WaPo, WSJ Wonder: How Could Dems Get Blindsided By Eric the Pred?

Really? No idea at all, Washington Post? Surprised, Wall Street Journal? Or just attempting to cover up the complicity of the Protection Racket Media?

The framing used by the WaPo amounts to a self-indictment by the Beltway’s home-turf newspaper. The lack of self-awareness in publishing this poser:

When Cheyenne Hunt first arrived on Capitol Hill as a staffer in 2020, several other young women working there warned her privately: Stay away from Rep. Eric Swalwell.

Swalwell could be “creepy,” Hunt said other women told her, especially over social media.

Six years later, Hunt is one of several women who have leveraged their large followings online to go after Swalwell, enlisting women to come forward with their stories and connecting them with reporters at CNN and other outlets. …

The stunning fall has Hunt and others asking how someone who was dogged by persistent rumors of inappropriate behavior toward women similar to what she heard in 2020 could have risen so high and so fast in a party that says it supports women’s rights.

That’s certainly one question. Another question is how these rumors flew around the Capitol for at least six years, and yet not a single reporter reported on them … or even thought to investigate. Bear in mind that by 2020, when “several other young women” working in congressional offices knew enough to warn Hunt that Swalwell was a predatory creep, three years had passed since the #MeToo explosion that detonated in Hollywood, New York, and Washington DC. 

It wasn’t just the Democrat Party that posed itself as the defender of women’s rights. The Post itself led the “believe all women” charge, and had carried the banner Democracy Dies in Darkness for at least the same period of time. And yet, despite the fact that Swalwell was hardly a backbencher and that he operated in the Post’s own exclusive turf, they either missed or ignored the story – and the latter seems a lot more likely. 

Now the Post and its editors can only offer its readers another entry in the Now It Can Be Told genre, along with how Joe Biden’s sudden change from Sharp As A Tack™ status to a “how we all missed Biden’s dementia” narrative. It served the same purpose, too: to protect Democrats and their agenda.

The Wall Street Journal also covers its own rear end by reporting on the ripples from Swalwell’s “stunning downfall” and the reckoning coming for Democrats:

Swalwell’s rapid fall from grace is pushing some of the country’s most powerful Democrats to answer questions about what they knew and when.

The scandal has resurfaced age-old questions about Capitol Hill culture and the power dynamics between elected officials and their subordinates. It is a uniquely modern one, involving graphic photos sent on Snapchat and an online campaign against Swalwell by content creators.

Whispers that Swalwell, 45 years old, who is married and has three children, liked to party and had sent inappropriate messages to young female Democrats had long dogged him, but the assault allegations caught Democratic leaders off-guard. Some Democrats had privately dismissed rumors of his playboy lifestyle as unsubstantiated, according to people familiar with the conversations.

Yes, let’s find out what Democrat leaders knew, and when they knew it. But what about reporters, such as those for the WSJ, which covers Congress in some depth? What did they know, and when did they know it? At what point did reporters hear ‘rumors’ about Swalwell and his predatory nature, and did they ever bother to follow up or talk to staffers who may have come into contact with Eric the Pred and could shed light on his actions?

Again, Swalwell wasn’t just any backbencher. He’d been particularly insistent on taking a front-line position in attacking Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 over unsubstantiated allegations from his high-school days, as Mark Judge laid out here this past weekend, in what now looks like a case of projection. Why didn’t WSJ or WaPo reporters take that moment to expose Swalwell’s hypocrisy and mendacity? Two years after that, Swalwell’s curious connection to China spy Christine Fang emerged. No reporter ever thought to take it up then, either?

Nope. Instead, we got fed a steady diet of Orange Man Bad while the Protection Racket Media colluded with Democrats to cover up for Eric the Pred. 

Did anyone really get blindsided? Except young women on Capitol Hill, who trusted the same Democrat establishment and its #MeToo rhetoric?

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