by Frank Holmes, reporter
Conservative critics say if you ever wanted to prove that the liberal media distorts reality, all you have to do is compare two people: former Vice President Joe Biden and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Both faced charges of sexually assaulting women decades ago, but the way the media covered the stories couldn’t be more different.
Democrats sat on a story that a drunken Kavanaugh held Christine Blasey Ford down on a bed and groped her over the clothes at a party they attended when both were underage.
When it looked like Kavanaugh would sail through confirmation to the Supreme Court, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., leaked the story — and the media gave it saturation coverage.
Soon, accusers came out of the woodwork to say Kavanaugh, a devout Catholic, was a serial gang-rapist.
The Big Three networks — ABC, NBC, and CBS — spent nearly six hours covering the baseless allegations in the first 12 days of the controversy, according to a new analysis by the Media Research Center.
Compare that to the Democratic presidential nominee.
A former aide named Tara Reade says that Biden pushed her up against a wall in the Capitol and shoved his fingers inside her vagina in December 1992. When she refused, Biden told her, “You’re nothing to me” and began freezing her out of her job. She quit, or was fired, in August 1993.
Kavanaugh was a 17-year-old kid at the time of Ford’s fictitious charge; Biden was a powerful, 51-year-old senator who had just tried to torpedo Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court over sexual harassment charges.
There’s also a major gap in the evidence behind the explosive allegations.
Ford never presented a single piece of corroborating testimony or physical evidence. She couldn’t remember when or where the party took place, or how she got home.
Everybody she said attended the party denied ever being there.
Ford’s best friend Leland Keyser—who is married to a liberal Democratic Party strategist—said Ford’s story “just didn’t make any sense.”
Her ex-boyfriend flat out said she was lying about key details of her story.
Friends of Ford’s at the time of the allegation told a biographer Ford was “a heavy drinker who was much more aggressive with boys than we were led to believe.”
After the confirmation of Kavanaugh, Ford dropped her allegations and declined an FBI investigation that she’d previously demanded.
But the evidence just keeps stacking up against Biden.
The most damning proof is a phone call Reade’s late mother made to CNN’s “Larry King Live” on August 11, 1993.
The call came from San Luis Obispo, California—where real estate records show Reade’s mother lived at the time.
“I’m wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington?” she asked.
“My daughter has just left there, after working for a prominent senator … The only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him.”
Reade’s mother isn’t the only real-time source. Reade’s brother, Collin Moulton, and a friend who wishes to remain anonymous said that Reade told them about Biden’s assault at the time.
Reade also told her neighbor, Lynda LaCasse, a liberal Democrat who says she supports Biden. The assault “happened, and I know it did because I remember talking about it” with Reade in the 1990s, she said.
And a former co-worker named Lorraine Sanchez said that Reade told her “she had been sexually harassed by her former boss while she was in D.C., and as a result of her voicing her concerns to her supervisors, she was let go, fired.”
That’s decades of early, consistent, corroborated testimony.
Ford’s first mention of the incident came decades later, and nobody can verify her story.
There’s another major difference: media coverage.
Biden has done 19 interviews lasting almost four hours—and not a single one of the 142 questions he’s gotten has asked him about Reade’s sexual assault charges.
Not one.
The media spent hours covering Kavanaugh’s accusers—but ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and MSBC combined have spent 27 minutes and 31 seconds on Reade’s well-attested allegations.
The media’s made what little coverage it’s done as boring and pro-Biden as possible.
The New York Times edited out an embarrassing sentence after the Biden campaign asked it to.
And The Washington Post ran a story with the boring headline, “Developments in allegations against Biden amplify efforts to question his behavior.” Even that was too tough for the Post, which eventually renamed the story, “Trump allies highlight new claims regarding allegations against Biden.”
The massively biased coverage has conservatives screaming foul.
“Journalists, at the very least, should give a fair hearing to serious accusations against any major public figure,” said the Media Research Center. “With the case of Tara Reade, the press has failed.”
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Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”