> NYT would only break a story on Franken if they knew it was about to be widely circulated. As a crusading progressive who also has quirks and wit, he was their archetype, they surely agonized over taking him down even with the current #MeToo zeitgeist.

That's quite impressive wild conjecture.

Careful like doing fact checking and confronting Jimmy O'Keefe about his trying to plant fake new stories?

Gutsy to troll in the same thread you posted that people only come to HN to "deliberately quarrel".