Sometimes it's useful when people say the quiet part out loud. Candor strips away false pretenses and gets to genuine motives. In the case of a longtime journalist, the quiet part is being shouted out loud, in written form, for the world to read. We've spilt much digital ink on the blatant double standards with which many leftists, elected Democrats and members of the media have handled decades-old allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and Joe Biden, respectively. Our working thesis, which has not been refuted, is that the yawning disparity is attributable to political and ideological bias, arising from the pursuit of power. Not facts. And certainly not believing women.
In the wake of a truly hilarious New York Times editorial arguing that the Biden allegation is too serious a matter to be adjudicated by the press and recommending an "independent" investigation by...the Democratic National Committee, a Times veteran wrote the following letter to the editor to express his dissent. Helpfully, the Times printed it:--
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