With her wild hair, peekaboo sweater and extraordinary claim that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her, Tara Reade merited considerable skepticism. Any such accusation deserved a hearing, of course, but Reade was an obvious nutjob and Putin shill. Why did she have to be “believed” right off the bat? Nonetheless, The New York Times opinion pages flogged this unlikely story to the point of imbecility – thus jeopardizing the candidacy of perhaps the […]