WaPo, WSJ Wonder: How Could Dems Get Blindsided By Eric the Pred?https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/04/17/wapo-wsj-wonder-how-could-dems-get-blindsided-by-swalwell-n3813963Really? 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:
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.
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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?
Do a little
(very) mental math. In 2020, ~6 years ago, Cheyenne Hunter was cautioned about Swillwell, by
several women staffers. The rumor mill does not grind slowly, but that Hunter was cautioned by several women indicates that the rumors, if that is
all they were, had been accumulating and circulating for some time, probably several years.
As the article points out - as many have - the Dems' and their MSM-shills' incuriosity is grossly obvious, and questions are being asked. BUT since the people who have the potential access to ask the "right people" pointed questions are the MSM-folk who need to be asked those pointed questions, expect that aspect to fade away quickly.
I'll go a step further and ask,
what were the MSM doing in the early 2020s and late 2010s INSTEAD of investigating the rumors/reports of sexual harassment and abuse by Swillwell? In a word,
Trump! The absurdly false Trump-Russia Collusion delusion. The Trump-did-nothing-about-Covid absurd lie. The known-false Shampeachment 1.0 claims. The known-false claims of Shampeachment 2.0.
The hyper-partisan MSM were hyping the Dems' attack-falsehoods
instead of actually investigating something real.As Instapundit Glenn Reynolds often says in posting stories on Instapundit, if you hate the MSM, you don't hate them enough.
