It’s amazing to us that leftists at the New York Times are going to walk out today in order to hobble the dissemination of the news in respect of their own wages — and without any news worthies having protested the Gray Lady’s failure to cover Hunter Biden’s laptop. We understand that getting so thoroughly scooped, as the Times got by the New York Post, is like getting run over by a Mack truck. Just the same, the priorities of Times employees are startling. 

The latest chapter of the story the Times won’t cover is the fact that the government, via the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been up to its eyeballs in suppressing the Post’s scoop. It took one private individual — Elon Musk — to fork over 44 billion spondulix to get this story out. It’s no doubt no accident that one of the journalists Mr. Musk turned to is, in Bari Weiss, the one-time Timesperson who actually quit her job in respect of journalistic principle. 

To us the big story, though, is not that the FBI was working behind the scenes to suppress this story. Governments, in their essence, are always the enemy of public disclosure. We were once in the room when a secretary of state tried to talk a group of us out of writing about leaked documents.  Nor even that the FBI has become so politicized that no one in even the government trusts it. How could they after the way it dealt with, say, Donald Trump? 

The real scoop turned up by the Post is the possibility that the President of the United States — Joe Biden — is bent. Meaning, the evidence in the Hunter Biden laptop story points to his being in a corrupt relationship with his son, who looks to be in corrupt relationships with Ukraine, China, and other nations. The story that the press looked away in order to get Mr. Biden elected and President Trump defeated is also important, but it’s secondary.

It has landed American voters in a tough spot. The only constitutional way for the House of Representatives to go after Mr. Biden is the impeachment process. We understand the GOP is going to try attainder. We’re against it, though, and there’s scant point to impeachment so long as the Democrats control the Senate. They generally have benefited from the machinations of the government to suppress the Biden corruption story. 

The one constitutional means the voters have of pursuing these charges is through the press, which it  is unconstitutional to regulate. That is why, old school though the Sun is in respect of newspaper work, the Twitter scandal is such a hot story. It’s also why the whole newspaper industry hangs on the reports of Matt Taibbi and Ms. Weiss. Given their track record as journalists, our advice for Mr. Biden is to quit while he’s ahead.