Headline Roundup April 8, 2020
Activist's Endorsement of Joe Biden Incites Backlash After Assault Claim
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National Review (News)
Itβs one thing to adopt a poorly formed set of principles and foist them on others at every opportunity. Itβs another to apply those principles unflinchingly to oneβs political opponents while giving allies a free pass.
Celebrity Alyssa Milano β who is famous now mostly for having once been famous β has lately become an expert in this sort of hypocrisy, as she has cashed in her social-media currency to become a useless fixture of our increasingly useless political debates.
Unlike most of our cultural icons, she has declined to...
Actress-turned-activist Rose McGowan eviscerated her former "Charmed" co-star Alyssa Milano for her continued support for former Vice President Joe Biden amid a newly surfaced sexual assault accusation.
Milano, who was an outspoken advocate for the #MeToo movement and a celebrity endorser of the Democratic front-runner, addressed her "silence" on the 1993 assault allegation made Tara Reade, a former staffer for the then-senator who came forward with her assault claim last month.
"I had not publicly said anything about this- if you remember, it kind of took me a long time...

Mediaite
Actress and activist Alyssa Milano sparked backlash on Twitter when she defended Democratic candidate Joe Biden despite the fact that his former staffer Tara Reade came forward with assault allegations.
Milano had previously received criticism for her silence regarding Bidenβs harassment allegations, so she explained on a radio interview with Andy Cohen that she was skeptical that Readeβs statements were credible.
βIβve been very vocal for Biden and my support for him and I did do my due diligence because part of it was that Times Up decided not to...