WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System
Posted on 10/13/2019 6:37:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Campaign's attempt to berate the press, squelch stories has so far shown only modest payoff
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden has shown flimsy fealty to the facts in his own political career, but his campaign is now fighting to be the arbiter of truth, lobbying media outlets to squelch stories and refuse ads he says stretch the truth.
His campaign asked networks to stop booking Trump ally Rudolph W. Giuliani and then tried to organize a boycott of a Trump campaign ad by accusing the president of lying about Mr. Biden’s actions to try to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired.
And the Biden campaign on Thursday viciously attacked The New York Times for running an opinion column by an investigative reporter who questioned the international deal-making of Mr. Biden’s son, Hunter, while his father was vice president.
“Are you truly blind to what you got wrong in 2016?” Biden spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield demanded of the paper.
The attempt to berate the press has so far shown only modest payoff.
CNN and NBC fell in line, barring the Trump ad from its airwaves. But other major outlets refused, including Facebook.
“Our approach is grounded in Facebook’s fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is already arguably the most scrutinized speech there is,” said Katie Harbath, public policy director at Facebook. “Thus, when a politician speaks or makes an ad, we do not send it to third party fact checkers.”
The line between truth and lies in politics has been getting murkier — so much so that a cottage industry of independent fact-checkers has popped up to sift through the scads of ads that are blasted into living rooms and splashed across computer and phone...
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Usually I see flimsy applied to Lindsey.
They want to choose Facts over the Truth. It’s all about the Narrative, not about Reality. The Left is opposed to Reality.
Or is it Truth over Facts? So confusing.
Byedone.
Slow Joe has his finger in the dike. And no, I am not talking about Hillary.
I’m still chuckling over that awkward interchange between Biden and Anderson Cooper as Joe reminisced about their visits to San Francisco bathhouses and around the clock orgies. If you haven’t seen that video you gotta do a YouTube search. It’s priceless.
Circling the bowl, he is.
Joe Biden is President Trump’s designated primary opponent.
Lieawatha is your problem now, Joe. Give her a big kiss and make things right. Look for the child that got her fired from her job. The Ukraine is Trump’s problem. Just like Hilary made Russia Trump’’s problem. Thank you Deep State and the Media.
Biden knows once again his time is up. He’s desperate to stave off the inevitable. And, he is failing. Badly.
Fauxcahontas is going to become the Designated Loser. A woman with the likability factor of a Rabid Sewer Rat.
Here’s a simple ethics test to see if you agree with the MSM that Biden has done nothing wrong. Suppose the Deputy President of Russia under Vlad Putin came to the the US Attorney General Eric Holder and said we are going to withhold the entire US supply of Russian caviar if you don’t fire James Comey because of his corrupt investigation into Hillary Clinton’s illegal email server. Suppose Holder was a big fan of New York and DC five star restaurants and fired Comey and forced Obama to appoint William Barr in his place. Would this be a big deal or is it just the way politics gets done in the Obama age?
International bribery, once we start down this path, cuts both ways.
She’s more likable than the beast
FRiend, we could play ‘what if’ all day long and get nowhere thereby.
Along with the sleaziness of politics in general, international ‘diplomacy’ has always been about mutual backscratching, our ethical indignation notwithstanding.
The point of my ‘fofl’ above re ‘abiter of truth’ was that for eight years Biden was a co-conspirator by omission with Ø’s usurpation and sedition/treason.
Not to mention his creepy proclivities with kids.
As for your hypothetical, my ethics would say a) Holder was/is corrupt, b) Comey could/should sue for wrongful termination, c) Øbama’s acquiesence would prove ‘his’ gutlessness yet again.
As for the MSM, they’re unrepentant whores whose respect for ethics/truth vanished completely decades ago.
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