Many conservative pundits are crying foul over the media’s apparently hypocritical treatment of Joe Biden’s sexual assault accusation. Apparently, they want the Kavanaugh circus to be the norm.
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After the Brett Kavanaugh “trial” back in 2018, Republicans were outraged. “Remember Kavanaugh,” Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh reminded us before the mid-term election, Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) first ad against Senator McCaskill (D-MO) involved her supporting the Kavanaugh “ambush.” Fox News Host Sean Hannity even called it the “ugliest smear campaign in history.”
Little did I realize, this is how they thought things should be. Don’t believe me? Then explain why they’re getting onto the media now for not treating Tara Reade’s accusations against Joe Biden the same way they treated Christine Ford’s accusations against Brett Kavanaugh.
Both Reason Magazine Senior Editor Robby Soave and director Mike Cernovich have called New York Time’s writer Michelle Goldberg a hypocrite over her beveling Ford and not Reade. Many are saying Biden is only getting this treatment because he’s a Democrat!
But wait, continuing to use Goldberg as an example, she also called for the resignation of former Senator Al Franken. And, the media didn’t seem to go all that easy on Democratic donors Harvey Weinstein and Jeffery Epstein. Did the media give some of that “democratic privilege” I hear so much about to Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY)? Funny, I recall the public outcry and media attention forcing him to resign from congress over sexting a woman.
How about Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), who still got forced to resign after serving in Congress for over fifty years? Or when it stopped Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D-NV) from seeking re-election in 2018? Rep. Katie Hill couldn’t even remain in Congress for a full year before being forced to resign over a sex scandal.
And no, Republicans have it just as easy as they think Democrats do. Hence why you more than likely don’t know the names Jessica Leeds, Kristin Anderson, Lisa Boyne, Cathy Heller, Temple McDowell, Karena Virginia, Mindy McGillivray, Jennifer Murphy, Rachel Crooks, Natasha Stoynoff, Juliet Huddy, Jessica Drake, Ninni Laaksonen, or Cassandra Searles. All of these women have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault.
The fact is, unless you get horribly unlucky, your chances as a powerful man of getting away with sexual assault is quite high. Remember all that anger people had towards Harvey Weinstein? The same accusations were circulating against the late Roger Alles for years, and nobody did anything. Everyone remembers Fox News host Bill O’Reilly losing his show over a sexual harassment lawsuit. Fewer remember Andrea Mackris suing O’Reilly in 2004 over the same thing.
But, for that matter, I thought the way the media handled Kavanaugh was wrong. Mike Cernovich, who is angry the New York Times isn’t treating Biden like Kavanaugh, wrote a sarcastic article on those hearings titled “Can Brett Kavanaugh Come Back From Ford’s Testimony? (UPDATE: Yes.)”
Let’s look at some New York Post headlines:
-Democrats Hit A New Low In Their Crusade Against Kavanaugh, 9/13/2018
-Kavanaugh Accuser’s Memory Could Be Wrong, 9/17/2018
-Democrats Don’t Want A Fair Kavanaugh Hearing-They Want A Circus, 9/18/2018
-Scrapping Kavanaugh’s Appointment Means “The End Of Civilization”, 9/18/2018
-Nixing Kavanaugh Would Set A Terrible Precedent And Other Comments, 9/19/2018
-The Drive To Sink Kavanaugh Is Liberal Totalitarianism, 9/19/2018
-Democrats Have Abandoned The Presumption Of Innocence, 9/20/2018
-The US Senate Has Grown Contemptible . . . And Other Commentary, 9/21/2018
-How [Senator] Feinstein Is Conspiring To Destroy Kavanaugh, 9/22/2018
And it went on and on.
Yet, on 4/12/2020, The New York Post ran an article called “Joe Biden, Brett Kavanaugh And The #MeToo Hypocrites,” where they get angry the media isn’t treating Biden the same as they treated Kavanaugh.
Why is the media treating Biden like this? I don’t know, maybe because the last time they didn’t, it was a massive embarrassment on their part. Sorry if they’re doing what you want them to do.
To the Trump supporters angry at the media: remember, you asked for this. You asked for a media that was nice to the man being accused of sexual harassment. You just don’t like it because it’s fair to somebody you don’t like.
I’m not commenting on whether the accusations against Biden or Kavanaugh are accurate or not. Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. I wasn’t there. As such, I have no way to know for sure at this time. However, if you want to call the media a bunch of hypocrites when they do what you begged them to do just a year earlier, do not expect sympathy from me.
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