Posted on 10/19/2020 11:46:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
What to make of the 'Hunter Biden laptop' stories from the New York Post? A few thoughts, to start: (1) It seems pretty telling that the Biden campaign -- for all its umbrage -- has not denied the authenticity of the emails themselves, and has declined to rule out the possibility that Biden's son did arrange a meeting between the then-Vice President and a top Burisma adviser. This calls into question Biden's prior denials, and raises questions about Hunter Biden's apparent lucrative arrangement with a Chinese energy company, under which a key deliverable was access to power. This stuff is intriguing, but the authenticity of the material matters most. (2) Hunter Biden's struggles with addiction seem pretty obvious, and his father's expressions of love and support demonstrate compassion and humanity. Any dunking or ridicule on this front is callous and gross. (3) The near-instant lefty/media narrative that the laptop caper is a Kremlin operation, which is now being investigated, does not appear to have much (or any) basis in verifiable fact at this stage. And if this does turn out to be a Russian conspiracy, that still doesn't explain first point.
(4) Social media companies' efforts to suppress this reporting have been appalling, heavy-handed, and revealing. The back-filling of excuses and justifications by Twitter demonstrate how badly they botched this. I do not believe that new government intervention and regulation is a viable or smart solution, but it's not at all unreasonable to have serious concerns about Big Tech wielding the power to simply erase inconvenient stories (using various high-minded-sounding rationalizations) from the virtual public square. I worry more about search engines like Google more than I do about other platforms. (5) Much larger stories than this have proven not to be electoral game-changers this cycle, so I'd be very surprised if this one moves the needle meaningfully with voters. (6) There are fair questions to be asked about the contents of some of these emails, and launching nasty attacks on a campaign embed reporter for even raising the issue is both unresponsive and a bad look:
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Veteran journalists Paula Reid and Major Garrett called this out:
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Right on all counts, especially that last one from Garrett. It's a journalistic badge of honor to ask tough (even hostile and tendentious) questions of the Trump administration and campaign. Journos congratulate each other, express solidarity with one another, and help each other sell books about their courage. Garrett's observation about the Obama years is correct and may again become relevant very soon. The press corps was usually docile-to-supine in its coverage of the previous administration. Occasional hard questions were often received with snide scorn. Fox -- which came somewhat close to treating the Obama campaign and administration the way the rest of the media covers Trump -- was singled out as illegitimate.
Too many powerful Democrats (this one in particular comes to mind) feel entitled to coast, more or less unchallenged, through the media interviews they deign to grant. Unfortunately, quite a few journalists seem to agree. They're scarred from Trump's surprise victory four years, and leftists have convinced them that treating serious Clinton flaws seriously makes them complicit. They don't want to risk a repeat, so a lot of serious potential journalism has been put on hold -- and 'problematic' stories are downplayed, ignored, or outright suppressed. So much of this is unhealthy and contributes to the conspiratorial paranoia that increasingly characterizes American politics, at both ends of the spectrum. In any case, will other journalists condemn this bullying from Biden? I'll leave you with this: Was this the last question Joe Biden will field until Thursday?
All I've seen from these two is anti-Trump 24/7
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I can’t believe See BS is the first MSM network to ask questions of the Biden extortion story! Hope it goes viral with the other networks.
At some point — I think not yet — journalists are going to realize that the Biden campaign is crashing and burning and that Joe is a terrible, terrible person.
Politicians come and go and at some point journalists are going to realize that they are throwing away their entire career by continuing to prop up a terrible, terrible person whose career is already over. They will stop. And that will get really interesting.
On Rush today someone criticized Trump for making fun of Hunter. I’ve agreed and think Rush also agrees.
But, maybe Trump did it on purpose hoping the moderator is tempted to bring it up in the debate. It would be a great entrance for Trump into the Biden/Russia/Burisma affair.
They want a Pulitzer...................
This subject will not be allowed in the debate unless the floodgates are open and a deluge of Hunter and Joe Biden emails flood the media at all levels simultaneously........
“Veteran journalists Paula Reid and Major Garrett called this out: All I’ve seen from these two is anti-Trump 24/7”
I won’t watch CBS so I can only comment that Major Garrett seemed a straight shooter when at Fox. He left on his own accord best I know, I guess he changed for the worst? You have no career otherwise.
Hunter is fair game.
If he’s truly “troubled”, his parents should have had him seek treatment for his problems instead of attaching him to various laundry operations around the world.
Once you send someone onto the field of battle, don’t act surprised or outraged when he’s attacked.
Wow! Thanks! I thought Rudy was being too harsh when he said “Biden Crime Family”. Man....turns out thats a pretty accurate statement.
He's probably one of those genteel Republicans out of the Bob Michael mode. They love getting kicked around like a stray dog.
I wonder what the conversations are like between demented joe and his son humper?
"You idiot! 50 percent isn't enough, not it's 75 percent for the Big Guy!"
You know, when leftists are lobbing accusations against your family for no just reason (fake accusations against Jared and Ivanka for making money from White House connections), and you find actual evidence of the other guy's kids making money illegally from the other guy's connections, of course you throw it out there for all to ponder. Trump is no idiot. The MSM has repeatedly attacked his family for no good reason. Trump would be a fool not to shine a spotlight on the Biden misdeeds. You know the moderator is going to cover for Biden; Trump needs to get it discussed in the debate.
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