Joe Biden is currently facing allegations of sexual assault by a former Senate aide, Tara Reade, who filed a police report against him for
allegedly assaulting her in 1993. Following weeks of inattention to the situation, The New York Times has finally reported on the claims, going
to bat for the former Vice President and dismissing Reade’s claims.
The article, which is worded as a defense of Biden, states that the
paper found that “no other allegation of sexual assault surfaced in the course of our reporting, nor did any former Biden staff corroborate
Reade’s allegation.”
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“We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs,
kisses, and touching that women previously said made them
uncomfortable.”
When it was initially published, the text simply read: “The Times found
no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden,” a claim that contradicts previous accusations against Biden.
That tweet has since been deleted.
KC Johnson
NYT has deleted tweet about its Biden story claiming no
"pattern of misconduct" by Biden beyond "hugs, touching, and
kissing" that women had said made uncomfortable (behavior
that the TIX policies Biden championed would have produced
expulsion for college students).
In a separate paragraph, the article notes that “filing a false police report may be punishable by a fine and imprisonment,” a caveat that the paper never mentioned in its breathless coverage of the “trial” of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. During his confirmation in 2018,
The New York Times ran numerous pieces accusing Kavanaugh of sexual
assault with an emphasis on believing all women who accuse powerful men
of abuse.
Since running for President, eight women have alleged that Biden either touched them inappropriately or violated their personal space, forcing
him to release what critics called a “non-apology apology.” The former
VP then retracted the statement to say that he was “not sorry for
anything I’ve ever done.”
Biden has also been criticized for commenting on the sexual appearance
of young girls and women on the 2020 campaign trail. Biden’s defenders claim that he is a relic of a different age and hold him to a much
lower standard than any other public figure.
The New York Times’ coverage of the Tara Reade allegation also
contradicts a previous investigation by the newspaper. In a 2019
article, the paper wrote that “Biden’s Tactile Politics Threaten his Return in the #MeToo era.”
Tactile refers to Biden’s longstanding tendency to grope women and
girls. Biden has been repeatedly photographed and captured on video
sniffing women’s hair and groping their thighs and shoulders—actions
his critics use to paint him as an unabashed pervert incapable of
respecting women’s personal space.
https://youtu.be/_H5NJZMDumY
You couldn’t make this up. It’s like saying we investigated Genghis
Khan and found no pattern of behavioral misconduct beyond all the
raping and killing he committed in his decades-long invasions of China
and the Western world.
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