{"id":1442681,"date":"2022-04-17T16:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T20:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1442681"},"modified":"2022-04-17T16:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T20:59:42","slug":"new-yorker-writer-blasts-effective-watchdog-group-for-targeting-biden-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-yorker-writer-blasts-effective-watchdog-group-for-targeting-biden-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker Writer Blasts Effective Watchdog Group For \u2018Targeting\u2019 Biden Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-yorker-writer-blasts-effective-watchdog-group-for-targeting-biden-nominees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1442681&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1277398046.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A writer for The New Yorker argues in a recent article that a watchdog group vetting Joe Biden\u2019s nominees is doing so with occasional \u201cracial overtones,\u201d and laments the nonprofit\u2019s \u201cobstructionism\u201d of what critics call the president\u2019s \u201cradical\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/a-reporter-at-large\/the-slime-machine-targeting-dozens-of-biden-nominees\">published<\/a> Saturday and written by Jane Mayer, is titled \u201cThe Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees.\u201d It criticizes the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) \u2014 a tax-exempt government oversight and research group \u2014 for seeking to \u201cprevent the approval of all Biden Administration nominees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AAF has played an outsized role since Biden took office, researching and digging into the pasts of his nominees. The group\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>In her piece, Mayer claimed AAF is \u201crun by conservative white men\u201d who are \u201cparticularly focused on blocking women and people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs 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,\u201d she wrote, failing to mention that many of Biden\u2019s nominees have been minorities and women.<\/p>\n<p>Mayer also spends a portion of her article on AAF Executive Director and Co-Founder Tom Jones\u2019 apparent contention that the organization is \u201cmerely catching up with the sleazy tactics\u201d of progressive groups who targeted conservative nominees. She mentions how the Left opposed Supreme Court nominations for Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh \u2014 claiming they were \u201ccredibly and directly confronted by female victims,\u201d even though allegations of sexual impropriety did not hold up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJane Mayer is a stenographer for [Sens.] Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Democrat leadership in the Senate \u2014 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,\u201d Jones told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the New Yorker is rarely worth reading, this article is proof positive of AAF\u2019s effectiveness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mayer claimed that AAF\u2019s \u201cattacks\u201d on Lisa Cook, a Biden nominee to the Federal Reserve\u2019s Board of Governors who is a black woman, \u201ccarried racial overtones.\u201d Allegations have surfaced, like that Cook \u201cembellished\u201d her resume and engaged in \u201cacademic fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones called Mayer\u2019s comments \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAAF is opposing Lisa Cook not because she is black but because she is a sub-par academic who did not deserve a promotion at Michigan State and doesn\u2019t deserve one to the Fed. Black, white, Jew, or gentile, if you\u2019re as unqualified as Lisa Cook, AAF will highlight that for policymakers,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Mayer interviewed Chipman for her article \u2014 who said AAF makes claims \u201cadjacent\u201d to facts. \u201cThe racial things they used were hugely ugly,\u201d the gun lobbyist told The New Yorker, adding that \u201cthe facts don\u2019t matter to [AAF] \u2014 they\u2019re just used as weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chipman told The Daily Wire that the \u201cresistance\u201d to successfully getting an ATF director appointed \u201cis stronger than typical red vs. blue politics,\u201d noting how former President Donald Trump withdrew his pick of Charles Canterbury. He did not say whether he considered himself more qualified than Biden\u2019s new nominee, Obama-era lawyer Steve Dettelbach.<\/p>\n<p>It was AAF that provided The Daily Wire with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-failed-biden-nominee-sought-44k-in-relocation-expenses-for-home-he-wasnt-living-at\">exclusive court documents<\/a> in January showing Chipman sought $44,000 in relocation expenses for a home at which he was not living. Prior to this, AAF dug up comments from Chipman on automatic weapons and spoke to sources about an allegation that he lost his weapon as an ATF employee.<\/p>\n<p>The group also spoke to a former ATF agent who said Chipman \u201cmade deeply problematic comments questioning the abilities of African American agents to succeed on their own merits,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.bidennoms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Chipman-Research-Report.pdf\">according<\/a> to AAF.<\/p>\n<p>The White House told The Daily Wire that it is confident in its new ATF nominee, but did not say whether it determined him to be more qualified than Chipman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to crack down on gun crime and keep our neighborhoods safe, ATF needs a confirmed Director, and Steve Dettelbach has received praise from across the political spectrum as someone who can roll up his sleeves and get the job done,\u201d White House spokesperson Michael J. Gwin said.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson further claimed that Biden\u2019s new nominee is supported \u201cacross the political spectrum,\u201d citing President George W. Bush administration personnel backing as evidence of conservative approval.<\/p>\n<p>Mayer did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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