[Free Beacon] To the casual observer, it's clear that the mainstream media operate under a default assumption when it comes to women who accuse political figures of sexual assault: The ones who accuse Republicans are inherently more credible than the ones who accuse Democrats.This bias has become so obvious as the media struggle to handle Tara Reade's credible allegation of sexual assault against former vice president Joe Biden—especially compared with the hysterical coverage surrounding Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's allegation against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh—that even members of the media are beginning to notice. They are shocked—SHOCKED!—that critics of the media's handling of Reade's allegations might have a point.
"For Biden's opponents on the right, the issue regarding Tara Reade doesn't seem to be that they actually believe her. In fact, I don't know if they do," Sam Stein, politics editor at the Daily Beast, wrote on Twitter. "It's that they feel the left is engaged in an insane degree of hypocrisy and political convenience over when to believe women."
Stein delivers this "insight" with the scientific self-confidence of a nerd watching sports for the first time and observing in his little nerd notebook that fans' opinions of the referees can change dramatically depending on which team benefits from a given call. The casual observer might have a different response. "No s—," for example.