{"id":46465,"date":"2016-08-18T06:58:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T10:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46465"},"modified":"2016-08-18T06:58:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T10:58:32","slug":"feminist-website-bill-clinton-may-have-raped-juanita-broaddrick-but-that-doesnt-mean-hes-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46465","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Website: Bill Clinton May Have Raped Juanita Broaddrick, but That Doesn\u2019t Mean He\u2019s \u2018Evil\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Jon Street<\/p>\n<p>The feminist website Wonkette <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/605513\/lets-talk-about-juanita-broaddrick\" target=\"_blank\">published a piece<\/a> Monday in which the writer acknowledges that Bill Clinton \u201ccould very well have raped\u201d Juanita Broaddrick \u2014 but added that it doesn\u2019t make the former president \u201cevil.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1065172\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1140413.jpg\" rel=\"attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1065172\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1140413.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Clinton on a visit to Juanita Broaddrick's (right) nursing home in Van Buren, Arkansas in 1978. (Getty Images)\" width=\"350\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Clinton on a visit to Juanita Broaddrick\u2019s (right) nursing home in Van Buren, Arkansas, in 1978. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"taboola-mobile-mid-article-thumbnails\"><\/div>\n<p>In an article bearing the headline \u201cLet\u2019s Talk About Juanita Broaddrick,\u201d writer Rebecca Schoenkopf addresses Broadrick\u2019s allegation that Clinton raped her in an Arkansas hotel room 40 years ago. She acknowledges the \u201ccontemporaneous evidence,\u201d including some of Broaddrick\u2019s friends claiming to have seen her crying and with bruised lips not long after the alleged incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>While Schoenkopf doesn\u2019t buy the allegation that Clinton\u2019s wife, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, knew about or tried to keep Broaddrick quiet about the alleged rape, she does give some credence to the accusation against the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo sum up, I think Bill Clinton could very well have raped Juanita Broaddrick,\u201d Schoenkopf wrote, \u201cthat it doesn\u2019t make him an evil man, or irredeemable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Catholic; we\u2019re all forgiven, if we\u2019re sorry, and Broaddrick says Bill Clinton personally called her up to apologize,\u201d the writer noted parenthetically, adding, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t even necessarily make him a bad feminist \u2014 you know, later, once he stops doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decades-old sexual harassment and rape allegations against the former president made headlines earlier this year after Broaddrick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2016\/01\/07\/see-bill-clintons-response-when-reporter-confronts-him-over-rape-allegation-resurfacing\/\" target=\"_blank\">sent out a tweet <\/a>reminding voters that \u201cit never goes away.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me.  I am now 73&#8230;.it never goes away.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atensnut\/status\/684822324227379200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s Republican rival, Donald Trump, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2016\/05\/18\/trump-raises-bill-clinton-rape-allegation-during-hannity-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">dredged up<\/a> the controversy earlier in the presidential campaign, calling attention to old questions about the behavior of the Democratic nominee\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n<p>The Clinton campaign recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2016\/08\/15\/clinton-campaign-quietly-amends-sexual-assault-message-on-website-following-renewed-allegations-against-bill-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\">removed a line<\/a> from its website that said women who claim to have been raped have the right to be believed.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/08\/17\/feminist-magazine-bill-clinton-isnt-necessarily-a-bad-guy-if-he-raped-juanita-broaddrick\/#ixzz4HbxzunsS\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Caller<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2016\/08\/17\/feminist-website-bill-clinton-may-have-raped-juanita-broaddrick-but-that-doesnt-mean-hes-evil\/\">http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2016\/08\/17\/feminist-website-bill-clinton-may-have-raped-juanita-broaddrick-but-that-doesnt-mean-hes-evil\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}