Stark omission by Rachel tonite on Kavanaugh accusers; Julie Swetnick not mentioned nor her

[triron]

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witness who signed a supporting affadavit corroborating Swetnick's testimony.

WTF is going on?? Some kind of gag order from her producer or higher up.
I was dumbfounded.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. There's a lot of news tonight and they can't cover everything.

[triron]

3. No she could have included mentioned of it within 30 seconds. I don't buy that.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

13. Me either.

Oversights as large as this do not usually happen on Rachel Maddow's show. This definitely raises some questions.

[budkin]

2. She doesn't sound credible

Probably the reason.

[triron]

4. Based on what? That's nonsense.

[mythology]

9. I question it based on the fact that she said she saw girls being drugged and gangraped

Why exactly would she go to multiple of those parties? Even if you say "oh she didn't feel like she was in a position to do something about it" (which is perfectly reasonable) who would go back to those parties and risk being the next victim?

Her allegation should be seriously investigated, but it's a sensational claim. Odds are if any of the claims are false, it's that one.

[torius]

11. She didn't say that.

She said she went to many parties but did not know why men would stand outside doors, and that after she was gang raped she realized what had been going on at the previous parties, and she never went to any again.

[Buffalo Soldier]

14. Allow me to give you my take...

We can go into further details if you want to improve your understanding.

Why she would go back to multiple parties where this stuff is going on? ..

Probably just a dysfunctional-teenager...

Why do people stay in street gangs, religious groups, even fraternities and sororities where others are abuse?

[rzemanfl]

6. Please back that contention up. I will check in the morning. Goodnight. n/t

[emulatorloo]

5. She spent most of the show on Trump money laundering and tax fraud

That’s a huge, long, and rather complicated story.

There’s no “cover ups” on Rachel’s show.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Exactly. The tax fraud story is really important and really complicated

and needed some time to explain. Rachel doesn't do cover-ups. Sometimes they just have to decide what the biggest story is and how much time they need to cover it, and maybe something will be left out for one program. If it's important it will be covered, but maybe not until tomorrow.

[rzemanfl]

8. Glaring? n/t

[Hekate]

10. Good gods, that is all you got out of tonight's bombshell reporting?Maybe you should just draw up...

...a comprehensive list of names that must be mentioned every single newscast no matter what, so that Rachel Maddow can maintain her credibility.

[Hoyt]

12. The MSNBC reporter who interviewed Ms. Swetnick yesterday had some serious concerns about

her credibility, said so yesterday and today. If Maddow didn’t agree, she would have said so.

Maddow tonight also was careful not to state categorically that the FBI investigation will likely end tonight, as so many are reporting. She said a bunch of news agencies are reporting different things from unnamed sources.