Sometimes you have to hand it to liberal media for the absolute audacity of the things that they say and what bias they think they can get away with.

The New York Times just took a pretty biased whack at former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who has been a vocal critic of some of the actions taken by Joe Biden.

Mike Pompeo is emerging as the most outspoken critic of President Biden among former top Trump officials, ignoring, much as he did in office, the custom that current and former secretaries of state avoid the appearance of political partisanship. https://t.co/HFkDxGUXOi

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 30, 2021

“Mike Pompeo is emerging as the most outspoken critic of President Biden among former top Trump officials,” they said, “ignoring, much as he did in office, the custom that current and former secretaries of state avoid the appearance of political partisanship.”

Of course, this doesn’t even come close to reality. There’s no requirement that Secretaries of State be non-partisan, there never has been. They are political appointees.

But if they want to claim that, let’s review those two noted objective non-political Secretaries of State under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, both of whom ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. They haven’t stopped attacking President Donald Trump yet. I’m thinking that Mike Pompeo never paid for any foreign disinformation to undermine his political opponent and cause division within the country. Also guessing Pompeo never took secret trips to talk to the Iranians like John Kerry did to undermine Trump and the foreign policy of the United States. Kerry is working right now as an advisor to the Biden administration while still attacking Trump. There are few more partisan people on the planet than these two. Mike Pompeo’s criticism, by comparison, has been incredibly temperate.

There are, of course, a host of other non-partisan examples but you get the point.

What is additionally hilarious about the New York Times’ ridiculous piece that Secretaries of State aren’t partisan is that the authors cite Michael Beschloss to support their claim. Beschloss is an ‘NBC presidential historian’ who has, in fact, been one of the most histrionic Democratic partisans on Twitter, without a speck of objectivity.

Of COURSE it’s from the Twitter historian who apparently slept through all his classes on Democrats. pic.twitter.com/KqFcHVxkC7

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) March 30, 2021

Here’s a sample of the NBC presidential historian’s objectivity on Pompeo and that’s one of the milder things I can post, comparing Pompeo to Curly from the Three Stooges.

Pompeo and other State Department officials are pretending that Trump has won the 2020 election: pic.twitter.com/iXH1LtLkJ8

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) November 12, 2020

Of course, people immediately saw the problem with the New York Times’ assessment.

What former Secretaries of State have avoided political partisanship?! Hillary Clinton? John Kerry? Colin Powell who has endorsed every Dem for 20 years? Albright called Trump a fascist.

Only recent Secretary of State to respect this “custom” is Condi Rice.

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) March 30, 2021

Dear @nytimes:

Secretary of State @HillaryClinton *ran for President* after leaving office.

After her stunning defeat to a political novice (Trump), she’s been an outspoken critic for 4 years (and counting).

And former Secretary @JohnKerry hasn’t shut up.

But besides them … https://t.co/8VVdE9lPd5

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) March 30, 2021

Plus, we should note that six past secretaries of state – Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, and James Buchanan – all went on to be elected president and multiple others ran for president. But let’s not tell the “presidential historian” about all that.

But nice try, New York Times. Maybe make the naked partisanship of your own a little less obvious the next time.

HT: Twitchy