The New York Times’s sexist attack on Deborah Birx

Published July 21, 2020 5:23pm ET



If President Trump today began disparaging the work of the nation’s most high-profile woman tasked with managing the coronavirus health crisis, how quickly do you think the media would start calling him sexist?

The anchors at CNN and MSNBC wouldn’t bother to put their own makeup on before taking to air in her defense, no matter how small the criticism was nor whether it had any merit.

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