Believe Some Women

There’s an old saying in Washington: If the political press corps didn’t have double standards it would have no standards at all.  Never has this been more nakedly obvious than in the media’s dismissive treatment of a newly surfaced sexual assault claim against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Last month, former Biden Senate staffer, Tara Reade, came forward with gruesome accusations that the self-admittedly tactile politician sexually assaulted her in the basement of a Capitol building in the summer of 1993.  Biden flatly denies the charge.
It took nearly three weeks for the New York Times to grudgingly report this new ...