Posted on 10/22/2020 12:04:21 PM PDT by conservative98
The pressure is building for NBC News’ Kristen Welker to address the ongoing scandal surrounding a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden during Thursday night’s final presidential debate as the mainstream media has essentially dismissed the story.
"This is a moment of truth for Kristen Welker and NBC News, in which they are caught between doing their job or protecting Joe Biden,” Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson told Fox News.
The laptop, which was first reported by the New York Post, is reported to contain emails suggesting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had knowledge of, and was allegedly involved in, his son’s foreign business dealings.
But the media has bent over backward to avoid the scandal, with Twitter and Facebook each coming under fire for censoring the Post bombshell and NPR even dismissed it as a waste of time.
The former vice president has snapped at the few reporters who dared to ask him about the scandal and CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and MSNBC have all taken heat for their lack of coverage. But millions of voters will be tuned in Thursday as Welker moderates the final presidential debate in Nashville, giving her a chance to force the issue with Biden.
“To avoid or downplay the Biden family influence-peddling scandal would both create additional claims of media bias and eliminate Welker as a serious journalist," Jacobson added.
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How much is a reputation worth?
At some point in the future someone will look back at this time and with the benefit of 20/20 vision be able to determine who were the good guys and who were the bad guys in this whole sorry mess.
I personally blame the 4th estate. Our founding fathers gave the press special protection in our Constitution with the hope that they would be the last line of defense for our republic.
It sad that the watch dogs have become lap dogs for one point of view. In the end the media will get most of the blame for the past sixty years since it has been their bias and dishonesty that have kept our nation separated into various tribes of special interest.
sounds like possible money laundering and also income tax evasion?
What Biden should do is go ahead and admit to it, and say “hey it’s a normal situation here in the swamp. Check the families of any congressman or senator and you will find the same kind of deals going on, both parties do it, it’s no big deal.”
I would bet that would defuse the whole thing righ there. Just like with Watergate if Nixon had only said, “I didn’t order this, but I will make sure it never happens again, and that the perp are punished”, most people would have said OK. The cover up is the what does the most damage.
“As GOD is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
The Big Guy
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If the same stuff came out about Trump and Eric - rather than Joe and Hunter - she would make the whole debate on the subject of selling out our country to China and kickbacks...
But Kristen Welker’s a corrupt liberal ‘elite’ and she doesn’t give a damn about the truth.
Welker wants another damn ‘debate’ where the moderator and the democrat team up against the Republican (yeah, I’m including the double teaming against Pence too)..
Democrat liberal ‘elites’ are disgusting.
Yep, sounds about right. Also conspiracy and RICO laws.
If the same stuff came out about Trump and Eric - rather than Joe and Hunter - she would make the whole debate on the subject of selling out our country to China and kickbacks...
But Kristen Welker’s a corrupt liberal ‘elite’ and she doesn’t give a damn about the truth.
Welker wants another damn ‘debate’ where the moderator and the democrat team up against the Republican (yeah, I’m including the double teaming against Pence too)..
Democrat liberal ‘elites’ are disgusting and so is the Presidential Debate Commission ... a biased commission that did NOT choose even ONE moderator who would consider voting for Trump. Each moderator chosen represents the democrat half of ‘elites’ in the country...NOT one moderator represents the half of Americans who favored Trump. for ‘the people’...not one in the past 5 years.
Then Trump gets to respond. Then we move onto another topic. And Trump can wait and go back a few more times about previous questions like Pence did in the last debate.
yah I don’t think there’s a relative exception to RICO
No way, no how.
Unless they think there is a way to defuse it.
Yeah, they’ll continue protecting/defending Joe and Hunter..
If it does, then it will be well scripted between the “impartial” moderator and Biden’s earpiece. I’m sure comprehensive preparations are continuing.
Are there enough votes uncast for this whole string of stories to matter?
Like 80% haven’t voted.
Since the press has ignored this story, if she does bring it up, she will miss-state it and the effect will be to minimize what is really going on.
ok :)
“This is a moment of truth for Kristen Welker and NBC News, in which they are caught between doing their job or protecting Joe Biden”
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I thought their job *is* protecting Joe Biden
I disagree. Using "NBC," "Kristen Welker," or "truth" in any sentence is just bad.
“She wont say a peep about it and she will cut Trumps mic if he brings it up.”
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Winner, winner, chicken dinner...!
She will try this ploy, but I’m not sure she can pull it off...
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