Republican, Steve Schmidt will cheer you up. It’s perfect…
Vogue just endorsed Hillary. First time for any endorsement.
http://www.vogue.com/13492873/hillary-clinton-endorsement-president-united-states-democrat/?mbid=social_twitter
“Madam President” hear, hear
I love the beautiful Annie Leibovitz photo of Hillary they used for this.
Obama just stated – TRump is whining even before the event – 👍. Hillary win predicted at87%!! 👍 Needed this post bb – thank you! Dak – hope you’re on the mend!
I’m a little better today!
Howard Stern really pushes my buttons. If this is what he really thinks:
“…he said there was a line between lewdly describing women’s bodies and boasting about sexual assault….”
Is that the Stern Code of Ethical Ways to Degrade Women? Who gets to decide where the line is and how thin it might be?
Lewdly talking about women without their consent is wrong. And it does create an overall culture that devalues women and a culture where sexual assault is common. Men think sexual slurs are harmless. They’re not.
Yeah, as far as I’m concerned, the one opinion that means the least to me regarding this subject is Howard Stern’s.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/documenting-trumps-abuse-of-women
Everyone, bookmark this website. The interactive map is awesome and is updated constantly. If you’re feeling pessimistic about the election, just pull up the map.
http://benchmark.shareblue.com/
Hahahaha – great minds – I just bookmarked this.
Anyway – they’ve got Hillary’s chances at 94% today!
Thanx Janicen……….Nevada has her up.
You can click on the state and see the numbers county by county.
Right now, Hillary Clinton is behind by 3 points in Texas…………3 points!
Even the toss ups are within or close to the margin of error.
I don’t get Nevada. Why are they so red?
Enheduanna………….rural Americans…………cowboys, and guns. Not to mention Bundy Clan.
Nate Silver has her chances of winning Arizona 56% – Trump 44%. I am a little confused as to Georgia……all the polls I looked at show Trump a little ahead. She is leading in Florida, all major polls show her up. She seems to be even in Ohio, up/down a little bit. She is leading in Nevada, up by about 5 plus. I haven’t kept up with the polls, but will start here out to watch them closely.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/people-magazine-set-to-drop-another-bomb-on-trump-with-story-confirming-accusers-account/
People magazine drops new bomb on Trump as 6 witnesses confirm Natasha Stoynoff’s sex assault report
Like minded!
Yup! 😎
Melanie Trump’s story last night doesn’t hold water. Natasha Stoynoff, has witnesses who was with her when she bumped into Melanie on 5th Avenue!
http://people.com/politics/people-writer-attack-by-donald-trump-corroborated-six-named-sources/
By the by, the Judge in Ivana Trump’s divorce said Donald Trump was cruel and inhuman!
Hillary Clinton’s odds of winning California 99.9%…………..
If this hasn’t been posted yet, this is a wonderful, cheering video from our friends in Canada.
From NPR: http://www.npr.org/2016/10/14/497986850/canada-just-wants-to-tellamericaitsgreat
BB: Does some one named Curt Schilling mean anything to you?
Baseball pitcher of that name…
Yeah, he was fired by ESPN………..right wing ashol, he doesn’t have a prayer.
He is a right wing asshole who was once a pitcher for the Boston RedSox. He is thinking of running for the Senate from MA against Elizabeth Warren.
He has as much chance of winning that race as I do.
Right wing freak.
He’s ridiculous. That’s not gonna happen.
Exactly.
Women in major cities across the US protest Trump and pussy-grabbing at #GOPHandsOffMe rallies http://bit.ly/2e4nPb0
Yeah, I’ll share this!
Enjoyed the post today BB, thank you.
The top photo — that look in the girl’s eyes as she gazes up at Hillary is priceless.