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In a very serious Congressional hearing on Tuesday, Capitol Hill considered efforts to streamline the process for staffers to report sexual misconduct by their colleagues. The reforms came as the nation was in the middle of a conversation about such behavior and abusers were thrust into the spotlight. Of course, discussions about powerful men abusing women could not be had without mentioning former President Bill Clinton, but Jim Warren of the Poynter Institute didn’t want to hear any of it.
During his appearance on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Brian Williams later that evening, Warren lamented about how he was on Fox News recently and had to talk about Clinton’s alleged rape of an innocent woman. “I was on Fox the other night and I'm being asked about Juanita Broaddrick. Brian, it's like 20 years ago, the two of us are talking about Juanita Broaddrick,” he bemoaned. “Why are we talking about Juanita Broaddrick?”
According to Warren, it was all a part of Fox News’ coordinated effort to distract from other news items damaging to President Trump. “The battle plan up until this point has been to deflect at all costs. And now it looks like it may be coming to an end,” he opined.
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