I guess I’m going to have to show young Doocy more respect. The flagrant nepotism that allowed him to acquire an on-air job with Fox News made me reflexively suspicious of his qualifications, but he has proved himself to be a quick learner, a tough questioner, and as in this latest episode, gutsy.

Doocy asked President Biden’s paid liar Karine Jean-Pierre about Democratic claims that the 2016 election was “stolen” or illegitimate as a counterpoint to the President’s Reichstag address last week asserting that GOP rhetoric that Biden’s 2020 election victory was illicit threatened democracy.  When Jean-Pierre ducked Doocy’s question, saying that the White House will focus on the present rather than 2016 (baseball fans recognize this as the “Mark McGwire Deflection”), Doocy read her some of her own past tweets, like…

and…

“If denying an election is extreme now, why wasn’t it then?” Doocy asked.Nicely played, although the answer is easy: when Democrats claim an election was  stolen, it’s justified. When Republicans do it, it’s fascism. But Karine didn’t have the integrity to say that, and opted for Ralph Kramden’s always edifying “Huminhuminahumina,” or words to that effect:

“So let’s be very clear that that comparison that you made is just ridiculous… I was talking specifically at that time of what was happening with voting rights and what was in danger of voting rights. That’s what I was speaking to at the time and here’s the thing, I have said, Governor Kemp won the election in Georgia. I’ve been clear about that. I have said President Trump won the election in 2016 and I’ve been clear about that.”

Well, “clear” except for the fact that in 2017 and 2019 she wrote that both stole their elections. I’m not going to dwell on poor Karine’s helpless thrashing about when properly caught in hypocrisy: she’s firmly in Julie Principle territory now. She’s not quick on her feet, unprepared, dishonest (but not good at lying, unlike her shameless predecessor), and incompetent, easily one of the most incompetent press secretaries in history—but, she’s the first black lesbian incompetent press secretary, and that’s what counts in this administration.

Let’s focus on Doocy, whose audacious gotcha! was justified and necessary. The Democratic Party’s double standard on this issue is spectacularly dishonest, insulting  a public that they obviously believe has trouble remembering anything more than a month in the past. It required a high-profile exposé, and a reporter with the audacity to pull it off. For this false narrative isn’t just coming from the White House.

Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-Md.), speaking on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” called the GOP a “fascist political party,” because “Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are, one, they don’t accept the results of elections that don’t go their way; and, two, they embrace political violence.” Yet Raskin himself described George W. Bush as a “court-appointed President” who was not rightfully elected. Raskin was also one of several House Democrats who objected to the certification of Trump’s Electoral College victory in January 2017.

The Republican National Committee had no trouble creating the video above of Democrats doing what President Biden claimed was an existential threat to the nation. All responsible journalists should be exposing this hypocrisy and challenging the White House on its double standard.

At least one of them was willing to do it.