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Bombshells, Landmines, and Nemesis
American Greatness ^ | 12 Feb, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/13/2023 6:31:34 AM PST by MtnClimber

Ironically Joe Biden, the media, and the old House majority have provided Republicans the same tools to discover the truth that the Left had once used to destroy it.

For much of 2017 through 2021, Americans suffered the “bombshell” and “walls are closing” mythologies first of Russian collusion, then of supposedly vast Russian social media investments to sabotage the election. From there we moved on to the Alfa Bank ping-pong fable, the supposed Putin bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan that Trump was said to have ignored and, of course, the idea that Hunter’s laptop was just “Russian disinformation.”

These were journalistic sins of commission, warping the news cycle to advance ideological agendas and win elections. There emerged, however, other real landmines of omission—things the media deliberately ignores, but have the potential to go off and blow up a presidency.

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Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) mocks the Hunter Biden laptop scandal of a “half-fake” laptop. Yet such puerile flippancy only confirmed her own trademark arrogance and ignorance. Is she claiming the laptop was, was not, or is just sorta not genuine? Hunter’s lawyers are suing to stop the dissemination of his “half-property”?

Hunter, who never in the past has denied ownership of the laptop, has now confirmed it really was his. A revisionist Hunter should have first conferred with his dad, since, on the presidential debate stage in 2020, Joe Biden swore to the American people the laptop was a product of Russian disinformation. He cited as support “50 former intelligence officials” who signed a statement claiming as much—all organized to deceive the pre-election electorate by former CIA Directors James Clapper and John Brennan. Both previously were best known for admitting to lying under oath to Congress.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

1 posted on 02/13/2023 6:31:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

When will one of these landmines explode? Probably never. The MSM will see to it.


2 posted on 02/13/2023 6:31:48 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 02/13/2023 6:32:16 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber


4 posted on 02/13/2023 6:42:55 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

And here I thought that our number one priority regarding national security was climate change and protecting the environment.


5 posted on 02/13/2023 6:44:16 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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