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Esquire deletes false George Bush pardon story after liberal columnist makes major error
foxnews ^ | 12/04/2024 | Nikolas Lanum

Posted on 12/06/2024 8:31:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Esquire has deleted a column that used a false claim about former President George H.W. Bush as the basis to justify President Biden's decision to pardon his son, Hunter.

In a Tuesday column, liberal pundit Charles P. Pierce claimed that Hunter Biden was not the first presidential son caught up in controversy, asking readers, "Anybody Remember Neil Bush?"

"Nobody defines Poppy Bush's presidency by his son's struggles or the pardons he issued on his way out of the White House. The moral: Shut the f--- up about Hunter Biden, please," he wrote in the sub-headline.

"[The] lucky American businessman['s]… father exercised his unlimited constitutional power of clemency to pardon the Lucky American Businessman for all that S&L business way back when. The president's name was George H.W. Bush. The Lucky American Businessman was his son, Neil," Pierce continued.

The only problem? Bush never pardoned his son.

The men's magazine later added an editor's note to the column: "An earlier version stated incorrectly that George H.W. Bush gave a presidential pardon to his son, Neil Bush. Esquire regrets the error."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; chicagocusservative; columnist; deletes; error; esquire; false; frpottymouths; noclassonfr; pardon; story
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Charles is an idiot. Bush never pardoned his son.
1 posted on 12/06/2024 8:31:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BTTT


2 posted on 12/06/2024 8:33:54 AM PST by nopardons
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4282654/posts


3 posted on 12/06/2024 8:34:59 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hunter and Joe were in the Ukraine fraud together. No “struggles”. Just unprecedented corruption.

How does Esquire not know about that?


4 posted on 12/06/2024 8:35:02 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is so egregious that it could not have been an unintentional error?
Could it be an example of throw out a vicious lie that helps your side of politics and gleefully be confident that a bunch of folks will never read the retraction?


5 posted on 12/06/2024 8:38:42 AM PST by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is a main reason I do not like the move from the printed word to digital. Too easy to cover up the lies and deceit and fraud. This guy should be shamed into the unemployment line.


6 posted on 12/06/2024 8:41:38 AM PST by Thorium90
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To: ChicagoConservative27

> Charles P. Pierce claimed that Hunter Biden was not the first presidential son caught up in controversy, asking readers, “Anybody Remember Neil Bush?” <

How tough would it have been for Pierce to check the story first? It would have only taken a minute. A ten-year-old could have done it.

But Pierce desperately wanted the story to be true. So no need to check. Such is the sorry state of modern journalism.


7 posted on 12/06/2024 8:54:45 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Error = outright intentional lie.

Bring back reporters who report the who, what, where, when, why and how. Fire journalists who write fantasies like 12 year old girls in their diaries.


8 posted on 12/06/2024 9:06:33 AM PST by bgill
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To: Leaning Right

9 posted on 12/06/2024 9:09:37 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey Charlie Dope......IF Bush WOULD have pardoned his son, YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD ABOUT FOR YEARS!! EVERY DAMN DAY, DUMBASS!


10 posted on 12/06/2024 9:10:15 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I DO NOT THINK THIS WAS AN “ERROR”.

I THINK IT WAS TOTALLY DELIBERATE.

THE AUTHOR THINKS NONE OF US ARE SMART OR HAVE MEMORIES....

HE GOT CAUGHT IN LIES-—AND isn’t real happy about it.


11 posted on 12/06/2024 9:10:33 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: DoodleBob

He LOOKS like he’s AT LARGE!! FROM THE FBI!


12 posted on 12/06/2024 9:11:02 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Thorium90

THE CURRENT WHITE HOUSE has already admitted they “ALTERED” THE AUDIO VERSION OF THE HUR INTERVIEW with BIDEN when THEY PUT OUT THE WRITTEN VERSION.

THAT IS DELIBERATE DECEPTION OF AN HISTORICAL RECORD.

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, IMO.


13 posted on 12/06/2024 9:12:39 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: DoodleBob

A LEGEND IN HIS OWN MIND.....


14 posted on 12/06/2024 9:13:31 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do they not hire fact checkers?

I interned a million years ago at a major publication.

My job was to literally fact check every phrase of an article — with footnotes BEFORE it went to the fact checkers who double checked my fact checks.

You’d get through maybe a half page a day.


15 posted on 12/06/2024 9:15:16 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: desertsolitaire

Certainly wouldn’t be the first time. Wall to wall coverage of a false story then a short retraction has happened before.


16 posted on 12/06/2024 9:26:24 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Esquire has devolved into a refuge for betas and faggots. It is not worth the read.


17 posted on 12/06/2024 9:36:18 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: DoodleBob

Look at that sad, fat lump of sh^t named Charlie Pierce. What real, normal man would take advice from that?


18 posted on 12/06/2024 9:38:03 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The left still doesn’t get it.

Biden pardoning his son is not the problem.

LYING about pardoning his son REPEATEDLY is the problem.

It is obvious that this was planned for a while. Hunter pleaded guilty ONLY because it would allow his father to pardon him. Had he pleaded not guilty, he likely would have been found guilty AFTER his father had left office, with no pardon possible.

It was planned deception. THAT’S what people are upset about!


19 posted on 12/06/2024 9:43:20 AM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Think he cares? Half the country will now give the lie legs.


20 posted on 12/06/2024 9:55:28 AM PST by DPMD
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