Sorry, I can't let this go. Everything that applied to Blasey Ford / Kavanaugh seems to apply *more strongly* to Tara Reade / Biden. Why was the former exhaustively covered from the get-go, while the latter is essentially ignored? reason.com/2020/03/30/joe…
To name names: The New York Times wrote about Ford's allegation before she was public, without naming her, or interviewing her. Reade is out, on the record, and naming herself, but The Times hasn't mentioned her.
WaPost has only casually referenced her in a Q and A that went like this: how will the "Reade bombshell" impact the presidential race? It was basically an aside. The "bombshell" was never defined for readers.
CNN interviewed Biden on Friday, but didn't ask him. NBC interviewed him Sunday, and also didn't ask him.
I mean, I actually support proceeding extremely cautiously with these things, but again, the Kavanaugh case is very analogous. And in fact what Reade has accused Biden of is significantly worse.
I realize we are in the midst of a global pandemic, but there's some urgency here. Biden doesn't have the nomination yet and there is still a credible alternative candidate.
Reade's accusation could be false, or it could just be utterly unknowable with any degree of certainty (this is likely, in fact). But in the very recent past, the media has taken these things extremely seriously.
