One is that Biden is acting as though the whole don’t-touch business is a brand-new product of the #MeToo movement. Diane Denish had told a reporter she tried to avoid being around the governor, Bill Richardson, because “He pokes me. He touches my hip, my thigh, sort of the side of my leg.” Like Biden, Richardson was a Democratic presidential hopeful. He has indeed worked to empower women — he was an author of the Violence Against Women Act. And Biden, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, did nothing but ask her embarrassing questions.

Source: New York Times April 04, 2019 00:15 UTC