Irrelevant. Liberal hypocrites like Maureen dowd will still vote for Biden no matter how corrupt or reprehensible his conduct (or his family's) is. It was the same way with obama and clinton. Because no matter how bad the democrats are the republicans are always evil hitlers.
HAHA. Maureen Dowd's cognitive dissonance on full display.
This is how the left think. Rather than concluding that someone so morally bereft cannot be good for the country and then aligning their own actions with their beliefs, they seek to control the actions and speech of others to fit their moral construct (such as it is). In this case she is trying to shame biden into saying what he doesn't believe (lying) just so she feels better about supporting him. She knows this will be a character issue during the campaign.
But her lib programming will prevent her from stating the obvious - if biden doesn't give a shit about his own Grandchild, then he won't give a shit about yours.
Funny, cognitive dissonance was one of those soundbite catch-phrases the media used to describe the right.