Former vice president Joe Biden speaks at the Biden Courage Awards on March 26 in New York. By Monica Hesse Monica Hesse Style reporter Email Bio Follow Columnist April 3 at 2:18 PM Here are the Joe Biden facts, spread out like Scrabble tiles, waiting to be combined into something coherent:
Joe Biden says it was “never [his] intention” to make anyone uncomfortable. “The boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset,” he said in a video posted to Twitter on Wednesday. “And I get it.” Into the facts, we can throw the nuances. The double-letter and triple-word scores. The context, the backstory, the things we’ve gotten better at understanding and talking about.People of all genders have vastly different comfort levels when it comes to being touched, or being touched by strangers, or being touched by vice presidents.
Not all buffoonery is malevolent. Not all buffoons can perpetually get away with saying, “I didn’t realize,” because after a while, after enough onlookers have said, “Hey, that’s gross,” they should have realized. Where is the Anita Hill square, for example? Where is the square that acknowledges Biden’s presiding role during her agonizing Senate testimony and how his explanations for his handling of it have continued to be tepid?
MonicaHesse It's Dean Martin . . !
MonicaHesse Despicable!
MonicaHesse I have experience with men who are touchy feely types. I do believe that they mean well, but it is uncomfortable.
MonicaHesse has MonicaHesse looked up the term harassment or is she just having to try to get a notch in her belt? Harassment is unwelcome behavior that someone KNOWS is unwanted. Now he knows..Why not talk about the GOP harassment of women and their rights.Journalism got Trump elected
MonicaHesse We’ve had this discussion before. We came to the conclusion that liberty was the key. No harm; no foul. Now, that we all vote the problem is journalists and bureaucrats telling us how to feel and listening to how we feel.
MonicaHesse He’s grabby and he admitted plagiarism. Why do we have to entertain his candidacy at all when other candidates are younger and have the same positions? Go away, Joe.
MonicaHesse On one hand I feel this is getting absurd on the other, I feel he's a politician of decades past and we need someone who is more 21st cr tuey.
MonicaHesse yawn.
MonicaHesse Newsflash: Obama made him look good. On his own this guy is another dude past his prime clinging to something that doesn’t exist anymore. No country for old men. He’s another guy that doesn’t get it and needs to step aside and let nature take its course.
MonicaHesse He has apologized. Are we now seeking a pound of flesh or, perhaps, we could make him carve “I will not hug women” into his arm with Dolores Umbridge’s magic quill.🙄
MonicaHesse I disagree that I have to respect someone who gets randomly offended. I don't care if they're offended. They need to toughen up.
MonicaHesse Scrabble huh? How many points does Trump get for raping a 13 year old girl?
MonicaHesse Enough.
MonicaHesse The entire article & posts that follow are mindless. This is total buffoonery. Only Democrats could step in their own trap.
MonicaHesse check out the pics of his guy pals, it is not harassment but a collegial style he needs to change
MonicaHesse Oh shut up
MonicaHesse Every one of the women he touched! Loved it! All of them! In the thousands!
MonicaHesse If Biden is to DUMB to know when he's making Children really Uncomfortable he's way to dumb to be president. Just ask HIS many Victims
MonicaHesse JOE THIS LASY LUCY WHAT EVER SHE OWN YOU AND YOUR CHARACTER APOLOGIES. REALLY SHE IS OUT OF CHARACTER
MonicaHesse I’m a French kisser. I can’t help it.
MonicaHesse And when will we discuss Trump’s accusers who were swept under the rug!
MonicaHesse Plus: Anita Hill. Biden ain’t goin’ nowhere. AnitaHill
MonicaHesse Yawn.... So glad you cover issues like why Bernie & Trump won't release their taxes with the same fervor as this. 🙄
MonicaHesse There should be a tribunal, like they had for Kavanaugh. A woman is always to be believed.
MonicaHesse This $tory appears to have taken off since the Russian Bots, Media n Election Time Anarchists have gotten hold of it Meanwhile this 👇 guy (admitted Privacy Grabber) is President of the United $tates w/o a peep spoken from ANY of'em
MonicaHesse THE MAN IS HONEST AND WHEN BUNCH OF 5 MINUTE FAME MAKE PEOPLE TAKE STUPID ACTION. DAM
MonicaHesse I expect to see repeated similar articles and editorials about how gross realDonaldTrump is.
MonicaHesse I’m a hugger. Always have been.
MonicaHesse People have vastly different comfort levels with his behavior? This can be said of all the Democrats in Washington!
MonicaHesse
MonicaHesse I personally don't mind a little groping now and again. Makes me feel attractive.
MonicaHesse We need to get to a point where women feel confident in speaking up & men accept it without retaliating. It's not feasible to live in a society where no one touches another unless express permission is given nor do I think we would want to.
MonicaHesse It's not about your intentions, it's about your actions
MonicaHesse want real news? Investigate Biden.
MonicaHesse Did he intend to make Anita Hill uncomfortable? Has he apologized to her yet?
MonicaHesse Question is how to prove the accusations are just that-accusations ?
MonicaHesse Women coming out of the woodwork...but that's not the story that will stop him. The Chinese business and Ukrainian board seat will.
MonicaHesse Creepy Uncle Joe is down for the count.
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