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Peddling Dirt' on Hunter Biden
Townhall.com ^ | December 11, 2020 | Tim Graham

Posted on 12/11/2020 4:08:08 AM PST by Kaslin

The Hunter Biden scandal has reemerged the only way our Joe Biden-voting media will allow: through anodyne statements from Hunter Biden and President-elect Joe Biden's transition team. Biden's wayward son announced his "tax affairs" are being investigated by the U.S. attorney in Delaware.

The transition team said the president-elect is "deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger."

Repetition of these jejune statements seemed to be the bulk of the minimal television coverage this story received. The networks barely noticed. None of them featured a single critic of the Bidens. PBS offered 32 perfunctory words. NPR didn't feature the story on its morning or evening news programs, but each program featured a promotional story on the new video game Cyberpunk 2077 featuring an "anti-corporate terrorist" played by Keanu Reeves.

Hunter Biden only survives "difficult challenges" and "emerges stronger" through the energetic strangling of his lobbying scandals by the mainstream media.

On the "Today," show, NBC News reporter Kristen Welker replayed the weak-kneed question she asked Joe Biden while moderating the final presidential debate, on Oct. 22: "In retrospect, was anything about those relationships inappropriate or unethical?" Biden issued a blanket denial: "Nothing was unethical. ... Not one single solitary thing was out of line. Not a single thing."

NBC did not rerun the debate clip of Biden boasting that Hunter didn't take a dime out of China. "My son has not made money in terms of this thing about -- what are you talking about? China. The only guy who made money from China is this guy," he said, pointing at Trump. "He's the only one. Nobody else has made money from China."

Shortly after the election, the liberal website The Daily Beast reported that Team Biden had data showing "there was more social chatter happening around the Hunter Biden story than there had been around stories about Hillary Clinton's emails during the last month of the 2016 campaign." The saving grace was that, while voters chatted about Hunter all over Facebook and Twitter, the story "had not crossed over into mainstream outlets."

This is why Democrats and their media allies so aggressively pressured the Big Tech giants to squash the entire topic of Hunter Biden, especially when the New York Post broke the story about his laptop. They intimidated everyone into assuming the entire topic was off-limits. The Post's Twitter account was shuttered for a week. Any dwelling on Biden was unsavory activity that should be reserved for Trump-loving freaks.

Add the spin in The New York Times' front-page headline the Sunday before Election Day: "Foiled Once, Giuliani's Team Peddles More Dirt." There were three photographs in the story: one of President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, one of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and one of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. The story focused much more on their machinations than on Hunter's.

One could just as easily demonize the daily output of The Times in a similar way by referencing The Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger in a headline: "Foiled in 2016, Sulzberger's Team Peddles More Dirt on the Trumps."

Our media elite pretend that they're all for the free and democratic exchange of information, and for holding powerful people accountable. But the suppressed Hunter Biden scandal story underlines that they have been shaming anti-Democratic narratives by engaging in character assassination of the conservative media. That and using the rulings of "independent fact-checking groups" to shut down journalism they don't like.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; hunterbiden; joebiden; leftwingmediabias

1 posted on 12/11/2020 4:08:08 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

there are PICS of him sleeping with his two nieces
and brother’s wife, and videos of the former;
yet the MSM regards this as normal for him
and Bejing Biden. nothing to report.

stealing an election, therefore, is also nothing to report.


2 posted on 12/11/2020 4:11:11 AM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: Kaslin
If we hold the Senate there will be hearings...lots of hearings.So to the people of Georgia I say...if you don't vote for the Republicans you *will* get the Rats!
3 posted on 12/11/2020 4:13:16 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (BLM Stands For "Bidens Loot Millions"!)
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To: Kaslin

They may try to make a feel good story out of this. I figure he will get his taxes straightened out and go to rehab. Was listening to Levin last night on the way home from work and he was saying it’s not the first time for hunter and taxes. He had to pony up 500k before and paid it immediately with no problem. Had the extra money laying around. He will pay some penalties or extra fees or something and it will go away. No biggie I guess about the under age women. Disgusting. Only other option is if they will use this to get biden out of office whenever they want.


4 posted on 12/11/2020 4:31:23 AM PST by glimmerman70
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To: Kaslin

S/B shoveling dirt on him. 6’


5 posted on 12/11/2020 4:31:54 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

I hate the enemedia.


6 posted on 12/11/2020 5:14:36 AM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis.)
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To: glimmerman70

All of a sudden this is news. Planned, simply setting Biden up for the throw. Out that is so Kam can take over with her
crew.


7 posted on 12/11/2020 5:16:30 AM PST by deep trout
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To: deep trout

Yes, this is the beginning of the move to get rid of Biden as president and move Kamaltoe Harris to to the slot.I don’t think Biden even realizes that yet.


8 posted on 12/11/2020 8:03:06 AM PST by Datom69
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