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The lengths Democrats and the media will go to to discredit the Hunter Biden scandal continue to astound. Douglas Wise, former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, admitted this week that when he saw the Hunter laptop story, he knew “a significant portion of the content had to be real.” Yet he still signed a letter, along with 49 other officials, casting doubt on the laptop just before the 2020 election because there “could” have been disinformation inserted by the Russians. Wise defends the letter, noting the experts said they had no proof it was a Russian plot. But these deep...

The Likely Cause of the Media Blackout on Imploding Whitmer Kidnapping Plot It is impossible to report on the Whitmer case without connecting it to January 6. So rather than do its job, the national news media is completely ignoring this sensational story.Once upon a time in America, a high-profile federal prosecution imploding amid credible accusations of FBI entrapment would earn wall-to-wall headlines in the national news media. A wife-beating FBI agent who used at least one criminal informant and a dozen more government assets to concoct a plot to abduct a sitting governor—intended to create damaging headlines for an...

Decades before social media and email a remarkable but unsung Bronx housewife named Ruth Goldstock told her grandson, “Never put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want on the front page of the New York Times.” These days, that wise advice applies to private communications by everybody in the entire country except elite journalists and news executives. Elsewhere in America, when emails that the author assumed would never see the light of day became public he suffers some form of consequences—you know, stuff like plummeting poll numbers, possible jail time or forced resignation. This goes for everybody from Hillary Clinton and...

A watchdog group says evidence is mounting that the media is on a crusade to tear down the Trump campaign and get Clinton elected. Viewers of the "Big 3" television networks who wanted to know more about Donald Trump's latest scandal involving lewd talk about women could pretty much take their pick of stories... – including this one from ABC's George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos: "More fallout from the video that send Donald Trump's campaign reeling over the week and put a spotlight on his history with women." But if they wanted to hear about the WikiLeaks email scandal that rocked the...

CNN says, "Remember, It's illegal to possess these stolen documents. It's different for the media. So everything you learn about this, you're learning from us." Link: https://streamable.com/6g5v

Miami Spanish-language paper altered photos on prostitutionBy LAURA WIDES-MUNOZAssociated PressPosted July 28 2006, 3:36 PM EDT  MIAMI -- The Miami Herald's Spanish-language sister paper acknowledged Friday that it manipulated two photos in a montage that made it falsely appear that two Cuban police officers were ignoring prostitutes gesturing to a tourist. The picture published June 25 in El Nuevo Herald combined two archived photos _ a 1994 photo of the officers by El Nuevo Herald photographer Roberto Koltun, and a 1998 Associated Press photo of the women by John Moore. The two pictures were matched closely enough that it appeared...