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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   1825 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 22, 2024

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How have we not discussed the nuzzi/RFK drama yet?

What's there to say? I don't actually understand why it's such a big story.

The idea that RFK sleeping with a reporter lead to media bias against Biden, strikes me as similar to the MTG endorsed theory about Harris having the debate questions in advance. Lack of evidence of impact.

I am, however, still waiting on the Mark Robinson post here, but I also have no idea what to say about that.

I think with the affidavit signed by a whistleblower it's more than a "theory" that she had the questions. That's more proof that was enough to impeach a President. More precisely, she had been given "example questions" - which were supposed to be "a kind of" questions she is going to be asked but not exactly those (we can't verify it of course because we don't have the questions they were given, but it sounds believable). Of course, we have no indication the other side got the same deal IIRC.

The idea that RFK sleeping with a reporter

They never slept with each other. Reports say Nuzzi was "sexting" RFK, which included her allegedly sending nude pictures.

I feel like posters would have a bunch of interesting cultural commentary and tangents based on the story. It's a big story because it's drama you can gawk at involving notable people that a bunch of people already disliked, not because it's important or anything.

- What shall we do about RFK affair with 30 years old?

- We shall envy him.

I wonder how many people can recognize a Stalin quote.

An alleged Stalin quote, at any rate. As Lenin famously said, people attribute all kinds of inanities to famous people on the Internet.

No idea what that is, want to explain it?

A journalist wrote some pro-RFK articles, then was revealed to have had a sexual relationship with him. It's particularly scandalous because she's thirty and he's seventy. I think they were just sexting not fucking.

That's all? Young female journo infatuated with an older high-status male? And they didn't even have sex? Pfui!

Given that the media as a whole seems pretty anti-RFK as far as I've seen, I'm gonna say "meh" to this.

It's really seen more of a failure of her ethics than his, although discrediting one of the few journalists who liked him probably counts for something. Really the far bigger issue with him is that he cheated on his wife with dozens of women at all

IT'S ABOUT ETHICS IN GAMING POLITICAL JOURNALISM

...

I mean, from what I've heard about JFK, I'm not at all surprised to hear another member of the Kennedy family was up to similar shenanigans. And now that RFK's endorsed Trump I don't think there's any salvaging his reputation among the anti-Trumpers regardless.

She was the one who was sexting by the sounds of it. No word of RFK nudes being sent but seemed to be plenty of hers landing in RFK’s phone. Gotta hand it to him. There’s not a man out there who wouldn’t be happy about this when he’s 70.

make a post brah

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