A writer for The New Yorker argues in a recent article that a watchdog group vetting Joe Biden’s nominees is doing so with occasional “racial overtones,” and laments the nonprofit’s “obstructionism” of what critics call the president’s “radical” agenda.
The piece, published Saturday and written by Jane Mayer, is titled “The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees.” It criticizes the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) — a tax-exempt government oversight and research group — for seeking to “prevent the approval of all Biden Administration nominees.”
AAF has played an outsized role since Biden took office, researching and digging into the pasts of his nominees. The group’s work has contributed to preventing the appointments of Sarah Bloom Raskin to the Federal Reserve Board, David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), David Weil to the Department of Labor, and others.
In her piece, Mayer claimed AAF is “run by conservative white men” who are “particularly focused on blocking women and people of color.”
“As of last month, more than a third of the twenty-nine candidates it had publicly attacked were people of color, and nearly sixty per cent were women,” she wrote, failing to mention that many of Biden’s nominees have been minorities and women.
Mayer also spends a portion of her article on AAF Executive Director and Co-Founder Tom Jones’ apparent contention that the organization is “merely catching up with the sleazy tactics” of progressive groups who targeted conservative nominees. She mentions how the Left opposed Supreme Court nominations for Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh — claiming they were “credibly and directly confronted by female victims,” even though allegations of sexual impropriety did not hold up.
“Jane Mayer is a stenographer for [Sens.] Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Democrat leadership in the Senate — and they know that AAF has repeatedly shown that their nominees are out of step with American values and unfit to serve in senior positions in the U.S. government,” Jones told The Daily Wire.
