ANN ALTHOUSE HAS QUESTIONS ON THE BIDEN THING:

Who was involved in launching this new attack? The material is old. The Flores incident goes back to 2014. #MeToo prompted new speech about old incidents, but #MeToo goes back to the fall of 2017. Biden’s likely candidacy has been plain since 2016. Biden has been leading the polls for quite a while. Various candidates who may think they deserve front-runner status — including all the women — find themselves stalled behind 2 old white men — Biden and Sanders — and looking at 2 young white men — O’Rourke and Buttigieg — moving up on them. Did Flores act entirely on her own or did one or more of the female candidates or their operatives move behind the scenes to scare up the old stories and push old Joe into disqualifying himself?

I watched Flores on Jake Tapper’s “State of the Union” yesterday, and he confronted her with questions about whether she acted alone. She jumped very eagerly, so eagerly that we wondered if she was lying.

Hmm.

UPDATE: From the comments: “The months leading up to a nomination of a Democratic candidate for president [are] unique in the United States. It is the only time when the media will investigate and even disparage a Democrat. They do this, of course, because Democrats are competing with Democrats. Once the nominee is selected, the media will, once again, close ranks around their candidate and party and never say an unkind word about either.”