Liberals try to suppress MeToo news against Biden

Allahpundit:

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Wanting a guy fired for displaying a modicum of intellectual integrity is extremely on-brand for 2020. Hayes stands accused of the crime of believing that #MeToo allegations against a powerful politician are newsworthy even when that politician’s not a Republican. He looks guilty to me.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes sparked backlash from the left when he became the first primetime host on the network to cover a former aide’s sexual assault allegations against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, with the hashtag #FireChrisHayes trending on Twitter.

The “All-In” host welcomed New York magazine’s Rebecca Traister to his program Wednesday night after she penned an essay, titled “The Biden Trap,” that critical of the former vice president for not addressing Tara Reade’s allegations in any interviews, thereby leaving Democratic women supporting his candidacy to answer questions about the allegations for him…

“What this is creating is a kind of a perfect storm where the women who are being asked to support his opponent are now being asked to answer for these charges,” Traister told Hayes. “In part because of the vacuum created by Joe Biden who is not yet really directly answering these questions, and certainly, not doing what I wish he would, which is to say: ‘Please direct your questions about these allegations to me, and not the women that are out there offering their support to my candidacy.’”

The thrust of the segment was simply to relate the allegations, make the pedestrian observation that Reade’s claims seem more credible now that they’ve received some contemporaneous corroboration, and marvel at the predicament in which Biden’s all-women VP shortlisters now find themselves. Because Biden won’t forthrightly address Reade’s charges reporters have taken to asking his veep contenders for comment, knowing how awkward it is for a progressive feminist woman to play attack dog against another woman accusing a man of sexual assault. But that’s the role that Biden’s running mate (and to a lesser extent all Democratic pols, especially women) will be tasked with, especially if he won’t step up and take the heat himself. Some will do it eagerly, because they’re just that desperate for power. Others less so.

And yet, merely noticing this apparently amounts to an ideological sin worthy of its very own hashtag-shaming on Twitter.

Funny thing. The Times reports today that, with one predictable exception, Reade isn’t seeing a lot of interest from cable news networks for interviews. Despite the potentially game-changing effect of her claims on a presidential election, she’s a subject of low media interest.
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So the left is trying to blatantly suppress allegations that its candidate is a perv.   They no longer seem to be interested in the MeToo movement when it is inconvenient to their political outcome.  By doing so they also expose their own hypocrisy in attacks on Kavanaugh.

The real challenge for the left is not to alienate women voters.  They see them as their best hope of defeating Trump.  Most of the mainstream media has shunned interview opportunities with Reade.  I suspect she will eventually show up on Fox in a news segment and not one of their opinion shows.  She is already being covered in the opinion segments now anyway.

Meanwhile, potential women VP candidates and dodging the question and Pelosi gets snappy with reporters who ask her about Biden and Reade.