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It's simply astounding the slop Americans will accept as "Journalism" nowadays.
So ABC "News" just straight up parrots the Trump administrations talking points as if they are objective facts. "Left Leaning" bias my asshole :(
And what is the "evidence" they use to back up this supposed fact, some lawyer hasn't seen it. As we all know, absence of evidence is evidence of absence. Good Job ABC, case closed.
Not to mention this lawyers story is full of holes.
First of all he claims to be representing Epstein's victims, but goes on to say that
Exsqueeze me? Admittedly I am not a lawyer, but what exactly would be the point of 'representing' the victims if they refuse to release the names of the people who assaulted them? Isn't the point to bring these people to justice? How would it benefit the victims in any way to not release the names? The only way that would make sense is if Edwards was only there to distribute hush money payments. Can anyone explain this to me?
Then he goes on to say
but later in the exact same article the writer says
Gee, its so weird how a guy who was a habitual child molester, who was friends with some very rich and powerful scumbags, who's partner was convicted of sex trafficking, and who was mysteriously able to accumulate "astounding wealth" is also clearly and unambiguously innocent of running a sex trafficking operation, because 'some guy said so'. If anyone read that sentence and thinks it sounds plausible please PM me, I just got some really nice bridges in famous cities and I'm willing to let them go for cheap.
Oh and here comes my favorite part:
Ok? Edwards let's say that it was a 'very small percentage', WHO FUCKING CARES?! I don't care if it was one person, that person should be named and prosecuted. For Fuck Sake saying he only did 'a little bit' of pimping out underage children for the wealthy to molest as if that excuses it or diminishes it in any way makes me want to puke.
Again, WHO THE FUCK CARES?! Why does this even need to be said? Even if we take what this clown is saying as absolute fact, that still means young women were being exploited and abused, and some % of them were underage. WHO WERE THE 'SELECT FEW' MEN? That is what we want to know, not hear excuses like "Well it was only a few men, and only some of the girls were underage". Get all the way the fuck out of here with that bullshit.
I'm not going to say it again. 🤮
The cameras in the bedrooms and the bathrooms were just there for the molesters safety and nothing else I'm sure.
Except that you and ABC have just spent an entire article regurgitating the Trump administrations excuses for not releasing them, so why in the fuck would they bother? But hey, now you can guys can pretend that you are for releasing the information even though you just gave them every excuse not to. Convenient.
There's more I could say but I'm getting sick just thinking about this crap. The whole damn thing is disgusting.
Yeah, I have to chuckle at lots of "wellaxetually" types that like to play the Enlightened Centrist (TM) that pop up nearly on any given forum to lecture the likes of me when I openly mock the notion of a "liberal media".
When I ask just where the fuck this supposed "liberal media" is, I usually get a lot of bafflegab that leads almost nowhere. Often they point to bullshit sites like that one that do nothing to consider the broader spectrum or ideas like Chomsky's where he has pointed out that very strident arguments tend to be allowed between a very narrow and confined range.
And so a website like Wonkette is ranked as "far left" by such types, LOL. When nothing on Wonkette comes even close to the far left, LOL. It's just that most of the media landscape is dominated by extremists like Faux, and set up as a contrast to the news outlets of megacorps and their values...which both have nearly the same exact values. The Faux wing of that "spectrum" just comes with more homophobia, transphobia, race-baiting, misogyny, etc...
Yeah, someone connected with this shit got to his pockets. I'm guessing very shortly after he was named as representative to the victims.