On Rape, Liberals Don’t ‘Believe the Victim’ If It’s Juanita Broaddrick
17th August 2016
YoutubeIn the wake of the publication of a major interview with Juanita Broaddrick, a lot of left-leaning writers are soberly re-examining her decades’ old rape accusation against Bill Clinton—which seems to grow less plausible (or perhaps less important) in their eyes, the more it threatens Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.
“While I (sort of? am leaning toward?) believe Juanita Broaddrick, her characterization of Hillary Clinton sounds irrational, maybe induced from PTSD,” writes Wonkette’s Rebecca Schoenkopf. Schoenkopf deserves credit for admitting a startling truth: her tribe is generally much less likely than this to agonize over accepting the victim’s narrative. “Why did Juanita Broaddrick change her story? ask people who otherwise would automatically answer ‘rape survivors do that sometimes,'” notes Schoenkopf.