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Media Saves Joe Biden -- Just as It Saved Barack Obama
Townhall.com ^ | December 17, 2020 | Larry Elder

Posted on 12/17/2020 5:39:06 AM PST by Kaslin

Hunter Biden, President-elect Joe Biden's son, is undergoing a tax investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware concerning Hunter's lucrative work with Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company on whose board Hunter sat, despite a lack of energy experience and the ability to speak Russian or Ukrainian.

The Media Research Center claims eight news stories, ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media, could have changed the election in favor of President Donald Trump. Over 80% of Joe Biden voters, according to the MRC, were unaware of at least one or more of the eight stories, and "36 percent of Biden voters were NOT aware of the evidence linking Joe Biden to corrupt financial dealings with China through his son Hunter." And 13% of these voters, or almost 5% of Joe Biden's total voters, said that had they known of the Biden/China story, they would not have voted for Biden, enough to tip the vote in favor of Trump in several swing states that he lost.

When, near the end of the 2020 campaign, the New York Post published the Hunter Biden bombshell story about Hunter's laptop, linking Joe Biden to his son's dealings with the Ukrainian company Burisma, mainstream news practically closed rank to immediately dismiss the story as "Russian disinformation." Twitter even banned the New York Post from republishing its own story on the paper's Twitter account!

Some may be too young to know and others have forgotten how the mainstream media salvaged the 2008 presidential candidacy of then-Sen. Barack Obama. He was riding high, until the bombshell revelation of his racist, anti-white, anti-Semitic long-time pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Some of Wright's quotes:

About the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Wright said: "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and Black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

About America's alleged systemic racism against Blacks: "The government gives (African Americans) the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

About HIV/aids: "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied." And: "We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty."

About Israel: "The state of Israel is an illegal, genocidal place. ... To equate Judaism with the state of Israel is to equate Christianity with (rapper) Flavor Flav."

About Jews: "Them Jews ain't going to let (Obama) talk to me. ... I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ... Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing (by) the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel."

You get the idea.

Wright was big trouble for the Obama campaign. Wright had been Obama's pastor for over 20 years. He married Barack and Michelle Obama. He blessed the Obama's new home. Obama even named his 2006 memoir "The Audacity of Hope," after one of Wright's sermons. Obama, at first, clumsily defended his relationship with Wright, claiming ignorance about Wright's incendiary statements and that Wright was kind of, you know, like a harmless, crazy old uncle who spouts off during Thanksgiving dinner. But under pressure, Obama cut ties with Wright when the relationship nearly wrecked Obama's campaign.

So the mainstream news, except for Fox News, just largely avoided the story, until damaging videos Wright's incendiary statements made it impossible for the media to maintain its "nothing to see here" position. What to do? Simple: Downplay it. Rationalize it. Change the subject.

Whatever 2020 election interference was committed by China, Russia and Iran pales in comparison to the election interference routinely engaged in by our left-wing media, an election interference that salvaged the candidacies of Barack Obama and Joe Biden


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; jeremiahwright; joebiden; leftwingmediabias; racist

1 posted on 12/17/2020 5:39:06 AM PST by Kaslin
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2 posted on 12/17/2020 5:39:27 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

I actually don’t think the Fascist Media made much difference in 2008. Plenty of useful idiot voters actually wanted a “black” pResident to satisfy their virtue-signaling and that’s what they got. And we couldn’t place it at the time but there was a certain stench around the Traitor John McStain which guaranteed he was unelectable.


3 posted on 12/17/2020 5:44:04 AM PST by No_Mas_Obama
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To: Kaslin
Hunter Biden... is undergoing a tax investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware.

Imagine the outrage from the media if that were one of Trump's sons. We'd never hear the end of it.

4 posted on 12/17/2020 5:58:56 AM PST by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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To: Kaslin

So if this is true, it means we are still galaxys away from having “alternative” media have any real power in this country at all.


5 posted on 12/17/2020 6:04:47 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: Kaslin

36% of Biden voters believed that Biden never told a lie or was notorious for pandering to voters during his 47 years in government...


6 posted on 12/17/2020 6:10:26 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Kaslin

Obama survived during the 2008 primary season due to the assistance of the MSM. He had a reputation for a glass jaw when criticized, and the media ensured that he was protected. After that, he became emboldened.


7 posted on 12/17/2020 6:15:58 AM PST by CASchack
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Future presidential candidates who hope to challenge the Deep State need to show up with their own billion-dollar media companies to successfully compete.


8 posted on 12/17/2020 6:33:36 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Bon of Babble

OMG, you got that right. We would never hear the end of it.


9 posted on 12/17/2020 7:35:40 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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And just like Obama, the GOP-e sat on their butt and did nothing...other than block Trump


10 posted on 12/17/2020 9:30:45 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Travis McGee

The watch dogs have become lap dogs of the DNC.


11 posted on 12/17/2020 4:04:11 PM PST by tbw2
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Toothless puppies.


12 posted on 12/17/2020 4:21:42 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

“The Media Research Center claims eight news stories, ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media, could have changed the election in favor of President Donald Trump.”

The absurd level of vote fraud would still have given it to Biden anyway.


13 posted on 12/17/2020 5:53:59 PM PST by RipSawyer
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To: Travis McGee

TREMENDOUS INFOWAR segment, MAGAMATTKAG. Tanks. : )


14 posted on 12/17/2020 8:58:16 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: LS

CONGRATS MAGALARRYKAG. Saw it in family text days ago. Well-earned. Richly deserved. Nobody better that I have even seen. When’s the party? : )


15 posted on 12/17/2020 9:02:04 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Travis McGee

LOL! sic pic you sicko. Thanks. sic ‘em dawg.

Obamala Harris. You got the “pronounciation” right.

Where’s $oro$?


16 posted on 12/17/2020 9:06:28 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Imagine the outrage, the sturm and drang from the collective, Dem-controlled media if Trump's son,
not crackhead Hunter Biden, was a tax cheat.

Vanity Fair articles demeaned Ivanka......but described Hunter as a "venture capitalist turned artist,"
who's leaving the family (cough) "business" to blow alcohol on paper."

(YAWN) not another Hunter identity?

LOL, that's a belly laugh .....Hunter "leaving" the family business-----grifting.

Hunter's got so many grifting deals going, he needs a spreadsheet to keep track of them.

Even funnier....he thinks he's an artist.....the grifting Bidens will do anything for a buck.

17 posted on 12/18/2020 5:48:24 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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