Posted on 10/31/2020 7:41:49 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The professional journos are at it again. A New York Post report on Hunter Biden's emails suggests the renegade son of the former vice president attempted to introduce his dad to a Ukrainian oil executive in 2015. Members of the news media seized on the report, urging "caution" and admonishing their colleagues for sharing it on social media.
Members of the media have not always displayed such skepticism when it comes to promoting salacious claims about a prominent political figure. The professional journos were not as hesitant, for example, to amplify outlandish (and false) accusations of gang rape against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018 confirmation hearing.
MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin spoke for many of his journo colleagues when he urged his followers not to share the New York Post report, which he said would amount to "amplifying what appears to be disinformation."
Griffin and his boss, Lawrence O'Donnell, were less concerned with amplifying flawed accusations in 2018, when the MSNBC host interviewed media darling Michael Avenatti about his client, Julie Swetnick, whose lurid accusation against Kavanaugh fell apart upon minimal scrutiny.
Avenatti, who has since been convicted of fraud, and Swetnick were eventually referred to the Department of Justice for making "materially false claims" to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The media did not, to say the least, exercise caution when it came to amplifying their claims.
Washington Post "fact checker" Glenn Kessler alluded to the New York Post report by tweeting out the paper's policy on publishing "hacked or leaked material," and urging his followers to "be careful what is in your social media feeds."
In 2018, Kessler wrote a "fact checker" "analysis" of the accusations against Kavanaugh, which did not appear to check any facts or perform any sort of analysis. The piece did, however, repeat Swetnick's allegation that Kavanaugh had participated in a "gang rape."
CNN's Brian Stelter amplified Kessler's tweet advising caution. His network hasn't always followed that advice. For example, CNN published a story on a Kavanaugh allegation after the accuser had already recanted.
David Corn, an MSNBC analyst and D.C. bureau chief of Mother Jones, urged the media to "do better" when it comes to handling the allegations in the New York Post‘s story on Hunter Biden.
Corn reacted somewhat differently to Swetnick's allegations against Kavanaugh. Indeed, he simply posted the "new Avenatti declaration" that supposedly "raises serious new questions" about the Supreme Court nominee.
Here's Daily Beast editor Molly Jong-Fast on the Hunter Biden story:
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1316341608389005312
Here's Molly Jong-Fast on Julie Swetnick: "Swetnick accused Kavanaugh of running a ‘rape train,' getting girls drunk and participating in gang rapes. These are shocking accusations. But maybe we should have expected revelations about sexual misconduct from a Trump nominee."
They loved Avenatti so much they were pushing him to run for PRESIDENT! That’s what they want, a leftist who will lie, steal, cheat the disabled, slander and perjure themselves.
Avenatti 2020!
The press grabbed on to all the crazy stories that attacked Trump, but this story which is total serious the press is “don’t investigate, leave it alone”
These journalists have been given over to a reprobate mindset. What sellouts!
That headline alone really makes the point.
It’s like people on the left can’t see a person’s character... I watched the MSNBC and CNN groups fawn over Michael Avenatti and was stunned. Couldn’t they see what an awful person he was? Why are they so blind?
Give him the same slap down they gave to DJT for the last 4 years. Just because of that DJT has earned a free do over!
I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked about these reporters and their “honest” attempts to report “nothing” about the validity of the Biden/Bobulinski tapes and phone calls.
Now you know why we call them media whores and enemies of the truth.
Does anyone here honestly think that Lawrence O’Donnell, David Corn, and Brian Stetler are sane? As Joe Biden would say, “Come on, man”.
The Manson Family was saner than these “Three Stooges of the Left”.
“If the truth dies in darkness”, then the Washington Post and the New York Times are the greatest killers in history.
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