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"We got an email from a man with direct personal knowledge from that story (Podestas being investigated). He's a former senior employee of the Podesta Group."
When I got the chance to meet George H. W. Bush four years ago to promote a historical television show I was working on, he sexually assaulted me while I was posing for a similar photo. He didn't shake my hand. He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side. He told me a dirty joke.The actress went on to say that a nearby security guard told her she shouldn't have stood next to the former president for the photo op, and to excoriate the former president whom she says she will no longer refer to with any titles of honor.
"We were instructed to call him Mr. President. It seems to me a President's power is in his or her capacity to enact positive change, actually help people, and serve as a symbol of our democracy," the lengthy post went on.Lind said that she shared the assault with her cast members who were very supportive.
"He relinquished that power when he used it against me and, judging from the comments of those around him, countless other women before me."
In August 2016, Grolnick was working at a Maine production of Hunchback of Notre Dame. The former president, who summers in nearby Kennebunkport and frequents this theater, caught a performance. He came backstage during an intermission, she says, and she and the rest of the cast gathered for a photo with him... "We all circled around him and Barbara for a photo, and I was right next to him," she says. "He reached his right hand around to my behind, and as we smiled for the photo he asked the group, 'Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?' As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, 'David Cop-a-Feel!'"The official Bush statement:
"At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures. To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke - and on occasion, he has patted women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely."Funny how this story gets so much traction. But when Bush Sr. gets accused of being a violent pedophile, the media doesn't say a word - and the wider scandal is completely covered up. And when his son is responsible for destructive wars responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians, he is still respected and honored. Priorities?
Comment: Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center called the lack of coverage from the "big three" networks "scandalous ... beyond irresponsible journalism ... not journalism at all ... a blatant cover-up."
ABC, CBS and NBC were all slow on the uptake, either ignoring the story completely or giving it mere seconds of airtime while promoting fluff pieces instead. ABC framed the story by downplaying it, quoting Clinton calling it "baloney". By yesterday, they had all covered the "DNC funded dossier" story broken by WaPo. CBS's Jeff Pegues spent most of his reporting defending the dossier. ABC gave the story 31 seconds of airtime. By contrast, the networks devoted a total of 62 minutes talking about the Trump Jr./"Russian lawyer" meeting.