Hunter and Joe and the MSM
For any situation to become a big story and inspire outrage against the actual perpetrators, enough people in the media (MSM or social) have to be behind framing the story in that particular way. The facts matter, but only to a certain extent, and they can be twisted to mean the opposite of what they actually indicate, if that’s the goal.
Just to take one example of thousands, the whole Russiagate story – what the Obama administration and the federal agencies such as the FBI did to try to frame Obama’s successor and/or his associates – is a shocking one, much bigger than Watergate. But it was covered by the press, and amplified on social media, in a way that attempted to exonerate the culprits and perpetuate the frameup. And for many many consumers of news, it did so successfully, despite an enormity of evidence that proved that those agencies acted mendaciously.
The same with so many of the cases of supposed racist murder at the hands of police officers, the cases BLM and others use to stir up racial hatred and riots. The fact are almost always other than the left says, but if enough people pick it up, then their lies are believed. With the help of the MSM and social media, that has helped fuel the current crisis. And this is by design – the design of the left, which also supplies the money to fund much of the non-spontaneous and wholly-planned rioting.
And so it is with the exploits of Hunter Biden, whose father Joe is of course the current Democratic nominee for the presidency. This – and this and this and the information in all the links here – would be vastly important if the media deemed it so. But the media is uninterested:
A passive observer might take this all in and think that Hunter Biden’s foreign adventures are a worthy topic of discussion while his father runs for president.
That passive observer would be wrong, according to the press. Hunter Biden strikes Cockburn as a very interesting figure, yet news operations are suddenly competing to see who can find his exploits least interesting. CNN, the AP, Politico, and CBS all variously dismissed the report as old news, politically charged, or ‘controversial’. The finest headline of all belongs to The New York Times, though: ‘Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden.’
No evidence? Hunter Biden was paid millions of dollars by Ukrainian, Russian and Chinese oligarchs. In fact, he was paid a lot more than Russia ever spent on the Facebook ads liberals think swung the 2016 election. That’s plenty of evidence. What the Times and others mean is that there is no proof of wrongdoing by Biden. But so what? There was never one shred of proof for the Russia collusion conspiracy theory, but the Times accepted a Pulitzer for hundreds of articles obsessively chronicling that story. They’re still at it to this day.
But don’t expect any months-long investigation into Hunter Biden, now or ever. He’s only a Democrat.
I had noticed that jaw-dropping NY Times headline, as well. But why be surprised? This is the way it is, across the board, and has been for a long time:
Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 9, 2013
Let’s be honest. If this were one of Trump’s kids, there’d be wall to wall coverage right and Pelosi would already be drawing up the articles of impeachment. Further, there would be widespread demands for the DOJ to investigate for criminal behavior.
I suspect that’s where this is headed, and it’s another reason Joe Biden may be more desperate to win that some think. The only way he can protect his corrupt family is to gain power over the DOJ. There’s simply noway everything that went on here was above board. The wives of Putin stooges do not wire millions of dollars to the VP’s son for no reason. Don’t forget that this all was happening while Joe Biden was heading up the Russia-Ukraine policy front for the Obama administration. Was Russia attempting to buy influence? That certainly seems to be the most likely explanation.
Forget it, voters. It’s Bidentown.
Although there does exist political corruption (and financial misconduct) among Republicans, Peter Schweizer, the finest journalist on this particular topic, has demonstrated that it is overwhelmingly on the left that such egregious misbehavior is now to be found, the Bidens being somewhat more corrupt even than the Clintons. When one considers the bias of the MSM and the increasing “wokeness” emanating from corporate America, from Big Tech, and even from Wall Street (to say nothing of Hollywood and the academic world), one can hardly be surprised that so many Americans seem to be hopelessly misinformed about almost everything.
The conflicts of interest on Joe Biden’s part, at the very least, are egregious. Obama administration officials knew about this and declined to do anything — after all, they were themselves busy using the machinery of the government to defeat Trump and ensure Hillary’s election.
One watches with continued disbelief on the totalitarian nature of the left and its enablers in the MSM. H Biden receives a money transfer of $3.5 million from the widow of a Russian Oligarch while his addled brain father serves as the VP. In contrast, the lives of Carter Page and M Flynn are destroyed for no other reason than they were associated with Trump. Clearly, the VP’s family enrich themselves through the good devices of Russian, Chinese, and Ukrainian mafioso without the slightest consequence. I don’t think there is precedence for such media malfeasance
No More Malarkey!!
Nosssir!
AKA just another reason why Democratic-run cities are the scenes of rioting, arson, chaos, looting and violence.
Hint: think of it as “insurance”….
