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Media censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story was horrible and then it got even worse (crimes still not mentioned)
Fox News ^ | 2/21/23 | Steve Krakauer

Posted on 02/21/2023 1:23:00 AM PST by Libloather

Here we are, in February 2023, nearly two and a half full years after the Hunter Biden laptop suppression, and the Washington Post "Fact Checker" column publishes a new report titled, "The Hunter Biden laptop and claims of ‘Russian disinfo.’"

Glenn Kessler notes that among his media colleagues in October 2020, "few were willing to report information in the New York Post stories without their own due diligence, especially if Russia was once again seeking to meddle in the election."

He then drills into the infamous former "intel community members" letter, which points to the laptop story as one that "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." He talks to James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence, one of the signers of the letter who gave it extra credibility.

And then Kessler proceeds to remove all culpability for the misinformation and lack of accurate media coverage at the time. He allows Clapper to slam Politico, which picked up the letter’s clear implication, to say that now, more than two years later, Politico "deliberately distorted what we said."

Please. This revisionist history is embarrassing, serving to continue to cover the narrative-over-facts reality of that moment. As bad as so much of the Trump Era reporting was, what took place with the Hunter Biden laptop story and the New York Post censorship at the end of his presidency was perhaps the most egregious and obvious example of the elite censorship collusion racket between tech companies, government forces and the national media that we’ve ever seen.

We have seen now through the Twitter Files revelations that there was specific cooperation between Twitter and the FBI in the important months and weeks before the laptop story broke. But we must always remember how the media was a key cog...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: biden; brandon; defundnpr; defundpbs; glennkessler; hunter; jamesclapper; laptop; media; npr; pbs
Brandon got bribed by other countries while veep. Eh, no big deal.
1 posted on 02/21/2023 1:23:00 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Joe Biden is utterly compromised on Ukraine and China issues.

It is completely obvious that Zelensky has threatened to release documents that would put Joe, Joe's brother, and Hunter in jail.

Joe Biden will give Zelensky whatever he asks for.

Same song and dance with Xi and China, where the Biden family has been paid millions of dollars for influence peddling.

By the way - Judicial Watch has recently obtained USA government documents that show the USA was funding Anthrax research in Ukraine in 2018, when Trump was President.

I think this is the first time that Trump has been connected to the Ukraine-USA bio-warfare labs in Ukraine.

2 posted on 02/21/2023 2:08:26 AM PST by zeestephen (43,000)
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To: Libloather
…what took place with the Hunter Biden laptop story and the New York Post censorship at the end of his presidency was perhaps the most egregious and obvious example of the elite censorship collusion racket between tech companies, government forces and the national media that we’ve ever seen.

This dwarfs Watergate in its severity, but it’ll never be treated as such by the media and Americans are too passive to come to that conclusion by themselves. Americans wait to be told what we’re supposed to be outraged about.

3 posted on 02/21/2023 2:24:33 AM PST by GaryCrow
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To: Libloather

The Biden crime family have been at it for a long time. It is obvious that Joe Biden has been selling government secrets for decades with Hunter and Joe’s brother right behind him picking up as much cash as they can. And of course the FIB and DOJ have been complicit in all this. They give these people memberships on boards of directors and get paid millions for government contracts and a visit once in a while for photo ops. And yet they always bring up Medicare and social security and hold them hostage and continue to send money and weapons to ukraine because they know that the idiot voters will vote for brain dead candidates like Fetterman and useful idiots like AOC.


4 posted on 02/21/2023 2:36:07 AM PST by George J. Jetso
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To: zeestephen

The idea that Trump had any serious control of the bureaucracy’s actions is laughable.


5 posted on 02/21/2023 3:01:28 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Libloather

The corruption of the news media makes it worse than useless.


6 posted on 02/21/2023 3:31:05 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Libloather

BTTT


7 posted on 02/21/2023 3:59:23 AM PST by nopardons
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To: zeestephen

Trump was impeached because of his “perfect” call to Zelensky. Deep State leaked the phone call (Ciaramella and Vindmann) and worked with Schiff to initiate the impeachment. It was a total set up. Ukraine, as we are finding out, was the nexus of all kinds of nefarious activities by Deep State.

