Believe all women? Not if they are coming out against someone who has a chance to oust President Donald Trump from the White House in a few months.
Apparently, The New York Times is ditching this motto because now a man trying to unseat President Trump is charged with sexual assault.
Recently, Tara Reade officially filed a charge against Joe Biden. While the left has argued that you should believe all women no matter what, progressives have now dumped this concept because it presents the main challenge the president in a horrific spot.
One newspaper is trying to give Biden cover.
The Times tried its best to defend Biden in a pseudo-neutral story, titled “Examining Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden.” The authors, Lisa Lerer and Sydney Ember, even took the time to take a jab at the president. The conclusion of the report was easy to spot: Don’t believe Reade because the Old Gray Lady “found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden.”
Meanwhile, does anyone remember its coverage of Brett Kavanaugh? Anytime it reported negative stories on Kavanaugh, the newspaper published any accusations against Kavanaugh as fact. Here is just one:
“Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.”
And then there is the newspaper’s defense of the “believe women” idea from the last couple of years:
“Do We Believe Women Yet? The Battle to End Sexual Harassment”
“Why Women Can Take Years to Come Forward With Sexual Assault Allegations”
“#MeToo Has Done What the Law Could Not”
“But the Times and other outlets are proceeding with a level of caution that’s inconsistent with how they treated the Kavanaugh allegations, even though the evidence was similarly weak (and the underling incidents less serious) in that case. One cannot help but indulge the suspicion that the inconvenience of the allegation against Biden—it could work to the advantage of President Donald Trump’s re-election—might have given the media (and some erstwhile believe-all-women activists) pause.”
Exhibit No. 23232 of why the mainstream media has lost all credibility.
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