Yet for some on the political left the editorial wasn’t about the Senate’s constitutional duty or praising Sen. Collins. They said we were making fun of rape. A reporter named Emily Stewart even wrote a story about the headline for Vox, the left-wing website, saying “it seems like a rape joke” and calling it an “apparent double-entendre.”
Ms. Stewart may be angling for a job at the New York Times alongside Maggie Haberman, a reporter who retweeted something from someone named Rosa Goldensohn that “It’s a play on words, get it? With rape.” This is the political culture that New York Times reporters like Ms. Haberman marinate in and promote.
Like several readers in our comments section, our first reaction was that these people should get their minds out of the gutter. But the distortion of our headline is worse than that and…
