Since Tara Reade gave her detailed interview describing the sexual assault against her by the presumptive democrat presidential nominee and former vice president Joe Biden, the liberal media has largely ignored or tried to whitewash the story.
Reade said she told her late (feminist) mother, a close friend, and her brother about the assault at the time. Both her friend and her brother Collin Moulton have since confirmed she told them about the assault.
Recently in an interview with The Intercept, Reade said that around the time she left then senator Biden’s office, her mother called in to “Larry King Live” on CNN, asking for advice . “I remember it being an anonymous call and her saying my daughter was sexually harassed and retaliated against and fired, where can she go for help? I was mortified,” Reade told The Intercept.
Many in the media and political operatives immediately went to work looking for video evidence of the call. Now a Media watchdog group, Media Research Center(MRC) has managed to get their hands on a clip purportedly showing the moment Reade's mother, Jeanette Altimus called in to 'Larry King Live.'
The call occurred on Wednesday, August 11, 1993 edition of the CNN show. And Congressional records list August 1993 as Reade’s last month of employment with Biden’s Senate office. Property records also showed that Altimus was living in San Luis Obispo County.
Here is a transcript of the call from MRC:
LARRY KING: We're back - a couple more phone calls on this very important topic. Our guests are former United States Senator Howard Baker; Richard Allen, former National Security Adviser; and Lois Romano of The Washington Post. San Luis Obispo, California, hello.
CALLER: Yes, hello. I'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington? My daughter has just left there, after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him.
KING: In other words, she had a story to tell but, out of respect for the person she worked for, she didn't tell it?
CALLER: : That's true.
KING: Yes, but these are the people who do come to the Lois Romanos, right?
LOIS ROMANO (The Washington Post) : Uh-huh.
KING: The staff worker who says, 'I want to let you know about what's going on either with my boss or the guy down the hall.'
ROMANO: 'This is going on, and I'm troubled.' Uh-huh. And a lot of these people have a sense of obligation. They feel that this public official should be accountable, if it's something wrong.
KING: They're whistle-blowers to the press.
ROMANO: Exactly.
Two things stand out from the call.
First, the caller made clear that going to the press would damage the senator(Biden). Both Reade and her mother Altimus were liberal democrats. It is understandable that a mother and feminist for that matter, would feel hurt by a prominent leader of her own party sexually assaulting her daughter.
Secondly, the reference in the call, to being unable to “get through with her problems,” aligns with Reade’s claim that she complained to superiors in Biden’s office and got nowhere.
The fair and pertinent questions at this point are: when will the liberal media especially CNN and MSNBC give this story the coverage it deserves, like they did with the Kavanaugh story? And when will Hollywood leftists like Alyssa Milano - who has endorsed Joe Biden - take the former vice president to task? Finally, when will women organizations and the so-called '#MeToo' movement call on him to end his bid to be president?
Reacting to the 'Larry King Live' video, Reade in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation said, “I just heard audio, my mother died and hearing her voice made me cry. She was such a good mom and always watching out for me even now,... the video proves that I was forced out and wanted to come forward in 1993.”