In 2017 Fauci surreptitiously reinstituted gain of function research in Wuhan. Obama had banned it. It is not surprising that Ukraine would be the locus of anthrax research. Insinuating that Trump was connected to it is ludicrous.

Deep State tried to stage a coup against Trump. They spied on his campaign and for nine months as a sitting President. They worked with the Dems to concoct the Russia hoax culminating in the Mueller investigation. They influenced the 2020 campaign by withholding information on Hunter’s laptop, which they had held since December 2019. Deep State worked with Big Tech and MSM to censor conservatives, including the President.

In sum, the bureaucracy under Trump was working actively against him. He was the victim, not the perpetrator.


8 posted on 02/21/2023 4:22:50 AM PST by kabar
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To: Libloather

So who has had the laptop and why hasn’t the contents been disclosed?


9 posted on 02/21/2023 4:52:58 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: Libloather
perhaps the most egregious and obvious example of the elite censorship collusion racket between tech companies, government forces and the national media that we’ve ever seen

Which resulted in a fraudulent 2020 presidential election!!!! And if those crimes are not prosecuted will result in a fraudulent 2024 presidential election!

10 posted on 02/21/2023 4:57:14 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Libloather

The enemedia is complicit in giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.


11 posted on 02/21/2023 5:02:23 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: kabar

Trump was impeached because of his “perfect” call to Zelensky. Deep State leaked the phone call (Ciaramella and Vindmann) and worked with Schiff to initiate the impeachment. It was a total set up. Ukraine, as we are finding out, was the nexus of all kinds of nefarious activities by Deep State.

In 2017 Fauci surreptitiously reinstituted gain of function research in Wuhan. Obama had banned it. It is not surprising that Ukraine would be the locus of anthrax research. Insinuating that Trump was connected to it is ludicrous.

Deep State tried to stage a coup against Trump. They spied on his campaign and for nine months as a sitting President. They worked with the Dems to concoct the Russia hoax culminating in the Mueller investigation. They influenced the 2020 campaign by withholding information on Hunter’s laptop, which they had held since December 2019. Deep State worked with Big Tech and MSM to censor conservatives, including the President.

In sum, the bureaucracy under Trump was working actively against him. He was the victim, not the perpetrator.


And multiple senior members of the staff have bragged that they lied to him about various goings on, militarily, domestically, and with COVID.


12 posted on 02/21/2023 6:28:29 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: zeestephen

Biden recently used a executive order and blocked all mining in northern Minnesota for 20 years on 225,000 acres.

“Today is an attack on our way of life. Joe Biden banned mining in 225,000 acres of Minnesota’s Iron Range, and locked up development of taconite, copper, nickel, cobalt, platinum-group elements, and more,” said Congressman Stauber. “Unfortunately, this harm to our country and our future has become the norm, as this President’s goal is to put America last. Not even one month ago, Joe Biden signed an agreement to fund mining projects in Chinese-owned mines in the Congo, where over 40,000 children work as slaves in forced labor and inhumane conditions with no environmental protections.
https://stauber.house.gov/media/press-releases/stauber-statement-bidens-northern-minnesota-mining-ban


13 posted on 02/21/2023 12:12:42 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: FreedomPoster
Re: "The idea that Trump had any serious control of the bureaucracy's actions is laughable."

Zeestephen and Judicial Watch and Freedom Poster are all on the same political team.

The heavily redacted 2018 document the Feds sent Judicial Watch suddenly came as a result of a general FOIA request for documents about USA bio-labs in Ukraine.

My first instinct on this - it is a deliberate propaganda release to pull the spotlight off Obama and Biden and their Ukraine policies.

Judicial Watch mentioned this Trump-era Ukraine bio-lab document for the first time in a monthly news letter they sent to donors, about one week ago.

The fact that JW has not formally released this document, and the fact that Trump has not publicly commented, make me uneasy.

14 posted on 02/21/2023 2:58:45 PM PST by zeestephen (43,000)
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