In the last weeks before the 2020 election, the news media and the social media giants alike sought to squash, strangle and dissolve the New York Post stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop and the secrets it contained.
There are two tracks of Biden’s life to follow: the family-exploiting, buck-raking public life, and then the dissolute, drugs-and-strippers private life. Neither was considered fair game.
The same “accountability police” who rifled through the Trump family financial machinations had no interest in Biden’s money-grubbing. The same tabloidish scoundrels who couldn’t get enough interviews with porn star Stormy Daniels and her creepy lawyer Michael Avenatti pretended there was zero clickbait in Biden’s sordid exploits.
When Biden came up, like during the impeachment in early 2020, “news” anchors such as CNN’s John Berman gushed to Jill Biden: “You have called Hunter the heart and soul of the Biden family.” And: “As a mother, how has it affected you?” He should have said “as a stepmother” on the “Facts First” network.
But then came that “aha” moment. Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger has a new book coming out simply titled “The Bidens.” It promises to explain how, “Like the Kennedys before them, the Bidens are a tight-knit, idealistic Irish Catholic clan with good looks, dynastic ambitions, and serious personal problems.”
Politico’s “Playbook” newsletter proclaimed the new book by their reporter “finds evidence that some of the purported Hunter Biden laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy.”
So now they report “a person who had independent access to Hunter Biden’s emails” confirmed Hunter “received a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden.” He also confirmed a 2017 email containing a proposed breakdown of “a venture with Chinese energy executives,” which included the line, “10 held by H for the big guy?” Everyone can guess Papa Joe is the “big guy.”
On Oct. 23, businessman Tony Bobulinski held a press conference to discuss the Biden family business venture in China. The networks ignored him. On Oct. 27, he gave an hourlong interview to Fox News. The networks ignored him.
The “fact-checkers” doubled down on the media hostility. PolitiFact rained skepticism: “Credible news organizations have found no evidence to corroborate Bobulinski’s claims about a role in the proposed venture for Joe Biden.” That presumes the media had any desire to corroborate this story instead of ignore or “debunk” it.
The liberal media’s position is clear. News about Democrat scandals isn’t “confirmed” or “substantiated” until they decide it is. They have an exquisite sense of timing — and delaying. Some of them now think it’s “safe” to confirm Biden’s emails at least to allow the selling of books.
Schreckinger’s book promises to offer more reporting on the Biden family: on Joe’s sister, Valerie; on his brothers, Jim and Frank, and we can guess his daughter Ashley and her husband, Howard Krein. There are a lot of business dealings and political fixings that the “news” people couldn’t quite find in 2019 and 2020. Most Americans — even newsreaders and watchers — might not know President Joe Biden has siblings, or a son-in-law.
Maybe we should think of Billy Carter, or Roger Clinton… except, with the Biden brothers, Joe might be the most embarrassing one.
I can’t put this the media performance better than National Review’s David Harsanyi did: “It speaks poorly of the nation’s political media that Americans have a better chance of learning what Joe Biden’s favorite ice-cream flavor is than whether he knew about, or cashed in on, his son’s corrupt adventures.”
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Conspiracy theory, vs Fact, is just a matter of timing.
WE CAN THANK THE FAKE STREAM SO-CALLED MEDIA FOR THE FAILED COMMANDER IN CHEIF FOR ALL HIS SCREW UPS and SCREWING THE AMERICAN CITIZENS FOR HIS SOCIALIST LEADERSHIP, I hope before he is done he comes after you also, but even he Is smart enough to not BITE the HAND that was to IGNORANT TO COVER UP FOR THIS USELESS EMBARRASSMENT WE CALL President.
Make no mistake or misunderstanding, those rotten Biden Apples do not fall far from the tree. Where there is smoke there is also fire, and where there are holes in your Presidential Stories there are plenty of worms eating away at the Hunter Apple of Joes blind eyes, creating just as many holes in Joe’s Swiss Cheesy brain. Between the microwave Brain attacks he silently endured while negotiating Joe’s 10% plus kickback deals with the Russians and Ukrainians, and the way too deeply drilled Hair transplants, the only way for Joe to secure his Presidentail nomination was total surrender what was left of his damaged brain to Bernie and the communist/socialist loving Democrat Party 5th columnists who covered his incompetency’s and mental deficiencies in a blanket of Media coverups, in a campaign financed by Soros whose company designed and built many of the American voting machines, just waiting to not let the crisis opportunity of a mentally manipulative, mentally ill former Democrat of stature be used to obtain nefariously, what they never could accomplish in a fair honest electoral competition. You may not be able to fool all the people all the time, but when you get fooled into electing a fool, there can be way too much damage done while waiting a 4 year term to expire, or age and the grim reaper to come to your national salvation.
Just like with Clinton, you can expect CHELSEA to be just as rotten as mamma is!