The New York Times and Washington Post have finally run articles reporting on and attempting to debunk former Biden staffer Tara Reade’s March 25th claim that in 1993 then-Senator Joe Biden forced her up against a wall while she was on his staff, lifted her dress and used his fingers to penetrate her. The Times’ Executive Editor Dean Baquet explained to questions from one of his own staff that he didn’t believe the paper should just print the allegations when made because doing so would be a disservice because, as he put it, it was “a fairly serious allegation against a guy who had been a Vice President of the United States and was knocking on the door of being his party’s nominee” to run for the presidency. Baquet argued that simply reporting the allegations would not have helped his paper’s readers ‘understand what to make” of the charge.
Instead, he had his reporters look into it to assess the credibility of the charges and found them lacking in spite of the fact that she had told people in general terms about the assault back when it supposedly took place and in spite of the fact that when Biden announced his candidacy a number of women accused him of unwanted touching, kissing and familiarity they found uncomfortable. None of them, however, went as far as Reade, whose charges they nonetheless found less than credible in part for that reason alone.
None of this mattered to the Times when completely uncollaboratable charges surfaced during the Senate confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court; In that instance, his paper ran with every allegation as soon as they surfaced, Most egregiously, the paper accepted as somehow legitimate the preposterous story of a woman introduced to the media by the smarmy Michael Avanatti who claimed with no evidence whatever that the future Supreme Court nominee took part in a “gang rape” on the very day the charge was made, merely noting that it couldn’t be independently corroborated.
That was different, the Times now claims … and indeed it was … Judge Kavanaugh was a Republican appointee the paper wanted desperately to derail while Mr. Biden is a Democrat they hope will be able to unseat a president Mr. Baquet and his staffers despise. If anyone ever had any doubt about the Times’ motives then or now, a look at how the paper handled the two stories should remove that doubt. In the Kavanaugh case, the Times used unproved and ultimately discredited allegations to smear Mr. Kavanaugh while in Mr. Biden’s case reporters did what they could to discredit the charges before deigning to report them.
The paper never apologized for its treatment of Judge Kavanaugh, but never asked Mr. Biden about the charges against him. They may or may not hold up, but there is more to them than there were to the charges against Kavanaugh. Reade did work for the Senator in 1993 and complained at the time about his unwanted attention. Moreover, others have complained of the way he’s treated women then and in the years since.
When he declared for the presidency and met with the Times editorial board no one even asked him about the allegations against him at the time and in putting things “in context” for Times readers no, the paper didn’t confront Biden or seek real answers, but was satisfied with a statement from his campaign and, in fact, modified its story to satisfy the campaign.
Nice work.
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Hypocrisy!
The national media is totally owned by the same people, who own the Democratic party. All citizens had better wake up, or your children and grandchildren will be either a part of the Socialist Party or will be RULED by the Socialist/Communist party.
These are democratic propaganda networks not news networks and the fcc should force them to address themselves as so and remove any protections that they would have as legitimate news networks.
We see the blatant bias in the media’s coverage on a daily basis. This particular situation illustrates the pure hypocrisy of the media and the democrat party. Any citizen can see that sexual abuse allegations are handled differently based on a clear bias against Republicans and for democrats. made against a Republican. I for one will vote accordingly and choose my news source with this bias in mind as well.
why no outcry on Biden and his alleged actions in the past, because he’s a democrat and running for president. What happened when Judge Kavanaugh, was being vented for the
Justice position, a comment of sexual allegations and he was ripped to shreds about his past and this went on and on, Democrat senators went after him with no mercy, he was finally chosen for his position but they still have not let up with their accusations. No one has ever been charged with false accusations and perjury, how come? Now Biden was accused of a past sexual conduct by several and no mention of it in the press why? He once said< " all women were to be believed" still no outcry, what a bunch of hypocrites in the press and congress. how sad!
It’s a sad reality when a party puts its beliefs and lust do power above what is a common good for the country and 1/2 our population is so stupid that they are incapable of seeing what is going on in plain view I have always believed that Americans had pride and patriotic roots but what I see going on in the country gives me a sick feeling anymore, Americans were smarter we always did what was right but now the education system has destroyed any of that , and immigration from countries that want to destroy us has put the balance of the country in jeopardy, we have some really bad people in power that should be in jail, As well as a judicial system that has been corrupted, and many more problems that are detrimental to our freedom, bottom line we are in big trouble and something has to give way or its game over and all that will be left is a big experiment in liberty that horribly failed I’m sorry but Civil War is the next thing if 1/2 the country wants Communist in power we need to pray that something changes before that happens, we need a great awakening soon , it’s very sad to watch
Americans better wake up before its too late. Choise is yours Trump 2020 or Commi/DemocRATS
Sad to say that the democratic party has become nothing but nest of vipers. It use to be the working mans party but it has evolved into a den of manipulating, money and power grabbers.
My poor Granddad would roll over in his grave if he could see what his working mans party has become in the last 25 years.
Sad to say, there are still some good and decent people who believe the Democrat party is still the workers party but self-serving, power mongers and greedy have taken it over.
I guess you people just don’t understand how things work, so let me explain. If you are a Democrat, a Leftist, a Liberal, or a Socialist you are exempt from most if not all rules and laws. Since Judge Kavanaugh, regardless of his true political affiliation, was appointed by President Trump this automatically made him guilty of whatever crimes the Democrats, Leftists,Liberals, Socialists decded that he was guilty of. Joe Biden on the other hand, since he falls into one of the above Left Leaning groups is automatically inocent of any and all charges made by anyone. This includes but is not limited to his son’s job on the board of a corrupt energy company, or his son’s position on the board of a Communist Chinese Government holding company. None of these things are of any importance or concern to the American People. This also includes Mike Blumberg and his multi-million dollar holdings in Communist China and let us not forget Pelosi’s son’s position on the board of the other corrupt energy company in the Ukraine or for that matter John Kerry’s son’s high paying board positon. All of these people are exempt form the laws that apply to you and I and the rest of the peasents in America.