Here's how you know The Atlantic is a Democrat Party organ: it dumps on a "mainstream media" outlet when it prints anything damaging to a Democrat. Everyone can read the "gift article" by leftist screed-demon Jonathan Chait under this headline:
Another Female Democrat Is Mean, Apparently
A New York Times report on Representative Mary Peltola’s management is revealing—about her younger employees’ self-regard.
Chait loves bashing female Republicans. He made Peltola's fellow Alaskan Sarah Palin into a regular punching dummy (with his emphasis on "dummy") and also penned a piece in 2013 titled "Michele Bachmann Retires As President of Crazyland," so he's not exactly pleading for the fairer sex, just for his favored party.
This exercise in Chait Speech began:
Screenshot of Dan Sullivan TV AdIn February 2024, according to a former staff member who told the story to The New York Times, Representative Mary Peltola, an Alaska Democrat running for the Senate, pushed an aide. As the Times put it in a report published yesterday, Peltola “shoved a male employee in the chest with one hand, causing him to stumble backward.”
You might wonder why the paper of record is reporting this detail. Did the employee then tumble off a cliff and die? The Times does not mention any bodily harm, beyond the backward stumble. The encounter is instead offered as evidence of what the Times calls “a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos.” Chaos.
The attempted exposé of Peltola is the latest installment in a familiar genre. Democratic staffers (they are almost always Democrats) complain off the record about the private behavior of their boss, who is almost always female, toward them. The behavior in question ranges from inappropriate to, more often, somewhat inappropriate to completely appropriate.
His previous exhibits are Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Katie Porter.
The most notable part of the Times article on Peltola concerned Planned Parenthood. Chait surprisingly complains that those snowflake aides shouldn't feel the pain of the abortion lobby when there's an election to be won:
Peltola also wrote disparagingly about a progressive organization. “I hope Planned Parenthood knows that if we don’t win it’s more their loss than ours. FUCK THOSE BITCHES,” she texted her staff in January 2024, according to the Times, which published an image of the text. And, apparently referring specifically to one Planned Parenthood board member, Peltola later wrote, “I hope she dies of a botched abortion.” This was an obvious, if hostile, joke. The anecdote suggests that the staffers are aggrieved by Peltola’s political leanings as well as her managerial failings.
It's amusing that "I hope she dies" is humor, but the word "faggot" is the five-alarm fire:
The story does contain one bona fide example of improper behavior—an allegation that she sometimes used the slur faggot. Four former staff members report directly hearing her use the word. If true, it certainly reflects poorly on her. The Peltola campaign denied that she’d used the slur.
Yet the overall impression the story conveys is not an office beset by chaos, but one rife with staffers burdened with unrealistic expectations of workplace norms....
The fact that staffers for Peltola as well as for other Democratic politicians apparently categorize being scolded by their boss as a level of scandal requiring them to alert the media reflects a solipsistic tendency.
The unintentional humor in this article is the assumption that this is saved for Democrats, that liberal newspapers like The Times never use anonymous staffers to undermine Republicans. It's like he's never heard of that Times legend "Anonymous" Miles Taylor.