And here’s “insurance” of another kind (several kinds of “insurance”, in fact):
https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/24/trump-was-right-explosive-new-fbi-texts-detail-internal-furor-over-handling-of-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/
(H/T Sean Davis twitter feed)
See also Technofog’s latest tweets on the Flynn “investigation” (frame-up, that is):
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog
And this interview with the Democratic candidate for POTUS 2020 (if you can stomach it):
https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/1308886214150443010
But there’s “Nothing to see here”(TM), nothing at all. It’s merely the Obama Administration’s MO (and the Democratic Party’s Media poodles spinning like cotton candy). See, by not showing anyone Obama/Biden/Clinton corruption, and planting simply everything on Trump, they’re doing the US, the whole world and the entire universe a tremendous moral favor.
Gotta be thankful….
The Clintons = Grifters
The Bidens = Grifters
But hold on to your hats, have a seat, put down that cup of whatever it is yer drinking:
https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1309090201105575936
(H/T Lee Smith twitter feed)
Copied from another blog. I worry the Dems will steal the election in the most blatant, visible way possible then gun down any protesters among us who rise up.
“Mail shenanigans start …
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/revised-statement-us-attorney-freed-inquiry-reports-potential-issues-mail-ballots
Some number of ballots trashed.
Nine are recovered. Seven were marked for PDJT. Two were re-sealed by election staff, so we don’t know the contents.”
And they could lose the 2020 election because of it. Yes, it’s incredibly infuriating to know the media game is rigged against you if you’re a conservative. But that’s not the real threat to the country.
You can’t fix a problem if you don’t know it exists. You can’t even manage a problem if you don’t know it exists. That leads to problems metastasizing until they cannot be fixed without horrifyingly radical measures.
Think of it like gangrene. If you get it early, you just lose a toe. Wait a little longer and it’s a foot. Then it’s the leg below the knee. Wait some more and the only thing you can do is cut yourself in half at the waist. And it you balk at that horror, you die.
Mike
Pray tell what is the real problem. I don’t read minds, give some clues Mike.
“Pray tell what is the real problem.”
Go look at the post on Gavin Newsom and California. The real problem facing us is that Democrats and the Left have no means of self-correction. It’s like being married to a violent schizophrenic who stops taking their medication.
Mike
Mike:
Well you hid the ball on this one, sometimes it is best to simply state what you wish to communicate before you run off with embellishments.
Barry, good stuff on CH, but we also see fireworks on Hillary/ uranium/ Weissmann, see
https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2020/09/how-broad-is-sprawling.html , and
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/24/report-durham-investigating-main-justice-resistors-blocking-fbi-subpoenas-in-2016-re-clinton-investigation/ .
The people throwing money at the Bidens are dumber than the Bidens, and that’s saying something!
What have they reaped for the money?
Or is it a “long-term investment” with no prompt return anticipated?
Oh yeah, that’ a rich vein indeed.
Could Hillary be the “mother lode”?
(And Weissmann is a one-man nuclear waste dumping site. Sludge without end….
(Hey, maybe just maybe we’ll find Blumenthal there, too! El Sid!)
Meanwhile, just when you thought Democrats had zero to the nth power principles, here comes Tulsi Gabbard (again!):
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-says-voter-fraud-serious-threat-seeks-outlaw
I mean, just WOW!
Wonder if she’s been “triggered” by Kamala Harris (again!)….
Gosh, talk about interpersonal chemistry….
“Nearly 500 generals, admirals and former national security officials from both parties endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday, and blasted President Donald Trump as “not equal” to the challenges of the presidency.” USA Today
Well that just gives an indication of how deep the rot goes among generals, admirals and former national security officials from both parties.
It’s also very considerate of them to identify themselves…
Any word on the Barr / Durham investigations? My last-ditch hope was around Labor Day, but we’re past that.
At this point I would agree with Democrats that a release before the election would be an October Surprise and not quite kosher.
For anyone who can add two and two to get four it should be pretty obvious that the hapless Hunter was acting in all of these cases as Joe’s bagman.
Roy Nathanson:
I’m sorry to say that you, Sir, are not destined for a stellar career in the NYT Fact Checking Department.
An interesting long term impact of all this is that, once you toss the scrap of a fragment of a chip of a sliver of NeverTrumpers overboard, there’s now a conservative intellectual class that has a lot of defining events like Kavanaugh and the unraveling of the Russia hoax sharply cutting them off from the go-along-to-get-along attitude of the past. Even guys lukewarm or mildly hostile to Trump like Ari Fleischer and Andrew McCarthy can now recite chapter and verse of Democratic bad faith and arguably unpatriotic behavior.
You really have to go all the way back to 80s when the Cold War was still around to find that kind of feeling widespread on the Right. Even when Trump is gone, the conservative mindset will remain altered for probably a generation.
