Jeffery Epstein, friend to POTUS 42 and POTUS 45, arrested

I don't think it's funny. I think it's indicative of how much of an "open secret" the predation of both WJC and Epstein was. 

That it was treated as a joke is sick. 

And now, as we've seen before, everyone wants to tell us how they knew all along, and did everything they could to stop them, except for taking actual action. 

Ward "tried to stop" Epstein in 2003, well before Epstein cut his deal, so there's no reason for her to have thought that the FBI or the USA in Florida wouldn't take her evidence seriously, and prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.

So, that excuse is a non starter. 

And, look, I'm all for criticizing Acosta. I've never defended his deal. I've long thought it was bullshit, designed to protect others. If you think I'm invested in the Secretary of Labor, you're crazy. 

And, if you're going to agree that Carter is a coward, how do you defend the reporter who let him stop her from exposing a child rapist? 

He didn't let her publish her details in the magazine he ran. He didn't make her sign a nondisclosure agreement. So, what's her excuse? 

If she felt strongly enough about it, maybe she should have done what the writers who wrote about Bryan Singer (initially for Esquire) did and take it to another magazine after the initial magazine killed it. I do know that a freelance female reporter has a lot less power, and a lot more to lose, in this scenario than one of the era's most legendary magazine editors. But sure, blame the person with the least amount of power here.

Is so telling that you have invented a scenario where the female reporter deserves the majority of your scorn, but the prosecutors who literally gave him a deal that let him serve no serious jail time can be yadda yadda yadda'd right past.

How about a little praise for the reporter who didn't give up on the story and pursued it until it was airtight?

www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/business/media/miami-herald-epstein.html

In the tradition of YF constantly exposing us to liberal kooks ...

And, I know many of you don’t get outside of your own media bubble, but the Epstein case has been a thing on the right for years. Now, that was largely in part peaches of the hope that it would take down Bill Clinton, but you are out of your mind if you think that no one focused on this until the Miami Herald got interested in it.

In fact, I’d say the opposite was true. Until they we’re ready to throw Bill overboard, which would still be “never” had Hillary won — the main stream media stayed away from this case for the same reasons the right wing was interested in it.

I love that they admit that their interest in the story was initiated by internet to tie the Trump administration to the scandal. 

Ms. Brown was not the first journalist to report on the allegations against Mr. Epstein, who pleaded guilty in Florida in 2008 to charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution and served 13 months of an 18-month sentence. She got to work in 2017, shortly after Mr. Trump nominated Alexander Acosta to be secretary of labor. Ms. Brown knew that Mr. Acosta had handled Mr. Epstein’s prosecution while serving as the United States attorney in Miami.

They literally would have had no interest in the story of Clinton had won. 

And the Times sees nothing odd about that.