They Think It’s Okay
Biden’s fellow politicians, liberal activists and the mainstream media have known about his inappropriate touching for a while. And how have they responded? Karl Markovitz, the writer in Time, listed some of the responses from 2015: “His defenders claim he’s from a different era, the equivalent of the kissing host on Family Feud,” he writes.
Except this isn’t the 1970s and these women aren’t on a game show. Others find the humor in sexual harassment in a way they likely wouldn’t if Joe Biden didn’t have a (D) after his name. NBC’s Capitol Hill Correspondent Kelly O’Donnell joshed Biden was “multi-tasking” when he had his arm wrapped around a teenager while swearing in her mother, Senator Joni Ernst. … Today co-host Matt Lauer wise-cracked that this was Biden’s way of “welcoming” the families of the new Senate class. Even PBS found “Biden being Biden” just so adorable.
Liberals haven’t changed where Biden is concerned. Niall O’Dowd, writing for Irish Central, says Biden “grabs men and women, hugs them, kisses them, gives them a shoulder rub, whispers in their ears.” He thinks it’s no big deal. He also doesn’t mention any of the incidents like that with Sen. Ernst’s daughter or Stephanie Carter.
Was he upset, though? No. O’Dowd excused the behavior as that of a “classic Irish politician.” He’s “tactile.” He’s an “old-fashioned meet and greeter.” Does that mean it’s OK to grope girls if you’re in politics and Irish, but inexcusable if your name is Weinstein or C.K.?
