Partisan Media Shills update.
WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System
Posted on 01/25/2020 7:57:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Associated Press (AP) described the matter of Joe Biden’s leveraging of U.S. foreign aid to pressure Ukraine to fire a prosecutor investigating corruption at Burisma — a Ukrainian energy company upon whose board of directors Hunter Biden sat — in order to protect his second son as a “false narrative.”
The AP echoed similar news media outlets’ mischaracterization of the above-mentioned event, including the New York Times, Snopes, NPR, USA Today, Vox, and the Washington Post.
In a column identifying differing perceptions of political goings on being related to varying news media consumption patterns, the AP dismisses Joe Biden’s admission that he threatened to withhold U.S. foreign aid from Ukraine if Ukrainian officials did not fire then-prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
The AP claimed, “[T]hose who followed a conservative media diet were much more likely to believe the false narrative that former Vice President Joe Biden called for a Ukrainian prosecutor’s removal to protect his son from being investigated.”
In January 2018, Joe Biden joined a discussion panel at the Council on Foreign Relations and admitted his pressuring of Ukraine to terminate Viktor Shokin in his former capacity as vice president and “point person” on Ukraine (transcript via RealClearPolitics):
And that is I’m desperately concerned about the backsliding on the part of Kiev in terms of corruption. They made—I mean, I’ll give you one concrete example. I was—not I, but it just happened to be that was the assignment I got. I got all the good ones. And so I got Ukraine. And I remember going over, convincing our team, our leaders to—convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar...
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No, they go to SmartNews (tm). ;-D
So, if nothing wrong was done, then any investigation of Hunter would turn up nothing...just like the Mueller investigation of Trump.
...so why should this then be a big deal?
Is AP saying that they don’t believe a word Biden says? LOL
Ha! That makes a great story, but I bet it was not quite what you wanted to hear.
And what about the Pelosi family?
More people now than not don’t believe they people. This is what I think is the happening, I further posit their insistance on living in fantasy land and reporting back to us in the real world is having the opposite effect than they intend
Maybe the prosecutor wanted a cut of Biden son’s loot...
“BRAGS”.
Fact check and Asspress being used together are laughable, as are the usual three idiots who write any story for that awful organization.
Indeed
#4. Re “They (AP) lie with impunity” (as does most of the MSM), now you know why we affectionally call the AP the “Anal Problem” news syndicate.
I wonder if Hunter was ever arrested for drugs in the Ukraine and then let go.
They’re trying to cover up the fact that Biden did threaten Ukraine with the loss of promised aid in order to coerce them into firing their prosecutor by adding the technicality that Biden’s motive for doing so has not been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt because the recording of Biden bragging doesn’t include him confessing he did it for the sake of his sun.
It’s a kind of straw man claim on their part... to distract people from noting Biden successfully coerced Ukraine to fire their prosecutor by threatening to withhold aid.
I remember the “Son of A Bitch” line in video!
It happened but by the New Reality standards it is false. Biden crowing about it on tape is false. We must believe or at least act as if it didn’t happen. Reality is a mental construct. It didn’t happen because we say it didn’t happen. Truth is a red herring.
I am way over forty and quit looking at MSM decades ago.
Correctly and succinctly stated.
Remember, when the spying was false?
L8r 6
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