Month: June 2021

Reference:          Biden Justice Department seeks to defend Trump in suit over rape denial – The Boston Globe

                Perhaps you recall some kerfluffle when then-President Trump asked the federal Department of Justice to defend him in a defamation suit filed against him by some professional-victim and over-the-hill writer seeking some press who claimed that Trump had raped her decades before.  Then-candidate Joe Biden, on the campaign trail, took a dim view of that:  “At one of their debates, Biden accused Trump of treating the Justice Department like his ‘own law firm’ in the suit, filed against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll.  ‘What’s that all about?’ he sarcastically asked.”

                Fast forward to the present.  “. . . [last] Monday night, nearly eight months after Biden’s attack, his own Justice Department essentially adopted Trump’s position, arguing that he could not be sued for defamation because he had made the supposedly offending statements as part of his official duties as president.”

               Presumably Biden wants to make sure that he’s got his own law firm – the DOJ, that is – lined up to defend him the next time he says something stupid, or, more likely, gets sued for hugging some poor girl inappropriately, as he has been accused of on numerous occasions.  NY Times deletes sentence about Joe Biden’s “hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable” (legalinsurrection.com).

                Funny how things change when the shoe is on the other foot. And not-so-funny how both Trump and Biden apparently get a charge out of feeling up women.

Reference:          New York Times Made Staff Nix Pro-Union Images, Guild Says (msn.com)

                In 2007, the New York Times ran an editorial (Opinion | The Right to Organize – The New York Times (nytimes.com)) endorsing legislation that would have required employers to recognize a union for its employees purely on the basis of a so-called majority “card check,” rather than insist on a secret ballot election administered by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”).  The editorial claimed that “in a disturbingly high number of cases, the employer uses the time before the vote to pressure employees to rethink their decision to unionize.”  This position certainly is and was in keeping with the NYT’s notorious lefty politics and is what we have come to expect from the rag.

                However, when its own employees want a union and claim to have enough signed authorization cards for a majority of the employees in that group, the NYT’s own liberalism evaporates and its response could have been written by the Trumpians.  Sorry, no card check, no voluntary recognition of the union, you have to go through the lengthy NLRB process in which we get to harangue and harass and pressure employees about how evil unions are.

                That is, the NYT now decides it wants to “use[] the time before the vote to pressure employees to rethink their decision to unionize.”  Must be nice to be able to have your cake and eat it too; the flexibility of the ordinarily inflexible liberal mind when its own self-interest it at stake is remarkable, isn’t it?  If the National Review or the Wall Street Journal took that position they would be excoriated on leftist social media and by the NYT editorial staff, but when it’s the NYT, not a peep.