Mike
Roy – Everyone knows 2 + 2 = 5.
Geofrey Britain on September 24, 2020 at 8:23 pm said:
“Nearly 500 generals, admirals and former national security officials from both parties endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday, and blasted President Donald Trump as “not equal” to the challenges of the presidency.” USA Today
Well that just gives an indication of how deep the rot goes among generals, admirals and former national security officials from both parties.
It’s also very considerate of them to identify themselves…
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I hope all the flag officers are also “former” or they are in a world of trouble.
The fact that there are FIVE HUNDRED of them means we are in a world of trouble, aside from their politics.
How many are employed by the military-industrial complex with ties to China?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Trump isn’t equal to the “challenges of the presidency” — he exceeds them.
“I worry the Dems will steal the election in the most blatant, visible way possible then gun down any protesters among us who rise up.” – JimNorCal
They won’t need violence, just lawyers and judges.
See: dismissing the verdict against the New Black Panthers in 2008.
And a few election officials in strategic places, of course.
}}} Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by [Joe] Biden.
There was a missing word, which somehow was “mistakenly” edited out…
Glad I could help.
Barry Meislin on September 24, 2020 at 5:07 pm said
And here’s “insurance” of another kind (several kinds of “insurance”, in fact):
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I suspect there will be a Neo post on this tomorrow (today?), but my feeling is (and has been) that the DOJ tried to nudge Sullivan to drop the case so they wouldn’t have to air all the FBI’s dirty linen in public; and now Barr’s people are feeding info to Powell to make the judge’s position untenable any longer.
I guess these agents weren’t unlucky enough to enter the wrong passwords 10 times and wipe their phones.
}}} the Bidens being somewhat more corrupt even than the Clintons.
Nope. Not even close.
Upon leaving the WH, the Clintons were “broke”.
By 2016, the Clinton Foundation was worth upwards from 150 MILLION.
Joe and his family are all pikers by the Clinton Standard. Clinton is right up there with Boss Tweed for corruption.
On those 500 defense persons endorsing Biden.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/24/nearly-500-generals-admirals-endorse-joe-biden-blast-donald-trump/3503917001/
Well, Biden was their buddy, so of course they can’t admit he’s a corrupt, senile, fraud.
But — to match their complaint — our allies apparently include Iran, Syria, Russia, and China; and our enemies are mostly Israel and assorted Middle Eastern & Balkan nations.
Good to know.
Sure glad none of these people still have operational authority.
They don’t seem to be very perceptive.
We don’t need to redefine who we are, we just need to get back to being Americans after cruising through the uncharted territory of the Left for about half of those 250 years.
Just a little side note:
These are the fine, upstanding citizens who attempted to execute a coup d’etat against the legally elected President of the United States, the nation whose security they were charged with defending.
“…untenable…”
Smart money would have it that Sullivan’s position/attitude/sentiments towards Flynn were NEVER tenable—from the get-go—though His Honor essentially blew himself out of the water when he threw that extraordinary tantrum, calling Flynn “a traitor to his country” (I’m paraphrasing). True, he did apologize when he was corrected—by the prosecutor—on that less than judicious outburst; nonetheless, at that point, he should have recused himself or been prevented from continuing. But crickets, nothing happened. Business as usual.
And so, it seems clear that Flynn’s defense team was either in cahoots with the prosecution or, more probably, were being leaned on, or rather “gently persuaded” to proceed in a particular direction (or should that be, “not proceed”), similar to the “gentle persuasion” that Obama’s precocious goons used on Flynn, viz. that he wouldn’t want anything to happen to his son now, would he? (Similar to the “gentle persuasion” employed by Michelle Obama, with all the eloquence at her command—that if the American People doesn’t vote for the, um, right candidate, in November then the violence in America’s cities my well, um, be “likely” to continue. And not just Michelle Obama. Curious that.)
So how does one make an untenable judge even more untenable?
It might just have to be time to open the floodgates, Richard Grenell style—not that any of it will be reported by the MSCM (except to disparage Trump and the Republican Party). But if it appears on Fox, that might be just enough. It will, of course, be given prime time by the center and center-right blogs and publications.
None of this should really bother Judge Sullivan, though. He has shown that his finger remains firmly in the dyke. He has weathered several serious storms, and he has proven his loyalty to Obama time and time again, shrewdly and convincingly obstructing the law in ways that many of his peers appear to find defensible. On that point he will be judged more than favorably by all the beautiful people.
So what WILL bother Judge Sullivan (who I am certain has his next “convincing” delaying tactic all lined up for the upcoming round)?
It would be most interesting to learn the answer to that one…and I hope we are about to find out.
As I keep saying, I don’t know if the media are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dem Party, or it it’s the other way round, but I DO know that they are in cahoots.