Stop the presses, the left-wing media learned a lesson about how to cover sexual allegations against politicians. Unfortunately, they learned the wrong lesson.
For weeks, Tara Reade’s charge that Joe Biden forcibly penetrated her in 1993 was too hot to handle. None of the #MeToo crusaders would go near it, lest they hurt Biden and help re-elect Donald Trump.
That’s not the behavior of journalists. That’s the behavior of a Praetorian Guard.
Then suddenly, the media blackout collapsed and is being replaced by an intense hunt for the long-ago truth. What changed?
Two things. First, the Biden protection racket drew a chorus of criticism over the obvious double standard in the way the same media and their Democratic masters trumpeted wild charges against Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation.
Nearly all the charges dealt with his high school and college years, none were supported by clear evidence, yet it was enough for the left to declare Kavanaugh a rapist. Politics doesn’t get any nastier.
The second cause for the turnabout was Biden’s Friday interview on MSNBC. It was the first time he personally addressed Reade’s charge and while he was strong in his absolute denial, he failed to put the issue to rest.
His past claims that all female accusers should be believed have come back to haunt him because, like Kavanaugh, he can’t meet the impossible burden of proving his innocence.
So a wild search is on for any evidence anywhere, especially a document, that would show Reade complained at the time, as if that would settle everything. Never mind that Reade’s story of the alleged assault changed and became more serious.
Still, the reversal in the media’s attitude is a form of justice in that Biden is now being held to the same standard as Kavanaugh. The only problem is that kind of justice is not just blind. It’s also stupid.
The Kavanaugh character assassination — for purely partisan purposes — was a travesty. It should never be repeated against any American for any reason.
Predictably, The New York Times editorial board has a spectacularly bad idea for solving the problem. It urges the Democratic National Committee to investigate the charges against Biden, with his campaign’s cooperation.
This is stop-the-world lunacy.
I’m no fan of Biden’s, but it’s not a solution to carve up his hide so Democrats and Republicans are equally scarred. The solution is that we end the politics of personal destruction that is turning public service into a nightmare.
By all means, let the media dig into Reade’s allegation to their hearts’ content. Whatever they find or don’t find, voters are free to consider.
But it makes zero sense for Biden to effectively put his campaign on ice, as the Times demands. Besides, the DNC is hardly a disinterested party and has zero credibility to judge Biden’s fitness.
Even if it tried, the quest for the perfect outcome to Reade’s charge would not solve a single problem in American life. It won’t end the pandemic, console the grieving, restart the economy or help the country face a searing set of challenges.
In fact, the quest likely won’t even settle the issue at hand because the claim is probably unresolvable. Unless Biden admits guilt or Reade withdraws her charge, voters will be left with the same choice they started with. It’s Biden or Trump, warts and all.
(Speaking of which, because the Times did not endorse Biden and hates Trump, I wonder if the aim of the paper’s push for an investigation is to drive Biden out of the race and replace him with one of its favorites, perhaps Sen. Elizabeth Warren. At any rate, letting the DNC pick the nominee would be telling primary voters to drop dead.)
Most important, voters already have lots of current information on which to base their November choice, and will get more in coming months.
Take China. The Communist Party’s deceit during the early days of the coronavirus is consistent with its aggressive expansionism in trade and military matters. It no longer hides its aim to replace America as the world’s leading superpower.
Americans of both parties have noticed. Recent polls find that two-thirds have an unfavorable view of that nation and don’t trust its Communist leadership.
Trump has confronted China more than any other president in the last 30 years over unfair trade practices and the theft of intellectual property. He believes the coronavirus accidentally escaped a Wuhan laboratory, instead of first appearing at a food market as China claims.
Trump’s record includes his criticism of the World Health Organization; he calls it a public relations agency for China and withheld American dollars.
Biden appears to be inching toward a tougher position, but earlier pooh-poohed fears of China’s expansionism and faulted Trump’s January suspension of flights from China as a sign of xenophobia. He is also reflexively supportive of international organizations like the World Health Organization.
Then there’s his son, Hunter Biden, and the fact that he had, and still may have, business ties to a government-owned investment fund in China that began when Joe Biden was vice president.
The biggest issue, of course, is the pandemic and Trump’s leadership in combating it.
While he calls himself a “wartime president,” the initial White House response was erratic and still-rising death tallies and the frozen economy give Biden opportunities to score points.
But to do that, he must emerge from his basement isolation and eventually return to retail campaigning. Recall that he often stumbled in the primaries before getting hot at the right moment, then having the benefit of the shutdown.
How Biden will hold up under anything resembling normal campaign pressures, including attacks from Trump, are huge question marks hanging over him.
His answers will carry more weight with voters than inconclusive findings about something that might have happened 27 years ago. Especially in this tumultuous time, the candidate with the right solutions to today’s problems and the clearest vision for the future deserves to be president.
Speak of ingrates …
A statement from City Council Speaker Corey Johnson: “It is time for Samaritan’s Purse to leave New York City. This group, which is led by the notoriously bigoted, hate-spewing Franklin Graham, came at a time when our city couldn’t in good conscience turn away any offer of help. That time has passed. Their continued presence here is an affront to our values of inclusion, and is painful for all New Yorkers who care deeply about the LGBTQ community.”
Apparently the values of certain New Yorkers do not include simple gratitude.
Shameful, clueless Cuomo
Arlene Mullin, whose letter about her mother’s death helped reveal the state’s fatal policy of forcing COVID-19 patients into nursing homes, sees Gov. Andrew Cuomo as cruelly insensitive. She writes: “In the middle of this terrible crisis, he is so shameless that he posts on his website a transcript where he talks about his dating eligibility.
“How arrogant and totally clueless he is about what is important.”
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